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@devilscustard My dad and step mum used to live in Hunstanton so I have happy memories of walking along that beach with him.

Thank you all so very much for your kind comments about my video of Hunstanton beach. I’m so glad you enjoyed it and I love that we can share these walk together.

@Sarah_Gin_Fiend Done and Good luck!! X

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@beatricegroves1 @Jemimasgarden Saw one at work today too plus a Red Admiral. One or two Brimstones flying around also. So lovely to see!

The beauty of a peacock in the sunshine🦋🦚🦋 First butterfly capture of the year! My first sighting - one moment earlier - was a brimstone but it was too fast! Like brimstones, peacocks overwinter in the UK as dormant adults, which is why they are one of the first 🦋of spring

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Just a quick one about slugs and snails, as it's still a common question (due to some recently published misinformation). Slugs and snails are the intermediate host of lungworm, so can pass this fatal parasite to any mammal that is unfortunate enough to be forced by starvation to eat them, or is contaminated by their slime trail. This includes hedgehogs - they don't have any magical protection properties. But slugs and snails are also our heros, here's why: As well as providing food for many amphibians, reptiles and birds, they protect us humans from all sorts of potentially fatal pathogens. Take bird poo for example. Birds don't wee. Any water they consume is used and absorbed by their body. This means they don't have to have a bladder, so they are lighter for flying. Instead of wee they pass pure uric acid paste with their poo (that's the white bit on top), and so their poo is water resistent. (Anyone who has tried to clean it off their car is painfully aware of this) So if it's water resistent, therefore the rain can't wash it away, why aren't we all knee deep in bird poo? Because of slugs! Slugs eat bird poo. Isn't that brilliant? Slugs and snails are decomposers that consume various organic matter, including rotting plants, dead animals, and animal droppings, finding bird poo a nutritious source of decay from which to extract nutrients from. So slugs - don't eat them, wash everything that touches them or their slime trail, but love them for being nature's most industrious clean up crew!🥰

Wild London David Attenborough I'm getting so many posts from lovely people absolutely outraged at the misinformation regarding hedgehogs and slugs presented on this show yesterday, so I'll just address it here. David Attenbourough is a really lovely man, and has done an immense amount of good for us, our wildlife, and our planet. But he, like any other TV presenter, relies on programme researchers for script content. The researchers, in turn, rely on who they *perceive to be* experts in the field. Unfortunately, they were taken in by some clever branding and chose the wrong people: A self-proclaimed 'hedgehog expert', often funded by the British Hedgehog Preservation Society (see their most recent dangerous misinformation, and my response, published here:x.com/HedgehogCabin/…) And the London Wildlife Trust. Recently the London Wildlife Trust engaged me as an expert consultant on a 4 page spread article about hedgehog myths. Many of you have seen my interview, and the draft of the subsequent article. I was sent this draft (see 1st image below) for approval, to which I agreed. However, before going to print, an executive at London Wildlife trust decided to do some editing of his own. It's shocking, I know, and would be unbelievable, if not here in actual print. I've included two versions of the full article below: the first draft approved by me and the team at LWT, and the second actual printed version, after executive 'editing'. It was this same London Wildlife Trust who co-produced the Wild London documentary and "provided expert help and advice". So now you know. We're all shocked. But of course, as usual, it's the poor hedgehogs who will suffer. People won't provide food for our critically endangered hedgehogs, or bother keeping their garden natural and wild, now they've been told that hedgehogs eat slugs. After all, there's plenty of them to go round. Rescues all around the country, who are treating hedgehogs dying of lungworm from being forced through starvation into eating slugs, will feel so demoralised and invalidated. Like you, I'm furious, frustrated, and bone-wearily saddened.

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Please don't make tonight the night you'll regret for the rest of your life. Unlike most mammals, hedgehogs don't have the Fight or Flight Response to danger. That means that no matter how frightened they are, they don't bite, and they don't run away. Their response to danger is to curl up into a protective ball, and wait until the threat passes. That's why so many get run over by approaching cars. That's why so many are maimed and killed by approaching strimmers. And that's why so many get burned alive in bonfires. ❌Poking a stick under the bonfire pile will just make the hedgehog inside curl into a ball. Even if you touch her and hurt her, she won't move or make a sound. ❌Lighting it from one side will just make the hedgehog curl even tighter. As the smoke fills her lungs and her coat begins to singe, she will freeze in place and wait for the danger to pass. ❌Shining a light under the bonfire will just make the hedgehog ball even tighter. She'll stay silent and close her eyes so they don't reflect light and give her presence away. The ONLY way to make a bonfire safe is to build it the same day you light it. So if it's already built, you need to move today, before lighting it tonight. Please stay safe, and make sure it's only the rockets that scream.

