Richard Hollis

Check out our latest adventure from the summer exploring parts of the South West Coast Path for great scenery and beautiful wildflowers 🌼 looking forward to next year's season already! @CwallWildlife @DevonWildlife @wildflower_hour @BSBIbotany youtu.be/0OH0vf_KvcI?si…

Last week we held a Birds of Bodmin event at Treveddoe Farm. We learnt from @FWAGSouthWest advisers how to ID commonly found birds before putting it into practice. We spotted Redwings, Meadow Pipits, Pied Wagtail, Great Tit's and Robin's amongst others.

Join us at Treveddoe Farm to learn about the farmland birds found on Bodmin Moor. Learn how to identify commonly found birds and to complete the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust’s annual Big Farmland Bird Count. Lunch provided. fwagsw.org.uk/Event/birds-of…

📢New paper on planting #hedgerows How much additional soil carbon builds up after planting hedges on grassland? We looked at hedge #soil carbon storage across regions with different geologies and climate in England 📜doi.org/10.1016/j.agee… thread ⬇️

Farmers are being asked to cut their hedges once every two to three years instead of annually, as well as let them grow a bit longer to help nature thrive: bit.ly/3TXLqer

Two new exciting opportunities in Devon and Cornwall! We're looking to recruit two Assistant Farm Environment Advisers to join our existing team. We offer a fantastic training programme and flexible working. Find out more at... fwagsw.org.uk/Pages/Category…

Weasel's Snout! Not in an arable field, but a gateway that had been well used during winter #wildflowerhour

My first Gentians! I think Chiltern Gentians at Ivinghoe Beacon, Bedfordshire. A few others hanging on nearby like Clustered Bellflower, Greater Knapweed and Marjoram too #wildflowerhour

Join us for a farm walk next Thursday, hosted by dairy farmers Bridget and Martin Whell. Come and find out why they were crowned winners of the Cornwall Otter Award. Book your place here fwagsw.org.uk/Event/cornwall…

@FWAGSouthWest Hey @TrewithenDairy @nfusouth @Trinkdairy @NFFNUK @kernowbeaver please feel free to share with your members and colleagues, all are very welcome 🙂

Out on my annual Heath Lobelia survey, volunteering for @speciesrecovery, on this #bogday! Lots of tall spires plus Wavy St John's Wort and plenty more in flower having enjoyed a wet year #wildflowerhour #lobeliaurens @CwallWildlife @BSBIbotany @wildflower_hour

@Tazzyb @dynamicdunes @Love_plants @BBCSpringwatch Yes! They have such bright happy faces 🌞

Crossed the border into Devon this weekend to search for the Dune Early Marsh Orchid and Dune Pansies! Absolute beauties and an amazing nature reserve at Braunton Burrows, full of flowers 😍 #Devon #wildflowerhour #orchidchallenge @dynamicdunes @Love_plants @BBCSpringwatch

@organicbotanic @ThreeBaysWild @wildflower_hour @nationaltrust Thank you!

@RichardSHollis @ThreeBaysWild @wildflower_hour @nationaltrust Lovely photos

Braved the showers on the coast to look for a new plant, and success! Carrot Broomrape parasitising Sea Carrot (not the healthy one in photo 2, I can assure you!) well worth the soggy walk home #wildflowerhour #Orobanche #cornwall @ThreeBaysWild @wildflower_hour @nationaltrust

@wildflower_hour @ThreeBaysWild @nationaltrust Thanks so much!

@RichardSHollis @ThreeBaysWild @nationaltrust Oh wow! Lovely find!

Lovely to be spotting Skylark fledglings having success in this herbal ley being grazed by sheep. There’s a lot of grass there so we’re leaving a good trampled residual behind which is proving an ideal habitat for these birds to bring up their young safely!

Incredible show of #NorthernLights last night from my garden in #cornwall and then rushed out to the open skies of the moors! What a treat 😊 #NorthernLightsuk #Auroraborealis

Farming with or farming around nature Top marks to this farmer for identifying lapwings nesting on his field destined for spring cropping Ploughed cultivated and drilled around nests 10 in total with three already hatched #MakingSpaceForNature