Oh yes, of course…

Had a cracking day on Rathlin with the U3A group on Friday - and after 25+years of hearing Corncrake, finally saw one - for less than a second…

After the Common Spotted in the chives pot, another on the drive… whereas the meadow ones seem to have disappeared this year? Ah well #WildflowerHour

Hmm what’s this in a pot of chives? Common Spotted Orchid? #WildFlowerHour

Galls from the midge Mikiola fagi in St Columb’s Park, Derry… definitely spreading across the park from initial site

Nice bumblebee and hover fly activity on the early azalea

Festive crafts event on in Derry this afternoon

A smattering from Strathfoyle Greenway this week #WildflowerHour

Dusk at Parkgate is always a treat: Barn Owl, RT Hen Harrier, Merlin, Tawny Owl, 9 Marsh Harrier, Water Pipit, Water Rails, & 5 GW Egret...topped off with a chippy tea! #UKBIRDING #CheshireBirding #WirralBirding youtu.be/x5q8FoD6WPk?...

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We talk about freedom of choice in transport, but what if that freedom isn’t as equal as it seems? At our Stormont event, behavioural scientist @ianwalker.bsky.social explored motonormativity — the bias that treats driving as the default and everything else as second-best. cyclinguk.org/stormont

Nice to check in on the Tibetan Cherry (Prunus serrula) we planted in Coleraine’s Christie Park 20 years ago…

Fascinating!

Lovely to find Fluted Bird’s Nest Fungus in the garden…

Finally, thanks to PlantNet ID on the fruits, I’ve identified the shrub the bees love as Eucryphia glutinosa - had though it was Xanthoceras for years but Bob Flowerdew put me right…

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When hospital grounds are managed for biodiversity. Dalriada Hospital in Ballycastle. Mowed paths leading walkers around the site through swathes of native wildflowers alive with pollinators. Swifts calling in the sky. Therapy.

Oops! Bit late but found this Early Purple (?) on our drive… Derry, NI #WildflowerHour

Field Bindweed? At Ballykelly, Northern Ireland #WildflowerHour

#WildflowerHour I’ve not seen this before - bare ground around some of the Yellow Rattle in our minimeadow - because of the dry May? #DontMowLetItGrow

Nettle Rust in my Derry garden - first time I’ve seen it…

Odd bald Blackbird in St Columb’s Park this morning…

Not seen a display of lilies quite like this before… naturalised near the Slievemore graveyard in Achill, Co Mayo #WildflowerHour

Slightly blurry but we have a flower on the Yellow Rattle in the minimeadow #WildflowerHour

Hoping I haven’t been fooled by this good weather but have set up the tomatoes, cucumbers and aubergines a bit earlier than usual… Can always fleece them if frosts are forecast…

A new one for me, Greater Celandine? #WildflowerHour

Surprising find in the veg garden… beside some cardboard waiting to go in compost…

Lidl tomatoes already forming flowers!

Veg garden starting to shape up… and first asparagus showing :)

Enjoying Chronicles of the Sperrins but surely they weren’t ’carved by ice 400m years ago’?

I think of this whenever some conservative finds some supposedly wacky research topic that government grants pay for

Would anyone know - Are these fossil roots? Salema beach, Algarve

Nice to have Bullfinches on the feeder…

Very low tide at Luddon - Brittle Star? And Sea Mouse…

I hate them but they’re pretty…

"Findings highlight that small-scale habitat conditions—especially the variety of flowering plants and access to sunlight—had a greater influence on bee diversity and abundance than overall habitat size...." Read @jeffollerton.bsky.social' post to learn more 👇 #pollinators #bees #urbanspaces 🌿

First Blackcap of the year :)

Sad to see this lovely Lime gone , but that is a massive cavity… @wtscotsocial.bsky.social @ancienttreeforum.bsky.social

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First time in Gransha Woods since the storm - it’s taken a battering with several trees down across the paths 😞 at least the old Small-leaved Lime has survived…

Fair few Hawthorn in leaf along Strathfoyle Greenway…

Niche scything Wordle today…

Ballykelly looking great, not many birds though…

In Hollywood Sainsbury’s I heard a young lad point at a jar of pickled onions and ask his mum ‘are those lychees?’ @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social

🚦 Three years on, NI is still waiting for the Highway Code update. With recent tragic cycling deaths, action is urgent. Nearly half of NI residents want to cycle more, but safety fears hold them back. cyclinguk.org/news/lifesaving-highway-code-updates-needed-northern-ireland-after-three-year-delay

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... The mad world of Northern Ireland licensing- refused a licence to sell alcohol so now they’ll ‘kill’ a pub, open a new one and sell off-sales too…

@j-dunning.net sorry for odd question but are you the Dunning who did work in Stenner Woods years ago? 😀

Very clever and very beautiful - who could ask for more?

River Cottage don’t seem to get it…

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