Very large but mostly stable: the cluster of sunspot groups in the southern part of the sun. Meanwhile, an unexpected M-class flare associated CME ('solar storm') was released in the east and a flare-less CME in the southeast. Weak glancing blow possible Dec 08 (NASA M2M)

Very proud to be Colombian right now! 🇨🇴 I hope all neighboring countries follow suit soon! news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

If you haven't already been persuaded to sign the @nebriefing.bsky.social letter on the rapidly escalating climate and nature crises, this summary of the presentations at the National Emergency Briefing event in Westminster, by Dave Borlace, is really worth a watch: youtube.com/watch?v=8sa7...

A nice photo of Troy. I did a lot of #closelens #trailcamera work through the summer. #troypm

My latest blog piece on the new Scottish Languages Act granting official status to Gaelic and Scots and why these languages are national languages of Scotland. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/t...

Yellow, green and white stripes ‘bejewelled’ with a 7-spot Ladybird on an otherwise ordinary tree today

Eccymatoge callizona - White-spotted Carpet A new moth visitor to our Perth Hills garden last night and only the second record of this species in Western Australia so far on #inaturalist. Love the black and gold appearance of this moth’s wings. #teammoth #ausinverts #wildoz #Lepidoptera #nature

Whooper Swans, sounding like a brass band falling down the stairs. Sound up. #ukbirding

Whilst waiting for a tyre change in Inverness found this Kingfisher feeding on the coast at Merkinch, I always find it a bit weird seeing them on the sea especially when they are sat amongst a flock of Hooded Crows! #highlandbirds

Tentative signs of recovery in insectivorous birds in France following ban of neonicotinoid pesticides in 2018 - but further actions needed to recover populations www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

NEW WEBSITE FEATURE: Westminster Voting Intention Polling Dashboard 🌈 Current Weighted Polling Average 📅 Latest Poll from Each Pollster 📊 Smoothed Weighted-Average Chart 📈 Sortable Table of all Polls since GE2024 electionmaps.uk/polling/vi

Hundreds of chicks clubbed to death every year for "tradition" - sign the petition to end it: protectthewild.org.uk/gannet-petit...

Something to celebrate - our 2025 Lesser Spotted Woodpecker report - successful breeding season, the most nests monitored & highest number of chicks fledged per nest since we started in 2015. Acoustic monitoring giving amazing results too, download here www.woodpecker-network.org.uk/images/L_S_W...

I’ve just swapped to Ecotalk as ALL their profits go to help nature! And it’s way cheaper than my original mobile provider - plans start at £5 a month… www.ecotalk.co.uk

More powerful evidence of the disaster of #Brexit from @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social. If we’re to avoid yet more austerity, we need to start by rejoining the customs union & single market. Brexit was a reckless waste of money we simply can’t afford @europeanmovement.co.uk

Checked out our shiny new website yet? bsbi.org New to @bsbibotany.bsky.social or #WildFlowerID? We think you'll find it easier than ever to access resources, hear about events & learn more about wild plants in your area. Seasoned botanist? All your fave pages are still there + lots of new stuff!

These railings alongside the River Ely look clean & empty but, if you look more closely, you'll find the undersides are covered in thick green lichen &, feeding there, tens of Ramshorn bagworms (Luffia lapidella) in their lichen-covered casings. I even found what looks like empty pupae. #TeamMoth

Our AIDGAP sale is back! 🌿 Save up to 25% on selected identification guides and atlases — from plant galls to wasps, perfect for autumn and winter learning. Shop now: buff.ly/IRByfaa

3/ For more on why communities should have the powers to own rivers, woods and moors, have a read of @tomchance.bsky.social's excellent letter here: www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/news-and-eve... And here's a piece I wrote on this: www.powertochange.org.uk/evidence-and...

2/ Big thanks to @simonforstroud.bsky.social for tabling amendments 107 and 108 & to the 9 MPs who have so far added their support! These would extend the Community Right to Buy to environmental assets, provided the land isn't earmarked for development: publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...

Some butterflies from a recent trip to New Orleans. These were all taken in the sculpture garden and botanical garden in City Park.

Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇

Never forget: At breakneck speed we are leaving the stable Holocene climate in which human society developed and thrived. Weather extremes are outside historical experience. Sea-level rise is accelerating. Dangerous tipping points are ahead. Graph: ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...

Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics" guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation

The roadside 'flight diverters' cut monarch deaths by about 50 percent.

