This feels like an absurd amount of unnecessary packaging for a toilet roll holder…

The Tulip of Doom 🕷️ @britishspiders.bsky.social #spider #DailyNature

#kakapo chicks tire out easily! Aparima-A2 asleep on me during a health check. With adult feathers beginning to emerge and putting on up to ~20% of his body weight per day, he's got a lot going on! #kakapo2026 #conservation #birds #parrots

A colossal cluster of Cladonia #lichen NWT, Canada. #fungi #fungifriends

My favourite time of day to run, golden hour - and not s soul to be seen. Back on track and feeling like a runner rather than a wardrobe 🤪

First tulip into bloom yet again, T. humilis Persian Pearl ☺️

After 8 years I finally let rip on the decking - lots more space for planting once its done. Doggo was no help whatsoever mind 🤷🏻‍♂️

A tragedy occurs off the coast of a land called Honah-Lee.

Wee newt crossing the road this morning, moved to a safer spot - hopefully in the right direction!

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Of cooooourse it was a Brittany. I have literal tears streaming down my face from laughing so hard.

And so it went, night after night, year after year. In fact, the Hansens had been in a living hell ever since that fateful day the neighbor’s “For Sale” sign had come down and a family of howler monkeys had moved in.

Hey @sheena-mck.bsky.social one for Briggs. The bagpipes may only have been short lived but they totally did me in!😂😂😂

Tweed water wolf - check out that smile!!

A stunning carpet in the rental cottage - the radioactive green detsiling is exquisite

Not bad for an old geezer with dodgy sinuses - nice friendly event from Charm Bracelet events ☺️

Classy rental cottage next two nights 😉

Well that was unexpected…

Oh squeak! It’s official publication day!

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Crocus ‘Hummingbird’ revelling in the warm sunshine today ☺️

Right to.. oh. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I do love a ghost gable like this found near Ancoats in Manchester - but it's rarer still to find the intangible signs of the puff of smoke from the chimney...

After getting body-slammed by a nasty cold 10 days ago it was good to get out yesterday and today. Morland Marathon might still happen after all 🤞

Crocus stealing the limelight from Galanthus today

There are worse places to work - a day teaching conifer ID to an enthusiastic group of ecologists, a pleasant change to the usual.

A new tree for me today at Bedgebury Pinetum, Sycopsis sinensis - or even better, the Chinese fig-hazel.

Eughh, a streaming cold since Thursday has meant no running - with only 2 weeks til the Morland Marathon I’m not impressed. But hey, spring is coming ☺️

I've decided to revise and update one of my most important and popular blogposts "How do I become a paleontologist?". I still get asked this every few weeks so having a new version of this post to share is so useful to put people on track. archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/h...

well that got a bit too interesting too quickly. Breaking trail through Knee deep snow uphill is a 🤬🤬 Another 4h and 1020m in the bag, just 41km today

Inevitably, their affair ended: Howard worried excessively about what the pack would think, and Agnes simply ate the flowers.

A fine day yesterday for the annual visit to Branklyn garden in Perth. Cake, good company, and Galanthus aplenty @ntsonline.bsky.social

Few more Galanthus opening up between showers; Blaris, Augustus, and Merlin

Serotiny is the storage of seeds in close cones or fruits, trapping the seeds & preventing dispersal until the cones are heated (usually by fire). Post-fire conditions are ideal for germinating seedlings. These are cones of Pinus clausa of the SE USA. #Pinaceae #serotiny #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

That was a wet, muddy, slippery slog - 1095m uppage, 42.2km, 4h 2m. Good enough

Corr, what a stunning bird, a melanistic Lapwing!

Grateful it’s not lashing down and mild enough to be back in shorts, but a bit of bluesky and a few rays of sunshine would be nice 🙄

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

I don’t want the boss to know, but I very nearly enjoyed hill reps tonight 🫣

Slime mold, Craterium minutum on lichen, Parmelia sulcata. NWT, Canada. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends The slime mold sporangia are only about 2 to 3mm high.

Thankfully this is sold out or I might have been tempted…

On a rainy grey February, a splendid parcel has arrived. What a relief… @pelagic.bsky.social @nfbr.bsky.social @nbntrust.bsky.social

Just three hours this Sunday, though crammed in a smidge under 900m of ascent. Much needed medicine after a sleepless night.

Fresh faced youth being overwhelmed by cool plants on Mount Kenya many many moons ago

@webbyjameshere.bsky.social future project?

Galanthophiles, could this be G. elwesii Godfrey Owen? I don’t mind planting it and can’t find a label 🤦🏻‍♂️

Latest Tillandsia into flower, both with a Freesia-ish fragrance ☺️

Whooper Swan. Coloured pencils on paper