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This year, it's taken me until late October to see Coral-necklace Illecebrum verticillatum. Here it is on Canada Common, New Forest. It's seemingly a new spot for it. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Nail Fungus Poronia punctata on Canada Common, New Forest today. Also a decent spread of Psilocybe semilanceata.

Lots more Coral-necklace Illecebrum verticillatum today at Canada Common, New Forest. Growing in damp hollows. The seed, which is abundant, must get blown or washed across the grassland and settle in these irregular features. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Small Fleabane Pulicaria vulgaris still looking good in the northern New Forest today. @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

Heath Milkwort Polygala serpyllifolia and Dwarf Gorse Ulex minor. Canada Common, New Forest. @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

As I had a day off today, I went to see this mad, perky little bird, a Boat-tailed Grackle Quiscalus major that's turned up at Calshot, Hampshire. Very amusing, tootling around cars, boats, and verges and basically ignoring people. A real character. @hosbirding.bsky.social

What looks like Rough Bristle-grass Setaria verticillata from a turnip field just near home this afternoon. Central Hampshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Odds and sods. A ditch full of Shaggy Soldier Galinsoga quadriradiata, Common Fumitory Fumaria officinalis and Dwarf Spurge Euphorbia exigua near home, escapee Snapdragon Antirrhinum majus in the ditch. Hampshire today and yesterday. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Some 'green islands' in Botley Wood, Hants this afternoon - Ectoedemia quinquella and Stigmella atricapitella on Oak and Ectoedemia argyropeza on Aspen. #teammoth

#TheWinter10 from Hampshire this week; yarrow, meadow crane's-bill, sweet violet, common mallow, daisy, viper's-bugloss, annual mercury, periwinkle, bell heather and shepherd's purse. #WildflowerHour

Having poked every shrub and plant in the garden 67/27 was the trap total in SE Hants. Migrants; 1 of White point, RDP and a stunning Blair’s Mocha. Large Wainscot was a hoped for NFG. A possible NFG A. notana needs 🪓. A. hastiana and a Flying V Nov moth agg best of the rest #teammoth #migrantmothuk

A trip to Lymington on the bus and train to see the male Long-tailed Duck who has been staying on Normandy Lagoon 30.10.25 #HantsBirds #HantsBirding #LowCarbonBirding

If you live in Hampshire & the Isle of Wight and would like to find out more about how you can get involved in the BTO’s work, join us for a FREE Zoom session on Wednesday 19 November. www.bto.org/our-work/eve... @hosbirding.bsky.social #UKbirding 📷 Flock of Wigeon, by Tom Cadwallendar / BTO

Views and water forget-me-not at River Park Recreation Ground and Winnall Moors yesterday. Nice to hear Cetti's Warbler and see Moorhen.

A zesty sprig of pure summer sunshine today. Wild Parsnip Pastinaca sativa on the local downs near Sparsholt, Hampshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Antigastra catalaunalis (Toadflax Pearl), to light in North Hants (VC12) on 4/11. B. Dale #teammoth

Our Billy is exploring Winchester and found these 3 bryophytes growing on a ginkgo tree near Winchester Cathedral with another 11 species also on the trunk! @bsbibotany.bsky.social @bbsbryology.bsky.social Photos: Microcoleopsis minutissima, Syntrichia papillosa and Syntrichia laevipila

New #GBRedList for vascular plants is published today by a team led by @bsbibotany.bsky.social with partners @naturalengland.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social @naturescot.bsky.social @natreswales.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social @plantlifeintl.bsky.social @rbgkew.bsky.social @thebotanics.bsky.social

Think it’s a spider? Think again! 🕷️ Opilio canestrini is a harvestman—one of the UK’s most visible urban arachnids. Join @megabunus.bsky.social on 30 Dec 2025 (18:30–20:00) for a deep dive into arboreal harvestmen ecology. 🎟️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1502201859... @britishspiders.bsky.social

🕷️ Meet the fork-palped harvestmen! 🕸️ Dicranopalpus ramosus & D. caudatus: UK newcomers with eerie tuning fork–shaped palps. Learn all about them in our next UK Harvestmen webinar with @megabunus.bsky.social on 30th December. 👉 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1502201859... @britishspiders.bsky.social

🦇 Today is the start of #BatWeek, an international celebration of bats and why they matter! Find out more about bats here: www.bats.org.uk/about-bats

🦇 Applications for the next round of the Living Alongside Bats in Churches Grant are still open. Deadline: 9am, 27 October. We encourage any place of worship in England who needs assistance with their bat roost, such as managing a cleaning issue, to apply: www.bats.org.uk/our-work/bui...

Find a fungus group near you! 📍 A new map showing BMS-affiliated fungus groups has been added to the BMS website, making it easier to find local groups around the UK. With links to group websites and further info.➡️ Recording Network map: www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/recording-ne...

