HAPPY 100th BIRTHDAY to Sir David, - still working hard for nature. The British Naturalists' Association is unbelievably proud that you are a BNA Hon Fellow & recipient of BNA's Peter Scott Memorial Award. Pictures of Sir David at our 2007 Encaenia wearing robes of Hon Fellow. Thank you

Quartet of #butterfly year ticks today near Winchester: Duke of Burgundy Dingy Skipper Common Blue Grizzled Skipper plus lots of Painted Ladies and a few Green Hairstreak, Brown Argus + Small Copper @savebutterflies.bsky.social @bnascience.bsky.social @hantsbic.bsky.social @southdownsnp.bsky.social

A few more #insects from yesterday's wanderings in Hampshire: Green Drake Mayfly Beautiful Demoiselle Green Longhorn Moth Vetch Piercer Moth @savebutterflies.bsky.social @bnascience.bsky.social @hantsbic.bsky.social @britishdragonflies.bsky.social

A nice find just now on Rose End Meadows- Pammene rhediella, resting on Wych Elm but directly next to Hawthorn and Crab Apple. New for me and not many records for VC57. #TeamMoth

Male flowers of White Bryony, Bryonia dioica, scrambling through Hawthorn on the edge of a path on Mitcham Common. Its clever tendrils spiral both clockwise and anti-clockwise.

Ooh, lovely Bird's-eye Primrose spotted by our friend @commonbynature.bsky.social! Check out its #PlantAtlas2020 page to see how restricted its range is and how it's faring, and you'll understand why James was so chuffed to see it! plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...

Did u know? The highlight of my wildlife gardening year happened yesterday - the 1st of the new generation of my rescued Cinnabar moth adults started to emerge.I rescued their forebear caterpillars from a carpark in the 1st year of lockdown & their continued presence in the garden is a gift. 🌱🌿🇬🇧🌱🌍🪲🦋

It's getting ever more hopeless. Just one LBAM and one White-shouldered House-moth this evening plus our first Cockchafer of the year #teammoth

Male goldcrest in Shelf Woods, Halifax. #ThePhotoHour #birds #birding #wildlife #nature #photography #PhotographersOfBluesky @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

My blog about a long weekend in Suffolk, Norfolk and a little bit of Lincolnshire. Brilliant birds, beautiful weather and Frampton Marsh - hard to do better in my book! #ukbirding #birds

I'm excited about leading Wild Writing for Wellness Workshops at #WaresleyPark, #Cambridgeshire in May. Focusing on wildflowers, birds & trees around the spring-fed lake & Humphry Repton gardens, we'll spend time enjoying & responding to the nearby wild: waresleyparkestate.co.uk/wild-writing...

Cannot beat the sheer abundance of Greater Stitchwort at this time of year. So simple and crisp and clean, just pure white and green #wildflowerhour #hedgerowchallenge

Want to get involved with some citizen science & support your local rivers? Join #TheBigRiverWatch with @theriverstrust.bsky.social 🏞🌍💚

If, like me, you love watching birds, do come along to my wild writing workshops in May at #Waresley Park in #Cambridgeshire. On 12 May, we'll be focusing on how to bring the birds that visit the spring-fed lake to life on the page: waresleyparkestate.co.uk/wild-writing... #naturewriting

A major peatland-restoration project is underway near Loch Ness, aiming to restore more than 1,000 ha of globally rare blanket bog habitat in one of Scotland's largest rewilding initiatives:

Very smart looking birds at Dungeness yesterday - Wheatear and Linnet.

Stuck the pheromone lure out in the front garden for a few minutes this afternoon.Only 5 minutes before he found it. Not bad for a Wimpy Estate address. VC13 #TeamMoth Saturnia pavonia. Emperor Moth.

Two little Skippers that look moth-like but are actually classified as butterflies. Erannis tages. Dingy Skipper & Purgus malvae Grizzled Skipper #TeamMoth #butterfly #butterflies @sussexwildlife.bsky.social

Goshawk, Cuckoo and Green Woodpecker this afternoon while checking for local Wood Warbler (none in yet). Those three are difficult to find locally, so I'm gutted I left my camera at home after 3 solid days lugging it about over the weekend. At least 40 Wheatear on the moors too. #ukbirding #birds

An actual upturn in the Moths, with 7 nfy! Blair's Mocha, 2 Chocolate-tip, Grapholita funebrana, Lesser Swallow Prominent (v. rare here), Iron Prominent, Pebble Prominent and Pale Mottled Willow. @migrantmothuk.bsky.social Moonfleet had Whinchat, Lesser Whitethroat, 2 Wheatear, 6 Whimbrel + 2WTE.

