Our AGM and Members' Day takes place this Saturday, 28 March, at St Swithun's School, Winchester. Join us for a great variety of talks including Roy Dennis on "A Lifetime of Rewilding". Free for members, £10 non-members. No need to pre-book www.hos.org.uk/welcome-to-t...

It's the time of year where adders are slowly waking up from their winter slumber and ready to capture those beautiful rays of sunshine 🐍 Usually shy, adders are venomous, and dogs should be kept on the lead on access land, just to be on the safe side. 📸: Bruce Middleton

I didn't used to expect ticks until May but had huge numbers on me in Cambs woodland this weekend. It's been -2C at night and only 13C by day. This hazard for early spring fieldwork is pretty new, not something I worried about in March. Affects fieldwork approach and precautions needed. #BeTickAware

Pete has confirmed it's a regular visitor here in spring, as well as visiting Snow Hill Marsh, West Wittering, where it was ringed as a chick in 2024. Not been reported anywhere else yet! #HantsBirds #SussexBirds

Blossom Underwing last night - not sure I've seen this since the 1990s. Also an early Frosted Green #teammoth

Red deadnettle at Lakeside Country Park on Friday and snake's-head fritillaries there on Monday and common dog violet and lesser celandine at Blashford Lakes today. #WildflowerHour

Red Admiral at Blashford Lakes today #Bugsky #UKWildlife

My first Little Ringed Plover of the year at Blashford Lakes today. Also great to see Black-tailed Godwits, Wigeon, Shoveler, Reed Bunting and Buzzards. #Birds #UKWildlife

King Alfred's Cakes at Blashford Lakes today #FungiFriends

Nights still cold, but pleased with 38 of 13 in SW Hants last night. Pale Pinion (2 very different individuals) & Early Tooth-striped NFY. Shoulder Stripe pictured because I fluffed a pic on Saturday. #teammoth

Peacock at Winnall Moors at lunch time. Also nice to see Brimstones, Goldcrest and Wren. #UKButterflies #UKWildlife #Bugsky

I led a @berksbirdclub.bsky.social trip to Titchfield Haven today. Highlights included a gorgeous huddle of 90+ Sanderling on the beach, lots of Mediterranean Gulls, Marsh Marigold and a drake Goosander. Avocets, Blackwits and 2 pairs of Marsh Harriers were around all day. #ukbirding #hantsbirds

Field Scabious (Knautia arvensis) flowering at Titchfield Haven NNR, Hampshire (Vice-county 11). #wildflowerhour

Moschatel Adoxa moschatellina from a local woodland on Monday this week. Central Hampshire. #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Ladybird at Testwood Lakes today #Bugsky #UKWildlife

Sulphur tuft at Testwood Lakes today #FungiFriends

Groundnesting bird season is under way ⚠️ Many of these birds are masters of camouflage but easily disturbed by inquisitive dogs. You can help by keeping dogs on leads and sticking to paths. 🔗Find out how you can Take the Lead: www.southdowns.gov.uk/take-the-lead/ 📸: Andy Reeves

Thank you to everyone who attended the Forum and a special thanks to our wonderful speakers for interesting talks! @bbsbryology.bsky.social & our Billy found the moss Syntrichia virescens in the car park (rare here), Siskins, and moths Ypsolopha mucronella & Emmelina monodactyla. #Ecology #TeamMoth

A good night with 101/14 bucking the weather conditions. 2 NFY Acleris cristana and Shoulder Stripe which is the darkest one I’ve seen. 9 Oak Beauty was best of the rest #teammoth

Stopped by on my way home from a meeting to see Small Goosegrass Galium murale in Port Solent, Hampshire today. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Top plant hunter & #BSBICountyRecorder @trisnorton.bsky.social found Opposite-leaved Pondweed in the River Ems catchment: first find in the area since 1887! More about the plant: plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9... Tristan tells the full story: bsbi.org/about/news/l... @theriverstrust.bsky.social

Coltsfoot Tussilago farfara has unexpectedly appeared under the rhubarb in the garden. Also a Peacock nectaring on Primrose. Well and truly spring today here in central Hampshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Rue-leaved Saxifrage Saxifraga tridactylites and Common Whitlow-grass Erophila verna. Happy as Larry on this old wall in Winchester, Hampshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Toothwort Lathraea squamaria. Plant or creature? A couple of early spikes showing in central Hampshire today. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

The true spring flower. Wood Anemone (Anemine nemorosa). Central Hampshire today. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Clearer than forecast in SW Hants last night, so 29 of 10 fewer than hoped. Obvious highlight what appears to be Agonopterix curvipunctosa ( @migrantmothuk.bsky.social ?), which I think would be new for Hants!! A tiny thing, fw about 7mm. Yellow Horned, Clouded Drab & Brindled Pug NFY. #teammoth

