New blog A day out in Sudbury... www.chrisgibsonwildlife.co.uk/a-day-out-in... #NatureWriting

'Could be' but mustn't be. Much brownfield is wildlife-rich around the places people life; most greenfield/belt is ecologically knackered, drenched in poison, and often distant from where most people live. CPRE suffer from fossilised, dogmatic thinking. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

They have been in the Rosary Cemetery in Norwich for about 3 years now, feeding on Lime seeds. Saw well over a hundred in spring this year.

Aviation expansion is a disaster for the climate crisis. Anyone who's been paying any attention to this shambles of a Labour Govenrment knows they don't care about people in poverty, don't care about nature nor for the planet. Just big business & their own interests. #Gatwick

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New Blog The Wild Side of Beth Chatto Gardens: autumn plenty www.chrisgibsonwildlife.co.uk/the-wild-sid... #NatureWriting

Brexit made us all poorer…..Dyson was fine and buggered off out of the country the coward. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Counted 37 nymphs and 60 adult Striped Shieldbugs (Graphosoma italicum) at Ninefields, Waltham Abbey today. This has been the primary population this year, numbers down in other areas and no new spread to other nearby habitat patches that I have been checking. #EssexWildlife #UKBugs

My photo published in @britishwildlife.bsky.social earlier this year has prompted this carefully considered paper. I wrote about my encounter with this ghost of an extinct species in my book The Long Spring #naturewriting

Sunshine through your ears... 🎧 Episode 75 - Bobbing boats at Wrabness (32 mins) Sit under a tree on the footpath along the beach in Essex. Listen to the gentle lapping of the water and masts of the boats tinkling in the breeze. bit.ly/LenWrab1

#News: 🚫☠️ The #UK lags seriously behind #EU on critical environmental policies post-Brexit! They've failed to adopt 28 new laws and weakened 4 protections ☠️⛔️🔥 END THE RACE TO THE BOTTOM for pure greed #ClimateChange #HumanRights #Boycott4Wildlife ieep.uk/news/news-uk...

Very humbled today to receive the Peter Scott Memorial Award from the #BritishNaturalistsAssociation for having made an ‘outstanding contribution to our understanding of natural history and conservation’ I don’t feel worthy but do feel very honoured #TeamFlies @nhm-london.bsky.social

You’re kidding me - you and your work is amazing!

Congratulations Chris

When the heart of London was dying of shame yesterday, we were there for a very different reason: I was very proud to be awarded Honorary Fellowship of the British Naturalists' Association. Thanks all!

Why isn’t THIS the front page story right now? Net migration to the UK halved from 2023 to 2024 (Government data shared by The Guardian). There is no problem with migration in the UK, it is fiction whipped up by the press. BBC News should be the one presenting these facts.

Last year 100,000 people marched across London in support of nature and BBC News didn’t cover it, leading to complaints to Ofcom about political bias. Today BBC News covered a similar size march on front pages and every channel demonstrating fully its political bias. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Telegraph headline this morning: ‘National Trust branded a ‘disgrace’ for tearing down flag.’ What is disgraceful about protecting the nation’s monuments from harm? They belong to past, current and future generations. They are protected from alteration and damage by law.

Leaves from three species of endemic whitebeam, all from Arran. Top left is Arran Whitebeam, top right is Arran Service-tree, bottom is Catacol Whitebeam, arguably one of the rarest trees on the planet with only a single mature individual left in the wild. Plant Atlas: share.google/1KLV7i0QyxC7...

Following a post by @norwichbirder.bsky.social I checked some duckweed in Upshire, Essex today and found numerous Water Lily Aphids (Rhopalosiphum nymphaeae) and a couple of 7-spot Ladybirds feasting on them. #UKAphids #EssexWildlife

Eurovision embodies a culture of unity, defiance & joy. To platform Israel, a state carrying out genocide in Gaza, killing 64,000+ people & silencing journalists on that stage, is obscene. The BBC must join Irish state broadcaster others in saying: no genocide in Eurovision.

