It's UK Bookshop Day! 📚 Find your local bookshop 📚 Shop with them today 📚 Pick up this year's limited-edition bag, designed by Jane Foster 📚 Share your book purchases on social media, and use #BookshopDay 📚 Tag your favourite bookshop on social media 📚 Kick-start your Christmas shopping! 🎁
The results are in... Today The Bank of England has announced which wildlife species will be stepping into the spotlight on our new notes. And the winners are: 🦉 Barn Owl 🦔 European Hedgehog 🐝 Buff-tailed Bumblebee 🐧 Atlantic Puffin Four important and iconic species.
Last chance to join my bird illustration & mental health workshop on zoom this Sat I'll teach you how: 🪶...to draw several different bird species using my simple formula 🧠...creative activity (incl drawing) alters brain biochemistry to improve mental health. workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/bird...
Super happy with my first Osprey photograph. It was hard to hold the camera still on pretty much full zoom but I love it. What a bird! 🪶
Lovely to see at least five Cattle egret at RSPB Marazion this afternoon. In the west corner where the Heron hang out, and the restoration work is being done. #CornwallBirding 🪶
Still seeing a few Hummingbird hawk-moths around. Seen lots this year, so magical.
Spotted this supercool Speckled bush-cricket on a Alchemilla leaf today.
Picked up a real beauty at Bookmark in Falmouth today. The companion to my beloved The Young Naturalist’s Handbook. #Books 📚
Bearded tit still active at Longrock Pool Marazion this afternoon, saw two but sadly didn’t get a pic. Happy to see two Kingfishers too, scrappy record shot of those. 🪶 #CornwallBirding
Look out for some of our spectacular birds like this Nicobar Pigeon - the closest living biological relative to the famous, extinct dodo bird! Photograph by Director Alison
Birding in Hayle today, stopped to pay my respects to Rick Rescorla. A true hero.
We’re delighted to announce the 2026 #WainwrightPrize Winners! 🍃 From powerful nature writing & urgent conservation stories to extraordinary illustration, this year’s winners celebrate the many ways stories can connect people & planet. wainwrightprize.com #StoriesThatConnect
Really happy to have seen the Grey Phalarope (just one now) at St Gothian Sands this afternoon. 🪶 #CornwallBirding
This starling is watching me eat a pasty, guilt tripping me with its beauty. 🪶
Acorn palette. There’s evidence that the human brain really likes gentle colour gradations (probs due to ancient foraging mental reward pathways) so this is for your noggin-pause & zoom in for a tiny break from angsty scrolling with some nice nuts 🌿
Went to @edenproject.bsky.social to see their Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition. Had another look at their T Rex too, and found a supercool @bobnichollsart.bsky.social exhibition. All the wins! #Birds #Dinosaurs
Will you run the 2027 MyWay London Marathon for Field Studies Council? We’re taking applications - walk or run wherever you are on Sat 24th or Sun 25th April 2027 and will have 24 hours to complete the race. Find out more here: buff.ly/5zW46O4
Wow! That was sensational. Well done to everyone involved in the making of #HamzaAfricanBirdsOfPrey 🦅
Sad to hear that a cliff fall has blocked access to the magical Holy Well Cave at Holywell Bay. Here’s a pic I took inside a few years ago, it was such a special place. #Cornwall
Our favourite photography competition of the year has revealed its shortlist! 📷️ Which image gets your vote in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026 awards? 🐻❄️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2026 – the best pictures so far
The polar bear image taken by Audun Rikardsen was among the 'highly commended' entries in this year's competition.
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Dolly’s Imagination Library sent 7 million free books to UK children, and many more to children worldwide. 📚 Be more Dolly. 💔
Twenty-five years on and Choughs continue to go from strength to strength in Cornwall. 📷Rowena Castillo-Nicholls #Chough #Choughs #CornishChoughs #Palores #PaloresowKernewek #CBWPS #Bird #Birds #Birdwatching #ConnectWithNature #WildlifeMatters #BritishWildlife #WildCornwall #Cornwall #Kernow
Thrilled to see a White Stork on my local Estuary. K07 released recently as part of the Cornwall Stork Project. Reported my sighting. 🪶 thecornwallstorkproject.org
White Stork Gannel NQY now #cornwallbirding by car park but that’s full
Montagu's Harrier, UK's rarest breeding raptor, nests successfully in England for second year in a row. Excellent partnership working between RSPB and farmers. Press release ⬇️ #RaptorResearch raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/08/24/m...
Montagu’s Harrier, UK’s rarest breeding raptor, nests successfully in England for second year in a row
Press release from RSPB (24 August 2026) THE UK’S RAREST BREEDING BIRD RAISES CHICKS AT SECRET LOCATION FOR THE SECOND YEAR RUNNING The UK’s rarest breeding bird of prey, the Montagu…
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Seeing lots of Hummingbird hawk-moth around this year. Happy to catch this one on my phone today.
