🦇 Time to go back to school with our autumn courses! From learning about new survey techniques, gardening for nature (and bats) or managing woodlands for bats and more. For more information about our range of courses, booking and deadlines here: www.bats.org.uk/our-work/tra...

A windy night in the #Cairngorms with our @ukecn.bsky.social weather station located at 700 m recording a gust of 106 mph and sustained winds of 75 mph as #StormAmy rolled through. That’s our highest recorded gust since Dec 2011, 14 years ago!

Please spread the word – we urgently need more Lyme-literate doctors, the NHS must take this seriously, @ukhsa.bsky.social needs to log ALL cases. How many more Millys are there out there who believe they have long covid or other illnesses and they actually have undiagnosed Lyme?

This is the story of my daughter Milly and Lyme Disease. There was no rash, no "summer flu", NHS blood tests negative. And she's been ill for a quarter of her life. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s... Thank you @lymediseaseuk.bsky.social & @lymeresourcecentre.bsky.social for raising UK awareness.

This one is not so common here - probably only the second time in 15 years I’ve found this in the UAE. Goniobranchus alius is the name #🦑 #🦐 #Nudibranch

A single land bridge over one of wonderful river braids in south-east #Iceland. Oct 2023.

MAJOR UPDATE: Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – ocean acidification also in the danger zone. Read the new Planetary Healthcheck 2025 report here: www.planetaryhealthcheck.org

23.09.25 'Words can’t capture the scale of what’s unfolding right now in Guangfu Township, Hualien County, Taiwan. 🇹🇼🚨 The Mataian Creek landslide lake has overflowed, destroying the Mataian Bridge and flooding large parts of the area.' via WeatherMonitors [X]

New #OpenAccess research in #RESInsectConsDiv Long-term population changes for the UK #StagBeetle #Lucanus cervus - Evidence from #CitizenScience surveys and museum collections doi.org/10.1111/icad.70022 #Conservation #MuseumCollection @manusaunders.bsky.social @wiley.com

We need to change everything. Step 1 - join.greenparty.org.uk

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EXTRAORDINARY HEAT WAVE IN EUROPE Hundreds of records brutalized everywhere with up to 4/5c margins, it's arguably one the most extreme events Europe has ever seen >33C in Poland,tropical nights at 1800m in Austria,all time records smashed..👇 Never happened anything like this in September.

Countdown to #UKFungusDay 🍄Most commonly-encountered fungi in UK & Ireland: 5️⃣ Amethyst Deceiver (Laccaria amethystina). The vivid purple of colour fades with age & weather, often leading to misidentification, hence the common name 'Deceiver'. www.ukfungusday.co.uk/5amethystdec...

What if we all.... 👉👈 joined the Green Party and created an eco-socialist future where our lives are not governed by the whims of complete right-wing weirdos? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 join.greenparty.org.uk 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 members.greens.scot/join

Amazing Swift show tonight in Portland! Every year migrating Vaux's swifts gather by the thousands and roost in chimneys like this SE Portland elementary school. And neighbors come out to watch them and cheer them on. It's a true delight.

Tonight’s setting sun over the Isle of May…

Pipiza lugubris ♀ today on Ivy (Hedera helix) in Bengeo garden, nationally scarce with distinctive dark wing clouds. 109th species of hoverfly recorded here. @flygirlnhm.bsky.social

Fully funded PhD with me, @uniexecec.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social working on insectivorous bird declines - hopefully esp. House martin www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

👆This might be of interest @mrhenrymorris.substack.com @carolinelucas.bsky.social @garyseconomics.bsky.social @gndrising.bsky.social @everyonehateselon.bsky.social @ledbydonkeys.org

Hoppa! ✊

An NHS doctor who was working at St. Thomas' hospital, which is on the route where the far right marched:

I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore. So I wrote a blog about ten things you can do *right now* to help defeat Farage, Musk, and rightwing populism. From scrutinising Reform councillors to demanding the UK Govt leave X - get involved: guyshrubsole.substack.com/p/ten-things...

Very firm statement on releases of captive-bred Turtle Doves, from Operation Turtle Dove inc @rspb.bsky.social & @naturalengland.bsky.social: *Doesn't meet IUCN guidelines *Risk of disease/genetic pollution *Irresponsible aims operationturtledove.org/captive-rele... 1/2 #ornithology #ukbirding

A Fulmar glides through the sunset with Carn Mor beyond. A quiet night up there, with many of our nocturnal seabirds now departed. #NTSSeabirds #SuperSeabirdSunday

First Pink-footed Geese going over the garden just now

Labour is done. The Greens are here to stay.

