Saxilby Nature Project

@birderjack That IS early

1st swift back on #patchbirding 🤩 So excited 😂

@DuncanWestbury @joshual951 Thank you, that's useful to know. And maybe you water them too, which we can't do on a 9 acre site.

@NatureSaxilby @joshual951 Yes and the thing is planting at the right time & keeping the sward cut to 8cm during the first year.

Fantastic, already for the 54 plug plants tomorrow! @joshual951

@BrennanMartine @BSBIbotany It looks like a good year for you.

It is now peak Cowslip time in my field, this one was taller than all the rest. #wildflowerhour @BSBIbotany

@lill_dunne @wildflower_hour @WebsWild @BiodCon_ie @kilkennyweather @GrasslandsIrl Our cowslips have been wonderful this year, like an illustration from some Victorian plant book.

Cowslips from the meadow. @wildflower_hour @WebsWild @BiodCon_ie @kilkennyweather @GrasslandsIrl

@pondsntrees Certainly the weed sprays have had a major effect. But cutting the lawns actually benefits the daisies, because when the grass gets too long the little daisy leaves don't see as much sunlight. They thrive in a shorter lawn.

When I was a child there was daisies everywhere, in our lawns, our school playing fields, thousands of them everywhere. It occurred to me today that I don't see them much anymore. Is it sprays? or cutting? Both I guess. It's definitely sad though.

@LoveGrowingVeg We visited our two fields today, and the best area for insects by far were among the thick young blackthorn.

The farms naturally regenerated blackthorn is slowly creeping further into the field and is looking magnificent 🤍

@StuartKlinke It looks like the road I took to seek somewhere to pitch my tent for the night. Had to give up. The only horizontal spots were bogs or pools. Took a B&B where she grudgingly allowed me to dry some of my sodden clothes on a rail. But I still love Lochinver.

The Deerhound is having a relaxing morning in the hills of Lochinver

@StuartKlinke What a beautiful photo, wonderful sunlight at a much-loved place.

Just arrived at Lochinver. The Deerhound is living the dream.

@_JoelAshton Wonderful project. I expect that slope will provide just the amount of drainage that wildflowers thrive with. Good luck with the weather! I hope you have help to plant all these.

Full on day today, planting over 300 wildflowers on a south facing wildflower meadow that I manage in Yorkshire. We are looking to improve floral diversity to encourage more insects. Looking forward to seeing this one develop! 🌺🌱

@greenvibe I can just about smell the rank grasses, the warm evening air.... longing for spring!

@Matt_Pinner dog

Left brain sees - cat, Right Brain sees - Pig. What do you see?

@LolaNeuroPhylo I love the feel of alpha brain rhythms, which I recognise from being a subject for brain experiments, and from working in EEG. Fascinating to see your comments that alpha waves are associated with fractal patterns.

The Fractal Starvation One of the most profound ways our modern environment fails us is the lack of "natural fractals." These are the self-repeating patterns found in clouds, trees, coastlines, and mountain ranges. Research in biophilia shows that when the human eye views these specific patterns, the brain produces alpha waves associated with a state of relaxed wakefulness. Our modern world is composed almost entirely of straight lines and flat surfaces. To your ancient visual cortex, a flat white wall is "nothingness." It provides no data. When you spend all day in a square room looking at a square screen, your brain is essentially starving for the complex, soothing geometry it evolved to process. This absence of natural pattern leads to a subtle, chronic cognitive fatigue.

@SarahWoods66 What a lovely mental image, to site Cair Paravel here. It even sounds a little Welsh, doesn't it.

What a stunner of a day it is here. I walked for 2 hours in the woods above Tan y Bwlch, it was great to hear birdsong again & to spot a brave butterfly flitting across my path. If you look closely here you can see Harlech Castle. This view always makes me think of Cair Paravel

@HWarlow I had a calendar a few years ago, of Scottish artists. They mostly had this same wonderful intensity of colour. Love it.

Finally today. John Lowrie Morrison JoLoMo to friends Popular Scottish painter. Thanks my XTwitterarty Back tomorrow. Helen😊😤🥱Stee😤🥱😊 Max🐶💚🙄

@olgatuleninova Gorgeous greens

Henri Matisse The Green Room, 1916

@chefsevenn Of course, we had one when I was a child and we loved turning the handle to transform whatever was in the top.

Does anyone know what it is?

@chefsevenn 1

11 total for me……… what # for you?

@peaklass1 The fusion of man-made and natural is special.

This is one of my favourite #peakdistrict views and it never fails to make me stop and count my blessings. Best seen in low early morning light in autumn or winter, I love the narrow lane twisting through the fields, flanked on both sides by those old stone walls, and the cluster of farmhouses hunkered down beneath the hills. I always feel like I'm looking at a scene that hasn't changed much for centuries, a little time slip.

@ohhanxiety My Granny was Eleanor, as was her mother. I am called after both of them.