Water sampling and thermistor change at #UKUWMN site Old Lodge in Ashdown Forest today. Added value iNat records including what is probably Craterellus undulatus/Pseudocraterellus undulatus depending on who you ask. Rarely recorded apparently and kind ID from @ljantos

Major revision of #GBRedList of plants published today shows 25% of our native & archaeophyte flora threatened with extinction. Many iconic widespread species classified as threatened for first time including Betony, Marsh Marigold, Devil’s-bit Scabious and Harebell. Another wake-up call for action!

We've known for a long time fireworks are a major source of sudden disturbance for birds, and published earlier work in Behavioral Ecology documenting this for the first time using the Dutch weather radars operated by @knmi.bsky.social. Read the earlier study here: doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Another NYE, another night of terror for millions of birds across the Netherlands (and around the world). Last year we published in @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Frontiers 🧪 about the massive impact of fireworks on birds 🦅. Paper: doi.org/10.1002/fee.... Thread below 🧵👇

horizon.science.uva.nl/fireworks/in... “On average, as a result of fireworks, 1000 times more birds take flight than on usual winter nights.” New year in the Netherlands. Knew I’d seen this somewhere so ta to @amiesphilip.bsky.social for finding it. Redwings peeping all over here just now.

Our Department of Aquatic Ecology (Eco) is offering a Postdoctoral position in Aquatic Ecology (m/f/d) 80-100% 👉 More about the position: apply.refline.ch/673277/1300/...

Wasn’t expecting to find _this_ in the local station book exchange.Had a wait long enough to look properly rather than casually glance at the usual biographies & novels.Wonder how long it had been sitting there all unloved.Rest assured it has now found its forever home🙂.Now need to find a swap.

On the same chalk bank as the flowering plants that haven’t read the rules in my last #wildflowerhour post, the Man Orchids are now out. Just. They were all baked off in the hot, dry spring of 2025 and none of ~30 plants flowered successfully. Fingers crossed for 2026.

It has been dark for hours. Can I go to bed yet #wildflowerhour ? Here are some flowering things found today near home that were mostly not supposed to be flowering today near home. Oxeye daisy, Field Scabious, Black Knapweed and Selfheal.

Spiny Shield Bug, Picromerus bidens. 21/10/25. New for the garden.

Better late than never. First Brown Hairstreak of the year in the garden today.

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Our work resurrecting ice age #ghostponds in the Guardian today @timholtwilson.bsky.social @hburningham.bsky.social @uclgeography.bsky.social ‘Just add water’: how to bring back ancient plants in a Norfolk ghost pond | Wildlife | The Guardian share.google/kO6HQaC4PAUJ...

Talk in Ambleside this Wed, 10/09/25. 17:00. The culmination of the 2 week NERC meiofauna short course. Details of course and staff here: www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/... @nhm-london.bsky.social

Oh hello. In the garden this evening.

Another of the treats from the last two weeks of aquatic plant surveys in Donegal. Sparganium natans. Aquatic, in ~1m water depth and emersed at a different site. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

10 days in Donegal assisting Nick Stewart on EPA lake monitoring fieldwork.Lifer Eriocaulon aquaticum this morning.Great company,long days,terrible food,some truly amazing sites & a new species for Ireland,pending review of the material by Chris Preston. Potamogeton rutilus @bsbibotany.bsky.social

EA lake survey fieldwork for the last 2 weeks. Didn’t anticipate finding Potamogeton lucens at all, never mind 2 days in a row, at Sywell Reservoir nr Northampton on Thurs and Crown Lakes N nr Peterborough yesterday. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @astridbiddle.bsky.social

Huge numbers of Riccia cavernosa(?) at w end of Clattercote Reservoir, Oxon, today. 3m drawdown providing lots of habitat. @astridbiddle.bsky.social @bramblebotanist.bsky.social

Ermine or Water Ermine? Been here for ~10 days or so, eating Littorella uniflora. New food plant record for either? @mothyblackburn.bsky.social @norfolkmoths.bsky.social @ @savebutterflies.bsky.social

Set a dozen batologists free in Broadland & rightly anticipate a few interesting bramble records.. not a new-to-GB waterlily. Nymphaea candida has small flowers with erect petals, filaments wider than anthers & concave stigmatic disc. Leaves with anastomosing veins at edges. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Glastonbury Glow-worm grabs glamping gong. Not that I’m biased, but best thing of the festival so far is this lady Glow-worm shining by the hedge right next to the caravan. Onto iNat, if you want to trace the caravan. #GlastonburyFestival #Glow-worm

Today at home. Welsh Chafer by the pond,female Gasteruption jaculator scouting the bricks, baby Shieldbugs on Iris and an Elephant Hawk Moth that found its way into the house.

Today’s finds. My first ever Clearwing and it didn’t involve a lure. 6-belted at the Green Street Green butterfly bank, Bromley.Adonis Ladybird rescued from the neighbours’ paddling pool and the porch Woodpigeon babies coming on apace. iRecorded or Birdtracked as appropriate.

