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Environment, food, farming, gardening, sometimes with a Kentish slant. Side interest in astroturfing & computational propaganda.
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Every parish has an Ivy dickhead.

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Weird parasitic Dodder plants snaking their way through a Kentish meadow.

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Peacock on a field boundary Chequertree at Bridgefield, Ashford today. A reminder that this site was ancient woodland until at least the 1940s before being flattened for agriculture by 1960. Now being repurposed again as a new build housing estate.

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Dead wood is known to be important in forests. The RSPB are carrying out experiments as part of the Cairngorm Connect project to creat deadwood at scale with remarkable consequences. youtu.be/4VFhv3RUrys

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

A nice looking Lackey caterpillar in Woodchurch yesterday evening.

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First Poplar Hawkmoth I've seen this Spring, lovely! Also I've never noticed before how much the tufts on Frosted Green moths look like little cat ears :-)

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What hope have our rivers got? Huge pile of stinking poultry litter/manure, 25m long, 4m wide and 2m high, just 3 or 4 metres from the water's edge along the East Stour River, Kent and another even larger pile set further back. The field is usually underwater for several months of the year.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Pleased to find a new monad for the lovely White Sedge (Carex canescens), a very rare plant in Kent. As is usual in these parts it's growing in a peaty woodland pool.

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

Extraordinary markings on this Purple Thorn make me think of of intricate inlays on fancy furniture.

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The Blackthorn flowers are incredible this year, what an absolute joy!

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And much more diverse than expensive, dreary rows of plastic tubes favoured by politicians and organisations who make money from planting dreary rows of plastic tubes.

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

Scrub bashing at Dungeness earlier ,before starting had a quick look along the power station wire fence and found a superb male Black Redstart ,joined after a while by a female.On the way home I had an hour in the local wood and was very pleased to find 2 Large Tortoiseshell ,my 5th and 6th of 25'

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Curious framing of council tax increases for 2nd home owners by Dan Whitehead on Sky News site. The quote 'naked cash grab' from the "Taxpayers' Alliance", a Tufton St junk tank, is placed front & centre, getting mentioned 3 times. I don't think that this is an accident. news.sky.com/story/second...

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

After a bit of scrub bashing at Dungeness earlier thought i,d have a quick stop on the way home to try for a Large Tortoiseshell .......a few having been noted recently locally, ,fairly busy again ,tried a quieter section and was rewarded with one sighting.

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

The BBC and our political leaders are simply incapable of understanding, or reporting, what is happening right now. The BBC continues to deal with Trumps' infantile outbursts as if they were carefully crafted position statements produced by civil servants, speech writers & SPADs; needing analysis.

submitted 92 days ago • 1 comment

Arable farmland. The new normal in the new climate. It’s been like this for most of the last few years, purely due to more frequent & heavier rainfall.

submitted 112 days ago • 2 comments

Some signs of Spring are beginning to appear in the garden now including these Winter Aconites which opened in the sunshine today, one complete with a tiny pollinator. They're running perhaps a little behind compared to recent Winters.

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