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NHS worker by day but here on Bluesky for nature, wildlife, history and art. Love learning and following interesting and positive accounts Based Birmingham UK
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I heard someone talking on the radio this morning about leaving #dog hair out for #birds to use in their nests *If pets have been treated with certain flea treatments, this could kill the chicks* Now seems a good time to repost this article 👇 #neonicotinods www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Had fun counting garden birds this weekend? 🌿🐦 Join BTO’s Garden BirdWatch and record your visitors weekly! See your garden wildlife change through the seasons and help us learn more about garden ecosystems. bto.org/gardenbirds #GardenBirds #Birdwatching

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Could you grow breakfast for a bumblebee? Plants that produce nectar-rich flowers in winter and early spring are a vital source of food for pollinators when they emerge from hibernation. Ideas for plants to grow: bit.ly/3u5JoyY #nature #biodiversity

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

Help bring a Library of Things to your area. This is what we need to kick-start a circular, zero waste economy. Let's get this done in 2025: www.libraryofthings.co.uk/add-new-peti...

submitted 56 days ago • 5 comments

8 easy ways to get micro-rewilding in your garden or local area: 🐞 Let the grass grow 🐝 Ditch the poison 🍃 Embrace some mess 🌳 Plant trees 🌿 Scrub-up 🌻 Plant with nature in mind 🐸 Go wild for water 🌱 Look after the soil 🐾 More: bit.ly/2P4TYBQ #biodiversity #nature #wildlife

submitted 67 days ago • 2 comments

If you care about the future of the NHS & you see this on Boxing Day, please could you share this? If we want privatisation to be removed from the NHS, NHS campaigners like me have a *lot* of work to do next year and…I’d just like to see if people care enough about this for our campaigning to work…

submitted 65 days ago • 14 comments

My February beginners' botanical illustration & mental health w'shop is now open. I'll teach you: ✒️🌿How to break plants down into simple shapes & add shading 🧠How time spent creatively improves mental health Limited spaces. Earlybird price expires 1 Jan: workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/bota...

submitted 70 days ago • 7 comments

Ever wondered why walking around museums is weirdly tiring? At normal speed our legs act like pendulums, swinging forward from the hip & saving us a huge amount of energy. In "museum shuffle" our muscles must do ALL the work of constant readjustment. So cake in the cafe is scientifically justified 🥳

submitted 83 days ago • 759 comments

Please don't turn your lawn into plastic. Plastic grass reduces food & shelter for wildlife such as bees & butterflies; has a high carbon footprint; sheds micro-plastics which wash into our rivers and seas. Create a wildlife-friendly space instead. More bit.ly/3wE67P8 🐝

submitted 87 days ago • 7 comments

The meanings of the word for a wren, from eight different languages... 8. Little walnut (Bulgarian) 7. Little bird in the ditch (Japanese) 6. Thumbling (Finnish) 5. Fence-skedaddler (Danish) 4. Fence-master (Hebrew) 3. Druid bird (Irish) 2. Mouse-brother (Faroese) 1. Little king of winter (Dutch)

submitted 86 days ago • 181 comments

This evening at 8pm UK time I’ll be putting the last of my ‘25 botanical calendars in my Etsy shop (silverpebble). I design my photos using recent research to move your brain away from fight or flight by just looking at them. Small print run, dispatched by 🎄. Others sold out v. quickly 🌿

submitted 88 days ago • 3 comments

Really looking forward to this :)

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

"Bumblebee population increases 116 times over in 'remarkable' Scotland rewilding project." Read that again: **116** times. Why are we STILL having to argue the case for rewilding?? www.scotsman.com/hays-way/bum...

submitted 92 days ago • 62 comments

Ten thousand 🙏 to everyone who has signed our petition to ban driven grouse shooting! The Govt will now have to respond. But we're not finished yet - we want a parliamentary debate and for that we need 100,000 signatures. Can you help us reach our target? petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

submitted 97 days ago • 12 comments

I would like you, please, to sign this petition to ban driven grouse shooting. The first under a Labour government. 10k signatures gets a government response, 100k a debate in Westminster parliament. UK residents & UK citizens living abroad can sign. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

submitted 98 days ago • 35 comments