Great day recently with @savebutterflies.bsky.social Lincolnshire branch, exploring the possibilities of habitat restoration for the now Red Listed Grizzled Skipper #butterfly. Very much looking forward to getting started on this project in the new year.

Great day recently with @savebutterflies.bsky.social Lincolnshire branch, exploring the possibilities of habitat restoration for the now Red Listed Grizzled Skipper #butterfly. Very much looking forward to getting started on this project in the new year.

Not the warmest of days for getting in a pond and hand pulling reeds! 😅🥶 #WildlifePond

Not the warmest of days for getting in a pond and hand pulling reeds! 😅🥶 #WildlifePond

www.birdguides.com/news/stunnin... @joelashton.bsky.social 👌

A beautiful day for cutting hay! Managing one of the many #wildflowermeadows that I’ve created over the last 20 years. This one has 31 recorded butterfly species and has the same floral diversity as SSSI grassland. All on less than an acre. #Meadow #NoMowSummer

A beautiful day for cutting hay! Managing one of the many #wildflowermeadows that I’ve created over the last 20 years. This one has 31 recorded butterfly species and has the same floral diversity as SSSI grassland. All on less than an acre. #Meadow #NoMowSummer

Beech leaves looking their BEST right now…! 😍👌🍃🍁🍂

We interrupt this butterfly broadcast, for an orchid post... Ophrys reinholdii from the @greenwingstours.bsky.social orchids of Rhodes tour in April.

Terabytes of footage. Shocking discoveries. The fight to end bird shooting starts now.

Beech leaves looking their BEST right now…! 😍👌🍃🍁🍂

Great day today putting up boxes for two of my favourite birds - 1 x Barn Owl & 1 x Kestrel on my latest wetland project in #Lancashire. Both available via @wildyourgardenltd.bsky.social

Great day today putting up boxes for two of my favourite birds - 1 x Barn Owl & 1 x Kestrel on my latest wetland project in #Lancashire. Both available via @wildyourgardenltd.bsky.social

My latest mini wetland project is coming along nicely in #Lancashire. 4 of 5 scrapes now complete and today I started excavating the main wildlife pond. Fingers crossed for a few dry days!

My latest mini wetland project is coming along nicely in #Lancashire. 4 of 5 scrapes now complete and today I started excavating the main wildlife pond. Fingers crossed for a few dry days!

Always a good day when you see your first skein of Pink-footed geese for the year! Especially when it’s over your house! 😍👌❤️ #PinkFootedGeese

Always a good day when you see your first skein of Pink-footed geese for the year! Especially when it’s over your house! 😍👌❤️ #PinkFootedGeese

Scrape 2 of 5 now complete on my latest mini wetland project in #Lancashire. These mini scrapes are designed to provide a feeding ground for wading birds such as Curlew, Oystercatcher, Snipe & Lapwing and will sit alongside wildlife pond number 6 - a larger, lined water body.

Loving my new @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social level. This piece of kit will be pivotal in the creation of many wildlife habitats for many years to come, including my latest project - a new wetland including a 20m x 10m #wildlifepond with 5 x adjacent scrapes for wading birds in #Lancashire.

Amazed to not only see a new species of butterfly that I’ve only previously seen abroad, but also to record it less than a mile from my house, and to top it off, an even rarer variant call “Helice.” Ladies & gentlemen, I give you the Clouded Yellow…! 😍🦋

Share if you love dogs. This is one of my 6 - Frank - A 3.5 y/o GSD/Belgian Mali cross, rescued from spending 23 hours a day in a concrete shed. He was beaten & abused. An absolute goof & I love him to bits. As humans, we don’t deserve dogs. They’re the best friend you’ll ever have ❤️🐺

Just a Red Admiral doing its thing…😍🦋

I think I’m going to need more cabbages! 😆👍 #Butterflies #WildlifeGarden

Huge thanks to everyone that came to visit my mini #wildlifegarden over the weekend @GlobalBirdfair. Met some amazing people & am now planning future projects for wildlife. Thanks also to all the amazing volunteers that make this yearly event the best of its kind ❤️

Huge thanks to everyone that came to visit my mini #wildlifegarden over the weekend @GlobalBirdfair. Met some amazing people & am now planning future projects for wildlife. Thanks also to all the amazing volunteers that make this yearly event the best of its kind ❤️

Half car park, half lawn, stony ground & on a slope…this should be interesting! 😆 #WildlifePond #Northumberland

After what feels like a small age of seeing very few of one of my favourite #butterflies for the last couple of years, it’s an absolute delight to see the stunning Ringlet in good numbers in this #meadow, where I’m creating my latest #WildlifePond in #Hampshire 🦋

