The #CityNatureChallenge starts today! In the lead-up to #IDB 2026, this is a chance to turn local action into global impact. Use @inaturalist.bsky.social to document nature where you live and contribute to global biodiversity data. 🔗 www.citynaturechallenge.org @calacademy.bsky.social @nhm.org

Field meeting. May 19 Weston super mare

New venue for our indoor meetings: Quaker Friends Meeting House, Redland. www.quaker.org.uk/meetings/red...

Field meeting: Lulworth Cove

Field meeting: May 1, Portishead.

Field meeting : May 9, Walton Common.

Happy Easter 🐇 See how many hares you can spot on our #NHMP cameras over the long weekend! Sign up and look out for hedgehogs and other animals and help conservation from the sofa 🍫☕ 👉 mammalweb.org/nhmp (link in bio) The #NHMP is run by PTES and British Hedgehog Preservation Society

Female Tawny Mining Bee (Andrena fulva) at Priston, near Bath. These colourful bees are one of the most easily recognisable solitary bees, and can be abundant in some area in early spring. Their nests resemble mini volcanos in bare earth. #Nature #Wildlife #Insect #Bee #WildlifePhotography

What if some tadpoles don’t need to feed at all? Explore the fascinating world of endotrophic tadpoles in our latest 'Croaking Science' article: https://ow.ly/WNkG50YCQ6k #CroakingScience 📸 Reuber Brandão

Plant identification walk with Samuel Malley. 18th April Stockwood Open Space, south Bristol. All welcome. www.eventbrite.com/e/plant-iden... --

It's only worth going back to the Moon if it makes us look properly again at Earth, and appreciate how beautiful, precious and fragile what we have here is. The most famous images from Apollo aren't about the Moon - they're pictures of Earth. We need to stop taking our home for granted.

Cetti's Warbler at Ham Wall today

The best B movie ever made: My Garden of a Thousand Bees www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002t686 via @bbciplayer

Hunting for eggs this weekend? 🥚🐰 Some of the best eggs aren't chocolate! 🍫 Tinamous birds are relatively inconspicuous, but their eggs are egg-ceptional. Researchers have taken steps to crack the code, 🐦determining that egg colour likely evolved as a mating signal. 🔗https://gbif.link/egg

£90m to protect England’s wildlife is a welcome step forward! From the smallest fungus to birds of prey overhead, every species matters – and with 16% at risk of extinction, we can’t afford to lose any more. Now is the moment to go further 🌿 Read more here: www.wcl.org.uk/from-the-hum...

Book your ticket to The People's Trust for Endangered Species Dormouse Conference 2026 🎟️ ptes.org/event/national-dormouse-conference-14th-november-2026 📅 Saturday 14th November 📍 Reading University 📸Kozma 94 | shutterstock

If you work with insects or care about the future of food, ecosystems and sustainability, Ento26 should be on your radar 🐝 🔬 Share your work 🤝 Build meaningful collaborations 🌍 Connect across academia, industry and policy …this is the place to be. Submit your abstract today 🔽 buff.ly/0asRM49

Over 1300 fly species are featured in our #BestFlyBook – the new Guide to Flies of Britain & Ireland, the most complete guide ever published. Order your copy here bit.ly/4dqQI8Z @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social @gailashton.bsky.social @tverc1.bsky.social @rdimond.bsky.social

Sarah Whild – Biological recording: who, what, where and when did it all start? 🌱 Join us at the NFBR Conference on 7 May for a sideways look at how biological recording began, exploded in recent decades, and the big question: what can, and should, we do with all this data? 🔗 Booking: bit.ly/4sZO4iz

A sure sign of spring 🌱 The Great Spotted Woodpecker may visit your garden, especially if it is near mature trees. Listen for its drumming and look for black & white plumage with a red undertail 🪶 Seen one? Record it with Garden BirdWatch and help track its spread 📊 #UKbirding

🦇 New research from Connecting People and Landscapes in a Changing Climate - Research from BCT’s farming project offers insights into how climate change affects dormice. Read all about it here: www.bats.org.uk/news/2026/03...

🦇 Booking has now opened for the South West of England Bat Conference 2026, which is being held on the 25 of April at North Devon College (Petroc). An opportunity for anyone interested in bats to spend time together. For more information and to book visit: www.bats.org.uk/our-work/con...

Fly Research & Conservation Virtual Symposium 2026 Tue 23 Jun 2026 | Online | £30 or pay what you can Explore the latest fly ecology, conservation science & practical case studies. Live Q&A, expert talks & all resources available after the event 🌍 🧪 Book here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1981718540...

