@bto-gbw.bsky.social is celebrating its 30th anniversary! 🎉 We delved into the archives & found these images of the original GBW logo artwork by Robert Gillmor from 2005. 🎨 A Wren was chosen as the symbol of GBW – an instantly recognisable bird found in gardens across the UK. #ExploreYourArchive

#NatureAdvent #Norfolk

#NatureAdvent #Norfolk #Wymondham ✨ The Night Sky

This poem is dedicated to anyone making a start on their advent calendar today.

Four from today #NatureAdvent #fungi #botany #norfolk

EVENT REMINDER: Sunday 23rd November 2025 10:30 - we'll be having a look at the wildlife to be found on and around Wymondham Abbey. All welcome. Note that you will need to park nearby and walk to the abbey - further details on norfolknaturalists.org.uk/wp/events-pa...

UPCOMING EVENT: On Tuesday 9th Dec 2025 19:30 we will be hosting our last indoor event before Christmas. In a change to previous listings, Garth Coupland has stepped in & will give a talk about some of his adventures whilst living in Australia. Venue details norfolknaturalists.org.uk/wp/events-pa...

A rather poorly looking Blue Tit I assume? Made me look twice 👀 🐦

The new Red List for Vascular Plants published this week by @bsbibotany.bsky.social highlights the serious decline in Britain’s freshwater plants.

Plastic flowers and foliage picked up from Cornish beaches.

The latest report from the RBBP, Rare Breeding Birds in the UK in 2023, is out now in British Birds. It reports on the 104 species and races of rare breeding birds recording breeding, or showing signs of breeding, in 2023. Read the summary at rbbp.org.uk/2023-report-... #ornithology #ukbirds 🧵[1/15]

Last week to apply to be a BTO Youth Rep ➡️ bit.ly/YouthRep25 We're looking for volunteers aged 16-24 to share their passion for nature!🐦🌿Training and support are provided, and expenses will be paid. 📝 Closing date: Sunday 9th November 2025.

A cross-border raid into Suffolk today for the Norfolk Fungus Study Group, as we had a look around Cavenham Heath. We saw a decent range of mostly common species. A new one for me was Cyclaneusma minus on a pine needle (found & ID'd by Stewart) & I think there is a fungus on this Oak Marble Gall too

Four from today … #norfolk #fungi #inverts #moths #birding

Is Jonathan Ross faithful to Butterfly Conservation? Or is he just fluttering about in disguise? 🦋 #TheTraitors #CelebrityTraitors #MothsMatter 1/6:

Mother should I build the wall? In 1959, an 8-mile stretch from Happisburgh to Winterton was completed. #Norfolk

Think it’s a spider? Think again! 🕷️ Opilio canestrini is a harvestman—one of the UK’s most visible urban arachnids. Join @megabunus.bsky.social on 30 Dec 2025 (18:30–20:00) for a deep dive into arboreal harvestmen ecology. 🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1502201859... @britishspiders.bsky.social

🦋 Just one week left to enter the #InsectWeek Photography Competition! From bees to beetles, moths to mantids - every image tells a story. Don’t miss your chance to share yours 📸 🗓️ Deadline: 31 October 🔽 🔗 buff.ly/NrRy462 T&Cs apply. #Photography #Competition #PhotographyCompetition #Entomology

My book has got a great endorsement from Chris Packham: "This clever and immensely resourceful book is an overdue gem". There's also a few pages up on the website too! It's up for pre-order here with publication set for January pelagicpublishing.com/products/pan...

Cor it’s all kicking off today! 1. Spot a Fly 🪰 2. Then see a Bristly Millipede having some lichen munch 🐛 3. Then spot a sponge? and shells. 🐚 @timholtwilson.bsky.social #norfolk #churches #inverts #lichen

Reminder: This Saturday (25th October 2025) at 10:30 there is an NNNS fungus foray at Brett's Wood NWT reserve, led by national fungus expert & author Geoffrey Kibby. For meeting details see the events page on our website norfolknaturalists.org.uk/wp/events-pa...

