Good idea to put out fresh water each day. Don't need a fancy container... could save an life.

Ian Denton@iand777.bsky.social · 2d ago

This would be rare here - a sign of the depth of the drought. Rabbits normally have no need to drink water - they are surrounded by pastures & hedgerows filled with green grass & juicy vegetation. Now the fields are scorched brown and dry - birds & animals & insects face dehydration. #Droughts

Shooting interests & the rightwing press want to exploit the wildfires to reinstate moorland burning. But you don't fight fire with fire. You fight it with water. This wildfire in Wales' Elan Valley in May stopped abruptly when it reached re-wetted peat bogs: www.walesfarmer.co.uk/news/2614875...

Sub-surface Pacific temperatures are now warmer than ever recorded having exceeded 1997's peak by 0.36°C. Further warming is still likely before they peak, little doubt now that this will be the strongest El Nino event in recorded history.

Today's view and quite a challenge in the heat 🥵

Whilst cycling in Connemara, it was a great treat to see an abundance of Pipewort in several of their beautiful clear loughs. #wildflowerhour

Early for #WildflowerHour and I feel like I'm a week out but.... here's a sea of yellow and purple loosestrife plus meadowsweet and the cutesy skullcap 🙂 (ps I did go to the sea this week but sadly didn't see anything that wasn't frazzled) @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

#FingerpostFriday 😁

A Portmeirion hydrangea 🥰

The wonderfully delicate Water lobelia from Lough Mask shores, #Mayo #wildflowerhour

Hemp Agrimony on the Montgomery canal #Wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Hieracium tavense (Black mountain Hawkweed) a rare welsh endemic ,restricted to the Nant-y-Llyn a small upland river in the upper Tawe valley , found by Augustine Ley in 1899,it is only known from an unstable cliff on the North side of small waterfall and that is its wourld population 18.7.26🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Hieracium reticulatiforme (Reticulate-leaved Hawkweed) a native british endemic scattered over scottland and pushing south into yorkshire ,here it is at its most southerley and only welsh locality ,on the top of a small watetfall on the Nant-y-Llyn 18.7.26 ,a beuty of a section foliosa species 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Today's view and what a beautiful diverse place.

Beautiful Sea lavender, Donegal. #wildflowerhour

#Wildflowerhour #StillFlowering Field Pansy, Mayweed, Creeping Thistle @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Guess the view today 😉 (clue... it's not Italy)

If only they were that plentiful here 😍

Alex Prendergast@bramblebotanist.bsky.social · 3w ago

Some good rain after the long spell of hot dry weather across France and the Ghost Orchids are responding. Dozens of spikes and several new populations recorded in the past few days. Starting to understand what makes this elusive species tick..

Another epic view today and a lovely walk with the best person I know ❤️

I also met a little vole today. I hope he's ok.

Highlights from today...

This Common Poppy sprouting up through the tarmac on Dungeness has been making me smile for the last couple of weeks as I drive pass… Today I got out and took a pic #urbanplants @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Shrubby Seablite (Suaeda vera) & Annual Seablite (Suaeda maritima) brightening up the Saltmarsh at Chesil beach @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

It's a Painted Lady year ✨️

Today's view

One of my favourite flowers, although tricky to photograph on a windy day. Fairy Flax, Cabinteely. #wildflowerhour

One of many Bog Orchids, Hammarbya paludosa, I met yesterday #WildflowerHour

Very late for #Wildflowerhour #aquaticplants utricularia, frogbit, triangular club rush 😄 @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Today's view ✨️

Moths 🤓