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@james_sellen @CBWPS1 @RareBirdAlertUK @BirdGuides Gorgeous little thing

Great to see this 1st winter juvenile Ross's Gull in Newlyn harbour today (23/02)-a rare visitor to the UK because it breeds in the high Arctic of North America & northeast Siberia.

Four years ago today, Freya the wandering Walrus arrived here in Shetland for a four week stay. 248 days later, she was MURDERED by the Directorate of Fisheries in Norway as she was perceived to be a "continued threat to human safety". Abhorrent and unforgivable on every level.

Today is the day after the day that I, Andrew Street, the Head Forester of Hollybank Woods was given less than 24 hour notification that intrusive bat surveying had been granted to a commercial company to enter and interfere with out Bechstien’s Bats. I strongly object to this.

@AK_BridgeLake So beautiful💚🤍

A wild geranium that has always dreamt of being an orchid. #wildflowers #nativeplants #nature #photography #Cariboo #BritishColumbia Richardson's Geranium (Geranium richardsonii)

@IanDenton12 A male Blackcap baths in my weedy pond by perching on a Greater Spearwort stem which bends down with his weight to the water.

@Crane_Spotter @SurreyBirdNews I look forward to being back in Surrey!

Music to my ears - Nightingale back singing in Cranleigh tonight @SurreyBirdNews

Sitting outside Cartgate Café on the 303, Somerset, I heard a Mistle Thrush alarming, it was chasing a Magpie, i guessed there was a nest close by. In the middle of this pic you can see its partner sitting in their nest, surprisingly the nest was barely 5m up the tree.

It was lovely to see so many Speckled Wood on the wing today in Devon. mobile phone zoom pic

@Crane_Spotter @BirdingGardener Their favourite tree before hitting the ground. I didn't know they come over from the continent in such big numbers.

@mflashbeat @BirdingGardener Some have roosted at Winterfold this winter but I think the incredible numbers today, maybe thousands across a wide front in the Surrey Hills, are from the continent. We always get them now … March of the Mipits, Maria

Brown long eared bat at Leith Hill Tower today where ⁦@BirdingGardener⁩ and I notched a record site count of 453 Meadow Pipit bouncing north in dribs and drabs above the fog. 3 Brambling also seen

@Dan_Brocklebank I bloody love them. I wish plastic milk containers had them.

Some seem to think that if we collect litter, don’t mow lawns, reintroduce the odd animal, rewild some land, do some regen ag… somehow this will save the natural world We need radical change: altering our lives to give up space for nature - & we can possibly save ourselves too

Heavy rain overnight so this Barn owl out hunting later than usual this morning. The long grass is very wet so between hunts sitting on the tents with wings out stretched to dry off, occasionally being buzzed by passing Rooks.

What exactly are you up to @Guildford_Golf ? This area of complete devastation was home to Bullfinches, Linnets, Greenfinches, Goldfinches, Blackcaps, Chiffchaffs and supports 1000s of plants & invertebrates. Now it's gone. Why do you need to do this? SO DEPRESSING!!! @SurreyWT

@IanDenton12 Wonderful🖤

Scrub communities remain an under-valued aspect of our ecosystems Some grassland people seeing it as the enemy. Some woodland people seeing it as a transition phase that we need to get through asap Yet a dynamic scrub & grass mosaic is diverse, resilient & beautiful

gorgeous fresh looking Marbled White on Ragwort in my garden

@JiscaDijk @forder_phil which species is this ?

#klaproos #papaver #poppy #mijntuin #wildetuin #flora @forder_phil #macro De gewone, kleine, oranje klaproos zaait zich makkelijk uit. Een zaaddoosje heeft tientallen zaadjes en doet het op braakliggende grond heel goed. Hij is giftig dus niet als salade versiering gebruiken ⚠️

delighted to discover Common Cow-wheat in my wild lawn. I've never seen it in the nearby woodland so I wonder how it got here, ants aid the distribution of its seeds so maybe that's the answer.

@IanDenton12 🤞