Early Live Performance by Talking Heads (1976). This “must-watch” 90-minute show is more than a year before their first album and includes songs like Psycho Killer, Thank You For Sending Me An Angel, and Love → Building On Fire. [kottke.org]

Can we please have a late Swallowtail surge in Britain's Favourite Butterfly poll? If you haven't voted yet, please use your democratic power before June 7th! britainsfavouritebutterfly.co.uk

Brimstone last weekend at Heartwood

Local Tesco with a Generous interpretation of a Fruit Cup

Yesterday at Heartwood Forest with @bc-hertsmiddx.bsky.social and The Woodland Trust. Pictured Small Blue, Large Skipper, Painted Lady, Small Heath. @savebutterflies.bsky.social

A Painted Lady this morning. Paused just long enough to photograph, moving through Kew Gardens at a good clip. @savebutterflies.bsky.social @kewgardens.bsky.social

I’ve written more about statistics of the Guardian’s 100 best novels list, including: – Books that just missed out – Two errors in the data (Cather and Camus lost out) – Best novelists – Alternative rankings – Weirdest and least-weird ballots mpaldridge.github.io/blog/guardia...

Scarce Swallowtail flight sequence, Corfu. OM1mk2 and 50-200 @omsystem.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social @ionianbutterflycon.bsky.social

My Vote was for: britainsfavouritebutterfly.co.uk/butterfly/sm...

There’s a lot of politics in the news at the moment, but this is the vote that really counts: which species will be crowned the UK’s favourite butterfly? 🦋 👑 Have your say at britainsfavouritebutterfly.co.uk

🐜The Wormwood Scrubs Nature Day is this weekend. There will be a bat walk on Saturday evening, followed by a whole day activities on Sunday, following botany, bat box painting, insect rails and more! More info: www.friendsofthescrubs.uk

A wonderful walk earlier today through Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park. Especially delighted to see several Green Hairstreaks. Thanks to #FriendsofTowerHamletsCemeteryPark for organising the walk. # @fothcp @savebutterflies.bsky.social @bc-hertsmiddx.bsky.social

Happy Birthday Sir David Attenborough. It is a measure of this great man that amongst his many commitments he found time to support a small NGO like @savebutterflies.bsky.social and attend many events. Here opening a reserve in 1999, at the Big Butterfly Count in 2011, and Moths Count launch 2007

‘Nigel Farage’s Plan to Scrap Nature Protections Would Speed ‘Demise’ of UK Countryside’ bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/n...

Bright and beautiful morning at Wormwood Scrubs for Parkrun today. #parkrun

Peacock enjoying today’s sunshine in Hammersmith Park, London W12. @savebutterflies.bsky.social @bc-hertsmiddx.bsky.social

Speckled Wood, Ravenscourt Park, London. (last Friday).

Wormwood Scrubs bright and early this morning for Parkrun. #parkrun

Barbican Centre last night for a fine Anohni concert. #anohni

last night, Screening with Q&A of “Searching for Satyrus”, a wonderful film by Rena Effendi, at the Regent Street Cinema, London #@regentstcinema.bsky.social

Holly Blue earlier today, Ravenscourt Park, London W6.

UKBMS results out today! Results from fifty years of butterfly monitoring! The UKBMS data reveals declines in 33 species over the last 50 years. Check out the full story below butterfly-conservation.org/news-and-blo... And the full 2025 statistics can be found here: jncc.gov.uk/our-work/off...

50 years of the incredible UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme @ukbms.bsky.social - amazing citizen science showing the decline of the UK’s butterflies @savebutterflies.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Your 'moment of doom' for Apr. 13, 2026 ~ The long goodbye. "Gray whales are beginning to break their long-established migration patterns, venturing into risky new territory like San Francisco Bay as climate change disrupts their Arctic food supply." www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Phoenix Farm in White City drop in sessions start this Saturday 10-1pm. All welcome

If you live in, say, Finchley and want to send a birthday card to someone in, say, Brixton, it's now cheaper to get the bus there and stick the card through their door yourself. At least you'd know it'd got there.

Peacock, somewhat tattered, Easter Sunday, Henley-On-Thames

In the BlueSky tradition of 'here's a nice thing but here's how it's problematic': Is Attenborough right to claim that gardens in England cover a greater area than all of our National Nature Reserves? Technically, yes: but I think it’s a misleading comparison that lets government off the hook...1/

It's me in the Financial Times, detailing the deep and pernicious influence of one-size-fits-all management consultancy in our universities... Take a look! 👇 www.ft.com/content/5032...

Born on this day 1647, naturalist & artist Maria Sibylla Merian. Here, Teucer Owl Butterfly & Rainbow Whiptail Lizard among the bananas, from her book The Metamorphosis of the Insects of Suriname, 1705.

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

This is such a beautiful film - a must for butterfly lovers but everyone else as well. Screenings from April 19 - go and see it in a cinema! www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

The very gorgeous bank vole from my book Garden Safari, and also featured on the One Show! @mammalsociety.bsky.social @shropshirewildlife.bsky.social @omsystem.bsky.social

HCGA are recruiting school gardeners due to an expansion of our programmes in west London. For more info www.rootstowork.org

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This is truly excellent news! Well done to all those involved! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... @savebutterflies.bsky.social @warrenfarmnr.bsky.social

Sick of hearing miserable wildlife news? Yes, us too. What a delight to hear @savebutterflies.bsky.social declare Large Tortoiseshell is, for the first time in decades, a resident British breeding butterfly. Great piece by @patrickbarkham.bsky.social today: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Cat at window observing a pigeon. I realised it was a plastic pigeon when I noticed it had’t move a muscle for a several hours. (can’t speak for the cat).

Protect caterpillars as UK’s moth population plummets, urge charities: Instead of removing plant-munching caterpillars, gardeners asked to take relaxed attitude to support the moths many of them grow into As spring unfolds and plants come to life, gardeners often fight a losing battle aga...

Comma, Shepperton, today.

Food insecurity, poor quality diet, stress and lack of green spaces: all are linked to the obesity epidemic. Here's one holistic solution | Prof Neli Demireva

HCGA was delighted to win an award from the Hammersmith Society for the planting and maintenance of the suds beds in King Street. @hammersmithsociety.org.uk

Pochin's comments can never be excused.

NEW | This year is starting so grimly that I’ve taken a break from the present to travel back to 1978…. 'If my thought-dreams could be seen...' Stuck inside one Bob Dylan song in a time of chaos brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/if-my-thou...

The National Trust is halfway to their appeal to buy Giant Hill, one of the UKs top butterfly sites, also rich in insects and flowers. The last good habitat for Duke of Burgundy in Dorset. Please donate if you can @nationaltrust.org.uk www.nationaltrust.org.uk/support-us/a...

Strange isn't it... the people who actually live in London overwhelmingly think it's safe.... almost like everyone else is falling for a lie

Who to believe? It’s such a tricky one… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...