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Wildflower seedlings 🌱 from Seedball this November.

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Frosty oak leaf, this morning.

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It's bitterly cold here, grey and sleety. Summer seems a distant memory all of a sudden. Here's Clifton Ings in its early-summer glory to warm things up. This site has been managed as hay meadows for over a thousand years, and possibly since Roman times.

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Today’s #AutumnArrivalSpotlight is the Scaup, the UK’s rarest breeding duck! 🦆 Numbers build in winter as birds arrive from Iceland and Scandinavia, gracing our coastal waters. Look for their striking plumage and rounded heads as they dive in search of mussels & crustaceans.

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Exciting new announcement for @northcavewet.bsky.social from Yorkshire Wildlife Trust www.ywt.org.uk/news/yorkshi...

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Bluesky has topped 20 million users! That's the same amount of users as there are tonnes of carbon stored in the Peak District's peat bogs. Hurrah for Bluesky & Peatlands! If you'd like to buy bare-root plants for the winter season & keep peat in the ground, check out the Peat Free Nurseries List:

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Moomin Winter Snow - Tove Jansson I always hoped when I was little that I might one day visit Moomin Valley. Maybe this winter..... #moomins #winter #snow #ToveJansson

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This cold snap reminded me of one of my favourite ever butterfly-related photos, by the incredible Ben Greenaway ... a 3rd instar Purple Emperor caterpillar on its 'dangle leaf', that is silked onto the stem to stop it falling 🦋

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Here are three wintry woods, supported by the Wildlife Trust, to visit if you live in or near London: seedball.co.uk/explore-lond...

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First bird of my day: ‘my’ Dunnock, sleek grey against the bright snow, the garden white, autumn leaves burning gold underneath the laden branches and somewhere hidden within the ivy, a choir of sparrows chattering. #FirstBirdOfMyDay #WhatsYours

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#SnowOff

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Are you a moth trapper based in the UK, Ireland or Channel Islands? Why not get involved with #GardenMothScheme! Our summer recording season has come to a close, but we have a winter scheme for the brave all-weather trappers. Download a recording form here: gardenmothscheme.org.uk/downloads

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#TheWinter10 Part 1 Dandelion on the green out the front on Tuesday and scentless mayweed, buttercup and bramble flower at Lakeside Country Park on Monday. #WildflowerHour

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When northern bogs first started forming following deglaciation, they caused some global warming. However, for the past many thousands of years they have cooled our climate. We need to save bogs and protect peat by keeping it mucky, healthy, and wet.

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A beautiful collection for the winter ten! Thank you for sharing them Lesley! 🌸🌿👏🏻

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More flowers and wildlife-friendly gardening practices can create habitats and food for wildlife - like this tiny solitary bee.

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This is Ivy, she roots for nature, the autumn flowers in her hair, feed late-flying pollinators, and her dusky winter berries sustain the birds, who find shelter and nest in her canopy. #dontcutivy

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Last Oxeye daisies blooming at the Seedball allotment 💚💚💚

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Blue sky over the allotment…

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Happy Saturday nature-lovers. 💚🐝 We thought we’d have a hover over here for a look see, from you know where!

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I hadn't seen any barn owls since summer, so I was very happy to spot this cutie the other day. #birds #owls 📷 🪶

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The last Photo I took.... Hopefully the first of many more over here on Bluesky...

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Lovely Guardian country diary to start the day from @jensoilandpen.bsky.social on the life that thrives in & around Merseyside's 1950s municipal waste tips & spoil from the first Mersey tunnel. What's the point of Saturday morning if it doesn't include a few Turnstones? #naturewriting

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Great Horned Owl in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. 🪶🦉 #birds #owls #nature #naturephotography

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A moment of play for today's #FoxOfTheDay , shared by @kartoffelpilz on Instagram

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Here is a brief primer on permafrost carbon. Permafrost (frozen soil) stores a HUGE amount of carbon because ancient life took up carbon dioxide, built biomass, then died. These organisms' organic matter (~50% C) slowly accrued in Earth's best freezer for 1000s of yrs. 1/

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Calling All Nature Lovers 🐝🌸🦋 Seedballs make growing wildflowers easy. 🐝🌸🦋 Chili powder and clay protect the seeds plus peat-free compost helps germination. All wrapped up and ready to grow! So simple to use. seedball.co.uk/product/butt...

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Read the Seedball blog on why autumn is a great time to scatter wildflower Seedballs. If you haven’t had your first frost, there’s still time… seedball.co.uk/why-autumn-i...

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Knapweed (Centaurea Nigra), is loved by bumblebees and other pollinators.

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Tonight, the Woodcock Moon rises. 🌕 Folklore whispers of Woodcocks awaiting this moonlit night to cross the seas and arrive in huge numbers on our shores. It was believed tiny Goldcrests journeyed with them—riding on their backs! Look up for the final Supermoon of the year. Moonrise: 15:29*

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Deadwood is good! Many larvae of insects use dead or decaying wood as a food source, including the endangered Stag Beetle

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NEW!!! Monthly subscription boxes Seedball goodies, get planting with wildlife in mind…. Enjoy something seasonal, new and unique with every delivery – no repeats, we promise! Over the year, get to try out new product releases too. seedball.co.uk/product/seed...

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The last supermoon of the year, known as the Beaver moon, Woodcock, or Frost moon, depending on where you are in the world! This beautiful shot was snapped on the way home in London, UK 15.11.24. Image by : D.Oxley

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Loving, leaving the leaves, to mulch borders and provide winter shelter for insects.

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How to take part in Wildflower Hour which is EVERY Sunday 8-9pm. During the week find an open flower (wild or naturalised, not planted) from anywhere across Britain & Ireland & share on Sunday evening using #wildflowerhour! Fancy an extra challenge? See if you can find ten blooms for #thewinter10!

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