The shocking pink berries of spindle are just opening out to reveal their equally flamboyant orange seeds,their leaves turning a subtler shade of gorgeous colour.

A magnificently exciting project!

Fieldfares! A flock of 40+ chacking and flying between ash trees in the Oswestry hills.

Fly agarics in the Oswestry hills. #fungi #autumn

Last summer my husband was given some puss moth caterpillars by a guy he met while in hospital. We fed them on willow leaves and watched in fascination as they grew. In time they developed chrysalises. Today two of them emerged! #moths

Cuckoo flower, a favourite food plant for orange tip butterflies. #wildflowerhour

Field speedwell growing between the tarmaced pavement and my neighbour's wall. #tinyflowers #wildflowerhour

I'm late for #Wildflowerhour but here is a cluster of Field Maple flowers. They are so easily overlooked but exquisitely lovely when you notice them. #treeflowers

You have to seek out town hall clock, a tiny woodland plant with 5 green flowers arranged in a unique cube-shape. Every spring I go back to an old, overgrown tramway cutting where it thrives in the damp shade. #WildflowerHour

Town hall clock, bluebell, cherry blossom and wood anemone for #wildflowerhour #woodlandplants

Freshly arrived from North Africa, a blackcap is singing its song with a flourish in a local wood. Meanwhile, a male blackcap that has been silently feeding in my garden since January, is still here but will imminently be off to it's breeding grounds in central Europe. #seasonscollide #birds

My white flowering currant is alive with bees. At 8pm it was still buzzing with huge queen bumblebees and much smaller, black female hairy footed flower bees. Such a good shrub for wildlife. #bees #wildlifegardens

A rare and very welcome piece of good news.

Wood anemones, primroses, dog violets and a galaxy of celandines in this sunny woodland glade today. #wildflowerhour

Two barn owl feathers found today. Female I think. Really soft along the edges. #owls #feathers

Huge victory for River Action with major implications as High Court declares farming manure as ‘waste’. 🙏 to all who were involved in the case. This will have huge implications for current and future planning applications and the handling of manure on farms. riveractionuk.com/high-court-r...

The bee flies are back! Here's one in my garden on a pulmonaria - just about in the photo top right.

Yellow Star of Bethlehem blowing in the breeze, shining in the sun on a rocky outcrop in the Oswestry hills. #yellowflowers #wildflowerhour

First chiffchaff of the year singing its cheerful song. #springMigration #birdsreturn #welshmarches

Scarlet elf cups, vibrant in the woods. #fungi

Inspired by this beautiful photo I will go out tomorrow with my hand lens to take a really close look of this tiny flower.

10 at last! Primrose, celandine, gorse, common whitlow grass, red dead nettle, oposite-leaved golden saxifrage, shepherd's cress, speedwell,groundsel and daisy. #wildflowerhour

Thrilled to see this sprig of mistletoe on my apple tree! We've been squishing berries under the bark for years. Now for exponential growth. #mistletoe

Genuinely something to celebrate 🦫🦫! After years of foot-dragging, and recent government wobbles, beaver restoration in England is to be approved. Well done @naturalengland.bsky.social! www.theguardian.com/environment/... @mammalconeurope.bsky.social @mammalsocietyyouth.bsky.social

I would call it the Subtle Skipper! Beautiful markings.

This coltsfoot flower (terrible photo) opened its sun-like petals today, warmed by the actual sun that shone down on us all day. #wildflowerhour

Lichen on stone wall in woodland in the Welsh Marches.Peltigera sp? #lichen

Snowdrops between mossy tree roots in a long- abandoned walled garden.

With all the joy of spring this frog arrives on my street in search of a pond but is flattened by a car, her eggs spilled out on the tarmac. Crushed.

'Human ammunition'?? Now that's a scary prospect!

Now let's have a U turn on the vastly expensive and carbon-hungry North West Reief Road. www.shropshirestar.com/news/2025/02...

The poisonous truth about lead shot...

7 million seconds until the swifts arrive? I'll take his word for it! Country diary: A burbling blackbird, an early great tit – the sounds of spring are starting to happen | Lev Parikian www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A big shout out for bats - we love them!

Fantastic story and wonderful to know that these clever creatures are going to be working their magic in Shrewsbury, just 20 miles from my home.

Beautiful artwork!

Urban beavers! Amazing to see this long-planned project take off.

Thinking of yesterday's sunshine, and how in ithe warm afternoon this hoverfly found a feast of nectar in a just-opened crocus in my garden.

Much looking forward to giving a talk to Ironbridge Meadows Group on Thursday at Severn Gorge Countryside Trust. #swifts

The shriek of the ring-necked parakeet is now being heard in Shropshire. I saw the silhouette of one in flight and then again on a bright morning, the sun caught its emerald feathers. It joined the British list in 1983 but this 14th century painting shows these exotic birds first arrived long ago.

Frozen floodwaters at Melverley.