Happy Friday - the weekend is in sight! 🔜 In fact, we think it might be at the end of this tree tunnel... 👣

Good to read the Whitewebbs oak is hanging on, despite all. 🤞 it remains resilient for a long time. Incredibly frustrating to read it 'was healthy and showed little evidence it needed to be cut down'. Grrr 😠. Better protection for old trees is desperately overdue. Story ➡️ buff.ly/FCPlvS6. 1/2

Welcome #HighlandSpring, our newest partner helping shape the future of Glen Quey Moss in the Ochil Hills. With Highland Spring’s protected, organic catchment area sitting in the same hill range, we reckon the partnership is a natural fit. Slainté! ➡️https://buff.ly/TwzyJ19

All these showers are making a splash, if you aren't enjoying the rain then at least the frogs are loving it! 🐸 When you’re out and about near ponds or wetlands, keep an eye out for frog spawn! If you spot any frog spawn, snap a pic (but leave it there) and share your spring sightings with us! 📸

@thecccuk.bsky.social have published a report on Scotland's climate progress. It echoes our calls for stronger, faster action on home heating, greener transport & eco-friendly agriculture. Without this the new Climate Change Plan will not be credible. www.stopclimatechaos.scot/scotlands-im...

When you are top of the food chain and you know it! 📸 Cracking shot of a sparrowhawk taken in Edinburgh by Rosanna Forbes. 👏

#TreePlanting - Volunteers needed 👋💚 🌱Join us 10am-1pm at Whinny Hill near #Balloch on Sat 14th March 📆 Free booking at 👉 buff.ly/Hb84i22

This atrocious development has finally been consigned to the bin! We campaigned long an hard on this one, so it is heartening to see the Scottish Government include our concerns about loss of ancient woodland in its reasoning. Congrats to all who fought locally and nationally.👏

Incredible 'layering' lime tree alert! The branches have grown down, connected with the soil, rooted and risen again to form a circle of young trees around the main stem. Amazing adaptation to supports survival & longevity. Great to see layering in the winter (💚 snowdrops too). #ThickTrunkTuesday

📢 Super job alert! 👇 Can you help coordinate volunteers, manage seed records & help ensure native tree seeds reach the nurseries & projects that really need them? 🌱 Hours: 21 hrs/pw, fixed term until 31 May 2027 Location: Dundreggan / Hybrid

What does the future hold for our oak trees? Join us for a webinar panel discussion to discuss our upcoming new report, The State of the UK's Oaks, and its findings. Tuesday 17 March, 2026, 2pm-3pm Book here https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RyAaAp_EQ72AY8DxX2VpdQ#/registration

We 💚 this campaign by @peatfree.bsky.social to get peat out of horticulture & gardens. Have you signed yet? The UK Government has committed to introduce legislation to end the sale of peat. Help turn this promise into action. Please sign 👇.

Feel like the day has got away from you and you haven't achieved much? That's ok - it's the weekend! 🧘 But if you are looking for something to give you that positive glow, then vote for the #ArgyleStreetAsh to win #EuropeanTreeOfTheYear, voting closes tomorrow night 👉️

This #PineMarten does NOT share food! 🫣 We understand the feeling 🌰 It's not for shifting even when the box is being closed on it's head, that's snack dedication. 💚 Always a joy to see and these two do not disappoint with their antics. #Perthshire #WildlifeCamera

And now there's only 2 days left... C'mon Scotland, England, Wales & NI too!

1️⃣ week to apply! 📆 Closing date Friday 27 Feb 🌳Could you be the next Estate Manager for Loch #Arkaig Pine Forest?🌳 Find out more and apply at👉 buff.ly/16nPNMX

Take a walk in your local woods or green space and spot the beautiful #SignsOfSpring: ❄️ Snowdrops in flower 🪾 Tiny buds on the trees 🐦️ The song of robins and blackbirds 🌿 A faint smell of damp earth, ready to grow Feeling grateful for these little reminders that nature is waking up. 🌸💚

Magic to see the legend that is @nilerodgers.bsky.social supporting woods and trees in NI, especially the involvement of young people planting the Faughan Valley (well worth a visit BTW!) ➡️ buff.ly/jOsZMZT #MairTreesPlease #WoodlandCreation #WoodlandTrust

Snowdrops out in full force 🤍 Did you know snowdrops were traditionally used to treat headaches and as a painkiller? 💊 Snowdrop flowering is one of the first signs that winter is drawing to an end. Help us track the changing seasons by taking part in Nature's Calendar ✍️ 👉 buff.ly/EwuBmMo..

Sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa), Perthshire. Approx 8.9m in girth (at 1.5m) and swallowing an old stone dyke. Seems to be in remarkably good health. A proper #ThickTrunkTuesday find!

🚨1 week left to vote for the #ArgyleStreetAsh to win #EuropeanTreeOfTheYear! 🏆️With a UK win under the belt, let's keep the momentum up in the European competition & bring it home for the ash 🌳 📅 Voting closes Sun 22nd Feb. Every vote counts 👉️ buff.ly/yEu02BT

💘 Some smooching bank voles for Valentine's Day.😘 🫶 "Vole" is an anagram of "love" after all! 🥰 📸 Great shot by Rosanna Forbes.😍 #valentinesday #voles #valentine

Fancy brushing up your #Orchard know-how? 🍏 Join us 25th Feb at #Bellsquarry with the wonderful @theorchardproject.bsky.social for a chance to learn some new skills and help your local orchard thrive. 🍎 Free (yes, free!) tickets at 👉https://buff.ly/7AGqzAH

Having claimed the UK Tree of the Year title, my tall chum, the Argyle Street Ash, a witness to almost 175 years of Glasgow history, is now up for European Tree of the Year. You can vote here: www.treeoftheyear.org/vote Pic: Author's own

The Argyle Street Ash Tree in Glasgow is in the running to be voted European Tree of the Year for 2026. If you're a fan of this tree, you can vote for it at www.treeoftheyear.org/vote/argyle-.... #glasgow #europeantreeoftheyear #tree #argylestreet #argylestreetashtree

💦 The weather otter get better!🦦 Before we all need webbed feet.😉 📸 Lovely shot by George Kelsey at the Water of Leith.👏

👇️ Check out this #PineMarten captured on wildlife camera at one of our sites in #Perthshire! Always a special sight 🫶 It may not be the most graceful we've ever seen, at one point it almost takes a tumble and it's supreme balance skills save the day! 🤸 #NatureVideos #Wildlife #NatureLovers

Osprey nest 1 at #LochArkaig Pine Forest was visited by this buzzard for 40 mins on Monday. 🌧️ The weather has been so grim there hasn't been enough solar power to run the cameras very much of late. Hopefully that will change soon. 🙏 Osprey season is only a few weeks away. 📆

A few snaps from the end of January at #Plora Wood in #Innerleithen. Thanks to all who braved the rain & muddy slopes! 🌱 Top marks to those that cycled there too. 👏🚲️

The Clachan Oak. Known locally as 'the Hanging Tree', the oak stands on the common green in the village of Balfron, nr Stirling. Did William Wallace or Rob Roy shelter under the tree? As both had local connections (400 years apart) it could have accommodated both. A #ThickTrunkTuesday beauty!

🌳 Are you passionate about protecting our beautiful woods and trees? 💚 Become an #Observatree volunteer and be part of an exciting citizen science project led by Forest Research! Apply today, closing date 8th March 👉 buff.ly/zo32khl 1/2

Enjoying a hoof around #GlenFinglas, scoping locations where we can encourage visitors to pause and take a breath. #Mindfulness can help us connect with our bodies and the world around us and in turn boost our wellbeing 🎉 More on the benefits of mindfulness buff.ly/OVCUCN6 #DontRush

Need a bit of TV inspiration tonight? Catch one of our fave crofters 'Sweeny', planting the first of many #trees on his Western Isles #croft with our very own Laura & 17 teenagers as part of Fèisean nan Gàidheal 'Còig Làtha'. Starts 8:25 👉 buff.ly/d6cfPWU 👏Sweeny! @pointsandwicktrust.bsky.social

🔍️ Spotted in #GlenFinglas Is it a weird bug 🐛 , parasite 🪱 or sea anemone 🪼 ?! Find out below 👇️ #GlenFinglas #LookClosely #MacroPhotography Credit: Hanna Rennie/WTML

The #ArgyleStreetAsh was crowned UK Tree of the Year 2025, a competition supported by players of Peoples Postcode Lottery 👑 ✅ Please vote now for this defiant giant to win #EuropeanTreeOfTheYear 🌍 VOTE ➡️ buff.ly/yEu02BT #Glasgow #UrbanTrees #ETY2026

