Waking up everyday to this flowery paradise is just amazing. It’s so hard to believe that so many people think that short, constantly mown grass is so great…🥹😍🌱

Nemoptera bipennis, one of the Spoonwing family, and one of my favourite insects. I found a small group of them yesterday, the first of the year for me. 😍 #inverts #InsectThursday #Extremadura SW Spain. #wildlife #NaturePhotography #ECK

Some research after watching #taskmaster The wonders of custard 💛 www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQDZ...

Fossilized Goniatites in a shale concretion. County Clare, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours

Map Lichens (Rhizocarpon geographicum), each with their own territory and boundaries, on this piece of hillside stone. County Donegal, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com walking tours

These plants also harvest dew, which condenses out of moist air. Edges and hairs make especially good foci for condensation as they radiate heat & cool faster. This species is from Namaqualand, in southern Africa. 📷: Dipcadi crispum Karel du Toit CCBYNC4 #Asparagaceae #fog #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

A little piece of my garden from me to you. Don’t just grow Roses, grow daisies. 😊🐝🦋 #flowers #photography #Ireland #ECK #ColorADay #PinkMon

Sadly much declined in recent years a few pairs of Wood Warblers Phylloscopus sibilatrix still inhabit the ancient oak woods of Dartmoor, Devon. It is always a pleasure to be in the company of this 'king of the leaf warblers'.

An ancient Greek silver coin depicting a bee! 🐝 😍 Minted in Ephesus, 390-380 BC. Photo Getty Museum #Archaeology

I got into Iris because I love watching the bees squeeze inside. Does anyone know the name of this one? Ta 🌱

I was up in Scotland much of the week, filling my memory cards with photos but I haven't processed any yet, so it will have to be another fledgling long tailed tit from last week for @javajanegallery.co.uk's #SmallBirdSaturday

Our friends @britishdragonflies.bsky.social would like folks to keep an eye out for Black Darter.

Green Hairstreak Callophrys rubi nectaring on Sheep's Bit, Rickham Common, Gara Rock south Devon yesterday

But this Hawfinch would also fit in with the theme #WaterDroplets. #BirdOfTheDay 🪶

A Swallow #BirdOfTheDay #Blue #Birds #Wildlife #BirdPhotography #ECK

My cohost Rob @robcrank68.bsky.social said “ Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #WadersOuttaWater, any Wader that is out of water. The Alt Theme is #Blue, any bird with Blue in its plumage.” I’m going with Dunlins and Bar-tailed Godwits on the shoreline, umm, out of water. 😁 #photography #birds #ECK

@robcrank68.bsky.social kingfisher with a fish #Blue #BirdOfTheDay

Here’s a creature I’ve always wanted to see - a Sand Lizard. This one crossed our path at RSPB Arne, Dorset last week and paused just long enough for a couple of pics! They really have the most stunning markings! #UKWildlife #Reptiles

Anacamptis morio (Green-winged Orchid) - a beautiful hypochromic plant from East Somerset 25.04.26. #orchid @withylake.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social @greenwingstours.bsky.social

First visit to Blackberry Camp hill fort. Magical

As someone who has a terminal illness I would like to thank everyone who supported a change in the law. I am thinking of you today and that makes me feel less wounded.

This failure has only one certain consequence: ongoing unwanted suffering for thousands of dying people and their friends and families. The minority of peers who've talked this bill out have guaranteed that suffering will continue for now but the Bill will come back and eventually it will pass.

Experts call for restrictions on pet flea treatments that harm UK songbirds

Ooooof! His Imperial Majesty has paid us a visit 🙂 A pristine, simply stunning ♂️ Emperor in the garden this afternoon. @linnetincley.bsky.social #cleymothobs #norfolkmoths #teammoth

This gorse and the ground around it has been building in insect intensity for a couple of years. Positively fizzing in the weak sunlight today. Andrena cineraria, nomada lathburiana, various bumbles, hoverflies, bee flies, a sight to behold. @ianbeavis.bsky.social @flygirlnhm.bsky.social

