Latest guest blog from Nick MacKinnon - on magic roundabouts! markavery.info/2026/07/02/g... #walshaw #turbines #peat #moorland #trucks #granite

Fly-through Painted Lady and Marbled White in our Raunds garden today. No photos but here is a baby Cinnabar moth to fill the void. @davebjames.bsky.social @markhammond1966.bsky.social

Sunday book review: Wolf Land by Elizabeth Marshall Publisher: @pelagic.bsky.social Review: markavery.info/2026/06/28/s... Cover: @rachelhillustrates.bsky.social 'Fine writing which explores both the wolf and the human' #naturewriting #wolf #history #persecution #prejudice

Sunday book review: A Galloway Year by @iancarter67.bsky.social & Karen Menarry Publisher: Whittles Review: markavery.info/2026/06/28/s... 'A celebration of Galloway through tales of interesting walks with wildlife and gorgeous illustrations of the landscape' #Galloway #wildlife

Sunday book review: Marine crustaceans of Britain and Ireland by L. Baldock, C. Bolton & I. Dixon Publisher: @princetonupress.bsky.social Review: markavery.info/2026/06/28/s... A guide to 2,600 crustacean species! #crabs #lobsters #shrimps #isopods #copepods #ostracods #pycnagonids

I'm so pleased you find it worth reading again and again. Coming up to three years of age but it tackles the issues facing wildlife today - and offers some solutions.

Very kind of you! Glad you enjoyed it. Wings Across the Atlantic available direct from www.lulu.com/shop/colin-r...

So fortunate to have the peregrine falcon resident in town; the fastest animal known to science, an icon of the sky. Its presence & aura enhances the place in which I live & call home. One can nearly always be seen perched on a crocket to this church’s spire (as here).

Very happy to give a copy of my new book Tarka Revisited to #Exmouth Library, a place that was a fixture of my childhood. Libraries are so important, this library nurtured my love of #books, having my own book on its shelves is great! #booksky @librariesconnected.org.uk @raeradford.bsky.social

Congratulations on this! My full review here markavery.info/2026/06/14/s...

Couldn't resist a couple more of the sensational Catoptria pinella. Just can't shake the Starsky & Hutch car out of my mind when I see this...even though it's nothing like it 😂 @linnetincley.bsky.social #cleymothobs #norfolkmoths #teammoth

Sharing the butterfly brambles was this marvellous beetle, a Spotted Longhorn - Rutpela maculata. We find maybe one or two funky new-to-us Longhorn beetles most summers & they are always an absolute doozy & this was no different. Smart as! @linnetincley.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social

Rutpela maculata, the spotted longhorn beetle feeding on pollen and nectar. The adults only last a few weeks...

Excellent night for moths to light at Modbury, Devon my best count of year so far with 492 moths of 52 species by far the commonest was Large Yellow Underwings Noctua pronuba (217) - possibly migrants from mainland Europe? #teammoth

Other work by the Ladybird artists. ‘How Scenery Reveals the Nature of Soil’ (1949) Artist: SR Badmin

George Callaghan.(1941. Ireland) Country Life. Acrylic on canvas.

Hunting Hares with Basset Hounds - a prosecution - 18/06/2026 This prosecution relates to a different date - but the same pack of hounds, in the same location. Unfortunately, I fully expect to see them back again this autumn... @markavery.bsky.social @ruthtingay.bsky.social

Did u know? Stop & consider the amazing lives of small souls in our outside spaces. This munching Mullein moth, for example - it will molt 4 times before turning into a pupa & then it's in the ground, in this stage for up to 5 years before the brown adult moth emerges! Celebrate the small. 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🪲🐛🦋

‘Garden Flowers’ 1960 Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton

How awful. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

Like many others, I was up fairly early (4am) to check a busy light trap at dawn. Lots of confusing micros which Obsidentify got wrong, then I got them wrong, but we were rescued by CMR @markhammond1966.bsky.social who is so generous, patient & knowledgable. Glad to see a moth I could identify!