Add a record of these natural events to our #NaturesCalendar project this Feb & help us check how wildlife is responding to extreme weather & climate change 🦋 Early signs of spring include lesser celandine, nest-building blackbirds & the 1st butterflies of the year🌼Add a record 👉 buff.ly/kUsUtdZ

📣 We're hiring! 💼 Estate Manager - Loch #Arkaig 📆 Closing date Friday 27 Feb A fantastic opportunity to contribute to landscape scale nature restoration efforts at Loch Arkaig Pine Forest 🌳 Apply at👉 buff.ly/16nPNMX

Tree Seed Collection Volunteers Needed in #Assynt! We'd 💚 your help to collect tree seeds & support the restoration/expansion of local provenance native woodland across remote landscapes. Contact [email protected] by Fri 20 Feb. About the project 👉 buff.ly/eAuqYq6 @treesforlife.bsky.social

Ever completed a woodland creation application at your kitchen table? Andrew Adamson of Netherurd Home #Farm in West Linton has & he's ready to share his learning in an online webinar 📅 Tue 17 Feb 2026 🕖️ 7:00 pm Book ➡️ buff.ly/5TI63NG #treesonfarms #RightTreeRightPlace #Agroforestry

Oooft a seven stemmed Western Red Cedar (that we couldn't resist playing in!) Their basal sprouting ability is a neat strategy to survive stem damage in early life e.g. by snow, browsing or injury. The tree compensates by sending up multiple vertical shoots from the lower trunk. #ThickTrunkTuesday

🔜 Last call to help us 'free the trees' this Saturday at Kinclaven Wood near #Perth By removing vole guards, you'll help reduce plastic waste and make sure the young trees flourish! Any helping hands will be much appreciated 😇 📆 Sat 7th Feb, 10am-1pm Free booking👉 buff.ly/mYUDCwj

🚨 Voting is open! 🚨 The #ArgyleStreetAsh won UK Tree of the Year in 2025, and now our tree is representing the UK in #EuropeanTreeOfTheYear. Naturally we need your vote to help it win! 🏆️ Please show Europe why this tree means so much 💚 VOTE 👉️ buff.ly/yEu02BT

The weasel is the smallest member of the order Carnivora, which also includes cats, dogs and bears. The largest member, the polar bear, can weigh more than 5,000 weasels combined! (No wild polar bears in Scotland but plenty of weasels!) 📸 Amazing shots as always by Rosanna Forbes👏 🧵 1/2

We welcome the passing of the Natural Environment (Scotland) Bill, that creates a better legal framework for nature recovery in Scotland. 🎯 Statutory nature restoration targets 🦌 reforms to deer management legislation, & 🏞️ improvements to our National Parks have been needed for years. 1/4

Good vibes, muddy boots & big smiles 😊 👣 Huge thank you to pupils from St Ronan's and #Walkerburn Primary Schools for their fantastic help planting trees at #Plora Wood yesterday. 🌱 Who's ready for round two tomorrow? All welcome, full details here 👉 buff.ly/9NcSQLg

Enjoy visiting woods in Scotland's central belt? Please take this short survey & pin your favourite wood on the interactive map. Jiayi (a PhD researcher) is following up on research conducted 20 years ago, re how people use and feel about urban and community woods. Useful stuff. 👉 buff.ly/KzQCTQW,

Another great webinar from CWA👇. If spotting a diseased tree is important to you, get yersel booked in!

Great to be working with the @thebotanics.bsky.social & have the small cow-wheat translocation project at #LochArkaig Pine Forest profiled in this article about the Scottish Plant Recovery Project buff.ly/6teNXXu Thanks #NatureRestorationFund!

🌳 Planted trees in your school? Are they thriving under your care? 🙌 Then it's it's time to show off your efforts and inspire others! 🏆 2026 Scotland's Finest Woods Awards is now open for Schools and Early Years entries. 📅 Deadline: 31 March 26 Enter 👉 www.sfwa.co.uk #OutdoorLearning #SFWA

The Poker Tree, Aberfoyle, nr Stirling. An iron poker hanging from this old oak recalls a violent incident in Sir Walter Scott’s novel Rob Roy. Bailie Nicol Jarvie travelled from Glasgow to visit his cousin Rob Roy stopping for refreshment at the inn at Clachan of Aberfoyle. 1/2...