Jackdaw v Hazelnuts - no contest! Dedication to the cause in littering the ground with nutshells. This is on my neighbours roof and still quite loud, in my garden they use the top of a telegraph pole as their table 😃
Simon Harding
@simon-ontheverge.bsky.social
Wildlife curious nature nerd, Fungi, Botany, Bugs, Birds and Stuff. Wildlife gardening. Looking forward to having more time
Bees, butterflies, moths, hoverflies, grasshoppers, crickets and beetles are all doing well in my little back garden… it’s buzzing.
RIP Bill Oddie ❤️ Memories of walking Kites Hill near Painswick as part of a World Land Trust awareness event will stay with me for ever, as will the good conversations we had, thank you
The Guardian@theguardian.com · last wk.Bill Oddie, naturalist and broadcaster, dies aged 85
Just had another nice visitor to my little wildflower garden 👌🏼😊
Thrilled to have this guest in my kitchen this morning! Great green bush-cricket (Tettigonia viridissima) I think, he’s back out in my wildlife garden now on some Wild Carrot 😍 #UKWildlife #Naturalist #Nature
Chris Packham tells us why he is throwing his support behind the UK Nature's Rights Bill. Send your MP the template email asking them to support this bill. Template is available at nataliebennett.org, links in Natalie's bio.
To the “untrained eye” my wildflower garden is very untrained! Perfect! 😆 just what I’ve been hoping for 😂 Today’s butterfly count: Painted Lady, Ringlet, Meadow brown, Small Skipper, Sml Tortoiseshell, Lge & Sml Whites, Common Blue, Comma, Speckled wood, plus lots of moths and Damsel & Dragonflies
Common Twayblades, Pyramidal and Bee Orchids on Minchinhampton Common looking nice among the Thyme and Helianthemum @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Jersey Tiger moths are doing well again in my back garden and emerging from the Green alkanet that’s also a constant buzz with bees
This Dragonfly made it 20 feet from my pond overnight and was quite happy at sunrise on the house wall in the rain. I.D. suggestions welcome if it’s possible in an emerging state #Dragonflies
Lovely day out on the Somerset levels today and in a break from sequencing grassland fungi we went hopping around the meadow to see the Frog orchids, Southern Marsh and a Fragrant hybrid? 🤔 #wildflowerhour
Fungi are crucial to many of life’s ecological ladders, and the first rung that many plants need to exist. Without the plants we don’t get the insects, the birds and mammals that depend on them, including us! Yet Fungi are continually ignored. #Conservation #Fungi #Ecology #Naturalist #Fungifriends
How does a spider choose its flowers? 🕷️🌸 Meet Misumena vatia – an ambush predator that hunts pollinators, takes down huge prey, and even changes colour to camouflage. Join @envirosyment.bsky.social on 2 June to see how modern ecology uncovers these secrets: 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1915221742...
I’ve only a small back garden but it’s nice to escape to. Sat out looking at the Mayfly dancing up and down while I’m waiting for the early bats to arrive over the wildflower garden. Vetch have done very well this year, Bythinian in particular benefitted from the wet winter @bsbibotany.bsky.social
More “Pets” in the wildlife garden 😃 I wondered what was turfing out the old Blue Tit nest. they’re quite industrial.
Aquatic Fungi Diversity 2026! Celebrate #BiodiversityDay with us 💧🍄This Friday💧🍄 4 talks highlighting marine and freshwater fungi by experts from around the world. Register here: tinyurl.com/aquaticfungi... @funaction.bsky.social @mostfun.bsky.social @iucnaquafungi.bsky.social & GCSS
Green-winged orchid Selsley Common, Stroud yesterday. Just look at those petticoats 😃
Toads have fab eyes… who could resist such beauty? 😂
Nice to see a sleeping bee and a ladybird on my Cuckooflower when I got home from work today. Happy Earth Day everyone, let’s not forget when we look at nature the soil itself holds many secrets and should be valued for what we cannot see 👀
Well that was fun, a week in Sweden with like minded fungi conservationists. We even ventured into the forest to see the Witches cauldron - Sarcosoma globosum not yet recorded in Britain #Fungifriends #Fungi #Mycology #Nature #Wildlife #Conservation #Mushrooms
Looking forward to speaking about Rights for Nature at this event in May with the British Ecological Society. Suspect tickets may sell out at the wonderful Burlington House. #NaturesRights www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/righ...
Could Rights of Nature save Britain’s disappearing wildlife? - British Ecological Society
Join us for a special evening at Burlington House as our expert panel of ecologists, lawyers and members of parliament debate this innovative approach to protecting our vanishing biodiversity.
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Newly described Entoloma griseopulchrum, part of the E. undulatosporum group. This was from Minchinhampton Common in the Cotswolds, confirmed by Machiel Noordeloos the genus global expert. #FungiFriends #Mycology #Mushrooms #Fungi #Naturalist #UKWildlife
Friday fungi - Neohygrocybe nitrata listed as “VU” to extinction in the wild on the IUCN Red list and is a good indicator species of quality grassland fungi habitat #Fungi #Mushrooms #UKNature #FungiFriends #Naturalist #Waxcaps #Conservation #Mycology
Great to see the Fungi Kingdom gaining more recognition. Hopefully the foundational role fungi have in our ecosystems will receive greater conservation efforts #Fungi #Mycology #Mushrooms #UKNature #FungiFriends #Naturalist #Wildlife
Matt Wainhouse@funganaught.bsky.social · 9mo ago@nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social raising a great question of government
Something for the weekend - Vermilion waxcap - Hygrocybe miniata in its most glorious red. Exmoor grassland #FungiFriends #Fungi #Mushrooms #Mycology #UKNature #Naturalist #UKWildlife
