DELICIOUS thread of people's favourite cakes here, and @marissalingen.bsky.social's upcoming book sounds supercool. This is Schwarzwalderkischmisu, chocolate-cherry-marscapone-zabaglione-liqueur lunacy. In a bowl.

Sandal No 5 - more amazing Roman footwear! (sort of) Not sure whether to ecosia a pair of jellyshoes or bang out an Annie Lennox number... (Unbelievable that they've survived in such a perfect state!) #archaeology #perfume #shoes

Breathtaking that these little speckled beauties fly that far, and that fast, between Iceland and Ireland. Snipe are, in cold hard fact, super #birds 🦉 Thanks for this genuinely amazing thread, @wadertales.bsky.social

JELLYTOTS 😍 💙💚 🐙

I find it deeply unfair that my life has never included crabby ribbons before. Deeply, deeply unfair.

Cette petite nymphe de Flatidae d'Équateur ressemble à un morceau de pop-corn sur pattes. Son costume blanc et cotonneux est formé de filaments cireux protecteurs. La nature avait visiblement prévu le déguisement avant la séance cinéma. 🍿 👉 2tout2rien.fr/une-nymphe-d... #Insecte #Nature #Insolite

I would wear this in a flash. As a hoarder of silly and interesting socks, I have much to show off. 🧦Why aren't these on the high street now! Looks like the cut out was done with a hexagonal punch? Would still have taken an eon to get that beautiful effect. #archaeology #AncientBluesky 🏺 #Romans

Ice Saints (or Frost Saints)a Euro #Folklore farming #tradition identifying a final,unexpected cold snap typically May 11–to 14th bringing last frosts of spring. The saints associated with these chilly days are Mamertus,Pancras, Servatius,Boniface,ending with "Cold St Sophia".

I absolutely did not. (IYKYK 🤣)

An online chance tonight to hear about the very special inhabitants of an extraordinary habitat! #birds 🦉 #inverts 🐙 #fungi 🍄 #rainforest 🌳 #Dartmoor

Wait for the dreamer who’s fallen behind. They’re not lost, they’re just taking their time. #ireland

A fairytale in the fields - just speed-dialled this to a Bristol friend - oh, you lucky westerners! Thanks for alerting us @lydiamassiah.bsky.social 😊💜

Adorable. 😍 I rather want to do a masters in Roman murals, or more to the point, an experimental archaeology masters... let's be honest, I just want to paint Roman murals for fun... good case study, this. 😀👼

Spellbinding image from Carl, here. Thanks for sharing, @carlbovisnature.bsky.social 😍🌝🖤

Baby bum-barrels. Lollypopettes. Not yet teaspoon birds, still salt-spoon territory, but clearly adorable from the get-go, and one of my (many) favourite birds. Thanks for sharing the lovely footage, @johnwalterswildife.bsky.social #birds 🦉

Because you all need a stunning froggo in your morning toaday. They look like they've been very skillfully crafted out of ceramics! #herps 🐸

That bit where you finally get around to looking up large orangish waspalikes that you worried were some sort of browny-coloured yellow-legged hornet variant, since only 2/3 as big as lovely European Hornets, and find it's likely a perfectly welcome Dolichovespula. One less thing to worry about. 😀

For those in the West/Dartmoor way, this sounds wonderful, and I wish I could be there. #inverts 🐙

An arresting piece of writing here from @justrena.bsky.social - social history captured as vividly as you could hope for. Thanks for sharing, Rena.

As if there would be any left...! 😍

My birthday cuckoo has popped in. Very present last year for a few weeks; let's see if they stick around this year. Always a joy, and a prompt to out with a jolly rendition of Sumer is icomen in. The neighbours already think I'm a loony, so it's no loss. 😀 #Spring

NOT true for me. Mine were definitely Armed Gorillas (sic), aliens (ET specifically), and Sarah Brightman.

Blue tit on the rose bush, aphids picked clean away, tidy in their work, cobalt and yellow uniform smart and prim. Every tender, minute bag of sugars, protein, stolen sap, stripped and put to good use; somewhere, a day-old mouth opens, small as a clip in a bus-ticket. #birds

This calls very desperately for experimental archaeology. How durable were they? Were they comfy? How long did they take to make, and what was their relative trade-value? Did one shop for shoes, or make them at home? All these are vital research questions, if you're a flip-flopaholic! #Egyptology

We did it! A missing piece of Upton Heath in Dorset has been saved from mineral extraction and secured as an important ecological corridor within the Upton Heath SSSI. Sand Lizards, Smooth Snakes, Dartford Warblers, invertebrates et al have a brighter future. Thanks to everyone who chipped in!

A book talk we'd all go forth to... 🤣😂🤣 #Egyptology

Oh, little red tailed bumble queen, a thousand welcomes to you in your choice to nest in the compost heap - but did you have to choose the active side? I must now create some form of little partition for you to protect you from fresh deposits. #inverts #bumblebees

An urgent opportunity to protect 110 acres of Dorset's invaluable lowland heath, habitat for all six UK native reptiles, nightjars, Dartford warblers, woodlarks, and countless flora and invertebrates. The alternative? Mineral extraction. Donate if you can, knowing you've made a wonderful difference!

