Started reading: Osprey by John Lister-Kaye 📚

Female and male Ospreys over Lytchett Bay at about 9.50am today. Female caught a fish and flew towards Wareham Channel with it. @harbourbirds.bsky.social @ukoi.bsky.social @lytchettbirder.bsky.social

My weekend’s reading sorted… Thanks, @littletollerbooks.bsky.social !

Pre-strategy workshop breakfast in Market Deeping.

💃🪩🕺Yes Sir, I can boogie! But how will score in the TreeFA World Cup? ⚽️ With the FIFA World Cup kicking-off, we’ve created our own knockout tournament with a tree-twist. 🌍️ Test your global tree knowledge with our TreeFA World Cup quiz 👉️ buff.ly/nI9msk9 Top of the group? Share your score below 👇️

TreeFA World Cup Quiz - Woodland Trust

Test your global tree knowledge with our tree-themed World Cup quiz and see which country comes out on top in each group.

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Well, this is exciting — a wild pine marten spotted just down the road from me in Worthing. It’s the first time in over a century.

Pine marten spotted in Worthing garden is first seen in 100 years

The last recorded sighting of a pine marten in the region was in the village of Woolbeding in 1923.

bbc.co.uk

Enjoying a solstice party on the beach.

"Trees don’t run you over; they don’t shout at you or nick your mobile. In fact there’s a good argument to say that trees are better than people." — Jeremy Vine, in Broadleaf, the @woodlandtrust.org.uk magazine.

The Woodland Trust

The UK's largest woodland conservation charity. We want to see a UK rich in native woods and trees. For people. For wildlife. We can't achieve our vision without you.

woodlandtrust.org.uk

Started reading: Overnight: Journeys, Conversations and Stories After Dark by Dan Richards 📚

Overnight

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Happy birthday Sir David Attenborough! He's seen a huge amount of change to our planet, bringing us stories of despair -- and crucially, hope. free read via @opinion www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

There Will Never Be Another David Attenborough

If you look up “national treasure” in the dictionary, I’d half expect to find a picture of Sir David Attenborough. As he turns 100 on Friday, his remarkable career speaks to both our changing planet, ...

bloomberg.com

LOUIS!!! 👉 buff.ly/8WnEU5G

Started reading: Ancient - Reviving the Woods That Made Britain by Luke Barley 📚

Started reading: The English Path by Kim Taplin 📚

Bird feeders scrubbed, dried, disinfected and refilled.

A particularly friendly robin caught in winter winds at RSPB Pulborough Brooks this afternoon. https://fieldnotes.walkingwithdaddy.com/2026/02/16/a-particularly-friendly-robin-caught.html

The last time we had free time on a dreich day like today, we went walking on the dunes: www.coffeeandcomplexity.com/the-dunes-of...

The dunes of Littlehampton

How to spend our first weekend alone together since parenthood? Walking in the rain.

coffeeandcomplexity.com

Looks like the @kneppwilding.bsky.social white stork cam is live: whitestorkproject.org/live-cam-feed/

Live Cam Feed

Here is a live camera feed on one of our stork's nests at Knepp Estate!

whitestorkproject.org

Started reading: The Return of the Grey Partridge by Roger Morgan-Grenville 📚

Started reading: Time and Tide by Fiona Stafford 📚

Fungi season. The woods were full of them yesterday.

"And then autumn is motorway rain and the dirty courts of service stations, greys and greases and the smeared crimson brake lights streaming into junctions, and days that seem to shut themselves down, disgusted and forgettable." — Horatio Clare in Autumn, edited by Melissa Harrison 📚

Started reading: Autumn by Melissa Harrison 📚

Been doing a little fiddling with the theme on Walking With Daddy, now it’s all @ghost.org 6.0 compliant. Feeling very happy with it. walkingwithdaddy.com

Walking With Daddy

A blog about instilling a love of nature and the great outdoors into my daughters.

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WTF @wordpress.org – cmd+K to insert a link, as it has been for years, still visible in the toolbar tooltips, but when I type it I get this? Tell me this is a "me" problem and I can fix it myself, please.

Bafflingly there are still people out there in the world who think being passionate about nature is “kind of weird”. or “a niche interest”. These people have it all wrong. Nature isn’t some quirky sideline to the main business. It IS the main business.

Spending some quality late summer time with my girls and the local nature reserve.

Late Summer at Woods Mill

Secret dens and dirty hands at the Sussex nature reserve

walkingwithdaddy.com

Started reading: The Hard Way by Susannah Walker 📚 I think I’ll pass it on to my eldest daughter when I’m done.

The Hard Way

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Stunning work there, Mr Spider.

Currently reading: The Accidental Garden by Richard Mabey 📚 Starting to work my way through the Wainwright Prize shortlist.

The Accidental Garden

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Anna Wintour leaving Vogue: "Vogue editor-in-chief of 37 years and fashion mogul icon Anna Wintour will step down after the magazine’s next cover release. The inspiration for The Devil Wears Prada will conti... https://fieldnotes.walkingwithdaddy.com/2025/06/27/anna-wintour-leaving-vogue-vogue.html

Social media floored by Anna Wintour leaving Vogue: "Recession indicator"

"The fashion version of Beyoncé quitting music."

dailydot.com