Suddenly theres a riot of chaotic colour mixing up natives and non-native as they see fit ☺️

Another exciting opportunity to join Forestry England’s growing historic environment team, this time supporting forests and heritage across South England. A brilliant role at the intersection of archaeology, nature recovery and sustainable land management. careers.forestryengland.uk/jobs/job/His...

These plants also harvest dew, which condenses out of moist air. Edges and hairs make especially good foci for condensation as they radiate heat & cool faster. This species is from Namaqualand, in southern Africa. 📷: Dipcadi crispum Karel du Toit CCBYNC4 #Asparagaceae #fog #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Neolithic hedgehog sculpture

Norwegian ultras operate on a whole other level 🫣🫣

Fog has less than 0.5 gram/m3 of water suspended as droplets 10–40 μm in diameter. Fog capture happens when a droplet contacts a leaf. Fog collection is interception, not condensation. More leaf area = more interception. 📷: Tritonia tugwelliae Gigi Laidler CCBYNC4 #Asparagaceae #fog #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Oh great, its loud music in the garden or blaring out of windows time 😵‍💫

The Big Man (no, not Clarence Clemons 🎷) Isaac 'Lord' Love interrupted his South Downs Ultra yesterday to send me this. An absolute legend. Full gate turnstile. Not too many of these in Wester Ross.

Final tulip *finally* in flower, T. mauritiana Cindy, more next year I think. The beautiful red T. aximensis just about still going too.

Not a big fan of variegated plants on the whole, but this red campion is striking.

Wasp doing wasp stuff, rather than stinging my bare foot like the one two weeks ago - plus incidental birdsong ☺️

Particularly strong blue on this Germander speedwell plant - anyone any experience propagating from cuttings?

Scientists and artists practicing their craft until the very end at the eruption of Mt St Helens. For all the STEM vs humanities discourse, today's stories of geologists and photographers are a reminder that we're all just trying to get a little closer to understanding something about the world.

Big ol Downy birch by the leithen, quietly ticking off the years

Some younger local beech trees absolutely hooching with ‘fat’ flushing leaves caused by Acalitus plicans

Two houses for hollies, they don’t co-habit.

Anyone here have or used a Durston Xmid pro 1?

A hint of mammatus over Galashiels yesterday afternoon

Frost damage to young ash fruits and newly flushed foliage on exposed trees around the valley

After months of work my Norfolk Pseudoscorpion guide for @norfolknats.bsky.social is now on the website free to see/download. Covers 20 species recorded in Norfolk so hopefully useful for other areas of UK. norfolknaturalists.org.uk/wp/wp-conten...

Stepping on a wasp whilst getting out of bed is not what I had in mind for starting my day. My house now reeks of the vinegar I doused my foot with 😵‍💫

On the 2nd of June I'll be starting out on a 480km (300 miles) solo trek from Húsavík in Northern Iceland to Vik in the South raising funds for aid of Irish Dogs for the Disabled. #SoloAcrossIreland #66North #IrishDogsForTheDisabled #MappedBy #SplashMaps www.idonate.ie/fundraiser/D...

Reasons recorded for worker absence on this 3,250 year-old ancient Egyptian attendance register include ‘brewing beer’🍺 ‘stung by a scorpion’ 🦂 and ‘embalming brother’! 🤯 From Deir el-Medina, royal tomb worker’s village 📷 by me #Archaeology

Ferny goings on in the garden.

“Bardcore”, LOL

My seasonal portrait of the most characterful tree in Tooting, if not London... She's an Eastern Plane, or Baobab Plane dancing her spring welcome.

Magnolia 'White Caviar' profusely flowering in our Surrey Exotic Courtyard Garden. #Garden #Gardening #Design #Plants 🌱

Gardening Bluesky, reccomendations for Salvia and Penstemmon suppliers please

This week, I’m posting on emergent aquatic plants. Just as marine mammals evolved from terrestrial mammals, so too are these plants descended from land-loving ancestors. They are rooted in soil, but grow above water, like this Retrophyllum minor, a gymnosperm. #aquatic #Podocarpaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Sunday long run comes round a bit quick …apparently a non race marathon PB, 3h 42m - I’ll take that 🤪 And now I need to walk the hound…

Salix season - more needed, especially male plants!

Too much min/maxing mindset has bled over from the video game sphere. Video games are supposed to be fun! So is nature ID! Don't suck the fun out of it. Be okay with not knowing sometimes.

Female Orange tip waiting out a shower yesterday evening - that mottling is just 👌

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Happy couple on the cycle path, moved out of harks way and probably cursing me for putting them on the wrong side

Fabulous old Wych elm beside the Leithen Water

Same time and distance as last week, cranked up the ascent by 300m 🤪

One of 2026's failures: a singing unpaired male Marsh Tit who won't breed this year. It's his first spring, and survival rate is 50%, so it could be his only chance lost. As Marsh Tits decline, not enough females immigrate into a population to replace losses, so unpaired males are a warning sign.

Milkmaids glowing as golden hour approached

I found this notebook at Whittle Dene on 22nd April. It has field notes from a trip to Africa. If anybody knows any local birders who've recently been to Africa and may have lost it, please let them know I have it & to get in touch. Feel free to share on local WhatsApp & Facebook groups. #NEBirding

Pasque Flowers, Pulsatilla vulgaris, on the Devil's Ditch, Newmarket, contrasting with the Oil-seed Rape field behind. #WildflowerHour

Neither big nor rare nor brightly coloured, but stunning en masse

Spring is arriving in central Iberia. Adenocarpus hispanicus and Primula veris blooming on the northern slopes of the Sierra de Guadarrama, in the vicinity of a beautiful Ilex aquifolium stand.

Those steps were *not* welcome. 3 hours and another 34k in the bag, building up the Sunday runs again 🤪

Female and male Douglas fir conelets

Ash dieback is having some odd disturbance effects in ancient woodland. The extra light under dying ash canopy is allowing these wild roses to go crazy, scrambling up the tree trunks to heights of 7 m, forming these funky columns.

Wych elm having a bumper fruiting year around me, and the intense sun between the showers really kicks up the colour

Lovely that my book Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior has mad the top 10 list of books to see dinosaurs differently from @stevebrusatte.bsky.social. Nice to see it get some love on #FossilFriday. www.scientificamerican.com/article/10-d...

I think this one is Stalked Hairy Fairy Cup - what a fab name and super tiny! 🍄‍🟫 I’ve been keeping a close eye out for fungi on beechmast for ages and finally found some! #FungiFriends #FungiFriday

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