Sad news and dodgy goings-on. Please share & keep up the pressure to uncover what happened here and why. youtu.be/GQtpYWWAleo?...
The illegal felling of the Whitewebbs Oak #whitewebbsoak
YouTube video by Ian Phillips
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Jamie
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Moving slowly and fixing things… The artist formerly known as @tlwforcumbria (Let’s see how long this lasts)…
Sitting in the presence of my Quaker ancestors, I found a confused bird had something to tell me about protest and threat. open.substack.com/pub/wreckage...
The dunnock and the police raid
Some thoughts on waging peace
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In a place where there’s been a whitethroat territory and a grasshopper warbler territory for the 14 years I’ve lived in the village, both are back this morning. My second territory for both this year. Welcome home little ones.
Bird place-name of the day folks. Crows today, because I was back at one of the corvid places in my book this week in Devon too. My favourite crow place though is in Yorkshire. CRACKPOT. Old Norse kraka + Middle English pot. 'Rift in rock where crows abound'. #naturewriting #birdsandplace
These galls on some local Sweet Chestnut had me confused as they were not in my big gall book. A bit of googling however led me to the Oriental Chestnut Gall Wasp. I don't know if the tiny wasp near the galls is the gall wasp itself, (continued in next post) www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-...
“Mên-an-Tol, formation of standing stones, in Cornwall” John Piper
A brilliant Grist essay on the immense de-damming of the Klamath River in Oregon/California: a project that has resulted in the restoration of one of the largest salmon runs on the West Coast, and has also “set a profound new precedent for how the U.S. manages its water.” grist.org/project/indi...
How the Klamath Dams Came Down
Last year, tribes in Oregon and California pulled off the largest dam removal in U.S. history. This is their story.
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Another angle from the lunchtime stroll for #FlowersOnFriday those #dandelions and #daisies were so beautiful. Happyness in a single view. #ThePhotoHour #NatureCommunity #wildflowerhour
Always striking how different the attitudes of the major landowner body is on access in Scotland since the Land Reform Act. "As a large estate owner.. [it] feels like a moral contract that we need to provide the basic services required for people to take safe access" bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0029zpk
Farming Today - An Excess of Access? - BBC Sounds
Are Scotland's liberal access laws working?
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The first of the worker bumblebees! Tree, Early, Red-tailed and Heath Bumblebees all enjoying Dandelion! The first workers are teeny! As the season progresses, workers increase in size with more food & helpers in the nest to feed them as larvae 💛 @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social
Simon Barnes’ hitting it for six (once again). 💚 A brilliantly accessible, open hearted, confidence-building (and life-affirming!) nature writer.
Sunset yesterday, at the gates of USAF Lakenheath. Tea and good company in the face of weapons of mass destruction felt quietly, powerfully hopeful. And there blackbirds, singing their hearts out from inside the fences. #LakenheathAllianceforPeace. #Nonukes
#Deadhills - the worst welcome to Scotland imaginable for wildlife… please sign & share 🙏
Chris Packham@chrisgpackham.bsky.social · last yr.Caught in a springtrap , right next to the pairs two unhatched eggs – this is the true story of a hen harrier attempting to breed on the infamous Leadhills Estate in Scotland . We must ban driven grouse shooting , add your name now govpetition.uk/700036
Some of our #wildflowers are so incredibly minuscule they are very easy to miss! This week’s challenge is to get your specs 🤓 on & see if you find any #tinyplants in bloom. Share your finds for #WildflowerHour this Sunday 8-9pm! Happy teeny flower spotting! 🧐🌸🌿
Cheeky lunchtime #dandelion boost. It looked so pretty a sea of yellow peppered with dots of daisy white. Have a lovely evening. #NatureBeauty #Spring get ready for swamping social with #dandelions this weekend #InternationalDayoftheDandelion 😁
Eye-opening graph. The biggest wildfire incidents in the UK don't occur when it's hottest, in high summer: they take place in April - *when landowners set fire to their grouse moors & lose control of burns.* Time to ban moorland burning. Source: www.iucn-uk-peatlandprogramme.org/sites/defaul...
Our #Bloomscrolling share this week is the irresistible cuckooflower 😍 Have you spotted any this spring? They're an especially important food plant for the caterpillars of orange-tip and green-veined white butterflies 🦋
Celebrating the small things this #InsectThursday tiny #bees in #dandelions, St Marks Fly (I think), an elegant red ant, a tiny early instar cricket judging by the length of antennae, frog hopper giving side eye check out it's antennae and a dock beetle #NaturePhotography 🪲
The cherry road into Kendal and a local variety of apple tree’s zingy bloom #TreeFlowers #WildflowerHour
Our beautiful birds of prey are routinely and illegally slaughtered on driven grouse moors . If you are as sick of this criminal persecution as me then please sign this @wildjustice.bsky.social petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... Please RT
Larks, ascending. 2 📷 by me at Roanhead, Barrow-in-Furness 15 4 2025. Spell-poem by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social - image of a letterpress poster print, with "soaring, heartlifting skylark painted onto it in sumi ink...by Jackie Morris". I am blessed to be current custodian of the original print.
Two tickets available due to a cancellation. Please share. www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...?
Restoring Hardknott Forest Volunteer Day: 22th April, 2025
Join us on a volunteer day to help maintain & remove tree tubes, remove non-native conifers, plant trees and wildflowers and allow the natural...
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It's not generally known that clouds in the Lake District, UK are manufactured at a specialist factory on the far Eastern coast of Cumbria..............💭💭💭💭😉
Redstarts are back... Also spotted the first Bitter Vetch (Lathyrus linifolius) flower alongside a cheery Primrose in the margins of our meadow! #LakeDistrict #Flora #Springwatch
