These days, you may have seen many Painted Ladies (Vanessa cardui) 👀🦋 But did you know they make an extraordinary journey of more than 10,000 km between Africa and Europe, across successive generations? 🌍 🔗 Download the poster here: catalanbms.org/en/recursos/

A pleasure to keep bumping in to the @rumdeerresearch.bsky.social folk over the last 2 days whilst I was out birding on Rum. And where but a small iisland can you find strangers who know folk you know back home in Cambridge

Hundreds of Painted Lady. Pasture, Western Peak district. Biggest PL migration in 20plus years #UKButterflies

Any ideas on this insect? Not sure if its a beetle larva, a bug/larva or a larval someting else, hovwerfly or similar... certainly never seen one before. Cambridgeshire, yesterday.

No migrants here near Cambridge and surprisingly low numbers of anything. The Puss moth hung out in the vegetation, meaning the cat didnt play with it when he climbed in the trap as I finished emptying!!! New micro for garden, Ethmia quadrillella, terrible photo through tube.

A Garden Tiger caterpillar at Ouse Fen RSPB. #teammoth #cambsmoths

A Pale Tussock to MV last night, vc29. And my cat channelling her inner tussock moth a few weeks ago.

@epollard.bsky.social first Adonis on wing on DD. @bc-cambs-essex.bsky.social

Wilife gardening Q and A about feeding the birds, and related topics. On Line. On Tuesday. www.facebook.com/share/v/1Cva...

Precisely this. And just what you were saying earlier @tinamlindsay.bsky.social

Oh they really have sunk lower than ever...... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

this is well worth a read from @curlewaction.bsky.social www.curlewaction.org/the-joke-that-isnt-a-joke-gender-bias-in-fieldwork-and-the-moments-that-give-it-away/

"The world is on your side as you reclaim what is yours.

An excellent opportunity for 14 young birders to visit Lundy, boat and board included -- lundybirdobs.org.uk/news-and-sig... Additional funding for young people to get out to a bird obs, through the BTO here -- www.bto.org/our-work/you...

This has seriously made my day and made me smile..... bees nesting in discarded ammo cartridges

@bc-cambs-essex.bsky.social Green hairstreak Fleam Dyke transect this morning, says my other half. I meanwhile stuck in a hot office.

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.