Recently our fab Adur & Worthing Hit Squad removed Sycamore dominating Cissbury Fields to make way for native tree species which will benefit local biodiversity. If you're free one Saturday morning a month, we'd love you to get involved! buff.ly/tJvz1Ym 📷Jack Thompson

Last few days to have your say: the first Local Nature Recovery Strategies (LNRS) for Sussex have been created, what do you think? Consultation closes this Wednesday, 26 November 2025.  Add your voice: https://yourvoice.westsussex.gov.uk/

Learn to spot and identify lichens in your local landscape! Lichens of Britain & Ireland offers practical field tips, vivid images, and habitat insights. Perfect for nature lovers and budding lichenologists. Pre-order now!

Chris Townsend has been spending time in the Ashdown Forest, where he took this wonderfully atmospheric photo & posted it on our Nature Table

🆘 PETITION CALL: SAVE THE RIVER CHERWELL @friendsofthethames.bsky.social have launched a petition calling on the government to take urgent action to contain & remove this hazardous waste before irreparable damage is done. ✍️ Sign the petition & demand action TODAY: www.change.org/p/action-aga...

A Common Redshank catching a Ragworm today in the saltmarsh Rye Harbour. It caught 9 of these in about 5 minutes! Video slowed down 8 times. @sussexwildlife.bsky.social @sussexornitholo.bsky.social #redshank

A fishing Spotted Redshank today Rye Harbour at the west end of the Salt Pool. It caught 2 fish in 5 minutes, but sadly not in this video. Lovely light on a sparkling bird. Video at half speed. @sussexwildlife.bsky.social @sussexornitholo.bsky.social #wader

Little Grebe in winter sun. From the Denny hide at Rye Harbour @sussexwildlife.bsky.social @sussexornitholo.bsky.social #grebe

A shameful step back for nature as UK government pushes through the Planning and Infrastructure Bill. Thanks to all who raised their voices and showed support for our precious wildlife.

Plastic nurdles found at 84% of UK sites of special scientific interest.... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

1/2 #speciesaday no. 676 is Megalinus glabratus. A large, shiny, local rove beetle with red eltyra and a big head that I see in open habitats, usually on the Downs. I have two records in June but most of my records come from August and September.

(1/) As well as being monitored by the Heronries Census since 1928, there is also a BBS trend for Grey Heron! It declined across the UK by 13% between 1995 and 2023. @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social #Ornithology #CitizenScience

More on nurdles: "168 of 195 Sites of Special Scientific Interest surveyed are contaminated with tiny pellets". There is no escape on this #PoisonedPlanet, with what should be our richest nature areas affected, as is our #PublicHealth www.theguardian.com/environment/...

There is currently a #consultation over #Local #Nature #Recovery Strategies being held. Part includes #Brighton Make sure your favourite #Wildlife area isn't excluded this time! Consultation ends next week (26 November) #Biodiversity #Nature #Geology #brightonwildlife sussexnaturerecovery.org.uk

In the past couple of weeks Plovers at #RyeHarbourNR have included: American Golden, European Golden, Grey and Ringed. Here are the Grey from the past weekend - largest winter numbers tend to be in West Sussex but enough can be found here. @sussexornitholo.bsky.social #sussexbirding #ukbirding

Inspiring and hopeful. And importantly a movement that includes paid roles, increasing the ability for all to participate. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The fascinating winter life of grey seals in today's @theguardian.com country diary by Alexandra Pearce-Broomhead. #countrydiary #naturewriting

Yet more depressing news on the state of our species in a new report from Natural Resources Wales. Link to report in comments

The world is upside down. The Natural Environment Bill could be a turning point for Scotland’s nature. But Part 2 of the Bill threatens our most important wildlife protections. A Bill meant to help nature should not put it at risk! Email your MSPs 👉 action.rspb.org.uk/page/181323/...

Meet David Bentley of the Friends of Rye Harbour Nature Reserve @sussextangerine.bsky.social buff.ly/szmMIRx

Can trees outside woods improve farmland biodiversity? 🌳 This #NationalTreeWeek, Richard Fox, Head of Science, discusses a recent study into the importance of trees outside woods for farmland butterflies 🦋 buff.ly/spvtBMp

I never expected the reaction I’ve had to Urban Plants. So many wonderful comments from so many wonderful people. The satisfaction from knowing I’ve inspired people to look at the urban world with different eyes is indescribable and deeply rewarding #ChristmasBooks #ChristmasReading #WildlifeBooks

It’s Sunday & it’s 8pm so it must be time for #wildflowerhour! 🎉Have you spotted any wild or naturalised plants in bloom across Britain & Ireland in the last week? Please share your pics if you have and did you find #thewinter10?