@evilcrumpet @UB1UB2 Three has already been made years ago and it was crap! I think this as the fourth film would be epic though 😂

@UB1UB2 Smokey and the Bandit 3 looking good

“Wanna slow it down mate there’s a speed camera up here” 😭😭

@LGSpace That’s not a great picture to use, especially as you are trying to inform about hazards to hedgehogs. Eating bird food gives hedgehogs metabolic bone disease and weakened limbs that can eventually break. Once this happens they can not successfully forage for food and will starve.

Be careful if building a bonfire this Halloween and Bonfire Night. Hedgehogs love to hibernate in piles of sticks and branches – so build a bonfire on the same day you plan to burn it, and check it carefully for hiding wildlife. More : littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/natur…

Oh dear. Every single thing about this article is wrong. 1. Hedgehogs do NOT come out in the open in the day for any reason other than being seriously ill and dying. In the short nights of JUNE AND JULY ONLY, hogs may extend the hours of foraging by going to bed later and getting up earlier, before full dark, but will NOT be out in the open. They stick to cover and shade. Pregnant or nursing females do NOT come out in the open during the day, ever, unless they are sick. 2. The arterivirus is NOT 'newly discovered', nor is it something that troubles hedgehogs. There has only ever been ONE incident of a group of hedgehogs, all of them at the Vale Wildlife hospital in 2019, who contracted this HOSPITAL-ACQUIRED virus there, due to inadequate hygiene standards and cross contamination with other species. These poor hedgehogs all died, and there has NEVER been another case since. Anywhere. 3. Vets in the UK are NOT wildlife trained. They can't diagnose, do not carry the right drugs, aren't aware of the unique physiology of the hedgehog, and don't possess adequate housing. The smells and sounds of predators in a veterinary clinic can cause enough stress in a sick hedgehog to prove fatal. Vets are a business for domesticated animals and their paying owners only. The treatment and care of wild animals is completely different to domesticated animals, and hedgehogs should be taken to a rescue ONLY, never a vet. I'm really shocked that a normally respected and reputable organisation like the @Natures_Voice would publish such a poorly researched and atrociously misinformed article. The RSPB generally enjoy a good reputation and are a charity I admire, so I'm sure they will consider a retraction. As always, I will offer free consultation, if needed.

@K_Bailey83 Thank you. That’s a bit of a shame but it was still great to see. It was growing next to a group of Fly agaric, which is what originally caught my attention as I’d never seen them in real life before. Seen lots since though.

@springy_steve Hi, I think this is puffball

Today’s mission accomplished! Devil’s fingers! A few phone pics here - thought I’d be lucky to see one or two but there must have been around 50! All at various stages too which was very cool to see #fungi #autumn #MushroomMonday

Running is a great way to meet new people. Today, I met two paramedics, three nurses, and a cardiologist.

Halloween artificial cobweb material: It may be a bit of fake fun for you, but it's a very real and terrifying death for them. And it's not only birds. I've had my first call of the season of a hedgehog trapped in this horrific fake 'cobweb', made especially for gullible halloweeners to spread over their greenery, trapping all unsuspecting birds, insects and mammals, including hedgehogs. The fine synthetic fibers are difficult for animals to see and can quickly wrap around their legs, spines, and neck, leading to severe injuries. When a hedgehog struggles to free herself the web tightens, cutting off circulation and causing deep wounds. These constriction injuries often lead to permanent damage or death. Unfortunately the call was from Manchester, so all I could do was talk them through getting the poor creature to a rescue. Clearly she had been trapped there for at least one night, and her struggles had pulled the strong nylon strands so tightly that one of her toes had been amputated. Can you imagine the pain and the sheer terror? And then seeing dawn approach, while hanging there, tightly bound and helpless. Aside from being stressed, dehydrated, starving and exhausted to the point of near death, she also had horrific bite/peck wounds to her face, where she had been held there, helpless, unable to curl and defend herself, while a predator tried to eat her alive. If you have used this deadly cruel trap to 'decorate' your garden, please take it down now. Please don't be conned by the greedy makers and sellers of this rubbish into hurting defenceless animals.

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Twitter friends! I desperately need to find an Illustration job&agent I specialise in sea , winter landscapes but can illustrate any subject.Please retweet share. I will be moving house soon and will need a new mortgage.currently I can only afford a mortgage on a b&q shed😔

A healthy🦔breathing is silent. Poor Pennys breathing sounds like a coffee percolator, she has a prolonged cough, her lungs are full of fluid & deadly lungworm. Thankfully Penny found my garden, it took me a few days to get her, but she’s safe now & responding to her treatment ❤️