Last nights moth trap did a lot better than previous night. 100% more species! 3x more moths! 1 Common Quaker & 3 Hebrew Characters plus a youngster of unknown species! #teammoth @bcwarwickshire.bsky.social

The sun has been shining these past few days and the butterflies are flying! 🦋😀 We now have 4 species on our 1st sightings page 🥳 Have you seen a butterfly this week? Don’t forget to record it & do share a picture with us! butterfly-conservation.org/in-your-area...

Woo hoo! My 1st butterfly of the year spotted today! 🥳 A lovely Peacock 🦋 Too quick for a photo so here’s one from last year. #butterflies @bcwarwickshire.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social

Inspired by others to put out the moth trap out last night & got 1 moth - A Common Quaker! Will try again tonight 😀#teammoth @bcwarwickshire.bsky.social

Volunteer practical work party at Ryton Wood Meadows today. We are getting through all the winter coppice, Hedge & Scrub management! A surprisingly warm day & found my 1st BH double egg of the year. #volunteer @bcwarwickshire.bsky.social

The latest in the series of winter talks given online and in person by members of Team Mariposa is coming up this evening, an Orchids of Ireland online talk by @thenewgalaxy.bsky.social for our friends at @bsbibotany.bsky.social. It's free to attend, and all very welcome! bsbi.org/take-part/ev...

First frog spawn in the pond! 🐸🐸🐸 #frogs #pond @arc-trust.bsky.social

Excited for “Planting for pollinators in your nature area, garden or allotment” workshop with @judywebb.bsky.social at our Spring Recorders’ Conference this March!  🐝🌼 Book your spot now: https://tverc.org/recorders/recorders-conferences-0/our-next-recorders-conference

A little canal walk & stop for refreshments. Saturday afternoon vibes. #canal

Wobbly, velvety, brown fungi listening to the birds sing nearby. #fungi #jellyear

Pancake day 2 ….. 😆🥞

We were busy carrying on with the hedge cutting & scrub management at Ryton Wood Meadows today. With some of the cut logs & brash we created a wildlife home by the hedge. This will provide shelter to hedgehogs, mice, voles, shrews as well as lots of bugs 😀 🦔🐁🐞🪲🐛🐜🕷️@bcwarwickshire.bsky.social

It’s Tuesday so it’s volunteering with Butterfly conservation day! 1st job was to look for Brown hairstreak eggs in this pile of hourly blackthorn cut from the path edges. 5 eggs found & saved 👍😀@bcwarwickshire.bsky.social

A lovely orange coloured mushroom on a fallen log in the woodland highlighted by rare sunshine! #fungi #woodlands

Walking through the woodland this morning & I looked up to see a large wobbly looking witches butter fungi! Silly me looking on the floor for #fungi! 😆

The texture on this stick is pretty amazing! I’m lichen this! 😬 #lichen #woodlands

Hard at work volunteering at Ryton Wood Meadows with the @bcwarwickshire.bsky.social team. More hedgerow work & clearing up! Shattered now!

Frog! 🐸 spotted on the driveway. Even they must be thinking that’s enough rain thank you! #frog #rain @arc-trust.bsky.social

New event- Otter survey training walk on Sunday 22 Feb 10am-2pm. We will Meet at the corner of Waterside & Bridge Street in Stratford town centre. Learn how to survey for otter presence & signs. it’s highly unlikely we will actually see an otter, as their most active time is around dawn. 🦦🦦 #otter

Lots done today at Ryton wood Meadows butterfly reserve! Coppiced areas cleared, path management & hedge work too! Top volunteers! Now sat at home & not planning on moving much (legs no longer work 😆). @bcwarwickshire.bsky.social

Squirrel!

Wibbly wobbly jelly on a stick! Yellow Brain or Witches butter (Tremella mesenterica ) spotted today. #fungi

Looking up at St James Church in Southam. Crocuses starting to flower adding some bright colour to the last day of January.

Natures pincushions. One without pins and one with 😬 Grey-cushioned Grimmia and a wall screw moss I believe. #moss

A excellent morning spent planting Hazel, Alder Buckthorn, Goat Willow & Wych Elm at our butterfly reserve. These will benefit our future butterflies 🦋 😀 Sometimes the job seems worthwhile. Only managed 1 pic as was busy in the mud!

