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.

Would love this for when everything hurts, the rain is incessant and the world seems a bit crazy

A Goldcrest with little bird syndrome. For the #BirdOfTheDay theme of #StareDown #Papay #Orkney

What about paying landowners upstream to home beavers? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Visiting the local patches of beautiful snowdrops on #NationalSnowdropDay

I refuse to let this wet Winter get to me! Here’s an Orange Tip butterfly to cheer everybody up. It won’t be long until they’re here for real. @savebutterflies.bsky.social #WildCornwall

Egg-citing news! 🥚 Volunteers have counted record numbers of rare Brown Hairstreak eggs this winter in Carmarthenshire after landowners let their hedgerows grow wild. Read the full story 👉 butterfly-conservation.org/news-and-blo... 📷: Gillian Thompson, Iain Leach, Paul Taylor

A petition has been started by assisted dying campaigner Sophie Blake - who has incurable secondary breast cancer - to stop the Lords from frustrating bills approved by MPs. Peers are currently debating the assisted dying bill at a snail’s pace. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

The Stonechat is often seen perched prominently, sometimes popping up from its perch to catch a passing insect. This female was photographed in the early morning sunlight at Lamplighters Marsh, Bristol, yesterday. (04.02.26) #avonbirds #ukwildlife

Thoroughly enjoyed watching Stuart Pearce on Celebrity Mastermind- and took me back to this superb video m.youtube.com/watch?v=5fMi...

I do love Owls though. Very much. 💤 Little Owl 🪶 Steenuiltje

In Iceland, even when the worst is about to happen, we never go down without a desperate fight against the odds.

Todays cure for my grumpiness. Thanks Tony and thanks squirrel💚

Shame on them. What terrible people. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Nature, love and creativity...antidotes to strange times. Well worth a watch with a mug of cocoa

“and in other news, President Trump has ordered the bombing of Venezuela” “Caracas?” “not according to his doctors”

I struggle in winter but photos like these remind me that we are heading towards the light again. Thanks Geoff et al...and Bluesky

Barometer earthstar, Astraeus hygrowmetricus in peak condition.

I've really enjoyed the latest series of photos by Rambling Ray...such extraordinary colours. Couldn't decide between this or the blue. Nature...we are so lucky!💚🌱

This is what life should be about. Lovely to see such joy💚🌱

Fungi finds at #WyverLaneNR today. Variable Oysterling, Scarlet/Ruby Elf Cup, Jelly Ear and Velvet Shank @belperbirder.bsky.social @richardttaylor.bsky.social @cliveaderbys.bsky.social @danmartinwildlife.bsky.social @derbyswildlife.bsky.social

So lucky to live here. I think there should be a name for a group of Polecats

Congratulations to Mark Searle, winner of the 2025 UK Butterflies Photo Competition, with his image of a Dingy Skipper - clearly an inappropriate name for a butterfly that can appear quite beautiful! Winning entries can be seen at: www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/competition_...

The word wreath is said to come from the old English word “writhen” meaning to twist, as in a circle or wheel. The wreath is also said to represent the wheel of the year, in recognition of the fact that the darkness and cold of winter will eventually fade away #folklore

Redwing on Bodmin moor this week. #birds #birding #birdphotography #Naturephotography #Naturelovers

2025 wildlife highlight from David Bentley:  "I saw this rare & spectacular Golden-bloomed Grey Longhorn Beetle at Castle Water, Rye Harbour Nature Reserve in June. With antennae longer than its body, the whole creature is longer than its name - a full 2 inches in total! Longhorn indeed...!"

Inuk artist Kenojuak Ashevak designed this stained gjass window at John Bell Chapel of Appleby College in Oakville (Ontario) near Toronto (Canada) #Womensart

Looking at a little slime mold like this one always reminds me of just how tiny our world is in relation to the universe. We are a cosmic speck...with a lot goin’ on.

Collared Earthstar, Geastrum michelianum (formerly Geastrum triplex). Thetford Forest, on today's Norfolk Fungus Study Group foray. #Fungi #FungiFriends

Lichenomphalia umbellifera is a rare (in the lichen world) mushroom producing fungus that’s also a lichen. Newfoundlan, Canada. Mushrooms are about 2cm high. #fungi #lichen #mushroom #fungifriends