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Yorkshire granny, gardening with butterflies, moths and birds in mind.
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Ah #NoMowMay2025 is here! You can give nature the boost it needs & deserves by letting the wildflowers & wildlife in your garden thrive this May. #NoMowMay was founded by the amazing @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social & is led by our friends @plantlifeuk.bsky.social www.plantlife.org.uk/campaigns/no...

Besides the Easter Bunny, who is your favorite fantastical animal? 1. Wine Drunk Wombat 2. Riot Badger 3. Schnapps Weasel 4. Turtle of Destruction

Look what happens when the grass is left uncut Violets 😊

That's 90,000 signatures! 90,000 of you calling for a ban on driven grouse shooting. If we reach 100,000, we can get this debated in parliament. So please sign and share - help us get there!

Learn to recognise widespread UK songbirds in summer by their songs and calls in our Bird Sound ID in Summer sessions. Book now ➡️ www.bto.org/training #Ornithology

📢 We need your help to record Dartford Warbler for the Heathland Birds Survey. Find a priority survey site near you ➡️ www.bto.org/heathlan... #UKBirding #BirdingWales

Baby bird season is rapidly approaching. Please read and share! #BirdsMatter

The wooded North Henge is the most well-preserved of the three late Neolithic monuments at Nosterfield-Thornborough, with both the outer rampart and inner ditch remaining relatively intact.

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If you're in N.Ireland and love plants, this may be your dream job! Please spread the word to any botanists you know! @bsbiscotland.bsky.social @cedar-ni.bsky.social @bitheolaidhe.bsky.social @donnarainey4.bsky.social @martinebrennan.bsky.social @stickybeak.bsky.social @seanronayne.bsky.social

Should we enter the tangled forest and drink wine with the twig witch? Should we cast dark spells and release ancient sea horrors from beneath cold waves? Should we sharpen our antlers with enchanted daggers? The answer is always yes.

Today we finished another one of the sites we manage for butterflies - Malpass Farm in Rugby- a deceptively large site! Great work from all our volunteers 😀 @bcwarwickshire.bsky.social #Rugby #conservation

Pisces: Before challenging someone to handle you at your worst, give some consideration to how unbearable you are even at your best.

Now that Spring is here, it's time to work on your garden. - plant black roses - bury inscribed bones as a ghost fence - plant more black roses - cultivate a wall of writhing brambles so you can finally get some peace

One for you @jesika5555.bsky.social

When we have moment we'll have a go!

2025 Diving Gannet Photography Boat Trips Join us this Summer to photograph the amazing wildlife spectacle of hundreds of Gannets diving for fish off @Bempton_Cliffs on our 4hr and 6hr boat trips. #gannets #divinggannets #bemptoncliffs #yorkshirecoast www.yorkshirecoastnature.co.uk/workshops/ca...

It's #FrohawkFriday, the day we celebrate the pioneering butterfly life-cycle studies & artwork of FW Frohawk. This week features Brimstone, allegedly the original 'butter-fly', but undeniably the most welcome #butterfly herald of imminent spring, a sign of days lengthening and warming.

Request for volunteers! 📢 Can you help us survey priority squares for Woodlark for the Heathland Birds Survey? Sign up ➡️ www.bto.org/heathlan... 📝 We’re especially looking for volunteers in Hampshire, Berkshire and Wiltshire. #Ornithology #UKBirding

One of our incredible young supporters, Jack (11), is taking on two epic treks for wildlife! He’s hiking 177 miles along Offa’s Dyke Path and trekking across Portugal & Spain to Santiago de Compostela - all to raise funds for the RSPB, thank you. Join us in cheering him on 👏

Surveying for the UK-wide Woodlark Survey threw a big surprise with 5 birds just 1km from my front door in Thetford in fallow field opposite a supermarket! Was convinced that square wouldn't have any #UKBirding #NorfolkBirding Still loads of squares to cover -take one on! www.bto.org/our-science/...

If you've enjoyed spotting some early butterflies this spring, why not get involved further and join our surveys. We have three standardised survey methods which provide invaluable data to monitor butterfly populations. See below for more info... 📷 Brimstone: Matt Berry

Meet Glenn Massacre , nationally appointed Crime Reduction Czar for the driven grouse shooting industry . He thinks it's ok that 134 hen harriers are 'missing' or have been illegally killed since 2018 , most on or close to grouse moors . Add your name petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

And if you travel by train, it will still be waiting for you. #LowCarbonBirding

@mikepilsworth.bsky.social This is very apt after our conversation this afternoon 🦋

Cornwall farmer is using beavers to stop flooding what a great story 🦋so pleased they can be legally released in England!

The map of Nightjar squares for this summer’s Heathland Birds Survey is now available. For this survey you only have to be able to identify Nightjars by their distinctive churring call. For more information or to request a square just click here: www.bto.org/our-science/... #ShropshireBirding