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msavagenw.bsky.social
Into green infrastructure & wildlife. Bad birder and now a pensioner too. Hoping to spend more time on 2 wheels.
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I hate them but they’re pretty…

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

"Findings highlight that small-scale habitat conditions—especially the variety of flowering plants and access to sunlight—had a greater influence on bee diversity and abundance than overall habitat size...." Read @jeffollerton.bsky.social' post to learn more 👇 #pollinators #bees #urbanspaces 🌿

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

First Blackcap of the year :)

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Sad to see this lovely Lime gone , but that is a massive cavity… @wtscotsocial.bsky.social @ancienttreeforum.bsky.social

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

I don't want to be on ghastly x anymore but it's where a lot of my sales come from so this post is a brazen request for shares to spread the word about my work on a kinder platform that isn't run by a dangerous megalomaniac! www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Sara... #selfemployedartist #ukgifthour #shopindie

submitted 19 days ago • 48 comments

First time in Gransha Woods since the storm - it’s taken a battering with several trees down across the paths 😞 at least the old Small-leaved Lime has survived…

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Fair few Hawthorn in leaf along Strathfoyle Greenway…

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Niche scything Wordle today…

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Ballykelly looking great, not many birds though…

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

In Hollywood Sainsbury’s I heard a young lad point at a jar of pickled onions and ask his mum ‘are those lychees?’ @bigdirtyfry.bsky.social

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

🚦 Three years on, NI is still waiting for the Highway Code update. With recent tragic cycling deaths, action is urgent. Nearly half of NI residents want to cycle more, but safety fears hold them back. cyclinguk.org/news/lifesaving-highway-code-updates-needed-northern-ireland-after-three-year-delay

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... The mad world of Northern Ireland licensing- refused a licence to sell alcohol so now they’ll ‘kill’ a pub, open a new one and sell off-sales too…

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

@j-dunning.net sorry for odd question but are you the Dunning who did work in Stenner Woods years ago? 😀

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Very clever and very beautiful - who could ask for more?

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

River Cottage don’t seem to get it…

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

In this study authors concluded that beekeeping compromises wild bee conservation in nature reserves. Both taxonomic (TD) and phylogenetic (PD) diversity of wild bees was reduced near to beehives. Keep away beehives from protected areas Tourbez et al. (2025) APIDOLOGIE doi.org/10.1007/s135...

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Woodpecker drumming in Lisnagra Wood! First I’ve heard in Ireland…

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Sandi just said all asparagus is male! Surely not?

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Lovely to be back here… @anncleeves.bsky.social @dfoyliv.bsky.social

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

New report out that records that reducing the mowing done in urban and suburban grass can boost pollinator abundance by 170%. www.conservationevidencejournal.com/reference/pd...

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

Don’t think I’ve ever seen that written down before…

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

@anncleeves.bsky.social loving it, thanks!

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

A Jay in the garden was doing a Buzzard impersonation… :)

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Just found out the Irish dead bird app doesn’t accept UK phone numbers :( so won’t be reporting this at Buncrana…

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

This is great

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

??? I’m no astronomer but surely this isn’t right? @daraobriain.bsky.social

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

I'm sorry - are we just allowed to set up companies that aren't legally affordable? What are you? Thames Water? If you can't pay for what you use, you don't get to use it. You get to make money off the back of the work of people whom you don't pay? Get absolutely fucked. Go disrupt your own anus.

submitted 70 days ago • 16 comments

Just deactivated my twitter ac after latest nonsense from EM so it’s just here now…

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Right, that’s it, I’m unpinning Connections…

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Great Spotted Woodpecker change between 2012-2016 and 2020-2024. EBird and BirdTrack data. #irishbirding

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments