Congratulations @tonyjuniper.bsky.social on being reappointed as chair of Natural England! - www.gov.uk/government/n...

Jumping into January … in the #Northantsbirds Newsround, 28th December 2024 to 3rd January 2025 northantsbirds.com/2025/01/04/n...

Did you play a part in our recent "Building the Links for #RockinghamForest" project? There's a summary of what was achieved here, with lots of pictures too www.rockinghamforest.org.uk/building-links

During Covid lockdown, if you had family round on Christmas Day the police could force their way into your home and make them return to their own homes. Does anybody know if this service is still available and, if so, do you have to book it?

A wet weekend - just the time to settle down and take part in this important public consultation. Comments must be in by Monday!

Out today is our December newsletter featuring the celebration artwork at the end of the 2-year Building the Links for #RockinghamForest project. Download it here www.rockinghamforest.org.uk/contacts

Beautiful evening light but still sad to see all this felling in Bedford Purlieus just now. This woodland's probably the jewel of the #RockinghamForest crown - read more about it here www.rockinghamforest.org.uk/woodland

How a little money has gone a long way in #RockinghamForest www.rockinghamforest.org.uk/grants

Today is the beginning of #NationalTreeWeek… "The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn" - Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) #trees #nature

Lots more about this amazing woodland by Carolyn Church here - a full year's diary describing working and living in the wood. Well worth a read! www.rockinghamforest.org.uk/blog/categories/rawhaw

Good morning! Our petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... has just passed 10,000 signatures so Defra must respond. Thank you to 9,999 others who have signed it! But we shouldn't stop there - please share and promote so that we reach 100,000 signatures and get a parliamentary debate.

The end of the beginning. Our Heritage Lottery funded project ends in December but Rockingham Forest Vision goes on from strength to strength. We'll be using Bluesky increasingly, along with our website: www.rockinghamforest.org.uk and hope you'll continue with us on the next stage of the journey

A veteran Field Maple, pollarded long ago, marking the Medieval wood-boundary of Old Sulehay Forest. Host to a magnificent tiered specimen of Mossy Maple Polypore (also known more prosaically as Poplar Bracket). #ThickTrunkTuesday 📸🍄 #fungifriends

www.rockinghamforest.org.uk/blog Writing about Rockingham Forest by those who live, work or play here. We'd love you to join our team of writers if you have interesting things to say about the forest.

We're planning more free guided walks in #RockinghamForest for 2025. Where shall we go next year? Back to the same areas or somewhere new? Any ideas? Or any offers to lead walks in little-known parts of the forest especially welcome! Please get in touch www.rockinghamforest.org.uk/contacts

This is #FineshadeWood, one of the largest remaining parts of #RockinghamForest. Snow didn't last very long this morning

Felt like winter had arrived yesterday. Cold but Bluesky

The special showiness of spindle

Agree 💯

Well off track, with only the dog for company, deep in #Fineshade wood today

The demise of Twitter is so very sad. Many of us had many years of community, networking and fun. Then came Müskification. But, after a slow start. Bluesky has suddenly taken off! 🚀 Now with 16m users and many old friends and familiar faces now here, we’ve found our new home. And I’m loving it!

Seems an appropriate first post here. There’s a kite at the bottom of the garden.