Two wrens, and a third, trills and recitative in soprano coloratura, across damped fields gauzy with drizzle. A skylark's counter-melody, up in the gods, to goldfinches' flamenco tambourine-jangle; so many little singers, none on the same page. Spring, warming up, despite the grey cold. #DailyNature

#tinyjoys!

Harvestmen are difficult to draw at the best of times, this study of Nemastomella bacillifera is proving hard work and taking a lot of concentration to work on. I'm working from several photos of 3 different individuals I saw last week.

Kom El-Dikka in Alexandria, Egypt, flourished during the late Roman era, at its heart a small but perfectly formed 4th C CE theatre. Masks like fab Egyptian glass miniatures portray (shown below) might have been used here - this vid just tries to capture the amazing acoustic preserved here today. 1/

alors nous construirons des papillons Artisan Legacy Studio, Giant Mechanical Butterfly Awakens #insects #sculpture #art #ecology #butterfly www.bretzel-liquide.com/blog/2026/03...

Self-cleaning genes? Critically endangered Red-headed Woodpigeon's remarkable recovery after the removal of cats, from 80 adults to nearly a thousand, led to the discovery that the island-endemic cleans up its own gene pool over time. Resilience to genetic bottlenecking, in-built! #GoodGreenNews

Bobbing curtseys, a wren, menu of aphids and miniscule things quick-picked, mid-hang from trailing roses not yet trained, her to-do list and mine a tiny world apart. Brown, deft, among pots and junk, privet-berry eye not bothered by my opened door or quiet retreat. #DailyNature #Birds 🦉

Lucky shot wherein you can see several fish in the breaking wave. One seems to be a Lined Butterfly Fish. 🐠🦑🦀 #wave #surf #Maui #blue #ocean #scape #eastcoastkin #photography #nokings #zen #fish #love

Breakfast up the garden, joined by a bee-fly, long proboscis sipping fiery wallflowers, ginger fur gilet wrapped tight. Quick dips into each brazen floret, then on, so much sugar to sample, before the timid March sun goes in. 🌞🐝🪰 #Daily#Nature #inverts 🐙

Magpie, spontoon tail and dress-uniform swagger cutting no dash with puffed up thrushes, camo-speckles bridling. Stukas, coming in hot, branch to branch pursuit through the oak and out, into air with nowhere to hide from such plucky birds, half-sized, twice-furious. Egg-thief, begone! #DailyNature

Slow little video on something I'm so excited about - the chequertree seeds have sprouted, after 4 months+ in the fridge! Fingers/toes crossed, as I hope to return several to the parent-tree's home, spread others around the village, and offer some further afield - but let's not count chickens...! 🌱

Can the #naturewriting hivemind recommend any nonfictional writing on gardens and/or plants by Black British authors? (I'm aware of Marchelle Farrell's and Elizabeth-Jane Burnett's work.) 🙏

Available now: PONDS: An Illustrated Guide yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... 🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #wildlife #scicomm #sciviz #scientificillustration #visualscicomm #sciviz #scicomm #ponds #lakes #freshwater

Thread of cool suggestions for new wildlife notes - I'd go for a Large Tortoiseshell Tenner (the orange! the orange! and recently reestablished 🤞) bluebell £20 (we have 70% of the global pop) Red Kite £50 (brilliant UK conservation success) and yes, beaver Fivers (watery nature-based solutions).

I could try and say something relevant, topical, profound even on the general state of everything. However what I feel I need is a small, purple, Sea Lavender Weevil. So here it is. #Nature

Did u know? The small souls in our outside spaces are easy to ignore or dismiss,but they literally underpin our world.Woodlice are amongst the group of animals we call detritivores. They eat spent organic matter, thereby recycling it & minimising the occurrence of disease.Celebrate the small 🌱🌿🇬🇧🌱🌍🪲🐙

A hugely heartening piece of #GoodGreenNews for butterfly lovers! Fluttering tentatively off the extinct list, the Large Tort is the image for the GGN feed, after my socks were knocked right off in 2024 when I spotted one near here. Must check again, locally! #insects 🐙🦋 #conservation 🌍 #ecology

I feel you, little Bad Hair Day Owl. 🤗🦉 #Archaeology #AncientBluesky #Classics #Mosaics #Birds #Romanisation

Worth every second of your time. 💚

A friend sends me a text from Finland. - 20 degrees and the aurora over a frozen landscape.

A giant beach-waste Norwegian crab-sculpture inspired by video-footage and study of Newfoundland beach-waste - which spawned a partner beach-waste crab-sculpture project back in NL! The best sort of international art and edu cooperation. 😍 #GoodGreenNews #ecology #recycling 🦀