On the train back from London after the best evening ever! Still pinching myself… and beaming from ear to ear about my beautiful medal. Thank you SO much @btobirds.bsky.social for this most unexpected and wonderful award. And thank you again for all the amazing things you do…

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Congratulations to @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social our winner of the Dilys Breese Medal 🎉We’re pleased to award Brigit this medal for using her online platforms to encourage nature interaction and conservation in an accessible manner, and her enthusiasm in participation and promotion of BTO surveys!

My kind of treasure...

Ian Parsons@ianparsons.bsky.social · 5d ago

Sometimes at auction you find some real gems... Dartmoor Auctions next weekend, Lot 1035. Pitminster near you @iand777.bsky.social ? @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social @nicwilson.bsky.social @markavery.bsky.social Tempting...

How to Live on Earth 🌍📽️ The brand-new documentary exploring nature-based solutions, ecosystem restoration, and rewilding is now streaming free on YouTube! 🌿✨ Energising, uplifting, and actionable. 🎬 Watch full film: https://www.rfr.bz/bc04a1ae3 #Rewilding #NatureBasedSolutions #EcosystemR

How to Live on Earth | Feature Documentary | Presented by Benedict Cumberbatch

What if the solutions to building a better future already exist?How to Live on Earth is an ambitious feature documentary that explores how humanity can build...

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64 years ago, on the 27th of September 1962, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring was published. It handled the environmental harm caused by the pesticide DDT and the disinformation spread by the chemical industry. Carson managed to sway public opinion and even policy. #otd #history 🗃️

We’re hiring! Join Froglife as Project Lead for 'Adders in Cornwall', leading an exciting Natural England-funded research project. - £30,000 | 35 hrs/week - Flexible/Newquay - Apply by 5pm, 5th Oct Find out more: https://ow.ly/aeNJ50ZQVhs

At the age of 90 year old, Czech former agricultural worker Agnes Kasparkova continued her 13 year project to decorate her small village with hand-painting traditional Moravian motifs on the local houses #womensart

Bake day! Sourdough loaf, focaccia & crackers Loaf recipe from Elaine Boddy's brilliant book The Sourdough Bible. Flour 2/3 white + 1/3 wholewheat from Cotswold Flour Focaccia used Elaine's recipe but added an olive oil & tomato puree paste to the top before baking Cracker recipe below...

Another clip of the stunning pale common buzzard I posted yesterday I wondered briefly if it could be a rough-legged buzzard, but this brilliant video from @btobirds.bsky.social explains the differences, and ours doesn't have the 'dark belly patch'. BTO video: www.bto.org/learn/skills...

'Discoveries After Dark: How Insects Connect Us to Nature' This is excellent - both surprising and inspiring. Really worth a watch Thank you @biologicalrecording.co.uk for hosting it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9NY...

Discoveries After Dark: How Insects Connect Us to Nature

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Please can anyone confirm which bird of prey this is? Guessing perhaps a juvenile buzzard, but very pale... #birds

Looking forward very much to seeing this when it comes out... lostintheglow.co.uk #darkskies

Lost in the Glow · A film by Daniel Taylor

Watch the trailer. Then choose where to go next.

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Calling walkers, birders, nature lovers, or anyone fancying a break... October & November dates available in our new BnB, if anyone's interested? On the southern edge of Bodmin Moor, which is a great place to explore, and wonderfully peaceful at this time of year www.airbnb.co.uk/rooms/173324...

Guest suite in Tremar Coombe · ★5.0 · 1 bedroom · 1 bed · 1 bathroom

Beautifully renovated annexe near Bodmin Moor

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🔊 Registration is now open for The Non-Estuarine Waterbird Survey (NEWS)! Sign up ➡️ www.bto.org/webs-news NEWS monitors waterbirds along stretches of open coastline that aren't covered by estuary surveys, helping us build a more complete picture of wintering birds around the UK. #UKBirding

Nasturtium - by self-taught Chicago artist, Leah Gardner More of this artist's vibrant paintings, here: leahgardner.art #art

The Silent Hunter - by multi award winning photographer, Graham Eaton "Every night she follows this ancient path through the trees to and from her hunting grounds. Like a ghost, she is silent, intent and elegant as she glides through the night." #birds #photography #birdphotography #owls 📷

Just a few of at least 100 Common Carder bumblebees (Bombus pascuorum) I saw this afternoon in our garden, including some still collecting pollen. This species is one of the last to remain active, before their mated queens go into hibernation when the temperatures drop…

Yesterday was Watercolour Journalling class, and we painted berries... hips, haws, and sloes. I find it hard to work out what colours to mix to get different reds, greens etc., so always need help from our tutor with that. Yesterday I started writing down the ones that work so I won't forget...

Great Willowherb (Epilobium hirsutum), also known as Great Hairy Willowherb, Apple-pie, Cherry-pie, Currant-dumpling and Custard-cups! The word 'great' refers to the plant's size and 'hirsutum (hairy)' to its stems and leaves which are covered in fine, soft, glandular hairs. 1/2

Still time to sign up for this free online training, if interested. Choose from tomorrow (Tuesday) evening, Wednesday morning, or Wednesday evening. www.bto.org/our-work/tra...

Brigit Strawbridge@brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social · 4w ago

Ever wondered how people count large numbers of #birds? I've just signed up for @btobirds.bsky.social's free online training so I can learn how to count flocks... AND how to put these skills to use in the Wetland Bird Survey (WeBS) Choose from 3 dates next week, here: www.bto.org/our-work/tra...

Devil's-bit Scabious... with and without Ivy bee, for #wildflowerhour 💜

I spent a happy half hour watching this handsome Common Darter dragonfly patrolling our pond today. He came back to this same spot after each patrol, so was easy to film. There was a female laying eggs, with another attached male, too. Thank goodness for all the recent rain and the nice full pond!

There is a season turn, turn, turn. The Long-tailed Tits always leave here when their breeding season has finished & return in the autumn to begin their hedgerow foraging. I'm not sure of the total flock size today - there were always birds away from the water. We're gonna need a bigger lid. 🦉🌿

Question: If I put a Tawny #Owl nesting box up in a large Oak on the edge of our local woods, will the Jackdaws who already nest in that tree move in - and stop any prospective Tawnies from nesting in it? Also, do Tawnies ever use the same site where they roost, to nest in? Thank you 🦉

For the last few years a lone male Tawny Owl has been calling in the woods across the road, but right now there are two males… AND a female!!! Made my year! 🦉🦉🦉

Caryopteris is a fabulous late summer flowering plant.... and bees LOVE it! N.B. Female Ivy #bees (in video) collect pollen to provision their underground nests almost exclusively from flowering Ivy, but also forage on other late flowering plants for nectar... especially when Ivy is late to flower

An incredible image, and overall winner of this year's Australian Geographic Nature Photography award. Using a DJI Mavic 3 Pro (drone), Matt Deakin captured an extremely rare moment - seeing a critically endangered Sawfish in the wild and passing by a Turtle, off the Pilbara coast in WA.

Ever wondered how people count large numbers of #birds? I've just signed up for @btobirds.bsky.social's free online training so I can learn how to count flocks... AND how to put these skills to use in the Wetland Bird Survey (WeBS) Choose from 3 dates next week, here: www.bto.org/our-work/tra...

We're seeking a Research Ecologist to develop & apply methods for analysing large-scale passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) datasets & to lead work on the collection/analysis of restoration & rewilding data. Apply via www.bto.org/jobs Closing date: 22 September. #Ornithology #bioacoustics

A miniature garden on a fallen twig 💚

Insects photobombing !