Good morning. The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #Warblers any bird that’s a Warbler. The alt is #RareEncounters birds you have captured least in your camera roll. Good luck. 🤞 I’ve gone with this Sedge Warbler. #birds #photography #ECK

Early morning male Yellowhammer on Bodmin moor today. #birds #birding

Harris dunes

Terry the Treecreeper #birdoftheday #feathers #birds #wildlife #photography #EastCoastKin

2/3 Once the outer shell is finished they line the nest with a 1000+ feathers. Imagine the time & effort that task takes. See how many feathers you spot next time you're out for a long walk - 10/20 if you keep your eyes peeled. The birds will come again & again for the right type of downy feather.

Loads of #treeflowers out there at the moment ! Here are a selection of those I’ve found in flower (and a couple still in bud) over the last week or so. See ALT text for details. #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Oysterplant: very rare across coastal northern Britain and found at only a handful of sites here in Shetland. Always a highlight for our groups in spring and summer and although Gaelic isn't the mother tongue here, we love the Gaelic name Tiodhlac na mara - gift of the sea. #wildflowers #ukwildlife

‘My heart is breaking’: Lebanese family grieve daughter killed by Israeli bomb

Good Day. For the #EastCoastKin #ForestFriday theme today, this lovely misty scene from my favourite local woodland. #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography #outdoorphotography #ECK #landscapephotography #landscape_lover #Yorkshire #EastYorkshire #Woodland

Some photos from @guy_heath_ rock pooling at Hannafore, Looe! The elusive Rainbow sea slug (Babakina anadoni), found by @oops_robin 🌈

On a warm and sunny spring Equinox, so wonderful to hear the deep thrum of multiple male and female Hairy-footed Flower Bees busy foraging on Lungwort and Rosemary flowers on the patio... #wildlifegarden #insects #spring

This mosaic depicts snails in a basket (presumably waiting to be cooked and eaten). This may explain why one has already escaped and another is making a break for it. 🕰️4th century AD 🏛️📷Basilica di Santa Maria Assunta, Aquileia #MosaicMonday

The beautiful Bordered Tortoise Beetle Cassida vittata in clifftop vegetation at Bolberry Down, Devon

Persecution and eradication of Palestinians gathers pace. This little girls dad was a volunteer ambulance driver, killed by Israeli 'forces'

Live feed to a Goshawk nest at @rspb.bsky.social Loch Garten reserve in the Scottish Highlands #Gosh www.youtube.com/live/rXb9kA7...

Chipko movement ("to hug" in Hindi) non-violent women-led, forest conservation movement, 1970s, of India (Uttarakhand). Participants hugged trees to prevent loggers from cutting them down, successfully preventing massive deforestation. Where "tree huggers' originated #WomensHistoryMonth

Dear Min watching bees on thrift. Miss her 💚

To a Primrose Welcome, pale primrose, starting up between Dead matted leaves of oak and ash, that strew The every lawn, the wood, and spinney through John Clare Primula vulgaris supports nearly 40 species of invertebrate as a larval host, & most of them are Lepidoptera. #Invertebrates

It’s nice to be back to crawling around, peeping into flowers, spotting bugs. Although my walks are now taking significantly longer to complete. Last pic from me today Beetle and Celandine in the sunshine #WildWebsWednesday

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

Soaking wet after yesterday’s rain, some lichen’s green is so intense & alive that I can’t help smiling broadly. And I’m reminded that the natural world is an ORCHESTRA OF LIFE with every player contributing to the whole. #lichen #mycology #fungifriends #photography #nature #orchestra #biodiversity

“Get it off me! Get it off me!”

Fieldfare today on Tealham Moor

I consider myself primarily a dragonfly lover, so it is with great pain that I post this shocking image of an evil Pied Wagtail for the #bugsinbeak theme by the very cruel @alan678.bsky.social for today's #BirdoftheDay. #photography #birds

Our colleague Ion captured this lovely redpoll at Grafton Wood over the weekend. 🪶❤️ So named because of the bright red patch on their forehead, redpolls, along with siskins, are our smallest finches and also among the darkest in plumage.