Blog of my latest day walk for @naturetrek.bsky.social, this one around Wivenhoe and the Colne Estuary. Filling the parched landscape with stories. #NatureWriting www.chrisgibsonwildlife.co.uk/the-wild-sid...
ChrisGibsonWildlife
@chrismothman.bsky.social
Naturalist, photographer, speaker, author, conservationist. GREEN party member. Wildlife Advocate at Beth Chatto Gardens. #BridgesNotBorders #IamEUropean www.chrisgibsonwildlife.co.uk New book for @princetonupress.bsky.social...see my website frontpage
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... That man is a moron. A dangerous one. As is everyone who votes for him. All hate their offspring.
Reform’s Tice says people should stop fighting climate crisis and ‘enjoy’ heat
Deputy leader says it is ‘arrogant’ to try to halt global heating, despite UK being left reeling by summer firewave
theguardian.com
It’s time we sorted out the press. Constant misinformation to protect their donors and fossil fuels is destroying lives and our planet. The Government must step up and stop being cowardly.
New blog featuring our August short break by public transport: Bats, Beer and Brutalism - a hot summer weekend in London. www.chrisgibsonwildlife.co.uk/bats-beer-an... #NatureWriting it's fast approaching three years of such breaks every month, and no end in right!
A little bit of green can make a big change. Observe the contrast on the same street. The asphalt road registered 33 degrees Celsius, while the newly installed semi-hardened parking lots showed a considerably lower temperature of 21 degrees Celsius. 📸 Gina Kranendonk, Rotterdam 🇳🇱
It's not often I am wowed by annuals in pots, but this Petunia at Harwich Town Station did it for Mr. Beautiful, funereal maybe, a bit goth perhaps, but gorgeous - the cultivar 'Amazonas Plum Cockatoo'
UK readers: Nature’s Acre is now widely available to order through UK bookshops.
ChrisGibsonWildlife@chrismothman.bsky.social · 5mo agoA new book review on my website Nature’s Acre: An Irish Garden Memoir of Making a Place Where Life Grows by Ciarán De Buitléar www.chrisgibsonwildlife.co.uk/book-review-... @gardeningwell.ie
Second blog from Holland holiday, this time through Eleanor's phone camera and words. www.chrisgibsonwildlife.co.uk/holiday-in-h...
Nope, it’s the weeks of hot, dry weather made more severe by global heating due to fossil fuel burning that has increased the risk of wildfires. The landscape is so dry that any ignition can start a fire that becomes uncontrollable. Fields of crops and grasses are not “rewilded” but have burned
What brazen liars. By restoring water-retaining natural ecosystems, rewilding REDUCES wildfires.
Blog of our recent short break in Holland, to Rotterdam, The Hague and Leiden. All by public transport naturally! www.chrisgibsonwildlife.co.uk/a-summer-bre... #NatureWriting
From Wivenhoe to Wiveton, moth trapping in north Norfolk a couple of nights ago. Sadly, turned chilly so very low numbers, and nothing unexpected. But here are Six-striped Rustic, Swallow Prominent, Lesser Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing and Burnished Brass.
Spotty-eyed Hoverfly Eristalinus aeneus came to visit our flat in Wivenhoe, Essex. Top floor, about 15m up, and part of a pattern of high-flying strongly coastal specialist insects here, including the sand wasp Gorytes laticinctus and Saltmarsh Horsefly Atylotus latistriatus in recent summers.
Blog of my day walk yesterday for @naturetrek.bsky.social exploring the Wild Side of Essex at the Naze www.chrisgibsonwildlife.co.uk/the-wild-sid... #NatureWriting
"Gatwick airport to open second runway" Is nobody joining the dots? We have to stop polluting our atmosphere with CO2! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Gatwick airport to open second runway after legal challenge fails
£2.2bn project will allow about 100,000 more flights a year to use Britain’s second busiest airport
theguardian.com
Blog of yesterday evening's lovely #WildEssex walk around Barrier Marsh and the Wivenhoe Waterfront: www.chrisgibsonwildlife.co.uk/wildessexwal... #NatureWriting
Delightful to hear multiple trilling, thrilling House Crickets along a couple of hundred metres of the Wivenhoe Waterfront in the gloaming yesterday, accompanied by a fine cooling pint from the Rose & Crown!
Colchester's Meanwhile Garden today bucking the trend of most other gardens in town. It was green, flowery and buzzing... #RightPlantRightPlace #enhancedbrownfield
On this day in 2013, apocalyptic Wivenhoe skyscape!
Reform scores hat trick of losses in Manchester despite the hype, the polling and the noise around Farage. Over to you now, Clacton. Deal the killer blow and vote Count Binface in August. The country could do with the laugh. And without that grifting loser. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... There are some stupid, radicalised idiots in Dover, just as there are in Clacton, whose bigotry and prejudice overrides the truth multiple times over. When education is vilified, this is the underclass that is created.
On the ground in the English seaside town rightwing influencers say is being ‘invaded’
Some in Dover say their town is being exploited by content creators and politicians, but others claim there is a genuine problem
theguardian.com
I’m helping save Coul Links. Will you? Coul Links is a beautiful and unique wildlife habitat in the Scottish Highlands. But it is threatened once again with development. Join me in urging Scottish Ministers to say no to this damaging application. action.rspb.org.uk/page/166270/...
Save Coul Links!
Your voice could help save this precious habitat from a new threat of development.
action.rspb.org.uk
Blog of our second (and final) Minories Moth Club in Colchester of the summer last weekend. As - or more - notable for the bugs as the moths! www.chrisgibsonwildlife.co.uk/saturday-mor...
www.suffolk.gov.uk/council-and-... The idiots of Reform. Blind and deaf to facts, evidence and truth.
The decision was agreed at a meeting of Full Council on Thursday 16 July 2026, following consideration of a motion presented by Councillor Morgan Brobyn, Suffolk County Council's Cabinet Member for Food, Waste and Rural Affairs.
suffolk.gov.uk
So never mind war, climate change, wildfires, poverty, etc. - all is well with the profits of oil companies. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Shell profits double as oil prices rise due to Iran war
Disruption to global supplies of oil and liquid natural gas through the Strait of Hormuz has pushed up prices.
bbc.co.uk
Whilst the cost of living crisis continues to spiral, with food and fuel prices soaring, so do global oil and gas companies profits. Shell has today announced it's profits have more than doubled. This is obscene. www.reuters.com/business/ene...
Shell profit more than doubles to $9.8 billion, second-highest on record, as Iran war lifts prices
Shell's net profit more than doubled from last year to $9.84 billion in the second quarter, beating expectations, helped by higher energy prices and increased market volatility during the Middle Eas...
reuters.com
Blog about my non-mothy ramblings around the Wild Side of Beth Chatto Gardens this month: www.chrisgibsonwildlife.co.uk/the-wild-sid... #NatureWriting
Interesting day with Alison Findlay, RHS outreach, in the new Colchester General Hospital drought-tolerant garden, looking at the wildlife. Plenty to see on this relatively newly planted site including Syritta pipiens, Cinnamon Bug, Carnation Tortrix (adult and pupal skin)and Sage Leafhopper.