Sunrise behind an iceberg on Fellsfjara beach last week. #Iceland

🦇Our @biggive.bsky.social #ChristmasChallenge campaign, 'A voice for bats' goes live in 3 weeks! This is a match-funding campaign - every donation we receive up to £10,000 will be doubled - but we only have 1 week to raise funds! Register to be notified when we go live: forms.office.com/e/84S5utrSYH

NEW PAPER in #ornithology shows that some #seabirds are doing very well on tropical #islands - especially when you can count them all with a #drone: buff.ly/4ngJ3ze

This has to be one of the most photogenic hibernation sites. Mineral rich, glittering and full of Brandt’s bats 🦇

As Clinical Psychologists we have to (thankfully) take part in regular supervision - a confidential space to learn, think & reflect with another psychologist. Good supervision both nourishes and challenges. Surely we’d have a better politics if politicians had a space like that?

Winter Moths by torchlight - lots around this evening #TeamMoth

One week to go! Join us at Cruinn Còmhla - Gaelic community day in Edinburgh Classes · Music · Conversation · Culture · Café Further info: www.ionaddhuneideann.org Saturday 15 November 2025 10.00 – 16.00 Darroch, 7 Gillespie Street, Edinburgh EH3 9NH

A busy morning for Pink-footed Geese today, one of several skeins going by

Labour were broken a long time ago. Time to replace them with a party that actually represents everyone - not just the billionaires. A party that rejects Reform - rather than copies them. Time to make hope normal again. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Westminster Voting Intention: RFM: 33% (+1) GRN: 18% (+1) CON: 16% (=) LAB: 15% (-1) LDM: 11% (-1) SNP: 3% (=) Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 5-6 Nov. Changes w/ 29 Oct.

Petition: Stop the Guga Hunt. Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to amend Section 16 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 to remove the power to grant licences for killing young Gannets. Please sign and Repost. #BirdingScotland #UKbirding #Birds #UKWildlife

Send me records: I am excited to be taking on the role of national springtail recorder. I have huge shoes to fill, but I hope to continue the progress Peter Shaw made in understanding the taxonomy and biology of the UK's #springtails. www.brc.ac.uk/scheme/colle...

Still worth doing... more so than ever. The balance is shifting.

🌾 What is a hay meadow? Once common across the UK, these wildflower-rich grasslands support incredible biodiversity but have declined by 97% since the 1930s. Learn how to restore and create them in our webinar on 29 Jan 2026: 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1821584400... @forestofbowlandnl.bsky.social

You can always send them to my blog here and my campaign analternativenaturalhistoryofsussex.blogspot.com/2021/08/why-...

The new leafmine site update is now out. Has many excellent photos including some rarely seen eg Dialectica imperialella, Scrobipalpula tusdilaginis and Stigmella spinosissimae. Others more common. The amazing spiracles of Cerodontha iraeaos - like cow horns! www.leafmines.co.uk/html/updates...

team of Canadian engineers on October 28 unveiled a fully electrified home The project combines a system that eliminates fossil fuel use and dramatically reduces energy costs and emissions. Canada’s self-powered solar home cuts energy use, emissions by half share.google/uDA643ogROMR...

So either Labour need to ask candidates to step aside for the Greens to take on Reform.... Or actually bring in a fair democratic process where everyone's votes count equally. It's time for Proportional Representation. www.thenational.scot/news/2558507...

@yougov.co.uk latest has @greenparty.org.uk and @zackpolanski.bsky.social polling in FIRST for all voters under 50

To see these beeflies, Australoechus sp, flying around in the Fynbos, SA, has to be 1 of my life’s highlights Many were buzzing around Micrdon capitatus, the heady catstailbush - a rare endemic to this region. Rare because of habitat loss (land clearance) & invasive species. Brilliant #beeflies

When we said we don't intend to be concerned or disappointed by the Labour Government - we intend to replace them, we meant it. Yougov have Labours lowest poll ever and Greens highest ever. Keep going everybody. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Simply incredible imagery of Hurricane Melissa this morning as it approaches Jamaica.

Berwick Bank could kill more birds than any other individual wind farm on the planet, according to the RSPB and conservation partners www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/N...

The Caerphilly result is what we need to see everywhere at the next election: people coordinating to vote tactically for parties which seek a fairer, kinder, greener country. Pushing out both those who have betrayed our trust AND those who seek to exploit that betrayal.

Camera traps in the polar desert: intriguing head movements of a male Snowy Owl perched on a bed of purple saxifrage. From our biodiversity monitoring study area at CFS Alert, Nunavut, Canada. 🌿🌎🦉 #wildlife