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Kestrels are basically the hover kings of the bird world! 🛑🕊️ With nothing but their wings and wild skill, they can stay frozen mid-air like nature hit the pause button.

@sarasiobhan @GeorgeJulian @AliveLeder Do @InclusionNorth still support the Stop People Dying Young Group?

Latest from @GeorgeJulian about local @AliveLeder data around the deaths of autistic people without learning disabilities. Woeful. georgejulian.co.uk/2025/11/03/wha…

@Tone_Killick @BritishSpiders Thank you so much Tone. Very cool to get 🕷️ ID for our photos and to be able to learn a bit more about species. There were so many different species but only had phone camera to hand

@Reefpaths @BritishSpiders Hi, Andy, the first spider is Hasarius adansoni, Adanson's Jumping spider and a species that is very likely established in botanical gardens and hothouses in the UK. The second is Cyrba algerina, a species that specifically preys on web building spiders.

Not the best photos but lovely to see the diversity of #Salticidae 🕷️ Majorca @Tone_Killick @BritishSpiders

Nature always fascinates 💚 Have learned that this observation, Majorca is the larva of a glow worm #Lampyridae

@BritishSpiders @Tone_Killick Thank you for your support with our 🕷️ observations. Taking the time to share feedback provides encouragement particularly as we are thinking of leaving this platform

@Reefpaths @Tone_Killick I’m not sure why we didn’t respond to this in the summer (I’ve just found it in “bookmarks’) but the widely spaced median posterior eyes help ID this as a sac spider (Clubiona species) rather than Drassodes. Not possible to determine to species fromthis photo.

Beautiful 🕷️ with pinkish, velvety abdomen, olive coloured head & legs observed in silken cell neath driftwood, dunes at Druridge Bay today 🔎 Limited with only one photo but thinking Drassodes sp? @Tone_Killick

Incredible the diversity of #fungi

Beach Finds #Easington

@sarasiobhan Nature's beauty 💚

Autumn pond beauty.

Convinced that this is a species of Bee Fly continually landing on a rocky path in Majorca. Had no idea about the variety of #BeeFlies so welcomed an opportunity to learn

Nature always astounds and loved finding these miniature tiny urn shaped pots neath stones along coastline at Cala D’or, Majorca 🔎 We presume these are constructed by potter wasp species and hoping that @StevenFalk1 can advise 💚

The search for imperfection 🌳

@BritishSpiders Thank you so much for your🕷️advice and lovely to learn about Argiope trifasciata 💚 We were all mesmerised by the size of spiders and the length of their webs

@Reefpaths Sorry to disappoint but that’s not Argiope bruennichi (the species found in UK) but the related Argiope trifasciata (which doesn’t occur in Britain). Still a beautiful spider though! Curiously, based on your photo, the egg cases are very different, too!

Finally managed to see the beautiful Wasp Spider (Argiope bruennichi) not in Sunderland but at Mondrago Natural Park, Majorca 😎 What an absolute 🕷️ gem 💚

A Solitary Rugose Coral fossil with it's internal structure revealed. County Donegal, Ireland.

☀️ 21c - A few 🦋 highlights from this mornings walk along Southbourne Seafront. 😎

During the heat, we started to put out small bowls of rainwater for the birds. We didn’t expect this water source to be such an oasis for #Bees 😎 After a few early bees we now have regular guests who are not impressed when we clean the tray and add new water 💚🐝