As requested by many, here's the link to our YouTube channel with the recordings from the excellent Dipterist Day 2025 in Cambridge youtube.com/playlist?lis... @davebriceflies.bsky.social @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @lancefly.bsky.social @naturebureau.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social Please share 🙏

Frogspawn in our garden pond in southeast Hampshire 🐸✌️ @arc-trust.bsky.social @freshwaterhabitats.bsky.social

Tea, Coffee, Natural History Book Swap, Talks, Displays, Data workshop- sound fun? Book to come to our forum, Sat 7th March 2026 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hbic-annua...

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Camera traps don’t stop at great footage — the real value is in the data. Join our final camera trapping webinar with Sammy Mason (@mammalweb.bsky.social) and learn how to classify footage into meaningful wildlife insights. 🌍 🧪 Thu 19 Mar 2026 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1818786642...

Found a good population of Common Cudweed Filago germanica today, along a footpath leading to a Kildeer. Ripley, Hampshire.

Call out to anyone with UK records of Sphaeroceridae not on NBN/iRecord. Looking at getting the best distribution possible for a new key, I realise this will be a 'best possible', but more the merrier. Please share @dipteristsforum.bsky.social @flygirlnhm.bsky.social @respublications.bsky.social

#TheWinter10 in Hampshire this week; periwinkle, gorse, sweet violet, red deadnettle, yarrow, petty spurge, daisy, winter aconites, winter heliotrope and hazel catkins. #WildflowerHour

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Thank you to all who sent in polecat sightings during our fourth National Polecat Survey 2024-2025! Also a huge thank you to vols who collected samples from dead animals for use in genetic and dietary research. Any polecat sightings from 2024 or 2025 can still be sent in arcg.is/1TXqHC

Discover 48 UK soldierflies: boldly patterned spring–summer flower visitors, with larvae recycling nutrients in wetlands, woodland & gardens. Join @kitenet.bsky.social on 16 Apr 2026 for a talk on their ID, ecology & standout species www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1976906539... @uk-soldierflies.bsky.social

#TheWinter10 in Hampshire this week, winter heliotrope, dandelion, yarrow, petty spurge, shepherd's purse, groundsel, annual mercury, bramble flower, hazel catkins and green alkanet. #WildflowerHour

Chirping on about the reintroduction of Cottonweed to Hayling Island, Hampshire on a local TV channel. This is a project conceived and realised by Natural England and the Rare British Plant Nursery. I'm just helping to big it up! @bramblebotanist.bsky.social www.facebook.com/share/v/17Tm...

Roe Deer and Muntjac at Winnall Moors at lunch time. Also nice to see Red Admiral, Grey Heron and Wren. #Mammals #UKWildlife

36 of 5 in SW Hants last night, including a ridiculous THIRTY December Moths (I suspect others will have more though), most of which are shown here. Also 3 Emmelina monodactyla and one each of Ypsolopha ustella, Dark Chestnut & Yellow-line Quaker. #teammoth

Great to catch up with top gardening broadcaster Marian Foster on BBC Radio Newcastle today. We talked about how plant records collected by citizen scientists e.g. during #NewYearPlantHunt & #WildFlowerHour fed into new #GBRedList. Catch it here 3hrs 28 mins in: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

HBIC were pleased to help develop the Local Nature Recovery Strategy for Hampshire which was launched yesterday #NatureRecovery @hantsconnect.bsky.social

HBIC were pleased to help develop the Local Nature Recovery Strategy for Hampshire which was launched yesterday #NatureRecovery @hantsconnect.bsky.social

Together with partners, we've launched the Local Nature Recovery Strategy for Hampshire, a shared plan to restore nature, protect precious habitats, and create more opportunities for people to connect with the outdoors 🥬 www.hants.gov.uk/News/2025120... @hantsbic.bsky.social

Very pleased to be at the launch of the Local Nature Recovery Strategy for Hampshire today. Huuuge amount of work went into this over 2.5 years, so hats off to the @hantsconnect.bsky.social LNRS team, @hantsbic.bsky.social staff, and all the many contributors. 👏👏👏 Now for action!

Dark-bellied Brent Geese on the fields of West Lane, Hayling Island. A everyday winter wonder.

Moths! In the news!! And they’re micros!!! #teammoth www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A few of the c.200 Cottonweed Otanthus maritimus now planted on the SE Hampshire coast, perfectly adapted to tough out the worst of the winter weather. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Opposite-leaved Pondweed Groenlandia densa by the River Ems, Hampshire. Although not flowering, the last time this species was recorded on the Ems -1887- Queen Victoria had just been celebrating her Golden Jubilee. @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

Bryum bornholmense - a tuberous Bryum of heathy soils, in this case Odiham Common, N Hants. Tubers are amber coloured in incident light, and translucent with thin cell walls and barely protuberant cells in transmitted light. Has strong leaf margins with border cell walls approx 3 microns.

