#ThickTrunkTuesday bearing a multitude of branches in an ancient bluebell wood

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

For #fingerpostfriday here's one of my favourite ones looking out onto the Kent Estuary.

Look at this stunning cloudage over Arnside Viaduct! @lakesstiles.bsky.social thought you'd like this! #clouds

Head of Crummock Water in better weather than today

‘Ne’er cast a clout till May is out!’ So they say, but here in C Europe it’s the 3 Cold Gardeners or Ice Saints who bring a cold snap from May 12-14, & in Poland Cold Sophie (Zimna Zośka) arrives at on May 15 to deliver one last chilly warning before proper spring finally settles in. Roll on May 16!

It must be mindblowing! #BookSky

Came home from a two-week holiday to find a wasp building a nest above the shed door. It's about the size of a golf ball and growing. I'd love to leave it be, but I'm worried it will stop us going in and out of the shed, which we use nearly every day. Any suggestions? #wasps #nature

Commiserations to Sir David Attenborough on his 100th birthday, as he is now too old to be allowed to play with LEGO.

Canterbury Cathedral never ceases to amaze me. This is the view looking up at the highest part of the ceiling. Such intricate patterns and details so high up. #cathedrals #architecture #design

A neat and tidy courtyard in Canterbury. Isn't it? #chaos #order #numbers

Millions around the world celebrated Victory in Europe 'VE Day' on this day 1945, marking news of Nazi Germany’s surrender after nearly six years of war. Pic: VE Day, by L.S. Lowry (Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum).

Longer gaps between cutting, incremental trimming, and periodic hedge laying are all ways you can help your hedges flourish. And don't trim to the same point each year! 🌳 #nationalhedgerowweek #hedges #wildlife #conservation #hedgesandedges #landmanagement #hedgelaying #craft #rural #skills

Wishing everyone a happy Mayday. Here's thirty seconds of beauty. (sound on!) #Mayday #nature #birdsong #Spring

World’s first conference on transition away from fossil fuels in Santa Marta ends in hope and optimism. By me and @jonathan-watts.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Such blatant profiteering from human misery is sickening. And here at home families struggle to pay bills as energy giants rake in higher profits & destroy the climate. Time for a further windfall tax now

Loved this creative treatment of a fallen tree trunk, near Bamford in Derbyshire

BREAKING NEWS!!!!!!! ***THE SWIFTS ARE BACK!!!*** WELCOME HOMMMEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Have you seen any? #uglycrying #birds #swifts #theyreback #BreakingNews BEST NEWS OF THE YEAR! BEST DAY OF THE YEAR!!!!!!!!!

Great news for swifts! Well done everyone and thank you for responding @networkrail.bsky.social

But time is quickly running out, and this new conference framework will "show those who are hesitating about the transition that there is a critical mass moving in favour of renewables." @fionaharvey.bsky.social and @jonathan-watts.bsky.social wrote a good piece in the Guardian last week

The scream, recycled.

Important access stuff ✊

This pigeon has built its nest on the spikes designed to stop the pigeons. Birds:1 - Humans:0 (photo taken through a train window) #nature #birds

Happy Earth Day! 🌎 🌍 🌏 To mark this special day, we’re tuning in to Sen, the world’s first continuous 4K video livestream from space. Sen’s cameras are hosted on our Columbus module of the ISS, with data delivered via the Airbus platform. Watch Earth from above, just like an astronaut 📹 Sen

The world order is under sustained attack. War. Greed. Apathy. Impunity. The growing assumption that rules can be ignored. The UN wasn't built for the easy moments. It was built for moments like this. Thank you @chathamhouse.org for hosting this discussion.

Italian blue. #Trani

I'm absolutely blown away by the façade of the Basilica di Santa Croce in Lecce, Italy. There is so much detail to see if you zoom in. I've put a couple of my favourites in the comments. What do you like? #phonepics #baroquearchitecture #churches

Iran war drives demand for solar panels, heat pumps and EVs, with energy bills expected to rise 18% from July. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Prague just opened the new Dvorecký Bridge. It's exclusively for trams, buses, bikes, and pedestrians. Private cars are completely banned.

I needed this.

The stark contrast between plastic grass and real grass. One is devoid of life and shedding microplastics. The other is colourfully boosting biodiversity. More: www.littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/gra...

I did this with my children nearly thirty years ago and they are both still avid readers. One of them is just completing a Masters in Creative Writing.

To reduce disease, we all need to make some urgent but simple changes to how we feed our garden birds. See our website for the latest guidance: brnw.ch/21x1t4w

After disappearing from the Milwaukee River in the early 20th century due to overfishing and habitat loss, the new discovery of an adult sturgeon 20 miles upstream from Lake Michigan is a milestone in a massive restoration project that’s been underway for 20 years www.wuwm.com/lake-sturgeo...

Oil from an Iranian ship struck near the Strait of Hormuz threatens to poison one of the region's most important wetlands. Local fishing communities depend on the mangrove forest for food. If oil reaches them, it's likely to kill the fish they need to survive. share.google/hpVAKkuAVy9J...

While scrolling through Bluesky's serve statuses, trying to figure out why my app wasn't working while they said all systems were back up, TIL: Bluesky's monitors are named after mushrooms. I made it all the way to cordyceps before it dawned on me. 🤣 #fungi

Another short video of the territorial Goldcrest in my garden this morning. I've blocked the view now so that interloper won't reappear. #worcsbirds #birds

It seems ridiculous to me that so many birds are still shot for “sport”, when significant population pressures arising from habitat, biodiversity and climate change mean these birds are already in danger. Pintail, Coot, Goldeneye, WhiteFronted Goose all covered in this. I shall respond!

Bullfinch in the garden

congratulations @kernowconservation.bsky.social , this is fabulous news!

The Trektellen app shows some #Swifts passing through the Medoc region, just above Bordeaux, and rather a lot above Corsica. The first Swift was seen in #Lewes on 14th April last year - not long to wait before we are scanning the skies.

It’s that time of year - folks asking us about #bumblebees - WHY THEY’RE SEEING THEM ON THE GROUND - so here’s a thread to explain. Please #repost! Every queen that survives means a new colony that gets to exist and produce new queen #bees for next year! So important to #share! 1/9 #nature #caring

We are officially 6 today! 🎂 Here's a look back at how Lento started, some milestone numbers, a thank you and something exciting...

in 2016 a group of strangers in Kazakhstan saved a dog from drowning by forming a human chain to reach him. they just unveiled a statue commemorating the event and I'm genuinely about to start sobbing

Do this yesterday. There’s countless specific ways you could do it and I’ll happily settle for any of them. news.sky.com/story/ed-mil...

Almost 25% of UK electricity demand is being generated by the sun right now. In March. Fab isn't it? If the cost wasn't being driven by the price of gas, it would be cheap too.

The global food system is systemically fragile in the same way that the global financial system was before the 2008 crash. If it goes it down, we’re looking, as complex societies, at a potential termination event. This week's column. Please read it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

TIMELINE CLEANSER A Welsh conservation charity, Tir Natur, has purchased over 480 hectares in Cwm Doethie, Ceredigion. The largest rewilding area in Wales to date. #GoodNews #Rewilding #Nature #Conservation #Community Charity buys £2.2m tract of land for Wales’ biggest rewilding project.

A reminder that eels are *the* most smuggled animal on earth, and that the global black market for eels is worth an estimated $4-5 billion. Interpol has called it “Europe’s ivory trade.”