@vannabartlett.bsky.social Having looked through your guide I think this is a female Dicranopalpis ramosus. Spotted this morning. #harvestmen #norfolk

Words invented by Sir Thomas Browne (thanks Alchetron - alchetron.com/Thomas-Browne): 'ambidextrous','antediluvian', 'analogous', 'approximate', 'ascetic', 'anomalous', 'carnivorous', 'coexistence' 'coma', 'compensate', 'computer', 'cryptography', 'cylindrical', 'disruption','ergotisms',

From the description and from cutting in half I think this is an Iodine Bolete - Hemileccinum impolitum. Stunning colour 😍🍄‍🟫🍂🌳 #fungi #norfolk #oak #fungifriends

Something new on the lawn -Waxcap of some type. #fungi #norfolk

4 from yesterday - Brandon Country Park 🍄 🐝 🍃 🍂 #norfolk #brecks #fungi #lichen #bees #insects

This week - Something old, something new (to me) Life imitates art- What a gem of a book 📖 🌾🍄‍🟫🍄 #norfolk #wheatfen #fungi #fungifriday #naturalist

I saw a meteorite this evening. Never seen one before. The purest green! I’ll not forget it. That is all. #meteorite #norfolk #astronomy ✨

How an insect might change how surgeons operate on the human body www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...

Anyone with an interest and a bit of guidance can make interesting finds - if you find Clavaria zollingeri (the purple coral fungus pictured) in Norfolk then please let me know, it’s probably my ‘most wanted’ fungus!

Yesterday & Today 🍄‍🟫🪹🍄‍🟫🪹 #norfolk #fungi #nest

🔍 🍄 The #UKFungusDay Find-a-Fungus challenge has started! Join in by looking out for our 20 listed fungi, take photos & record your finds on iNaturalist. ➡️ How to take part: www.ukfungusday.co.uk/findafungus

@norwichbirder.bsky.social Have you tried this? 🍺

@jeremybartlett.bsky.social is this Diatrypella quercina (Oak Blackhead)? #fungi #norfolk

@vannabartlett.bsky.social Rilaena triangularis - so cute! 🤎 #norfolk #harvestmen

Train action on the A11 #norfolk #trains www.midnorfolkrailway.co.uk/33202

Lichen in the Beaulieu estate #lichen #beaulieu

@robyaxley.bsky.social Marks out of 10?

@robyaxley.bsky.social … but which Lichen specifically? 🤔 🤭

@vannabartlett.bsky.social is this a Pseudoscorpion nymph? I only spotted it when looking back at the Harvestman photo. I was turning things over in my local churchyard, have been for a while in hopes of spotting one.

Just been made aware of this triple threat - they’ve been there all along! 👀 @stephenmossauthor.bsky.social 📚 📕 🪶 Mrs. Moreau's Warbler - How Birds Got Their Names #penguins #pelicans #puffins #publishers #

🗞️🍂 NNNS Events 2025 🍄📆 @norfolknats.bsky.social #norfolk #autumn #naturalhistory

What have we got here? Things with wings in Holt church - 🪽 Church Bells of England - H.B Walters 🔔 #bellringing #norfolk #churches

Norfolk naturalists, please look out for nymphs and adults of the non-native Southern Green Shieldbug ~ Nezara viridula. With this being the second county record it would be useful to know more about their spread. Please add records via iRecord, or DM me. www.britishbugs.org.uk/heteroptera/...

Puccinia distincta - Daisy Rust 🌼 Never seen this before, reminded me of Cannonball fungi. #botany #daisy #norfolk

Burnished Brass [Diachrysia chrysitis] with Parasitic Wasp takeover (I think). Interesting to watch. Any help with identification? Never seen this behaviour before. @norfolkmoths.bsky.social @timstrudwick.bsky.social #norfolk #moths #teammoths #muchadoaboutmothing

@legolostatsea.bsky.social Interesting read, visually appealing & nostalgic. Can’t wait to get to the beach to collect (and have a clean up of course!) 🐋🐚 🪶🌼 🪨 🐉 🦈

On this day - a few years ago, sleeping over in the Natural History Musuem. 🔦 😴 🐋 @nhm-london.bsky.social

Enjoyed this & will challenge myself to take some more photos next year! 📷

Subfamily Telenominae I think. #inverts #norfolk