Cometh the hour when two hens will arise, of bitumen and of bone, and they shall draw lightning unto them and yet stand unamazed. People shall say among themselves, behold! Lightning putteth asunder the Doomhens as an oar through water, that which divideth yet leaveth whole. And it shall be A Sign.

Musical insults, a three-way stand-off, robins on the fencepost, gatepost, gravel, scat-singing riffs on hostility. Escalation, tumbling mid-air squabbles, the third a red flare to claim the gutter mineminemine. A dunnock swings low to tick them off - easy does it, lads, food enough for everyone.

A pipistrelle off back into the world after risky chimney shenanigans. The existence of 'a network of trained, vaccinated bat ambulance drivers and carers across Greater Manchester' is #GoodGreenNews all on its own - thanks to @battysarah.bsky.social and everyone involved. 😊🦇💚

Bear Bridges, cottonwood corridors, and Bear Smart towns - charities, indigenous communities, and town councils and residents taking the lead to connect up landscapes for bears, breaking down people's fear and grizzlies' genetic isolation. Definitely #GoodGreenNews, Montana! 🐻

Given everything that's so very wrong in the world right now, have some beautiful music combined with utterly spectacular silliness. 📯Huge congrats @meredithmoo25.bsky.social for this feat of brilliance (and endurance!)

Reflecting on Orkney, such heartstopping wilds that have been on my mind for a while, now. Can you spot the wrack's little shy friend here? 🥰🦀

Gorgeous piece from POSITIVR on why we should tolerate spiders in our homes - why can't UK media manage this? This lovely balanced piece acknowledges that some folks are scared, but lays out the many services these 'little 8-pawed weavers' provide, and why outdoors can harm some species. #inverts 🐙

This piece is a moving delight - thanks for sharing @amyjanebeer.bsky.social . We need some national action on litter. The month of Sundays litter-pick?! It'd take a month of Sundays to make a tiny dent - but if every village coordinated some action?

Now's the time to think about sowing Yellow Rattle if you've got even a tiny meadow patch in your wildlife garden - long grass is a useful thing to provide for loads of butterfly species, but the grass can get rumbunctuous. I sowed as little plugs last year, and lovely seedlings came through.

Over the broken station fence, earth scabbed with cans, sun-cracked plastic, a peacock flashes black satin, auburn velvet, organza in violet - each scale glistering fresh emergence. 1/

If Ola's inspired prescription here for reconnecting culturally with nature were followed both in the UK as well as Ireland, it wouldn't just be #GoodGreenNews, it would be great. Thanks for this thoughtful and inspiring piece, @olaln.bsky.social

Beautiful piece from @cauverymadhavan.bsky.social, who gave me such a lovely welcome to the @wcorklitfest.bsky.social after being online buddies for 5yrs. The warmth newcomers to the fest and Ireland received in Bantry is worth cherishing. We've all lots to take home from CM's heartfelt words.

Not just scraping the surface... pond restoration work retrieving vital hotspots for biodiversity in the agricultural landscape. The rewards of restoration are great, and quite speedy! Very #GoodGreenNews in action here - thanks to the Norfolk Ponds Project.

'Conservation biologists and tribal leaders have discussed the possibility of removing park fences to allow migration beyond the official borders.' Hopeful piece from Alexa Robles-Gil on how restoring Bison, and allowing movement across landscapes, revivifies damaged ecosystems. #GoodGreenNews

I've made a new list on @bookshop.org of books that explore nature / walking / the outdoors by disabled, neurodivergent and chronically ill writers - Nature Beyond Cure - aka our own narratives are messy and complex. Do share! #BookSky #DisabledWriters uk.bookshop.org/lists/nature...?

Cute little toads from 3800 years ago don't get much cuter! The Caral civilisation in Peru treasured toads for their association with the arrival of the rains - definitely feeling those vibes here in the UK after months of drought. Thanks for the timeline cleanse, @drnwillburger.bsky.social 🐸

I learnt a new thing today - posts from the contributors list for #Egyptology are consumed by Ammit after 7 days, and thus disappear. This distresses me, but I can't add everyone as Single Users, as this might overturn the Barque of Ra. Feel free to repost anything you'd like to have pop up again.

So much wisdom in the concept of appreciative joy. Lovely quote from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social: “Joy doesn’t betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated, and isolated, joy is a fine act of insurrection.” Thanks Nadine Levy for the piece and

A great light has gone out. Terribly sad news for #Egyptology - an extraordinary soul who will be missed beyond measure by all who loved him. I feel so very sad for his friends and loved ones, and especially his husband John.

Fabulous moves towards habitat connectivity here in Chalon, with this roadbridge incorporating vibrant planting-troughs either side. Humming with creatures, the well thought-out planting gives loooong flowering spells and winter cover. Full marks! #GoodGreenNews

Studland Seahorse Project bringing conservationists, boaties, community, businesses and academics together in Studland Bay to protect seagrass meadows for tiny seahorses - with galloping results! Eco-moorings are the answer. Thanks loads to @k000.bsky.social for posting this #GoodGreenNews

Wasps are great, and like all little critturs, greatly appreciate clean fresh water in hot weather. #inverts 🐙

The municipal planting in this area of France is great! Wildlife-friendly, and well adapted to changing climate - and we can plug in these plants at home. The municipal planting where I last looked after this little pusscat was also great - I'm starting to think he has great taste in towns...