Ben Deed www.linkedin.com/in/deedbn/ – Predicting Fungi Grasslands 🍄 Join us at the #NFBRConference2026 - 7 May to discover how biological records are being used to predict rare fungi-rich grasslands and help protect these fragile habitats. 🔗 bit.ly/4sZO4iz #Fungi #Conservation #BiologicalRecording

Gone fishin'... Super watching this Great Crested Grebe last week at Westhay Moor NNR, Somerset (20.03.26). It caught three while I watched. I got pictures of these two... the other got away (from me! 🙂). #somersetbirding #birds #ukwildlife #naturephotography

A lesser stag beetle, a surprisingly early find, on Horfield Common. They don't usually appear until May. They need rotting wood, so you can help them by leaving log piles & fallen trees to rot. Photo: Dylan Peters. wildbristol.uk/groups/beetl...

Applications to join the AWT Wildlife Champions Annual Programme Monthly workshops, mentoring, support to create a community project for nature. Deadline : May 18. www.avonwildlifetrust.org.uk/wildlife-cha...

GEOLOGY FIELD MEETING SPRING COVE CLIFFS, Weston-super-Mare UPDATE TO BUS INFO Sun. 22 March 1.30 p.m. Leader: Professor Sir Stephen Sparks As usual members of Bath G.S. and WEGA are invited to attend

GEOLOGY FIELD MEETING SPRING COVE CLIFFS, Weston-super-Mare UPDATE TO BUS INFO Sun. 22 March 1.30 p.m. Leader: Professor Sir Stephen Sparks As usual members of Bath G.S. and WEGA are invited to attend

Green wall lizards near the Clifton suspension bridge this afternoon. 📷 Peter Coleman Smith

This Curlew on the coast at Black Nore Point, Portishead, was fascinating to watch last December. The dexterity and sensitivity of the long curved bill delving into rocky crevices was amazing. (13.12.25) #avonbirds #ukwildlife #birds @bristolnats.bsky.social @wildportishead.bsky.social

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Whether it’s a first Lesser Celandine flower of the year or Elder leaves unfurling. The first #WildflowerHour challenge of the year is to spot #SignsOfSpring! Share your finds this Sunday 8-9pm. Below is the link if you would like to record your #NaturesCalendar sightings ⬇️ @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Applications now open for this fully funded forestry youth camp for 18-21 year olds from diverse backgrounds this Summer in Wales. For people with racialised identities, economically disadvantaged backgrounds, queer & trans folk & young women. 1/

@injournal.bsky.social did this a while back, worth a follow

Great to see that Bristol Naturalists’ Society has joined us here on Bluesky. @bristolnats.bsky.social

We are hosting this talk.

Event organised by The Avon Gorge & Downs Wildlife Project in Bristol - facebook.com/events/s/pro...

A lovely interruption from writing about orchids - pre-publication copies of my new book for children have arrived. Writing this meant a lot to me. As a kid I was desperate for books full of interesting facts and cool stuff about butterflies. If this book finds a kid like me, I hope they love it.

Marsh fritillary larvae out and busy in the morning sun. North Dorset. @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social

Viola, invert dependants:  there are at least 24 species – and 20 of them are Lepidoptera   The little violets' heads bowed on their stems, The pre-dawn gossamers, all dew and scrim And star-lace Seamus Heaney, 'Mycenae Lookout', The Spirit Level, Faber & Faber, 1996.

Fragaria vesca, Wild Strawberry, Invert Associates Native of woods, scrub & hedgerow, embankments & road verges, an important element of the ground flora. It supports 51 species of invert as a larval host, of which 14 are Coleoptera, 30 Lepidoptera. 📷 CAM Lindman, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 🌱

🦗 This #WorldWildlifeDay, discover Britain's grasshoppers, crickets & allied species in a brilliant new field guide! It's co-written by our former colleague Björn Beckmann with recording scheme coordinator Peter Sutton. Allied species are earwigs, stick insects, mantids and cockroaches 🪳 🧪 1/

One of Alex Morss's hats: Trustee for the Bristol Nats Recent news - they've dumped the place run by Mr What's-his-face who turned it into something rotten Sold his soul. Now forgotten by the learned nature folk happier in woods of oak, fields of flowers, shores of sand: everywhere a wonderland

📚🦉You can also find us in our wonderful old library, (members only) hidden away downstairs under Bristol Museum. It is open on the 1st Saturday of each month, 10.30am - noon, and at other times by appointment.

👋 Hello Bluesky Bristol Naturalists’ Society has stopped using our “X” account. This decision was made by our council members because of safeguarding concerns. From now on you can find us here on this new Bluesky account, and on Facebook or Instagram, or via our website: bristolnats.org.uk