Summer blog post!! How to survive summer drought (As a plant) Wonder fuel right here: open.substack.com/pub/jacoblea... #naturewriting #nature #biology #botany 🧪

Summer blog post!! How to survive summer drought (As a plant) Wonder fuel right here: open.substack.com/pub/jacoblea... #naturewriting #nature #biology #botany 🧪

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Marsh Orchid off Birkdale Beach - a beautiful and resilient wildflower 😎

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Lovely stuff - hope plenty of suncream was donned!! 😎

Hello all!! Check out my book review of the recently released "Is a River Alive?" By Robert Macfarlane here: open.substack.com/pub/jacoblea... Clear cause, unclear premise is what I would say - any thoughts would be appreciated 😎👍 #naturewriting

Hello all!! Check out my book review of the recently released "Is a River Alive?" By Robert Macfarlane here: open.substack.com/pub/jacoblea... Clear cause, unclear premise is what I would say - any thoughts would be appreciated 😎👍 #naturewriting

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🧵🧵🧵 Sometime in your life, you might've thought: "Oh look, a bee" Well, when you next see one of these, be sure to think: "Oh look, a mining bee" Instead (1/4) #naturewriting #naturephotography

Still no rain...

Potentially the driest spring on record, then - can see grass already struggling, I'm predicting a strawlike landscape by the time all this high pressure clears 🟨☀️

Present through the post - can't wait to devour this absolute wonder fuel 😎 #naturewriting

In today's @theguardian.com country diary, I'm celebrating pavement plants and a #Hitchin speciality with my friends in Happy... #countrydiary #naturewriting

Me trying to get within a metre of the northern dune tiger beetle

Swifts. Have. Arrived 😎😎😎

House Martins have arrived 😎😎😎

Hello all, if any if you are interested, here is my blog post about Spring (specfically, Orwell and spring)! #naturewriting #commontoad #spring #nature #naturephotography open.substack.com/pub/jacoblea...

Hello all, if any if you are interested, here is my blog post about Spring (specfically, Orwell and spring)! #naturewriting #commontoad #spring #nature #naturephotography open.substack.com/pub/jacoblea...

The Swallows have arrived 😎😎😎

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From late February to early summer - the bracket we currently inhabit - this is the time of year when the Skylark is most vocal 🧵(1/3) #skylark #nature #birdwatching #spring #naturewriting

I've seen toads out and about along our coast, and now bees as well!! Things are waking up, spring is on its way 😎❤️

Beautiful great tit from the weekend ❤️ Residents in most of the UK, including along our coast - these yellow-green guys can be seen, and their beautiful two-syllable song heard all year round 😎 Originally adapted for woodland, great tits are now regular garden visitors, so keep an eye out!!

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I spot some budding leaves out there along our coast 👀👀👀

As spring approaches, why not give birds a helping hand by leaving out nesting materials? Piles of twigs, moss & grass cuttings, or natural wool all go down well with busy nest builders! 🍃

Spring showers greeted our volunteers for the monthly @greensefton.bsky.social beach clean at Ainsdale beach today. Thanks to all who joined us - time to dry out now! @seftoncouncil.bsky.social @seftonnature.bsky.social @naturalengland.bsky.social @mbblerc.bsky.social @nationaltrust.bsky.social

Happy birthday to the one and only Charles Darwin. "There is grandeur in this view of life—that from so simple a beginning, endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved." 🧪

Happy Birthday Charles Darwin!! The reason we know why our coast has grass, and not just sand ❤️ www.seftonnature.com/post/happy-b...

Nothing to see here, just a Blackbird keeping an eye on things. Carry on... 📷 @kiransimpson.bsky.social

Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! Mary Anning (1799-1847), was a fossil collector and palaeontologist who made huge contributions to natural history. As a woman, Marys contribution to science was ahead of its time; her unique life story attracting attention long after her death

"Life is a Sisyphean race, run ever faster toward a finish line that is merely the start of the next race" Matt Ridley, the science writer, and author of "Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters", turns 67 today!

Round here, the days are now lurching toward longer light 😎 The earth is titled on its axis (it got wacked by sommet ages ago, and ever since has been diagonal), when we orbit the sun our position relative to it changes due to this tilt, shortening or lengthening out the days 🌎☀️⛅🌒

And there goes January, is it spring yet??

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE 🎈🎉🥳 This guy, who INDEPENDENTLY conceived of the theory of evolution, turns two-hundred and ONE today 🐐📖 (thread) 🧵

An autumn moth, the Pink-barred Sallow, perfectly camouflaged to blend in with the colours of autumn leaves. Attracted to light in my garden in Cheshire in September a few years ago. #moths

cool study (with clever experimental design) about the evolutionary significance of individuals choosing habitats based on their own phenotypes. 🧪🌍 #evolution www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"If there is a Creator, he must have an inordinate fondness for beetles" JBS Haldane, one of the founders of Neo-Darwinism (the theory that genes, and nothing else, are the central unit of natural selection), who died on 1st December 1964.

Did you hear that?🧵 The short-eared owl is one of five owl species you can seek wisdom from here in the UK. Amongst that five is also the long-eared owl, which larks about looking much the same as the short-eared owl, barring one deductible difference...

"There is grandeur in this view of life(...) from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved" Charles Darwins 'On The Origin of Species', published on this day, 24 November 1859. The rest, as they say, is natural history 😎

Seeing as I'm new here and we're all having fun, I'm going to try some twitter greatest hits. 1) Fruit bats upside down look like a really emo 90s boyband

“Life on earth is such a good story you cannot afford to miss the beginning... Beneath our superficial differences we are all of us walking communities of bacteria. The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape made of tiny living beings.” Lynn Margulis, who died on this day 22 November 2011 (thread)

Golden Brown: Unlike us, unlike most things; plants make their food using the sun. But I mean, you seen it recently? There’s a lot less out there, there’s a lot less sun. And next week there’ll be less. And the week after that. And…

A grey heron once flew by me, not knowing I was there. And the wingbeat, the blocked out sky - it made me think - oh great. Oh class. Natural historians have been wrong about pterodactyls, then. How’ve they missed this?