Fantastic natural things were enjoyed at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve in August 2025. @sussexwildlife.bsky.social rye.sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/blog/rye-har...

Another of your blogs that will inspire me to look closer. I have already started investigating leaf mines of various plants as a way of passing the time while waiting at bus stops!

New blog about galls and other excitement under the Oak leaves of Wivenhoe's Lower Lodge reserve today www.chrisgibsonwildlife.co.uk/autumn-in-wi... #NatureWriting

Quite some tide today: we have rarely seen the saltmarshes upstream of Wivenhoe Barrier as fully covered as they were a few minutes ago...just before the thundery squall swept through. #WildWivenhoeWeather

Working class communities have a long history of anti racist solidarity. Billionaires poison everything. Sucking up wealth, hollowing out communities, spreading poverty, division and hatred. It’s time to tax the rich and repair our society. inews.co.uk/news/racism-...

BBC news website offering blanket coverage of Charlie Kirk killing. Amidst all of the clips and hagiography, just one short paragraph at the bottom of a profile piece, mentions that he was a far-right christian nationalist, climate/covid denier, who helped organise the January 6th insurrection.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... This week a war criminal. Next week a paedophile. Starmer makes bad choices and keeps evil company. The criminals should not even be allowed into our country.

It's a gem isn't it. The green water below took it to another level this visit!

No other party says the basic truth: migration is good for Britain. The real problem? Inequality, soaring bills, underfunded public services. That’s driven by the greed of the super rich and the Labour government who serve them - not by migrants.

Over a million people now seeing and hearing what Nigel Farages constituents really think of him. Keep spreading the word! 👇🏼

Lots to see round Beth Chatto gardens today, including a selection of galls (here Oak Oyster gall), parasite-flies (Tachina cf fera), a Hornet despatching a wasp it flushed from an Ivy flower...

This is insane. Describing a complete ban in MPAs as 'disproportionate' is beyond lunacy. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Everything looking autumnal red and rusty round the King George Field in Wivenhoe today...

Another lovely sunset in #WildWivenhoe yesterday...made up for the cloudy eastern skies that stopped us seeing the Blood Moon.

Call this bullshit out - this dangerous conspiracy nonsense is now directly impacting health policy in the US and shows just how much damage can be done. Shame on Reform for going down this route (obvs and everything else). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Stuck inside today? Let us bring the outside to you. Episode 127 - Mirrored ambiences from a summer meadow at Wrabness (40 mins) > bit.ly/LenWrab3

Too kind!!

“Nigel Farage says….” has been the headline of the decade. Look at what he does, ffs. Look at his tax affairs. Look at his grifting. Look at his lies. Look at his prejudice. Look at his allies. Look at his manifesto. Look at his Brexit. He is the embodiment of personal greed and national failure.

"Zack Polanski said it was 'rank hypocrisy' for Nigel Farage to call for Angela Rayner's resignation and not to do so himself." inews.co.uk/news/green-p...

Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell. Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass. That, right there, is the problem.

New blog of our walk along the Colne Estuary today: a perfect autumnal day! www.chrisgibsonwildlife.co.uk/the-colne-es... #NatureWriting

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... ...except they are lunatics who have no interest in the future climate, are proud of dismantling net zero, and clearly hate their children. And everyone's children.

We must tackle inequality. Your bills are not high because of migrants. The NHS is not crumbling because of migrants. It's because of politicians who only serve the super rich. 👇🏼 youtu.be/RhD2ZuKrXPg?...

Those upholders of law and order - the Great British patriots, stirred up by Captain Brown Teeth and co., making their ancestors (almost all immigrants) proud. Racists enjoying a Renaissance across the country right now, supported by multi-millionaire grifters.

Dragonfly on our Roses #InsectThursday 🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening