FortyFouristheMagicNumber

@elonmusk Adieu. A final farewell.

Take a moment to notice nature

@townsendoutdoor I've converted to Locus app after being a Viewranger fan. I think I've tried all of these others and they're not as good. Do check to see if Locus could be of use to you too. Still cross that os maps app is so useless compared to the brilliant Viewranger.

What?!?

Had a lovely walk in the road this evening... 🤬 @YPLAC

It didn't end at those few

@WildWestacre Wolf!?

My night cannot get any better

@andyheald @NEForestry I'll admit I'm partial to a good ale, and this reminds me that when I was in FC and was assessing a grant application from a brewery owner, an objective for their afforestation plan was to grow trees they could use to flavour their beers. I can't recall what they planted tho!

Spruce Tip Pale Ale courtesy of @NEForestry 🌲🍺 newenglandforestry.org/connect/events/

@BrewDog 🦡🏆

Tell us the last beer you drank using only emojis.

Operations on the steeper ground are paused whilst it's so damp in Yorkshire, but Ash management continues, as do the steam trains and silver washed fritillary butterflies.

@AspectForest I will recommend a Collins book, if you are interested. It's not as complicated as other butterfly guides and is excellent for comparison species and focus on UK. Written and illustrated by @rlewington2

A really big thank you @fouristhe really appreciate the information and help with the ID. Very chuffed about the Silver washed fritillary. I thought that’s what it could be but the silver strips on the wings were not obvious. Thank you again for your time.

@AspectForest Silver washed fritillary. Can look similar colour to comma, but no wavey edge wings and actually a stunning butterfly to find. Much is made of these, and rightly so. Glorious butterfly species. Some of the sub varieties really are silvery, there's a type 'valezina' u can Google.

It’s been so wet on our current site that I can’t get my truck in. So having my breaks next to this arable field margin. It’s covered in butterflies, bees and moths mostly settling on the thistle flowers. A brilliant farmland habitat (1/4)

@AspectForest @wildlifebcn @suffolkwildlife @JennyA_Rawson @stuttonsparrows @GrahamDenny9 @TrooperSnooks You got this. Red admiral. It's Latin name is 'Vanessa' so I somehow seem to say in my head every time I see these the name Vanessa. Which could be confusing to any passer by if I was muttering away to myself at all! 🤓

Butterfly ID anyone? I am fine with some e.g. the red admiral but more uncertain about the ones at the beginning of the thread. @wildlifebcn @suffolkwildlife @JennyA_Rawson @stuttonsparrows @GrahamDenny9 @TrooperSnooks

@AspectForest @wildlifebcn @suffolkwildlife @JennyA_Rawson @stuttonsparrows @GrahamDenny9 @TrooperSnooks Comma. Look at the tatty wing edge, the bright orange upper wing, and if at rest, they have a white comma shaped mark in the otherwise very well camouflaged underwing, which when closed can make them hard to spot!

@AspectForest Meadow brown. Not to be confused with very slightly similar gatekeeper when observing underwing at rest. Or ringlet, which are darker and slightly smaller. Most ringlet seem to have finished flying now it seems around here.

@AspectForest Gatekeeper. Lovely and also quite aggressive to other butterflies as they 'keep their gate' territories

@_JoelAshton @TheParksTrust I'll never forget my grandad saying "horse aren't stupid". (In a Suffolk accent telling me countryman knowledge from the days of everyone knowing about horses and their uses before there were engines everywhere.)

This is INFURIATING! 😡 Probably the worst example of fear mongering I’ve seen this year!! Lovely people of Twitter, please enlighten @TheParksTrust as to the benefits of #Ragwort. FYI @TheParksTrust, horses won’t eat it if left in their field. How do you think the Konik ponies have survived for millennia? Could it be that they have evolved to NOT EAT Ragwort? Also, have you forgotten your own description of this place…? A “Nature Reserve.” Is #Ragwort not part of this landscape and therefore providing a vital source of pollen, nectar and acting as a larval food-plant for many insects? Perhaps you should consider abandoning your event on the 29th “…to remove as many of these poisonous plants…” so as to let the native flora and fauna thrive?? This kind of scare mongering around one of the UK’s most valuable native wildflowers needs to stop…

@jharphamtrees It's a very wet site! With very steep slopes! I actually never thought I'd see this actually get worked! I just hope it all dries up more from here on in...

@fouristhe Band tracks in July, never a good sign

Finally started today after two years planning of this operation. Complicated by sssi, steep ground, lack of contractors, poor log prices, schedule 1 breeding birds and weather conditions being able to work the site. Let's see how this goes over the next few weeks!

@WildWestacre @andyheald @CommonsEAC Totally recognise that view point and I know there are fantastic forestry professionals who are not chartered. I was torn about it myself, and think there has to be some other way of qualifying that 'trusted' agent / forester that is not just the chartered model.

@andyheald @CommonsEAC Chartered! here we go again. There are plenty of excellent forest experts out here who don't want anything to do with the ICF.

Good letter from Prof Wilson on recent @CommonsEAC forestry report. “One way of reducing complexity would be to give greater autonomy to tree and woodland professionals.” theguardian.com/environment/20…