🎧 Roam a Hampshire woodland in search of rare hazel dormice with BBC Countryfile's The Plodcast host Fergus Collins and Ian White from People's Trust for Endangered Species. 🌳🐭 Listen now 👇 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/325-roam-a-hampshire-woodland-in-search-of-rare/id886112661?i=1000737185162

Opposite-leaved Pondweed Groenlandia densa just inside the vc11 boundary nr Emsworth, Hampshire today. First record for the River Ems corridor since 1887 it seems. Loads in a large garden pond linked to an Ems tributary and chalk springs. Woop-woop! @bsbibotany.bsky.social @hantsbic.bsky.social

Some neat fungi today in Romsey, Hampshire. A group of Collared Earthstars (Geastrum triplex) and some Common Bird’s Nests (Crucibulum laeve). #fungi

Just visited the Lacewing Recording Scheme website and there are lots of great identification guides available, e.g. www.laars.jamesjepson.com/neuroptera-l... - thanks to @jamesjepson.bsky.social and colleagues for putting this together

Checked out our shiny new website yet? bsbi.org New to @bsbibotany.bsky.social or #WildFlowerID? We think you'll find it easier than ever to access resources, hear about events & learn more about wild plants in your area. Seasoned botanist? All your fave pages are still there + lots of new stuff!

If you're birding deer-rich areas or doing @btobirds.bsky.social heathland surveys, you need be #LymeDeiseaseAware! I contracted Lyme disease from a tick bite in Thetford Forest in February 1997. #LymeDisease season is already on us, its not just summer. #birdingWales #birdingScotland #UKbirding

Still time to apply for the 'Supporting Local Recording Fund' for Hampshire! #BiologicalRecording #Ecology #UKWildlife

Brilliant to see the Great Grey Shrike at Shatterford in the New Forest today. Merlin, Dartford Warbler, Jay, Great Spotted Woodpecker and Marsh Tit were other highlights on a walk round from Denny Wood. #Birds #UKWildlife #HantsBirds

A good mix of autumn moths in the North Hampshire garden last night with 76 of 25. Palpita vitrealis was the only scarcer migrant. Max garden count of 11 Red-green Carpet was notable. Couldn't resist a photo session with this nicely marked Chestnut. #TeamMoth

My absolute fave. Field Woundwort Stachys arvensis looking all apple-and-blackcurrant in a field margin in the Test Valley, Hampshire yesterday. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Cut-leaved Dead-nettle Lamium hybridum and Henbit Dead-nettle Lamium amplexicaule from the last couple of days. Hampshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

There's still plenty out there in November. Fresh Dense-flowered Fumitory Fumaria densiflora in a game cover crop at South Wonston, Hampshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Yellow Bristle-grass Setaria pumila and (I think) Green Bristle-grass Setaria viridis in a game cover crop at South Wonston, Hampshire today. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Field Penny-cress Thlapsi arvense, Field Madder Sherardia arvensis. Quinoa Chenopodium quinoa. South Wonston, Hampshire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

1776: Redwings. These birds begin to appear at last.

Another bat survey today in South-east Hants, exploring tunnels on Portsdown Hill. The highlights for me were another Tissue, Buttoned Snout and Bloxworth Snout. Also a dozen or so herald moths and over 50 peacock butterflies. #teammoth

74/19 in SE Hants. Similar to last night, Diamond Back, RDP, Blair’s Mocha, 3 Turnip the probable migrants. Lesser YU was on the late side and a record 4 Sprawler was nice. Expired Nov Moth male next to trap. An unidentified Blastobasis could be best of rest along with 3 MdJ #teammoth #migrantmothuk

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Fareham VC11: 17/9 last night including 2 December Moths and Large Wainscot + Palpita vitrealis, 2 Rusty-dot Pearl, White-point the potential migrants @migrantmothuk.bsky.social Also many Redwings, Fieldfares and Song Thrushes overhead this morning ☺️ #TeamMoth #HantsBirds

We have another dozen talks still to go, with the next four being: 🟢Getting started with Rushes 🟢Leylandii and their look-a-likes 🟢10 Years of the National Plant Monitoring Scheme 🟢 Clubmosses of Ireland and Britain All of these can be booked from this page: bsbi.org/botanical-sk...

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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.