Flower hunt and walk by Breeze Bus with Brighton and Hove Wildlife Forum, 22nd June

Delighted my new article on stone lichens and conservation is out with @uk.theconversation.com. It’s time to think differently about stone… theconversation.com/how-lichens-...

It is Hedgehog Day at #Lewes Climate Hub on Saturday 24th May! Join us to learn more about protecting our Hedgehogs and other wildlife - including #Swifts- and make a Hedgehog out of wood to take home. Talk at 1.30 p.m. " Protecting our Hedgehogs" by Emily Thrift.

From loss of birds to nature sites in bad condition, we’re warning MPs about the loss of nature already being seen in their area 📢 This would be made worse by the current Planning Bill🚨 MPs must make the Bill #WilderByDesign for people & wildlife📜 Read more👇 www.endsreport.com/article/1918...

Brown hares can currently be shot all-year round , despite an estimated decline of 80% in the last 100 years . Please sign the petition now calling on the Govt to introduce a close season from Feb – Sept . Thank you !

We are appalled that the Marine Management Organisation has granted Brighton Marina’s Marine Licence to continue dumping dredged sludge on the sensitive chalk reefs and the other amazing marine habitats in Beachy Head West Marine Conservation Zone. buff.ly/YwRu86L

Natural regeneration is much better all around....let our woodlands grow. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

And now we've passed 101,000 signatures - thank you. A month to go and we'll be happy to see the signatures mount but we probably won't be promoting it quite as hard from now on 😀 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

1/2 #speciesaday no. 586 is Early Forget-me-not (Myosotis ramosissima). A tiny species in the spring on sparse, sandy & chalky sites, often by the sea. In Sussex, it's commonest along the coast, the East Sussex Downs and the Green Sand. Closest to Changing but never yellow and long florescence.

This #EarthDay2025 seems a good moment to share some Gerard Manley Hopkins: “What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet”

The #SouthDowns Pearl-bordered Fritillaries are out! Hopefully the excellent Rewell Wood management will be a population booster..... @sussexwildlife.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social @southdownsnp.bsky.social

The delicate pale-blue underside of a Holly Blue butterfly in our Sussex garden. @savebutterflies.bsky.social @ukbutterflies.bsky.social @sussexwildlife.bsky.social

83% of the British public wants the government to do MORE to tackle the climate crisis Remember that when you hear Farage and Badenoch opposing net zero and claiming to be tribunes of the people - they’re really just doing the fossil fuel industry’s bidding www.theguardian.com/environment/...

1) Awkward 😬 all of our plants seem to be growing in peat free compost @marycreagh.bsky.social - “plants can’t be raised in peat free compost” some say, I wish they’d tell our plants as we’re running out of space!

Amplification of Borrelia in ticks at pheasant-release sites – an example of how non-native species can increase zoonotic disease risk through spillback.... Let's hope GPs/hospitals are well aware: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

That's 90,000 signatures! 90,000 of you calling for a ban on driven grouse shooting. If we reach 100,000, we can get this debated in parliament. So please sign and share - help us get there!

Sign up for Plantlife's No Mow May campaign - let the wildflowers grow! www.plantlife.org.uk/campaigns/no...

🥼𝗦𝗖𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗦! 𝗦𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘🥼 🗓️ 𝗧𝗨𝗘𝗦 𝟭𝟯 𝗠𝗔𝗬 Alarmed by political decisions made at the expense of a habitable Earth? Join @chrisgpackham.bsky.social and many others in bringing science to Parliament this Spring. ⁉️ Info & FAQs: tinyurl.com/Scientists2025 ✒️ Signup: tinyurl.com/SciParl25

A small group of male Yellow Wagtails perched in a Willow tree beside Castle Water at Rye Harbour @sussexwildlife.bsky.social video and sound slowed 50%

Sunrise at Devil's Dyke 🧡

You counted, you waited, and now...the #BigGardenBirdwatch results are officially in! 📣 But who has claimed the number one spot for 2025? For the full analysis, head here: brnw.ch/21wRR4d

Spring flowers - the Early Dog-violet. It has no scent (unlike the Scented Violet). Its cousin, the Common Dog-violet, traditionally flowers in April, the Early Dog-violet in March. The flowers are similar but the Early Dog-violet has a darker purple spur behind the petals. 📷 Graeme Lyons

We are celebrating the 4th anniversary of the @SussexKelp Recovery Project, The UK’s largest marine rewilding initiative. buff.ly/ogzntzr © Paul Boniface / Sussex Underwater

Quirky museum to close for at least a year

Often roosting in urban areas, city speedy boi the Peregrine can reach speeds of up to 200 miles per hour. Serious zoomies. 🚀 #birds #urbanwildlife #peregrinefalcon 📸Peregrine © Hugh Clark FRPS