HOS team members have been in London this week to receive a national award recognising excellence in local ornithology. Every year the Marsh Charitable Trust and the British Trust for Ornithology select a local organisation to receive the distinction based on their achievements.

Grey coral fungi and puffballs at Blashford Lakes today #FungiFriends

Our Billy found Bartramia pomiformis - a rare and declining bryophyte in Hampshire while surveying a sunken lane in the South Downs near Liss! #HantsPlants @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Congratulations @hosbirding.bsky.social!

Congratulations to ‬Hampshire Ornithological Society, winner of the @marshawards.bsky.social for Local Ornithology! @hosbirding.bsky.social provides a range of engagement activities such as outings, ringing demonstrations, events, workshops and online sessions for participants of all ages.

Details for obtaining a copy here, as well as links to older bird reports that have been digitised. The HOS library is at Hartley Library, University of Southampton: www.hos.org.uk/welcome-to-t... #HantsBirds

Another excellent Hampshire Bird Report by @hosbirding.bsky.social, and this year it is available digitally as well as in print! #HantsBirds

📢 REGISTRATION OPEN FOR #HerpJSM2025 Join Amphibian and Reptile Conservation & British Herpetological Society on Saturday 29th November at the Bournemouth Natural Science Society Museum. Find out more and book 👇 https://www.arc-trust.org/Event/arc-bhs-joint-scientific-meeting-2025

Huge thanks to @daera-ni.gov.uk for funding our winter programme of Botanical Skills webinars! They are all free so please use the links below to book your spaces!

The British Mycological Society are surveying all fungi recorders as part of a review on how they share their data. It would be great if anyone who records fungi could complete it (you don't have to be a prolific fungi recorder or BMS member to take part). docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I came across what seems to be Leopoldius calceatus on a low Ivy hedge on the Hants coast today not sure if this is a new county record but certainly a first for me. @dipteristsforum.bsky.social

Well spotted, Billy & Joel @hantsbic.bsky.social! Water Bent is one of our most rapidly increasing alien grasses, esp. in cities, according to its #PlantAtlas2020 page: plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9... Whereas Fern-grass's distribution hasn't changed so much: plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...

Marsh Mallow near Fawley and Long-stalked Crane's-bill on chalk grassland near Andover over the summer #WildflowerHour 📷Billy Dykes

Peak Field Woundwort Stachys arvensis time in my best local spot in Hampshire's Test Valley. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @hantsbic.bsky.social

Our Billy found Bartramia pomiformis - a rare and declining bryophyte in Hampshire while surveying a sunken lane in the South Downs near Liss! #HantsPlants @bsbibotany.bsky.social

The latest edition of Flora News, the newsletter of the Hampshire Flora Group, is now available for FREE. As packed with botanical interest as Hampshire is packed with amazing plants! @bsbibotany.bsky.social hantsplants.uk/floranews.php

Curlew enjoy a bathe followed by breakfast. Woolston Sewage Works 27.09.25 #HantsBirds #HampshireBirding #LowCarbonBirding

Being much pickier re trapping nights atm, last night scoring 58 of 22 in SW Hants. Two NFY, Black Rustic & Red-line Quaker, with an excellent 8 of the former (2 was my max last year!). Small Mottled Willow, White-point, Four-sp Footman & 3 L-album the @migrantmothuk.bsky.social offerings #teammoth

Moth stats Aug 2025 SE Hants, completed whilst baking the Christmas cake. 9 traps 1436 moths 10 NFG. Running year totals 11019 moths, 558 sp, 88 NFG. Beet Moth, Mompha propinquella, Gynnidmorpha vectisana all NFG and the cake #teammoth

Dense-flowered Fumitory Fumaria densiflora and Common Fumitory Fumaria officinalis in full flow in a delightfully weedy bed at a Winchester allotment site today. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Field Penny-cress Thlapsi arvense at Highcliffe community allotments in Winchester, Hampshire today. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Fly agaric at Millyford Bridge in the New Forest today. #FungiFriends

What looks like Maple-leaved Goosefoot Chenopodiastrum hybridum, growing in a Winchester allotment today. I've only seen it once before, but this looked unusual. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Some larval stuff from Gosport, Hants this afternoon- a Phyllocnistis midrib mine on Willow, mines of Phyllonorycter schreberella and tristrigella and a Grey Dagger larva on Elm. #teammoth

Our first @btobirds.bsky.social Winter Bird Survey at Ludshott Common, Hampshire, today. Don't know if you can hear but there's a Woodlark singing his head off like it's the first day of Spring. Also Siskin, Redpoll, Crossbill, Dartford, Linnet and Stonechat in this one spot.