This wee grasshopper just landed on my hand whilst I was putside having lunch

The wind eased at sunset. Venus, the evening star, is VERY bright, and my rubbish phone-photo doesn't do it justice

1/ For #WorldAutismAwarenessDay we asked some of the members of the BTO team who are on the Autism spectrum to share their experiences of working for the organisation. At BTO we’re committed to becoming more inclusive, find out more about this work at www.bto.org/inclusivity

@cambsbirdclub.bsky.social Get Cambridgeshire birders involved

A poem for #transdayofvisibility - I travel the UK and I find far more love and acceptance for trans people than fear and suspicion. Sadly, this is not reflected in our media and our politics

So, naturalist friends. Struggling to ID this. Its on a chunky, cut bramble stem at base of a tree in ancient woodland on clay. Thinking slime mould as its a bit squishy. But maybe a fungus?

#weirdwednesdaytrees Some ancient coppice and pollard stools, ancient Woodland, SW Cambridgeshire.

A few books either by or about influential women in the outdoors or science. And one about the inherent design and science data bias towards males of things around us. #internationalwomensday

Suffolk landscape. Veteran Hornbeams and Anglo-Saxon South Elmham Minster. #trees

Village walk, spring flowers. Plus 2 Peacock butterflies and a Brimstone

Just putting this out there. Wedgy certainly was a superb orator and said meaningful stuff. Including anothe rfamous line along the lones of giving up parliament to devote more time to politics. youtu.be/HfXmpJRZPYI?...

@mogwai.scot Thank you for an awesome gig. Fantastic as ever. An excellent birthday treat.

#MigrantmothUK My friend recorded a Hummingbird Hawkmoth yesterday in south Cambridgeshire. A great birthday surprise for a lepidoptera enthusiast

Not that I sam travelling i the area by train today, but this excuse is one I haven't seen before. Hilarious and tragic.

@bc-cambs-essex.bsky.social Brimstone reported this morning at Over in Cambs

@bc-cambs-essex.bsky.social Workparty for Black Hairstreak THIS SUNDAY, 22nd Feb butterfly-conservation.org/events/work-...

@bc-cambs-essex.bsky.social Peacock Butterfly today in Barton, Cambridge

#teammoth Dusted the actinics down and ushered in the spring. 8 species of Macros. Chestnut, Pale Brindled Beauty, Oak Beauty, Dotted Border, Spring Usher, Satelite, March Moth and a very early Common Quaker. A couple of micro species, too. Trapping in hazel/maple/elm in ancient woodland, vc29

Lookalike: Starmer and Trump / Lord Charles and Ray Alan From the new Private Eye, out now.

We’re proud to share Jo White’s Lyme journey - from a tick bite and serious neurological symptoms to recovery and running again. In 2026, she’s taking on the London Marathon, a 50k, and a 106-mile race to fundraise for Lyme Disease UK. lymediseaseuk.com/my-lyme-stor... #LymeDisease

Good to wake up to a news headline that has the words #IronAge #WarTrumpet and #Boudicca in it www.theguardian.com/science/2026... PreConstruct Archaeology reveals a complete carnyx plus other martial objects from #Norfolk Wow 😲 We need a lie down @theguardian.com @theduncanmackay.bsky.social

Uh? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Another thing to distract/cheer everyone. A clay pipe, missing only a bit of stem, from 1680-1700. Found around 6cm down in breckland soil, Thetford, December

I bring you frosty piles of bean poles and hedging stakes and glorious sunshine. Enjoy

Supermoon setting, sun rising, opposite ends of the garden, 8.15am.

@bsbibotany.bsky.social #NewYearPlantHunt A long walk with friends on southern/ western ede of cambridge and out into farmland. Route1, 23 species, new urban, country park, farmland Route2, 13 species. Entirely arable.

Sometimes a freezing afternoon hanging round petrol station parking bays is just the thing. 4 flavours of geese, none of which used to be conmon in Cambridgeshire. Then swans and cranes and dusk egret roosts.

One of the best modern christmas songs ever......... To the tune of guide me o thou great jehovah...... Midnight Mass M**der by half man half biscuit halfmanhalfbiscuit.uk/lyrics/the-v... The perspective of the vicar at midnight carols... Merry Christmas everbody

Sports person and team if year. 'Popular vote' for womens rugby and football or mens golf. Yep, mens golf wins. No more words available over that.

Ooh, beaver on the loose, norfolk/suffolk border

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Yesss... Stewart Lee, DG. Bring it on!

Sometimes, Curlew nest are so well hidden that even the other local wildlife gets a surprise! 😄 📷 James Wellock Note: this Curlew nest was fenced off from grazing dairy cows

About 2yr ago I vought the most expensive binocs I have ever had. Zeiss, the new very light one. Optical quality amazing. BUT had so much trouble with them. Finally totally broken in summer. A brand new pair just arrived from Germany under warranty. Hoping the dodgy pr was a one-off.

A friend if mi e works at the UN conservation monitoring centre. She has just posted this, and like thousands of her colleagues is now job hunting. mypivot.substack.com/p/united-nat...

#Auktober Ringing and geolocator-tagging Guillemots, Colonsay 2024. We had a great retrieval rate this summer. And John Hegley has a great poem/song about giillemots, a song shared with me by the late Dave Fox www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...

The first whoopers of winter are in. Poor photo theough train window. Although they might be just in norfolk. @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social

This got me musing today. Loads of essentially useful spuds dumped because presumably the machinery missed them. Why is gleaning no longer a thing. We have enough people in need in s cambs to make it worthwhile, surely

Please spread the word – we urgently need more Lyme-literate doctors, the NHS must take this seriously, @ukhsa.bsky.social needs to log ALL cases. How many more Millys are there out there who believe they have long covid or other illnesses and they actually have undiagnosed Lyme?

@britishspiders.bsky.social Guidance over this. I assume its a cocoon from spider, and I wondered if it was possible to get to family/genus etc. Argyll, coastal, on gorse.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/... If we put all of our gear together for a parade it wouldn't look this impressive. A worrying show of power

A fantastic Araneus quadratus at Bomber gap on Devils Dyke, Cambridgeshire. @britishspiders.bsky.social

Watching Adonis Blues and Challhill Blues on Devils Dyke. @epollard.bsky.social

What an image.... sums up Englands summer?

From Landguard, Obsidentify says Southern Small White although this species is not on the British List yet so is the AI correct ! It has spread into the Low Countries from Southern Europe in recent years so is expected to arrive sometime.

Gralings out and about, RAF Bentwaters

Well those girls put us through serious stress. And Lucy Bronze palyed the whole tournament with a broken tibia..... www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

#Birdfair 2025 - a smaller event with greater emphasis on high-carbon holidays Number of stands | 2018: 396 | 2025: 298 Stands for tourism for every stand for conservation orgs + orni/birding societies 2018: 3 to 1 2025: 4 to 1 #globalbirdfair lowcarbonbirding.net/2025/02/05/b...

Yesterday 30 June it recorded 32.1 C air temperature, a blistering 41.7 C grass temp. (imagine what that's doing to the flora/invertebrates), and the concrete temp. was so high (50+ C) that the sensor couldn't record it. Even at soil depths of 10 cm it was 29.5 C, and at 30 cm depth it was 20+ C.

A fund for 14-18yr olds for entomology. www.royensoc.co.uk/douglas-boyes-fund/