Peekaboo! Ridiculously lovely crabby art from @greyauk.bsky.social ! 😍

Presumably a practice piece, you can almost hear the student admitting to his teacher that he hadn't quite left enough space for the tail. I'd say he likely passed the test - the replication is excellent, though not exact - r-hand chick's feet feel v slightly longer, facial markings vary in shape 1/

This is a lovely idea - it's marvellous to have focused reasons to take a moment to really watch. Bats often flit between the semis and I startled the hoggie while putting out food the other night. And don't forget Butterfly Conservation's Big Butterfly Count is also on atm too! #GoodGreenNews

🦇 #BatsInArt #PreciousBats #Australian #20thCentury #AboriginalArt #GeorgeJungawanga George Jungawanga (b. 1938) WARLANG - CAVE DWELLING BATS Natural earth pigments on bark

Bit of a bugbear for some when folks lump archaeologists and palaeontologists in one finds-box. Total identity crisis when loads of fossils turn up in the archaeological record! 😀 Really interesting thread here - thanks to @jfcudennec.bsky.social for posting and @hlee.bsky.social for highlighting!

Lovely thread of footage here on greenfinches hopefully showing a resurgence. Here's why field maples are supportive planting for them, with a weedy pond as a great feeding resource as well as for drinking and bathing. Thanks so much @iand777.bsky.social! #GoodGreenNews #birds 🦉 #conservation 🌍

The perils of being a rather wonderful wildlife artist. 💚🦈 Same vibes when you're looking up obscure stuff about cravats/tech/cutlery/home decor in the Georgian era and all you get are Bridgerton pics... #writingcommunity #artcommunity Thanks for sharing, @greyauk.bsky.social 😊💚

Quietly exploring the night on their outsize feet, the smallest of the kiwi family has defied the odds to survive on mainland Aotearoa/NZ - not lost for half a century as folks believed. Kiwi pukupuku stomps back onto the stage to bring new hope for conservation - and clever sniffer-dogs. Kia kaha!

A guru's gift of 3ha of rainforest, a self-taught conservationist, and 40 years later a 32ha site shelters thousands of plant species and the wildlife that relies on them. All held in dedicated hands of local and indigenous women in the Western Ghats - gardeners at the forefront of conservation.

Batten down your earholes for some mispronounced Ancient Greek, but here's a little video on why Acanthus plants are one to avoid in wildlife gardening in the UK - but have a really cool Classical backstory nonetheless!

A hand-drawn map from 1792 and a thousand-year old way of working with natural rhythms of land and rainfall to refill aquifers. Lift yourself up today with a story of how one historian's drive to give back to his town becomes a people's initiative, stewarding plentiful water for all. #GoodGreenNews

Now, these are images of future cities the people living there can get behind - and it's happening right now, in Columbia. #GoodGreenNews

Agretti seedlings, Monk's-beard misnamed, are surely Medusa's Children, clipped locks uncurling from brief hibernation. Much longer asleep and they'd stay lifeless, stony, their mother's eyes glimpsed. Strange little slips of life, rootless, tongue forked, ready to branch into salty green crunch.

Fantastic news here from the Überlingen Ibis Project - thanks for this lovely update @greyauk.bsky.social! #conservation 🌍 #birds 🦉

If anyone would like two and a bit delightful minutes of balletic crab behaviour in Japan, enjoy. 😊🦀🥰 thanks for the lovely footage, @crabspromenade.bsky.social

Important advisory here about bats and cats, everyone - I'd add dawn and dusk to 'overnight' as parent birds and fledglings are so intent on food at those times they are also excessively easy prey. Please protect wildlife, even if your cat gets grumpy about it.

This thread, and I say this after profound reflection, is the best thing I have seen on the internet, ever. Happy Biscuit Day? This has made my happy biscuit life. Dig in - every crunchy mouthful of glorious artwork is a treasure. @adamcsharp.bsky.social observe the wonder! 🍪

Common ground - cooperation between conservationists and sheep-farmers with traditional grazing rights leads to financial lifelines for farmers, and the return of 'ghost woods' which once hosted ancient woodland species. Bare grass to burgeoning biodiversity in only ten years. #GoodGreenNews

The bluebells have quietly disappeared for the year, but they were beautiful while they lasted - a bit like the Wickerman I made from willow withies, who went up in smoke quite quickly. Tis also the season to sing Sumer is Incomen In, and once you start, it's hard to stop...

Admittedly not actually #Egyptology, but rather delightful and not so far away, and may be of interest to ceramicists working in Egypt. #archaeology #AncientBluesky 🏺

Super poster here from the Bat Conservation Trust about changes we can all work towards in our outdoor spaces to make them more batty. Even if you've only a very limited scrap of outdoors, window-boxes full of herbs and nectar-bearing flowers, and a bat-box, can still help.

Sudden realisation that carder bees I've been seeing - which I took for 'a very reddish Common' actually look like Moss Carder Bee? No photo unfortunately, but the thorax has been strikingly orange. Is that possible around here, @ianbeavis.bsky.social? The garden has both moss and long grass?

Such scenes, yesterday. In the downpour, a jay hawked a young sparrow, chased her from the tree, and boom! She hit glass, a foot from me. I flung the window open, jay swooped away, and little one floundered, floundered on the flooded roof, then shot back into the tree. Jolly bird jay, the hunter!

The weighty pregnancy of rainclouds, in your face, sagging, still not quite due. That tantalising heaviness a promise, not the disappointment-in-the-making of overcast's aloof grey and haughty, empty distance. Let's get up close and personal, clouds. Spill. ☔🌧️

Neighbours make peace when newcomer Hope moves within arm's reach: patching damaged forest back together species by species, with medical science contributing to conservation. Sounds like #GoodGreenNews . Thanks for the post @ecowarriorss.bsky.social and for highlighting, @donnarainey4.bsky.social

Luminous loveliness here from @kateartist.bsky.social 🌕😍

Step one: encourage plentiful ivy growth. Step two: insert dish of bird food in attractive slightly gothic obelisk thing, to keep birds out of cat-reach. Step three: observe local jackdaws perching on the curly metal pinnacle. Result: instant Garden Gormenghast.