Why would you want a neat stripy boring lifeless lawn when you can have a shaggy, flower-filled paradise for pollinators? Maybe this short video will provide some inspiration! youtu.be/2SJFg3NbrFY

The Woundwort Shieldbugs are largely ignoring their nominate host plant here and concentrating on the Aquilega seed heads instead.

I am starting a PhD and am looking for grassland restoration/rewilding sites in Northern Ireland! Please forward this flier to anyone who might be interested in having their land surveyed for fungi!

WFH today. Miris striatus on the doorstep, 62! Large Red Damselfly exuviae from the Hippurus pond out front so far. The magpie checked into the lab meeting and mass Badger mastication proceeded as normal.

Anthriscus sylvestris, Cow Parsley, invert associates At least 39 spp use the Cow Parsley that fringes verges & woodland margins, as a larval host. One of the earliest of the Apiaceae to flower in spring, an early pollen source for bees & hoverflies. 📷 CAM Lindman, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 🌱

The @ukceh.bsky.social Biological Records Centre isn't yet on Bsky, so I'm passing on the message that there are problems with iRecord, with pages failing to load properly. It's being investigated and updates are being applied, but there is still work to do. Apologies for the inconvenience.

Hoopoe from the doorstep in Bromley this morning. 😳. Terrible phone footage. Have given it enough time to skeddaddle before sharing. On BirdTrack. @btobirds.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

#UKUWMN water, diatom and aquatic invertebrate sampling at Old Lodge, Ashdown Forest today. Dartford Warbler, Cuckoo, Stonechats and best of all these @bsbibotany.bsky.social

The anti-bird infrastructure at Charles Darwin’s church in Downe, Bromley today. No wonder there are no Swifts screaming over the village any more. @btobirds.bsky.social @godsacre.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social

Possibly Ichneumon stramentor in the garden today. Not quite right though, and there are plenty to choose from.

Support Sian Berry’s #GoPesticideFree bill, scheduled for debate 25th April, which would ban local councils in England from using pesticides in public spaces. No more poison in our streets and parks! Contact your MP using the link below: pan-uk.eaction.org.uk/edm-urban-pe... @sianberry.bsky.social

Found a freshly emerged and very fecund female Emperor Moth here last Saturday. Completely still at the top of the vegetation, but evidently firing out pheromones so it wasn’t long before a male arrived. First breeding record in Bromley for a long time I’m told.

Just took the new INat Next app for a walk in the garden to test the live camera real-time species ID feature. Not perfect, but rather remarkable nonetheless. Great that the app now has most of the features available in the web version. #iNaturalist #iNatNext

@wildflowerhour.bsky.social A day and a bit late for #wildflowerhour iNat incidental record shots of Wood Anemone from my annual local amphibian pond frogspawn monitoring walk.

A warm welcome please to our sister society @bbsbryology.bsky.social! While we at the Botanical Society focus on vascular plants, they focus on mosses & liverworts. Between us, we've got your planty needs covered! Check out their events & helpful ID resources: www.britishbryologicalsociety.org.uk

Wow. Tempted to post something political for the first time ever, despite my self-imposed ban. Meanwhile, first Bumblebee Queen, Wasp Queen and a mining bee on a crocus, today. Took a punt on A. bicolour on iNat but not confident.

The UK is stuck in the energy dark ages, while other countries are already reaping the benefits of locational (zonal) pricing - it works. And could lower bills for everyone in GB 👇 octo.ps/zonal-pricin...

If you regularly spend time outside in the Thetford Forest area then @ukhsa.bsky.social are running sessions on Tues 25th Feb and Wed 26th Feb 2025 aiming to investigate the prevelance of tick-born illnesses via blood sampling. You can drop in during the day and an email is given for more info.

A farm walk round home today. Meh weather.No finch flocks sadly-hope they’re off brightening up someone else’s day.3 Red Kites.Singing Song Thrush.A herd of Fallow Deer.Arums up in the hedges.Man and Early Purple Orchid rosettes showing & Primroses just starting to flower.

Amazing discovery of an incredibly rare aquatic plant on Rathlin Island in Northern Ireland! If botanical mysteries, snorkelling botanists and stinky plants are your thing (and who doesn’t love a snorkelling botanist?!) this is a must-read! @bsbiireland.bsky.social

Visited Charles Darwin’s house at Downe again today.It’s very close to where I live and a pleasure to treat biologically-minded friends to the really well curated English Heritage site. Earth Stars welcome you right at the gate!Missed them - spotted by my friend🤦‍♂️😂

A new study led by @umaine.bsky.social Climate Change Institute Associate Director, Dr. Jasmine Saros, shows significant rapid changes to Greenland lakes 🧪https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2413855122?

A couple of flowering Lawn Daisies in the UCL Quad on Friday.Onto iNat.Their days are numbered due to the proposed Quad redevelopment.Man and EPO orchid rosettes now up at home today.Also onto iNat. #wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

** Call for abstracts ** 17th International Symposium on Aquatic Plants, 15-19 Sept 2025 For more information see the website: congressos.mundiconvenius.pt/geral/pagina... 🌍 🧪 🦤 #PlantScience #Macrophytes

Monbiot alerted me to this some time ago. Had had no idea previously. Both wonderful and awful to see it beginning to be quantified rdcu.be/d6nbn