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The Wivenhoe tree Boooo to #Aviva

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After six weeks of our lives being dominated by the tree, our tree, I thought it was time to synthesise my thoughts into a blog...the story so far. www.chrisgibsonwildlife.co.uk/saving-wiven... @stopthechop.bsky.social

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Three years ago today, making the most of moss gardens before flowers - the new kids on the block - take over the Spring show. #WildEssex

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In the garden today. With the sunshine and relative warmth, along came our first Anthophora plumipes (male and female) and Bombylius major of the year. Only managed pics of Mrs Hairyfoot, and most of those were duffers. #bees #BeeFlies #ento #UKwildlife

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Emerged today from its winter cocoon in damp sand, this rather wonderful Sciapteryx costalis soror (the Shady Sister) sawfly. Rarely seen due to their habit of skulking around at ground level.

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New blog just published: Disneyland Paris: a world away from our normal life! www.chrisgibsonwildlife.co.uk/disneyland-p...

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#WildEssex, but in this picture it is actually wilder across the border in Suffolk... three years ago today, Mistley Walls, Stour Estuary.

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Gannets - by Dumfries and Galloway artist and printmaker, Lisa Hooper Because you can never have too many Gannets (or Lisa Hooper prints) in your Bluesky feed More of this artist's wonderful prints, here: hoopoeprints.co.uk #birds #art #seabirds #birdart #gannets 🪶

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𝐻𝑖𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑎 𝑣𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑡𝑎(Adonis' Ladybird) yesterday. About to fly...

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@stopthechop.bsky.social After another tumultuous week of emotion, including now-shelved plans to net our tree to prevent birds breeding (which would halt plans to fell), the tree has now had a haircut, we hope as a prelude to letting it live.

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After visiting the exotic orchids at Kew on Tuesday, I went on a quest yesterday to see how my local Early Purple and Bee Orchids were getting on. 🥰

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A flurry of Snow (Buntings). Cley, North Norfolk, 16 years ago todsy

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Sunrise over Alresford Creek, 12 years ago. #WildEssex

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Today is Zombie Fly Day, or was 6 years ago when we found this at Beth Chatto Gardens. A fly infected with an entomopathogenic fungus had crawled to the highest point of a tree (the fungus had taken its brain over and made it do it) where the fungus erupted from the body and shed spores everywhere

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Frozen in time: the Mundon Oaks. Two years ago today #WildEssex

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Twelve years ago today, mudflats in the Colne Estuary thown into relief by the low midday sun #WildEssex

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Morning tide, #WildWivenhoe, six years ago today

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A couple of blasts from the past. First from 2008, colour in the wintergreen never better expressed than at Bressingham Gardens..

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Celebratory mood at @stopthechop.bsky.social today, as we seem to have succeded in the first battle of the war. Council has agreed inter alia to a stay of execution and to try and facilitate release of 'evidence' so that we can evaluate that by which it was condemned. What we asked for all along 1/2

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Word for the day: Marcescence - the phenomenon where some trees keep their dry leaves through the winter instead of shedding them. And patches of OUR tree show this! @stopthechop.bsky.social

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Back yet again under the tree. We were hopeful agreement had been reached, but ... At least the tree still stands. And spring is bursting, albeit slowly: the bird song being day-length dependent is unaffected by the cold. @stopthechop.bsky.social

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@stopthechop.bsky.social back yet again under the tree. We were hopeful agreement had been reached, but ... At least the tree still stands. And spring is bursting, albeit slowly: the bird song being day-length dependent is unaffected by the cold.

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Cold and grey at Mistley Walls, on the Essex shore of the Stour Estuary today. Not many birds as the tide was unexpectedly high...but those we did see we saw well! Wigeon & Redshank

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If you go down to the woods today, the gloom might be lifted by this: #WildEssex has its regular 'Hunting the Elf' walk on 24 February

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@stopthechop.bsky.social back again, under the tree, under leaden skies. Two days on from our last shift, and the silence is deafening, save the liquid cadence of Robins... at least Nature is speaking to us.

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February leaf and light: Beth Chatto Gardens

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When is a petal not a petal? When it's a petaloid sepal, and the petals are actually tubular nectaries, feeding the bees. Winter Aconite (Eranthis hyemalis), Beth Chatto Gardens

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New blog just posted, photos of a walk on the Essex Coast from Frinton to Walton www.chrisgibsonwildlife.co.uk/oh-we-do-lik... #NatureWriting

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It's a grade A grey day in #WildEssex. So here's the sunset 20 years ago today..

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@stopthechop.bsky.social Back again protecting. We have tidied the route in and out so there's nothing (except the council fence) to stop the council reopening the car park, is there? (.... tumbleweed moment...)

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Pic of the day Death and Life - Gustav Klimt

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World within a world. #WildWivenhoe

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@stopthechop.bsky.social all quiet by our tree. But the silence from the council is deafening. At least the bright moon is keeping us company!

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Serenity on the Stour Estuary, fifteen years ago today. #WildEssex

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