Beige overload, 159/17 in SE Hants. 99 CQ+SQ. 4 NFY 2x Common Plume, 5x Clouded Drab, 2 D. fagella, 1x Early Thorn. Others 4x Oak Beauty, 8 Yellow Horned, 9x Twin-spotted Quaker and a single Pammene giganteana in the trap. Nice variety in the markings of the Brindled Pug #teammoth

Pine Beauty to light in the North Hampshire garden last night, only the second garden record here. Also notable was a max count of 64 Small Quaker. #TeamMoth

The spectacular blooms of Lesser Chickweed Stellaria pallida 😅. Firmly in the niche botany bracket. Hayling Island, Hampshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Continuing the 'spectacular' theme, here's Early Meadow-grass Poa infirma on Hayling Island. Once a rarity restricted to the SW of England, it's now quite widespread and a guaranteed find here in coastal Hampshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Sea Thrift Armeria maritima getting to the spring party early. Hayling Island, Hampshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

The beautiful Slender Speedwell Veronica filiformis scrambling over the graves at St Stephen's, Sparsholt, Hampshire. Speed-you-well seems a perfect floral sentiment. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Book your free ticket to the online BDS Spring Meeting on Saturday, 21 March 2026. Featuring the 'The National Education Nature Park' - a free, Department for Education–commissioned programme supporting schools, colleges and nurseries across England british-dragonflies.org.uk/event/spring...

Early spring is by far the best time to record breeding Goshawks as they display over territories, particularly on calm and sunny days - here’s some encouragement from RBBP Secretary @markaeaton.bsky.social #ukbirding #ornithology youtu.be/hVgl6jYOX6A?...

Another species that’s worth looking for establishing territories in the early spring is the Marsh Harrier. Learning their call might help as well - have a listen to this youtu.be/d5wD5vivbfE?...

Dark-edged or Dotted? 🐝 Is it Bombylius major or Bombylius discolor? Learn how to tell them apart by wing patterns, habitat & behaviour 🌍 🧪 Join our #entoLEARN webinar on 25 Mar 2026: 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1976745510... @uk-soldierflies.bsky.social @tonymadgwick.bsky.social

With February coming to a close, the sound of Mediterranean Gulls is a regular one over the eastern Solent harbours. At West Hayling, courtship has begun & will continue until they move on in the Spring.

One last #TheWinter10 from Hampshire this week; snowflakes, lesser celandine, wood avens, daisies, winter heliotrope, coltsfoot, primroses, periwinkle, gorse and common whitlowgrass. #WildflowerHour

@dipteristsforum.bsky.social First Tephritid of the year today here in S. Hants, Tephritis cometa in the garden.

Another day, another Tephritid, this time Tephritis vespertina, in the garden with a good array of other insects enjoying the sunshine. Eristalis tenax & pertinax (m&f), Tree Bumblebee and at least 2spp of solitary bees.

Good to see a Peacock butterfly at Winnall Moors at lunch time as well as a few Brimstones and a ladybird. Also good to see Chaffinch, Moorhen and a Dunnock whilst passing Lakeside this morning. #UKWildlife #Bugsky

Lovely day out in North Hants today in the company of @pilkyplant.bsky.social , Billy from @hantsbic.bsky.social and others at Ladle Hill. Very few records for bryophytes before but there was plenty of interest including Tortula protobryoides, Seligeria calycina and Bryum torquescens.

Our Billy is exploring Winchester and noting #PavementPlants and mosses! Rue-leaved Saxifrage starting to appear, Scleropodium cespitans, Aloina aloides in the city and Abietinella abietina on St Catherine's Hill @bbsbryology.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Wanting to get into botany? @bsbibotany.bsky.social have a wealth of information and training available, and this year a new challenge for beginners!

I'm delighted to be leading a #WildPavements webinar at 7pm on 26 Feb for the Natural History Museum @nhm-london.bsky.social's fab Urban Nature Network. Join the free network here the-urban-nature-network.mn.co/share/OZILcH... & then sign up for the webinar for free too. 💚

Hummingbird Hawkmoth just seen feeding on Sarcococca in Barton, SW Hants!! Presumably having a break from hibernating somewhere cosy, but @migrantmothuk.bsky.social can have a tag anyway. Comfortably my earliest ever. #teammoth

Honey mushrooms at Acres Down in the New Forest in October #FungiFriends

As expected pretty poor trapping in SE Hants last night. 7/3 with 5x C. Quaker, 1x Chestnut and 1x T. alternella #teammoth