The battleground of the Little Bighorn in Montana. Sensitively commemorated and very well executed explained on site. I’ve visited twice - good Western Meadowlarks too. My thoughts from those visits markavery.info/2020/06/26/7... #custer #crazyhorse #sittingbull #montana

26 June 1793; the passing of Gilbert White. 'A sigh escapes me on the demise of that most excellent man, accurate historian, diligent naturalist, and elegant writer, the Rev Gilbert White.'

This is a store in a habitation in South Dakota which is so tiny it almost doesn’t exist. I was there on 26 May 2011 markavery.info/blog/archive... and again on this day in 2018. It’s one of many US places I hanker after revisiting (bizarrely) but no flying for me these days.

I’d hope that the Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 football team, hanging around in North Carolina but not expecting good news on getting to the next round, might visit the Outer Banks en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_B... and see where the Wright Bros flew, watch some Brown Pelicans and see some wild horses.

A Scarlet Tiger (common but arresting) and a Lunar-spotted Pinion (common but a lifer for me) were accompanied by a snowstorm of micros (5 lifers for me) but then, I’m still a wide-eyed novice moth-er. Great fun though!

They’ll be dancing in the streets of Accra tonight…

I have spent time in 🇬🇭 Ghana - counting terns and working with Ghanaian ngos and government. Poor country but lovely people. I hope England win, but good luck to Ghana all the same.

Watching Kuenssberg talking live to John Hutton in Cornwall. An egret, almost certainly Little Egret, flew past him in the background.

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Well, I wouldn’t want to be too in your face but, it’s actually ‘Fly more, kill more’.

Guardian shows interest in wildlife - shock! Or is the interest in the contact details of those interested in wildlife? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This isn’t really news - it would be news if we changed our ways. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This was probably inevitable, but still very sad. #birdflu www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Our taxes, badly spent. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Excited to share my pic of keen birder Bobby Moore, the birdwatching skipper of our World Cup winning team in 1966. I was only five, but vividly remember being inspired to go out into our garden. I found a Garden [email protected] @niallmachin1.bsky.social @markavery.bsky.social

Petition: Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership Hold a binding national referendum on whether the water industry should be returned to public ownership. Just passed 150k signatures. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...

Fast approaching 150k signatures.

Major Oak leafless this year markavery.info/2026/06/18/e... #sherwood #forest #ancient

Staffordshire Osprey Project! 🦅 We’ve been privileged to colour-ring Staffordshire Osprey chicks since the county’s first-ever breeding pair was discovered. One bird, 4R2, ringed as a chick in 2023, has now been found nesting at a private site in Leicester around 45 miles away

Batia lunaria NFY last night, along with Acrobasis suavella and the rather unexpected Brachmia blandella - a Gorse feeder. VC29 is not renowned for its huge swathes of gorse - I can only think of 1 bush within ~15 miles. Year list now on 329 species #teammoth #cambsmoths

Volucella pellucens on and off Bramble at the weekend. #WildWebsWednesday #Diptera #Hoverflies

Wow!

I've not seen caterpillars yet but maybe I haven't looked carefully enough. There was a adult a few weeks ago. I'll check today.

I do love a Broad Centurion, Chloromyia formosa, this one is a male. Seen 13/06/26 Tamworth, #Staffs @uk-soldierflies.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social #Diptera

Leptogaster cylindrica with prey! Seen at #RSPBMiddletonLakes, 14/06/26 @uk-soldierflies.bsky.social @dipteristsforum.bsky.social #Diptera

A new species for me today at Hill Hook LNR: a Slender-striped Robberfly (Leptogaster cylindrica) with its prey. Strangely no Sutton Coldfield records on iRecord, though quite a few in the Tame Valley. @hillhookfriends.bsky.social @ecorecord.bsky.social

145/28 4NFY VC13 #TeamMoth Yponomeuta evonymella Clancy’s Rustic Crescent Striped Plumed Fan-foot Also visiting Small Elephant HM & Elephant HM.

Other plants are available to those of us not living in bogs!

Fantastic book review by @markavery.bsky.social of my new book Tarka Revisited, thanks Mark. The book is out this time next week! @nicwilson.bsky.social @leanahosea.bsky.social @alexanderlees.bsky.social @landethics.bsky.social @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social @iancarter67.bsky.social @wildcard.land