Cheerful mini orange spots. Coral spot,Nectria cinnabarina, on dead wood. #fungifriday

I joined the volunteer group at Ashlawn cutting in Rugby this morning to help plant the new hedgerow whips to help increase biodiversity in this lovely LNR. Another tree planting project I’ve been working on 👍🌳Thanks to @stevenwright58.bsky.social for having me along. #hedges

I love my desktop calendar 👍

To help celebrate our 1st Butterfly sighting of the year (17/01/26) please share your photos of a Peacock #butterfly! 😀🦋🎉 Good or bad photos are welcome 🤗 Let’s brighten up the dull, wet and never ending month of January! #peacock #1stsightings

Needed cheering up so a trip to the garden centre for some Spring bulbs and flowers for the front garden. 🪴 #frontgarden #bulbs

Yesterdays Big Bird Watch count was quire modest at just 7 birds / 4 species. No pigeons, Blackbirds or Doves came by but are around. #BigGardenBirdwatch @rspb.bsky.social #https://bit.ly/3tgxjGS

Bird watching on a wet, cold lunchtime #BigBirdWatch 2 Blue tits and 2 Dunnocks on the feeder.

Still busy planning and planting Community Orchards. Trying to squeeze in a few more before end on the project! This one is on a unused old playground 🛝 still some remnants of tarmac but a good size plot for 63 mixed fruit trees 🌳 #orchard #community

Hazel catkins dancing in the breeze. This is on slo-mo for a more calm feel 🙂

Hazel flowers - a tiny splash of pink in a slightly dull January. #hazel

A nice green apple 🍏

🦋 Save the Small Blue at Cwm Tips 💙 We’ve launched a crowdfunder to restore flower-rich grasslands at one of the South Wales Valleys’ most important wildlife sites. Help us remove invasive scrub and safeguard rare butterflies, bees and grassland wildlife. 👉 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-the-s...

Tuesday is my volunteer day! Out into the wilds of Warwickshire (Ryton Wood Meadows) let loose on various habitats prepping them for Spring. Rain ✅ Mud✅ Prickly sticks ✅ Friends ✅ Sheep✅ fungi ✅ Fire ✅ tired✅ @bc-hertsmiddx.bsky.social

Like gummy sweets in the wild! Glossy, rubbery, squishy looking fungi on a log. Is it mango flavoured or apricot perhaps? 🤔 😆 #fungi

Lovely little Scarlet Elf-cup fungi on the mossy logs at Ashlawn cutting yesterday. #fungi

Have you seen any spawn yet?🐸 If you have a garden or local park pond, why not participate in the annual @freshwaterhabitats.bsky.social #SpawnSurvey 2026 and help collect records of #toad and #frog spawn. 

Sulphur tuft fungi spotted at the motorway services stop this evening on the way back from visiting my Dad. A wet, cold & icy day in Nottingham. #fungi

Lots of great ideas here to put onto the calender 🗓️ No need to wait for one to record butterflies though just submit records as you see them on iRecord & help us understand how they are doing. 👍

🦋🌿Hiring 12 x Botanists or Entomologists for 2026 field surveys in England! 4-month, full-time roles from late April to early September. Field sites in Yorkshire, Devon, Warwickshire, Kent/Sussex, Lincolnshire/Cambridge, Essex/Suffolk. Apply now: ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CEH_Ca... 🧪

Devil’s Urn Fungus (Urnula craterium). Northwest Territories, Canada. The fungus is about 2cm in diamete. #fungi #fungifriends

This is my second offering, written after waking the dog in last night's snowstorm! #PoemsAbout #Static @thebrokenspine.co.uk

FUNDING NEWS: £2,500 is available for 14 West Midlands community groups to support nature! Got an idea for a pond, a nature festival, or a green space project? Apply by: Midnight, Jan 19th Projects delivered: March 2026 Apply here: www.wmca.org.uk/what-we-do/e... #NatureFund #GreenGrants

Online talk: Looking forward to exploring some of my favourite urban plants with @bsbibotany.bsky.social at 7.30 on Wednesday night. Expect new discoveries, lots of aliens, heat islands and how pubs shape the urban flora. If you’d like to join in please book here bsbi.org/take-part/ev...