Well, that’s a first for me today! 😳 3 x heavily gravid female Adders under one piece of refugia, that is used to monitor this magnificent species, on a site that I’m currently making a #wildlifepond on 😍❤️🐍

Well, that’s a first for me today! 😳 3 x heavily gravid female Adders under one piece of refugia, that is used to monitor this magnificent species, on a site that I’m currently making a #wildlifepond on 😍❤️🐍

A few years ago I planted Ragwort, knowing it would benefit Solitary Bees, and the likes of Gatekeeper Butterflies that visit. I wasnt sure if I'd ever attact a Cinnabar Moth, as I only see them along the coast where I live. but I like to dream... #NatureGarden #MothSquad @joelashton.bsky.social

How every lawn should look (IMO) 😍 #NoMowSummer #Yorkshire

Some scary truths about non-professional use of herbicide & pesticide chemical use in domestic gardens. My latest video on exactly why we need to stop these toxic chemicals entering the hands of “amateurs.” Next steps coming soon and how you can help 👍👇 youtu.be/8oEAQhjvrRM?si…

Some scary truths about non-professional use of herbicide & pesticide chemical use in domestic gardens. My latest video on exactly why we need to stop these toxic chemicals entering the hands of “amateurs.” Next steps coming soon and how you can help 👍👇 youtu.be/8oEAQhjvrRM?si…

I think there was an explosion in a Ladybird factory!😳😍 Actually can’t believe how many hundreds of them there are, currently in the longer #NoMowSummer area of my garden (which is rapidly turning into the WHOLE garden!). One of the many benefits of no pesticides/weedkiller 🐞

Recently, I decided to adopt two more Belgian Malinois from Romania. Sadly, I’ve learned that another Mali is in a desperate situation & I’m trying to raise funds to get her over to the UK. Can anyone help with my GoFundMe?👇 gofund.me/224c9130 Sincere thanks ❤️🐺🐕

The best rose there is… #DogRose #WildlifeGarden

First of 3 House Martin double cups have gone up today. After unexpectedly seeing a pair prospecting the sides of the house last week, I thought it best! 😅 Here’s to the start of a new colony! (Hopefully🤞) @ukhousemartins.bsky.social

Just one of the many benefits of having a #NoMowSummer lawn/wildflower meadow, is seeing these voracious predators… This, believe it or not, is the larval form of our beautiful little Ladybirds! Enjoying the many aphids on offer in my #wildflower #Mowsaic of a #wildlifegarden 🐞

Make a wish everyone! Have a lovely bank holiday weekend 💚

First ever Brimstone Butterfly Caterpillar on Purging Buckthorn in my garden today! Gonepteryx rhamni Rhamnus carthartica #Lepidoptera #NaturGarten @joelashton.bsky.social

Beautiful light across my #NoMowSummer #wildflowermeadow this evening ☀️🌅 #Mowsaic #WildlifeGarden

Make a wish everyone! Have a lovely bank holiday weekend 💚

Beautiful light across my #NoMowSummer #wildflowermeadow this evening ☀️🌅 #Mowsaic #WildlifeGarden

🌸 May is made for Hawthorn. Hedges and hedgerows are bursting with frothy white blossom, filling the air with sweet, musky scent. A haven for pollinators and a classic sign that spring is peaking. Take a moment. The May-tree is in bloom. 🌿✨ #Hawthorn #Wildflowers #Spring #NatureLovers

Lots of insects and wildlife in the garden today, boding well for moth trapping. P. filicivora still on the ferns and Mint Moth on the thyme and raspberries #teammoth Newts confirmed in the pond @joelashton.bsky.social Large Red Damselfly exuvia, Broad-bodied Chaser and a garden first of Orange-tip

Greater Celandine is not a plant I’ve encountered much in the wild, so to discover it in growing in profusion along the verge outside my house, as well as popping up all over the garden is a delight! They’re also not related to Lesser Celandine & enjoy well-drained soil 🌼🌿

Luna is loving her new role as “Head of Security…!” 🤣 #BelgianMalinois #Malinois

Does it make a person odd if they get excited by long grass?! 😆 Do yourselves a favour people, ditch mowing the majority of your lawn & just mow a few paths. The #wildlife will benefit, you will save time AND money & it looks great too! Oh, & not just for MAY! #NoMowSummer

Looks like my truck is out of action for a few weeks…! 😆❤️ #Robin #TheresARobinInMyTruck!

The arch nemesis of the lawn enthusiast and the neat & tidy brigade…. Ground Ivy, in all its beautiful glory, flowering in profusion in my #NoMowSummer #WildlifeGarden, where it will live out its life to be the plant it wants to be 💚😍 #Wildflowers