As someone who has studied ancient woodland & ecology in Scotland for four decades, I am delighted by this news on Cumbernauld. Scotland’s ancient woodland is a national treasure to be conserved. And it reminds me of when I was young!

Stephen Fry is the definition of what an idiot thinks a clever person sounds like.

Mr Shadow is a properly wild, old stray tom cat from the dark void (or one of the nearby farms) who visits us regularly. He's now had to move in to get warm while feeling under the weather with his little snotty nose and wheezing. Also happy Imbolc to you and your familiars!! 💜😺 #imbolc #straycat

Did you know that today is potato day in the sleepy village of Up Holland. I did and I bought purple seed potatoes! Plus onion sets, tayberry bush, and other lovely veg for my garden. One step closer to becoming Potatos the Potato Witch! #PotatoDay #Potatoes #PoTayToes

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Three years goes fast!!! I miss Valerie, she had a super personality, tough little fighter she was 🥺💜🕊️ #BeKindToPigeons

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Spring is nearly upon us! Also need to finish the edgelands zine I started last year, need to get out more with the camera. #wildflowers #meadow #edgelands

The landscape was covered in a thin coating of ice, so when the sun rose, I had intended to capture backlit sparkle on the foliage that grows along the shoreline of Vermilion Lakes. Instead, the frozen lake itself provided a beautiful bokeh in the background for a dreamy effect. 🫧

Latest lino print, common garden snail. #lino #printing

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I've always found Elder trees to be places of comfort the smell of them instantly transports me back to my childhood. I spent many hours among them as a kid, plus the berries are delicious in jams!

"Terrible things are happening outside... poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared." Anne Frank - Jan 13 1943 #NeverAgain

From the Twin Cities Geeks Facebook group, shared by Michael Wallevand: "If you're looking for something more punk to show your solidarity with other humans. I borrowed a bit of the DIY punk ethos and the famous Black Flag logo (and one of their song titles) to create this."

Nuthatches - what's not to love? Amazing soft pastel colouring, an eye-stripe like a bandit, hanging upside down on trees! I was really pleased seeing them in real life in Belgium recently Day 23 of #birbfest2026 #birbfest #SciArt #BirdArt

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If you're a nature nerd and reside in Lancashire, these guided bat walks might interest you too! 🦇 www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/liverp...

With most psychedelic drugs, you never know what you're going to get. But this mysterious mushroom from China - without fail - causes users to hallucinate tiny people: crawling up walls, popping out from under furniture and marching under doors. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Played around with inking and rolling technique and look at that, so pleased with how they're turning out! Snail next? Or beetle? #lino #art #slugs

Really pleased with my first few test prints from my first proper linocut. Not sure why it's not picking up enough ink but it's all learning 😊🐌 #linoprint #slug #printing

Today we remember that sometimes love looks like refusing to comply #bearebel #pigeons #photography #memes #mlkjr #love #ungovernable

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Will it jiggle? Not this one! Quite firm to the touch & not as slimy as expected. Exidia thuretiana - white brain fungus. Growing on fallen birch. #fungifriends #fungi #mycology

Last summer, @myabambrick.bsky.social and I found filmed some nightjars: youtu.be/ySe0ynevFb4?...

There is no excuse to travel to a remote Scottish Island and bludgeon gannet chicks to death in the name of ‘tradition’. It’s 2026, let’s consign this barbarism to the history books.

First time using actual lino and not the cheap softcut stuff... I might have bitten off more than I can chew here 🙈😅 #lino #linocut #InAtTheDeepEnd

What does it mean to be a Youth Ranger in 2025? I've attempted to answer this question in a blog post for the @sussexwildlife.bsky.social. You can read all about it here: sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/news/our-exp...

Did a really fun video with the V&A at their cool storehouse location! WAs such a delight to get to see some of really cool objects up close and chat about art ehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Js3LV1KZ7M

United States 2026 and priests are preparing themselves for martyrdom. Do something positive today, be kind to yourself, draw a picture, take a walk, inject some tiny fraction of positivity into the world. We sure need it. #bekind

THE LOOK by Carol Ann Duffy The heron's the look of the river The moon's the look of the night. The sky's the look of forever. Snow is the look of white. 🌨️💙

POTATO DAY! A gift from the gods. #potato #potataspotatowitch

Like bunches of grapes, these are the tiny hanging sporangia of the slime mould Badhamia utricularis. Such an exciting find & worth going out in the rain for! They grow on dead wood & develop from a stunning yellow plasmodium, shown on the right #nurturebynature #slimemould

Ten years on for me... Now I've hardly any friends, ostracised in public, denigrated by both the media and government, can no longer travel to half of the world. But I do have great tits thanks to oestrogen - that stuff is magic! So do I regret any of it?? Only the fact I didn't do it sooner.

Today I bought an old cast iron book press that's been in somebody's family since 1935 and I reorganised the Tolkien shelf for the second week running. Today was a good day.

It's three in the morning, why am I wide awake reading about the biodiversity of post glacial Scotland? Fff why can't we just switch off..

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Yikes, there's no way the Trump regime ends without bloodshed.

Finished my Lego Millennium Falcon that I got for Christmas!! Haven't touched Lego since I was a wee bebé. #nerd

Seeing as we live in unprecedented times, it has finally happened... A delivery service worse than Evri if you can believe that?! Canada Post

If he does, I guarantee Starmer won't say a word against him, it'll be a statement saying "watching closely and monitoring the situation".

Saving the Hazel Dormouse. Part of this was filmed at one of the sites, where I monitor for Dormice. youtu.be/znMqzGf1uWo?...

Snow falling on the hills, hopefully it comes my way!

Some clues to Earth’s complex history.

I'm dealing with the weekend saddies and the prospect of being back at work soon by drowning myself in The Cure and a bottle of wine. For those already back at work, I salute you.

Have been playing with lino printing onto cyanotype backgrounds, stars made with washing soda 'carefully' flicked onto the wet paper. Might have to scale this up as these are only A6 size. #cyanotype #linoprinting #art

It's only the third of January this year and there's been a flurry of transphobia from the press 🙃 So 2025 Was the year trans was supposed to end? Well unlucky lads, I'm still here existing and haunting your every thought 💜If you're trans then I think you're fucking amazing and awesome💜 #transpride

I'm suspicious of those who don't aim to haunt a bookshop or a library. If the afterlife isn't the point you tackle the eternal 'to be read' pile I'm not sure we can ever call ourselves friends. If I am not allowed to read as a ghost there will be much trouble. – #DAKilroy #Books

"Collective Black self-recovery takes place when we begin to renew our relationship to the earth, when we remember the way of our ancestors." Online for the first time ever, this 1996 essay from bell hooks draws the lifeline between Black body and soil. Read: orionmagazine.org/article/touc...