Quick post work trip to Upton Warren for the 2 Black-winged Stilts. Always distant on the far side of the Flashes. Wood sand was still present as well at 4.10 pm #WorcsBirds

Back at Middleton Lakes RSPB #staffsbirds this afternoon. 4 Wood Sandpipers, Greenshank, 2 Common Sandpiper, 3 Black-tailed Godwit, 3 Yellow Wagtail, 10+ LRP, Bittern and Hobby. No sign of Wryneck for me. Earlier the Alvecote Hooded Merganser finally gave itself up to me #ukbirding #WestMidsBirdClub

Our annual visit to RSPB Gwenffrwd-Dinas on Saturday. Plenty of Redstarts and Pied Flycatchers present along with smaller numbers of Tree Pipit and Wood Warbler. Great views of Garden Warbler singing near the car park where a Marsh Tit also showed well. #birdingWales #UKWildlife #birdsSeenIn2026

Wonderful walk! Cuckoo calling (same 1 as previous yrs I think with the distinctive call), Grasshopper Warbler reeling, Reed. Cetti's. Sedge Warblers, Whitethroats everywhere, Yellowhammers, Common Sandpiper on the mere, & could this be a Hobby, for my 100 species of the year!? #ukbirding

A couple of smart #insects from the allotment at Knaith today with Green Tiger Beetle 🪲 and what I believe is an Early Nomad Bee 🐝 @lincswildlife.bsky.social @bnascience.bsky.social @colsocbi.bsky.social

A couple of plants noted in flower for this week's @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #CabbageFamily challenge. Cuckoo-flower and Garlic Mustard (with visitors) @bsbibotany.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social @bnascience.bsky.social @lincswildlife.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

#moths from garden last night comprised 17 of 11 species incl. Chinese Character, Muslin and Knot-grass plus Streamer, Brindled Beauty and Agonopterix arenella. @savebutterflies.bsky.social @lincswildlife.bsky.social @bnascience.bsky.social #mothsmatter

Even more super find

Thats the 2nd seen in as many days the other in a Cambridgshire garden. Can you send one up to Yorkshire please.

Epistrophe melanostoma in my S. Cambridgeshire garden this afternoon. Classified as 'Nationally Scarce' , it was nice to add it to my year list.

🦟 St Mark’s fly spotted 🦟 Right on cue a female St Mark’s fly spotted on 25th April. Think this is a female which is bigger than the male. Males coming out slightly earlier. #Flies #Insects #Diptera #Entomology #Naturewalk #NaturalHistory

The track through the Ramsons on an April evening. #Dorset #Woodlands #Landscapes #NaturePhotography @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Nice to see some Lackey moth caterpillars in north Dorset. Not such a common sight these days @dorsetmoths.bsky.social @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social

Grasshopper Warbler on the Cleveland coast yesterday @teesbirds.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social @northyorksbirds.bsky.social

Morning y'all ☕️

The @northwaleslive.bsky.social BirdNotes features Dotterels and Wood Sandpipers in #NorthWales, an impressive count of Wheatears by @bardseybirdobs.bsky.social, and a reminder from @rspbcymru.bsky.social about garden bird feeding. 📷 Dave Williams. #BirdingWales www.birdnotes.wales/blog/time-to...

Great little trip today to RSPB Gwenffrwd Dinas and a new life tick ✅ The Wood Warbler ~ beautiful little bird 😍 🪶🦉 #birdingWales #ukbirding #birdphotography #ECK #ukwildlife #naturephotography #naturetherapy

Sloe bug / Hairy Shieldbug (Dolycoris baccarum). Lots of them seen today on Garlic Mustard and dandelion seed heads along the hedgerow on track running from Retail Park to Straiton Pond, Loanhead. More info in ALT Text. #Bugs #TrueBugs #Shieldbugs #Hemiptera #Heteroptera

The Crown Estate Field mist-nets being bountiful on the year-tick front this morning - now the spring's first Grasshopper Warbler

Today’s Raven News: Chips & Gravy came separately early. Gravy came first for a quick hello then Chips followed me for an hour of my walk stopping off in trees & fences to chat! I then sat for a while and they both came together. I know I am biased but they’re so very special! 😃

What a joy to celebrate the county #flower of #Hertfordshire in my @theguardian.com country diary today. #naturewriting #countrydiary

I've seen all of these species before, but today was the first time I saw all them in a single day; what I am calling 'completing the Breckland speedrun'. Breckland Speedwell, Fingered Speedwell and Spring Speedwell; Veronica praecox, triphyllos, and verna.

I also, by complete chance, bumped into Muscari neglectum today whilst looking for Black Oil Beetles. A pair of dark-purplish stunners.

One of the glorious cowslips thriving in our hay meadow. These will always be known as ‘Bob’s Cowslips’, as they were originally a gift from my mate Bob. Thanks Bob! #cowslipchallenge #wildflowerhour

I've got some exciting events coming up, incl. the Gilbert White festival, fantasy forest landscapes, leading a workshop at Serge Hill with Sue Stuart-Smith, wild writing for wellbeing & nature writing day at #JohnClare cottage. Check out my website for booking links: nicwilson.co.uk/events-talks...

WILLOW WARBLER is home, on a territory where every year a male sings. Each year in April this is the song that floors me, that takes me back to a wide-eyed child, falling in love for the very first time with the wild.

Pasqueflowers and Spring Sedge at Therfield Heath, Herts on Good Friday for #WildflowerHour

HISTORIC HEAT WAVE IN EUROPE History is about to be rewritten in Europe with an extraordinary April warm spell which will smash hundreds of records in Spain,France,Germany,Switzerland,Austria. Starting from Today we will see >30C in France. It will be historic.

Take part in DucklingWatch. Hannah Coburn is a PhD student at the University of Essex. In this blog, she discusses an exciting project where you can help collect valuable data about one of the UK’s most iconic birds – mallards... scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/2026/04/take...

Another early spring (though has recent cool slowed it a bit) The latest from @patrickbarkham.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...