Low tide at Arnside Pier 8.45am. #arnside #Cumbria #shadows #phonepics

Rather like this photography I got of a sunlit bumblebee on flowering teasel #nature #bumblebee #wildflowers #photography

Oh no! Who poured all the burning gold into the canal this morning?

This wooden fingerpost is hoping someone will love it enough to take it home and give it a new life. #fingerpostfriday

Morning fog over Morecambe Bay this morning. A foghorn was sounding somewhere. The water was so calm, it was like a mirror. #morecambebay #weather #heatwave #phonepics

Sitting in the shade, enjoying the view on a very hot afternoon. #heatwave #lancashire

On my way, Clacton.

Switzerland bolted 5,000 solar panels onto a dam wall 8,000 feet up in the freezing Alps where everyone said solar made no sense, and the plant now makes three times more winter power than any farm down in the valleys share.google/nw0ojKKXnID1...

A very fresh-looking comma butterfly in my garden. The first one I've seen this year. #butterflies #nature #wildlife

"US spy tech giant Palantir paid an effective tax rate of just 8% on their £25.3m UK profits. Most companies with profits above £250,000 pay 25%. How is a company that’s won £670m in UK public contracts (including a massive £330m NHS deal) able to dodge our tax rules? " via 38 degrees

I found this beautiful poplar hawk moth on my front garden wall. It's the first time I've seen one. I love how it blends in so well with the wall. #moths #nature

A huge crater from the Russian attack on #Kyiv. Just compare its size with the people. Thank God it didn't hit the residential buildings close by.

We're looking for volunteers for a citizen science project that's helping to deliver aid in Venezuela 🌍 The Planetary Response Network uses crowd-sourced data to identify damage to buildings, access difficulties, and signs of people in distress by reviewing satellite images.

Lots of different cloud types over North Lancashire this evening. #clouds #weather #heatwave

Some good news here that deserves wider recognition. And to be used to remind any climate sceptic who thinks Net Zero costs too much. Clearly, given this heat wave, we need to work on every country getting there! And on the UK pushing thru on it.

Glad to see this getting more coverage. We urgently need to tighten up the uk laws to protect swifts.Their nesting sites need further protection from those seeking to block or remove them before swifts return to breed. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This angers me so much. Look outside. The planet is boiling. People are dying. Nature is struggling. I feel sorry for the people of Sunderland. They deserve better www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Oh. My. Word. WE HAVE DONE IT! 🥳🎉 In 2020 we worked with Natural England to carry out a green hay transfer from Sandybeck Meadow SSSI & SAC onto the Loweswater meadows, with an ultimate target being to get Greater Butterfly Orchid established. Today, was the day I found the first one!!

Walking the Lancashire Coastal Path today, I paused for a while at the Praying Shell sculpture, erected in memory of the cockle pickers who lost their lives thirty years ago. #morecambebay

A simple weathered stile. #stiles #morecambebay @lakesstiles.bsky.social

No surprises here - #Arctic Ocean stripes are off the scale. The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else in the world. #ShowYourStripes ➡️ Explore your own climate change stripes: showyourstripes.info (Global) and app.climatecentral.org/dataviz/warm... (U.S.) What's it like in your area?

Today is #ShowYourStripesDay 🔴🔵 The climate stripes originally created by Ed Hawkins represent how temperatures have changed over time. Here are the climate stripes from our three duty stations in Reading, UK, Bonn, Germany, and Bologna, Italy.

Today is #ShowYourStripes day! This year, St Michael's Tower atop Glastonbury Tor is encouraging everyone to use the Climate Stripes to start a conversation about climate change and the actions they are taking. Thank you @nationaltrust.org.uk! Graphics: www.ShowYourStripes.info

Climate Stripes for Preston, Lancashire. Click on the image for the full picture. What do they look like where you live? #climatestripes #climatechange

Show Your climate stripes.

As is the annual tradition, we hope many of you will take the opportunity to use the Climate Stripes this week to start important conversations about the risks from, and solutions to, climate change. Officially, #ShowYourStripes for 2026 is on Sat 20th June. www.ShowYourStripes.info

Sound on for this!

Underground tank to improve lake's water quality #Cumbria #BBCNews

Yesterday I asked the PM to publish two crucial reports warning of catastrophic threats to our security. Now it's official: El Niño conditions are underway in the tropical Pacific. The implications for food security are serious.

So great to see Duke of Burgundy butterfly populations booming, the result of lots of hard work in restoring habitats (particularly chalk grasslands, where the caterpillars feed on cowslips). I was lucky to see Dukes last year on a chalk scarp near Marlborough. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Good news! Ministers have finally given green light to new #NaturalHistory GCSE. We’ve campaigned so long for this! Big hats off to tireless advocate Mary Colwell 🙌 Now our young people will have a chance to get to know & love the natural world, to feel awe & wonder, & gain skills to protect it 🌷🌳🦡

Take part in our brand new Birds in Greenspaces survey for a day➡️ www.bto.org/greenspaces 🐦 We’re encouraging everyone to sign up, download the app and give it a go. 🌳 Just explore your local greenspace, which could be a park, football pitch or cemetery & record the birds that you see or hear.

First big bunch of sweet peas out of the garden. Smell wonderful! 🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening

The rain clouds are going and blue skies are coming. #clouds #summer #weather

I was so happy to see a hare in the field across the road yesterday evening. Photos taken through a fieldscope in dull, windy weather. #hares #nature #phonepics

#Ukraine is more than a war ...

There is still a war in #Ukraine 🥰🇺🇦

Young White-tailed Eagle 'disappears' from grouse shooting estate in North York Moors National Park. Police think its disappearance is 'suspicious'. No shit. #RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/06/01/y...

I went into the garden after the rain had stopped and noticed a beautiful diamond raindrop sitting at the heart of a plant. #rain #nature #beauty

Happy sunny Saturday. #smiley #bluesky #kites

#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