Remarkably, these Autumn Ladies Tresses are appearing in numbers in this desolate drought stricken Flintshire grassland...I didn't have much hope for them this year!! @ukorchids.bsky.social @europeanorchids.bsky.social @bsbicymru.bsky.social #botany #orchids #UKOrchids #botany #UKbotany

Hampered by a back injury of late, but got out for the @webs-gsmp.bsky.social @ #Oglet Shore this PM with the binns, minus the scope/tripod/camera equip etc. Garganey, 47 Ringed & 1 LRP, 79 Little & 4 GW Egret being the best of the bunch +4 Clouded Yellow -worst photo ever @mbblerc.bsky.social #WeBS

A bit of video from the Gloucestershire Long Tailed Shrike...and why not!! #UKBIRDING #rarebirdsuk #longtailedshrike youtube.com/watch?v=6C-R...

Long-tailed Shrike. Gloucestershire, Aug 26 @southliverpoolbirder#rarebirds #rarebirdsuk #shrike

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This #fox appeared in front of us during this evenings walk along Otterspool Prom...Common Sandpiper along the shore too. @mbblerc.bsky.social

Connected with the Gloucestershire Long Tailed Shrike; a 3rd for UK (assuming its not the same as the Scottish bird); what a bird...photos were challenging in the heat haze though! Muntjac, Marsh Harrier, Red Kites, Whinchats & Clouded Yellows too #UKBIRDING #rarebirds

For #wildflowerhour the impressive Wood Cow-wheat (Melampyrum nemorosum) carpeting the woodland floor this week at Durmitor National Park, Montenegro #botany #durmitornationalpark

Wedge-lipped Orchids flowering at 1400m in Durmitor National Park, #Montenegro @europeanorchids.bsky.social #botany #wildorchids #orchids #europeanorchids #durmitornationalpark

A week in #Budva, #Montenegro with the family...some great birds found; Golden & Shirt-toed Eagle, Levant Sparrowhawk, Honey & Long Legged Buzzard, Lanner, Egyptian Vulture, Olive Tree Warbler, Lesser Grey & Red Backed Shrike, Eastern Black Eared Wheatear, Sombre Tit & White Stork #birding

Lake Skadar, Moraca Canyon, Biogradska Gora NP, breathtaking wilderness, the worlds 2nd NP after Yellowstone. Wallcreeper, Rock Thrush, Pygmy Cormorant, Dipper, Short-toed Eagle, Dalmatian Pelicans, Whiskered Terns, Squacco Herons...best of all BROWN #BEAR prints! #Montenegro

A brilliant daywith the family exploring Durmitor National Park, #Montenegro; some excellent wildlife chanced upon, with Pine Marten, Red Squirrel, Golden Eagle, Griffon Vulture, White-backed Woodpecker, Sombre Tit...best of all a WOLF glimpsed as we left the park! What a place!

For this evenings #wildflowerhour Manchurian Monkshood, Sticky Sage, Martagon Lily & Herb Paris lining the ancient temperate rainforest floor at Biogradska Gora National Park, Montenegro. #botany #montenegro #biogradskagora

Summer evenings at Black Woods, Childwall

Broad-leaved Helleborines, Marsh Cudweed, and Corn Spurrey in South Liverpool this evening. @mbblerc.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social @europeanorchids.bsky.social #Botany #Orchids #UKOrchids

So much for caring for God's acre - CofE votes against plan to rewild 30% of its land. The CofE has voted against plans to restore 30% of its land for nature. It owns c105,000 acres of land, yet currently just 3.5% of its land is used for nature restoration... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Church of England votes against plan to rewild 30% of its land by 2030

Campaigners criticise C of E for failing to show moral leadership as one of country’s biggest landowners

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Dark Red Helleborines at their most southerly UK location in Peak District. Thankfully, I'm not too frazzled by the recent heat! @europeanorchids.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social #Orchids #Helleborines #Botany

Common Spotted, Chalk Fragrant l, Pyramidal #orchids & Broad-leaved #Helleborine during a hike around the Peak District yesterday #botany #UKorchids @bsbibotany.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social @europeanorchids.bsky.social

Stopped off on route to a family walk in the Peaks to (only just) catch these hyperchromic Common Spotted Orchid and belgarum Bee Orchids ...Chalk Fragrants and Eyebright sp. looking a bit more like it! #wildflowerhour #botany #orchids

Yesterday evenings #superfurryanimals gig at the Llangollen Pavilion. Mwng album in full followed by a best of set! Mind blowing, what a location too...a few drinks in the town beforehand...what at night! #SFA #Llangollen #llangollenpavilion

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Northern Spike Rush (restricted to x13 UK sites), Birds-eye Primrose, Rigid Buckler Fern (restricted to 36 sites) & Long-stalked Yellow Sedge. Some of the highlights of a recent trip in the Yorkshire Dales. #Botany #Ferns #Sedges #Wildflowers @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Greater Spearwort spreading through the reedbeds in Speke, Liverpool for a late #wildflowerhour @mbblerc.bsky.social #botany

Enchanters Nightshade, Southern Marsh Orchid, and x grandis hybrid swarms (now past their best) at Childwall Woods and Fields LNR this afternoon #wildflowerhour #Botany #Orchids #ChildwallWoods @ukorchids.bsky.social @lenantdelarose.bsky.social @mbblerc.bsky.social

Explored the South Cumbrian coastal limestone recently, rewarded with 3 rare endemic species; Lancastrian Whitebeam, Small Spotted Hawkweed & Humphrey Head Hawkweed (the latter prob restricted to around 250 plants globally), also Spiked Speedwell about to burst into flower! #Botany #Hawkweeds

Heath Spotted, Heath Fragrant, Chalk Fragrant & Twayblade #Orchids during a recent mooch in the Yorkshire Dales. @ukorchids.bsky.social @europeanorchids.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #Botany

This evenings dog walk; Crow Garlic, Common Spotted #Orchids & Betony; South Liverpool grasslands. #Botany @mbblerc.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Frog, Small White, Common Spotted and Ladies Slipper #Orchid, some of the fantastic species recently recorded on a trip to the wonderful Yorkshire Dales. #Botany #UKORCHIDS #Orchids @ukorchids.bsky.social @europeanorchids.bsky.social

Marsh Fragrant #Orchid, Marsh #Helleborine, Dune Helleborine & Southern Marsh Orchid at Haltons, Clifton Lagoon. An amazing site; all thanks to years of industrial by-product dumping! @mbblerc.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social @europeanorchids.bsky.social #Orchids #Botany

There can't be many other places (or indeed any) where you can find the diminutive Adders Tongue & Seaside Centaury growing side-by-side...the wonderfully botanically diverse Clifton Lagoon, Halton. #Botany #Wildflowers #Ferns @bsbibotany.bsky.social @mbblerc.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Cuteness personified in the first photo (young piglet AKA humbug) & the complete opposite in the last photo with a brute of an adult boar. The Wild Boars of the Castle Bolton Estate, North Yorkshire. #WildBoar #Yorkshire

Stopped at a site in the Yorkshire Dales this afternoon, absolutely chocked full of great birds...Short Eared Owl, breeding Redshank, Curlew, Lapwing and Common Sandpiper, many displaying Snipe, Kestrel, and Spotted Flycatcher...stumbled upon it by sheer chance! #UKBIRDING