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Enjoying the nature and history of east Kent, after a lifetime of spreadsheets.
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My first tubular water-dropwort! Nobody told me that it could be just a few cm tall. #wildflowerhour #aquaticplants

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Overjoyed to see flowering rush thriving nearby in east Kent - #wildflowerhour #aquaticplants

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Found the data on Dover's deluge last week: 6cm in Dover, with 5.3cm in 30 minutes. "Only" 5cm in Deal, but 10cm in Eastry!! 2025-06-13T21:15 0.1mm 2025-06-13T21:30 1.5 2025-06-13T21:45 971.3 2025-06-13T22:00 12.7 2025-06-13T22:15 1.5 2025-06-13T22:30 1.1 2025-06-13T22:45 0.7

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Spot 2 birds in the photo. Many of the "putlog" holes at Winchelsea church are now accommodation for Swifts. Some are tailor made and others are just made with stone part obscuring the hole. Putlog holes are holes made in walls to receive the ends of beams, called putlogs, to support a scaffolding.

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Bulrushes have flowers too - when gently flicked this one released clouds of pollen #wildflowerhour

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The app’s graphic of the storm looks like a nest of money spiders.

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Stopped off to visit the Wingham Elm (Ulmus x “Wingham”) developed with resistance to Dutch elm disease.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

It must be summer then!

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My first marbled whites of the year today, at Sandwich (the admirable Monks Wall reserve)- seems early

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Don’t often see common bistort in the chalklands of east Kent. Here with two friends #wildflowerhour

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This is a first for me - flowering-rush in a small pond in east Kent. What a stunning plant.

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

Blue fleabane on 1st June? Good grief #wildflowerhour

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

A brief stroll in Walmer beach put up 30+ painted ladies. Should be interesting tomorrow.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Four-spotted chaser - so furry!

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June is the time for scything in suitable clothing. #medievalcalendar BnF NAL 3055; Livre d'Heures de Jean Sans Peur, duc de Bourgogne; 15th century; f.6r @gallicabnf.bsky.social

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

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In the words of the bard (or was it The Monkees?)…. …. here we come!

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Yellow lupin naturalised on the golf links near Sandwich #wildflowerhour

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A pleasure to find celery-leaved buttercup near home. #wildflowerhour

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Another good afternoon around Worth Marshes, identifying sedges, listening to sedge warblers, and enjoying views of reed buntings and a white stork.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Scaly male-fern (or golden-scaled if you prefer) unfurling for #fernfriday

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Is this yellow vetch Vivian lutea? Seen north of Canterbury #wildflowerhour

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@allenross.bsky.social Good luck to Palace today, followed by an Estonian Eurovision win!

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Rosy garlic having a good year on the Kent coast (almost none last year in the wet and cold) #wildflowerhour

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Very few early spider-orchids flowering at Samphire Hoe, but this cheeky chappie made up for it.

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

(🎁) GIFT LINK to a stunning but also inarguable New York Times piece that says in no uncertain terms that America is no longer a democracy but an autocracy.

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Well done Dover Athletic, bounced back! A rollercoaster season but saved the best to the last games.

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A large number of common gromwell plants have appeared where the farmer has cleared scrub - lovely new habitat. #wildflowerhour

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Hard ferns in Blean Woods #fernfriday

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Ravens nesting on a pylon in east Kent - chasing off any passing buzzards and crows.

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I can imagine lots of amateur naturalists roaming the countryside at night .... I have already bought my UV torch..... @savebutterflies.bsky.social butterfly-conservation.org/news-and-blo...

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Glorious day for a walk around Blean woods - wild service tree and golden saxifrage the highlights. As well as my first nightingale of the season. And all by bus 😃

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

Check out these pics from Warden Karen at Coombe Down. Cowslips now blooming in an area where mature scrub was cleared just over a year ago. It’s an example of how work can look destructive at first, but give nature time, and the results speak for themselves. This is why we do what we do!

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An antithesis of a #tinyplant for #wildflowerhour - a spectacular cowslip, presumably affected by fasciation.

submitted 63 days ago • 3 comments

It’s really that simple: Trump only thinks in zero sum, with the winner getting to have their way. 🎁 Link: on.ft.com/42Ogwd0 Yuval Noah Harari: Trump’s world of rival fortresses

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment