When a moulting chicken is beginning to look plucked!!!

Riverdance.....

This.

“Here’s to thee, old damson tree, Whilst we may, we wassail thee; But if not, we’ll bury thee deep, And a green turf cover thee”. #Damsons #Foraging #Preserves #History #nature @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social northwestnatureandhistory.co.uk/2025/09/20/d...

‘To debate’? Sweet J***s, how hard is this??

This morning.....

Reform’s biggest donors, including ‘If payments that GB News made to Reform MPs for TV gigs were classed as political donations rather than individual earnings, it would have been Reform’s 2nd-largest external donor since the start of 2023, at around £490k.’ www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-mone...

#RobertReford RIP one of the greats. "Boy, I got vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals" Never was a movie quote so true. You will be missed.

This female Dark Bush-cricket just appeared from under the cooker! Now back in the garden...

The ground has been baked so hard over the summer that the rainwater just sits on the surface.

Adelie penguins from Antarctica season 2025. They are the sweetest really

The River Aller is starting to flow again, but it has taken on a tea-coloured hue!

Become my colleague We are recruiting a PhD student in Physical geography with a focus on Glaciological remote sensing 🌍⚒️ #science #glaciology #remotesensing #phd @stockholm-uni.bsky.social share.google/n5eQOzCf35wO...

Again, I really do have concerns about exactly how Justin Webb is acquiring his knowledge of US politics or what prompted him to make this exact point.

A 'dodging the showers' kind of day!

Apples, rainbows, and incoming squalls!

A Garden spider ( Araneus diadematus), not in the garden, but in the kitchen!

A sea of green: carpeted epiphytic mosses on the trunk of a big old fallen oak in the woods. The magic of an Irish Atlantic rainforest 🌍

We have gone from a supposed war on immigrants to a war on Americans.

Big skies and a lurking Lou!

The first surface water in Tree Meadow that I've seen in nearly 6 months!

As my granny used to say: "To be a good liar, you need a good memory".

A sky full of mystery this morning....

Waiting in ambush by the front door - a Garden spider (Araneus diadematus).

Spotted Flycatcher, Pied Flycatcher Artist: John Leigh-Pemberton (Garden Birds, 1967)

It's a fascinating sky tonight with a coloured halo and a very faint sun-dog.

Credit to @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social they did at least cover this story in full. Of course to Farage all publicity is good publicity. There was some balance from @snp.org @conservatives.bsky.social but reform is still being over platformed. No coverage of @eddavey.libdems.org.uk on EHCR question

The upside of all these showers - lots of wonderful rainbows!

A shocking statistic.

A bumper harvest, but very early.....

It was worth getting caught on the showers!

After a very early trip to Bristol Airport, Lou and I had fun exploring Kings Wood and the Mendip Hills before heading home.

Dramatic cloudscape over the Bristol Channel this morning

Waiting to lead a guided walk at Webbers Post this afternoon, I was entertained by chirpy Robins.

This is outstanding. God knows what Labour is doing: legitimising the racism that'll be its undoing, losing the coalition which put it in office, trying to secure voters who will never support it, digging its own moral grave. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

In the garden just now - a Small Copper, a tiny hoverfly on the fuscia, and some roses.

Saturday evening roll play (homemade)!

HUGE numbers of Adonis Blue at Fontmell Down in North Dorset today, over 200 in 30 mins, one every 5m in places. Just like the old days. Also 4 Silver-spotted Skipper. Grazing looks perfect, but mighty dry. Well done @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social

Weakening wildlife protections will not deliver growth – the evidence shows they are not what holds up development. Undermining these safeguards risks eroding the natural assets our economy depends on. www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/08...

A very chilly Seawatch this morning, but the birds cheered me up!

Where Is the Political Leadership Against This Violent Far-Right Movement Terrorising Britain? bylinetimes.com/2025/08/20/w...

What is this strange phenomenon? I hear that it was called a "puddle" in the olden days.....

1-minute Infrared images from @noaa.gov #GOESEast showed that #Erin passed just to the south of Buoy 41043 -- which recorded a maximum wind gust of 66 knots (and a peak wave height of 29 feet). More details about Hurricane Erin on the CIMSS Satellite Blog: cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-bl...

Lying low! Wessex Water recommended letting your grass go brown. I think that might be too late!

Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority terminates Bird of Prey Partnership after being 'unsuccessful' at tackling illegal raptor persecution raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/08/14/y...

Tiny flowers of Eyebright (Euphrasia spp) growing on the verge of the road over Dunkery.

11/8/25 - nocturn