Wryneck can be frustratingly skulking at times. Other times, less so... #BirdingOrkney Another new bird this morning #PWC2025

A very fresh Humming-bird Hawk-moth in the garden just now #TeamMoth

In the past decade alone, the richest 1% have gained $33.9 trillion. That’s enough to end global poverty - 22 times over. Read the new Oxfam report: oi-files-d8-prod.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/...

We’ve had amazing news! 🪶 A male Hen Harrier that fledged from Tarras in 2020 has been spotted this summer on a nest camera in North Wales — the first sighting from our 2020 chicks! A hopeful story for this species 💚 Thanks to RSPB & Keith Offord for sharing. 📸 Keith Offord

Absolutely delighted that my book THE LIE OF THE LAND has won the Wainwright Prize for Conservation Writing! This week, one of the book’s recommendations, a ban on moorland burning, became a reality. Next, we need a Nature Bill for England… bsky.app/profile/wain...

Linking green energy to your local school, your hospital, your workplace is a really smart thing to do. The anti-Net Zero movement wants to cast it as some top-down, abstract diktat that will make "ordinary people" cold and poor. So the fightback needs to emphasise its tangible, local benefits.

“We may feel like we’ve seen lots of butterflies this summer, but that’s only because last year was so awful." - Dr Richard Fox, Head of Science at Butterfly Conservation. More about the results, and why they matter, here #BigButterflyCount #butterflies #moths #insects

Post-breeding flocks of Swallows write their own music on the wires of the Lowther Estate in Cumbria. One of the benefits of livestock country, graced by Longhorn Cattle, in creative nature recovery mode. Here in West Suffolk, barely enough swallows for even a brief jingle. #BirdsSeenIn2025

It’s taken until my fifth autumn here to score a Wryneck and what a stunner. Or should I say what a sunner, as I enjoyed watching it sunning itself on a post for 20 minutes mid-morning. It was one of six found in a fall of migrants across the Orkney North Isles today. #WestrayBirding

Spent hours being spellbound by Convolvulus Hawk Moths last night as they nectared on Nicotiana plants in my highland garden!. Up to 3 feeding at a time, their entire abdomens glowing red hot in the thermal from flight muscle use!! #teammoth @migrantmothuk.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social

Busted! 👀 One of these Sea Rush seedheads is not like the others. Coleophora maritimella in action this evening at Dawlish Warren #teammoth

Callicera spinolae, the Ivy Hoverfly, is one of the UK's rarest hoverflies, as well as one of the most spectacular. This morning, I recorded a female on the Ivy in my S. Cambridgeshire. This is the 5th consecutive year that I have seen this wonderful fly in my garden, four days earlier than before.

Painted Lady in the garden just now

🪲 Weevils! The UK boasts 600+ species, almost as many as birds! Join us on 13 Oct (7–8pm) for an entoLIVE with @markgurn.bsky.social to explore their ecology, habitats & quirky plant preferences. It is FREE!!! Don’t miss it! 🧪 🌎 🔗 Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1491232379...

An opportunity of a lifetime for budding lichenologists. The National Trust and the Royal Botanics, Edinburgh are offering a PAID lichen traineeship in #Scotland! The work programme looks fascinating and a great opportunity to develop skills. Deadline: 3/10/2025. www.asva.co.uk/jobs/trainee...

How does lava sound when it comes to the surface of the Earth? Listen to a lava flow oozing out of its effusive vent high on the southwestern side of #Etna, 28 August 2025. That day no visits by tourists were allowed on the site, which permitted this (relatively) clean recording

Only the second time we’ve had one of these in our garden moth trap, a Dusky-lemon Sallow - one of around 90 moths of 20 species from last night #TeamMoth

You can’t beat a Dotterel. It’s even better when there are four of ‘em. Today at Nanjizal #CornwallBirding

New for our garden from last night’s moth trap: a very lovely Lime-speck Pug #TeamMoth

🦇 **UPDATE - DEADLINE EXTENSION** Applications for our Finance Manager vacancy have been extended! Deadline is now 9am, 29 August. This is a permanent, full-time role. More information and how to apply: www.bats.org.uk/the-trust/jo...

A Sallow Kitten caterpillar on a Sallow leaf today sharing its leaf and tree with lots of sawfly larvae (possibly Euura miliaris) - both smaller and larger instars present #TeamMoth

Paris has removed the paving from its city hall square and transformed it into an urban forest. Stunning! 🤩

Doing moth trapping in the UK this weekend? Can you help us gather lots of images of moths on egg cartons from your trap? Help us develop a tool making moth recording easier for more people Tks! #mothsmateer #teammoth @richardfoxbc.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social @upperthames.bsky.social