Next Friday ourselves and @tanyptera.bsky.social are hosting a spotlight session covering Soldierflies and Allies. Join us as we practice ID in a friendly setting. FREE event, find out more and book 👉https://www.tickettailor.com/events/recordlrc/1734115

🙋‍♀️ Help us search for an elusive species of hoverfly. 🧐 Parasyrphus nigritarsis is a 'Nationally Scarce' species. We want to see if this unusual species is living in the Nature Reserve at Chester Zoo and for this we need your help! 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/recor... @tanyptera.bsky.social

Join us on 21 May, 2:30pm for a Spotlight Session on Ladybirds 🐞 We'll be having a go at some ladybird identification along with @tanyptera.bsky.social. No experience is neccessary and there will be free tea and biscuits ☕🍪 Register here 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/recor...

🥳The results are in 🥳 This year was a record-breaking year both here in Chester and around the world for the City Nature Challenge 🌎 THANK YOU to all who joined in and made it a success. We managed to make over 19,000 observations of 1403 different species in just 4 days in the Chester Region🤯

A few last minute tickets left on tonight's free event, where we'll be hearing from Helen at Wirral and Cheshire Badger Group 🦡 www.tickettailor.com/events/recor...

Recorded my first observation on the Chester City Nature Challenge 2025 .. head over to @recordlrc.bsky.social for more information and get recording Chester .. let's be 1st in the world this time. @shitchester.bsky.social @chesterzoosci.bsky.social @chesterzoo.bsky.social

A lovely sunny morning here in Chester for #CityNatureChallenge ☀️ Share your wildlife observations through @inaturalist.bsky.social to join in 🌸🐝

Friday25th in #CountessChesterCountryPark 1.00pm @ramblers.org.uk Health and Wellbeing Walk 2.00pm #CityNatureChallenge20205 ID Session - download @inaturalist.bsky.social app beforehand Meet at the Friendly Bench @recordlrc.bsky.social @shitchester.bsky.social @chesterscibar.bsky.social

Join us on Monday 28 April at Little Budworth Country Park. 🙋‍♀️ We're looking for volunteers to help us search for and record wildilfe. 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/recor...

Great day at the National Waterways Museum today promoting next weekends #CityNatureChallenge 🛶🦊🦆

Join our iNaturalist project 🦋 To watch our Chester Region #CityNatureChallenge total grow next weekend 🤞 www.inaturalist.org/projects/cit...

🙋 We're looking for volunteers to help us document wildlife. 🐝 Join us at one of our wildlife recording sessions for the #CityNatureChallenge 🧐 No prior knowledge is needed, just an enthusiasm for nature and ideally a mobile phone to use iNaturalist 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/recor...

Curating a Starter Pack that will hopefully be useful to folk coming over to BlueSky and looking for all of the UK conservation orgs and recording societies go.bsky.app/Nget1LP Will keep adding to this. DM or reply to be added and please share.

We are delighted to be hosting 2 events for #CityNatureChallenge2025 along with @recordlrc.bsky.social. 12th April 11.00am @inaturalist.bsky.social trianing session 27th April 6.00pm Dusk Wildlife Walk Use link for info and bookings record-lrc.co.uk/Get_involved... @chesterzoosci.bsky.social

💻Join us tonight at 7pm for a free webinar all about the Chester City Nature Challenge 🦊🐛🐸 📱 We'll be learning how to use the free iNaturalist app to record wildlife. Register here 👉https://www.tickettailor.com/events/recordlrc/1596597

Grow Wellbeing are offering free & paid for Forest School sessions in #CountessofChesterCountryPark in the Easter holidays. Details at t.co/Ti6NBPARVh @recordlrc.bsky.social @swettenhamfdn.bsky.social @shitchester.bsky.social @wearechester.bsky.social @cwva.bsky.social @chesterzoosci.bsky.social

We have moved 🏠😀 If you need to get in touch please use our new phone number: 01244 394514 📍And our new address: RECORD LRC, Suite 5 Parade Enterprise Centre 14 The Parade Blacon Chester CH1 5HN

One month to go until the #CityNatureChallenge 🌸🦊🐞 Join us for 4 fun-filled days of wildlife recording 🤗 Last year we achieved around 7000 observations in the Chester Region and this year we’ve set our target at 10,000 📈😲 Record through @inaturalist.bsky.social 25-28 April to join in 📱🦆

Cofnod #RecordOfTheWeek is not to be sniffed at. 150 Smelt (Osmerus eperlanus) recorded on the Dee at Chester by JoelRJ. In Cheshire, but they must have swam through Wales to get there www.marlin.ac.uk/species/deta... @sewbrec.org.uk @wwbic1.bsky.social @bispowys.bsky.social @recordlrc.bsky.social

Great to see some bee-flies appearing, and hoping for more as things warm up over the next few days 🌞 Please don't forget to add your record details to iRecord for #BeeFlyWatch & thanks to all who have already done so 🙏👍 dipterists.org.uk/bee-fly-watch

Great start to the year with surveys around the Wirral coast and closer to home on the Chester Zoo estate. Thanks to everyone who has joined us so far and helped to document add valuable records to our database 🦆🐚🦎

Could this be your Saturday morning?! Join us and Chester Zoo at the beautiful zoo nature reserve tomorrow as we learn how to use the @inaturalist.bsky.social app to record wildlife 🌸🦆🦊 Book for this free event by searching RECORD LRC on Ticket Tailor 🎫

Excited for our first #CityNatureChallenge event of 2025 this Tuesday 🐝🌸🐞 Join us and Chris from Chester Zoo for a free webinar to find out how to use the @inaturalist.bsky.social app to make your wildlife observations count for conservation 👇

Nominations are open for #NBNawards25 There are 7 Award categories… Which exceptional #Wildlife recorders or groups will you nominate? bit.ly/NBNawards25 Thanks to our 7 Award sponsors: RSPB, Opticron, Habitat Aid, Field Studies Council, William Collins, British Wildlife magazine & NHBS.

Our first post on Bluesky 🫢 and it's a good one! We are inviting you to join us in the Chester Region City Nature Challenge, 25 - 28 April 🌻🦋🐸 Find out more here: record-lrc.co.uk/Get_involved...