Joel Ashton
@joelashton.bsky.social
#WildlifeGarden Designer & Installer for 19yrs | #HouseMartin & #Butterfly admirer | Once rescued a Cuckoo | https://bsky.app/profile/wildyourgardenltd.bsky.social ~ Book & Online Shop #NoMowSummer #WildYourGarden
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Joel Ashton
@joelashton.bsky.social
· Dec 31
Just wanted to wish everyone on here a very #HappyNewYear! Thought I’d leave a little thread of just some of the projects I’ve undertaken to help #wildlife in 2024. Here’s to much more habitat creation, everywhere, in #2025 💚
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Great day recently with @savebutterflies.bsky.social Lincolnshire branch, exploring the possibilities of habitat restoration for the now Red Listed Grizzled Skipper #butterfly. Very much looking forward to getting started on this project in the new year.
December 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Great day recently with @savebutterflies.bsky.social Lincolnshire branch, exploring the possibilities of habitat restoration for the now Red Listed Grizzled Skipper #butterfly. Very much looking forward to getting started on this project in the new year.
Great day recently with @savebutterflies.bsky.social Lincolnshire branch, exploring the possibilities of habitat restoration for the now Red Listed Grizzled Skipper #butterfly. Very much looking forward to getting started on this project in the new year.
December 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Great day recently with @savebutterflies.bsky.social Lincolnshire branch, exploring the possibilities of habitat restoration for the now Red Listed Grizzled Skipper #butterfly. Very much looking forward to getting started on this project in the new year.
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Not the warmest of days for getting in a pond and hand pulling reeds! 😅🥶 #WildlifePond
November 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Not the warmest of days for getting in a pond and hand pulling reeds! 😅🥶 #WildlifePond
Not the warmest of days for getting in a pond and hand pulling reeds! 😅🥶 #WildlifePond
November 26, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Not the warmest of days for getting in a pond and hand pulling reeds! 😅🥶 #WildlifePond
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A beautiful day for cutting hay! Managing one of the many #wildflowermeadows that I’ve created over the last 20 years. This one has 31 recorded butterfly species and has the same floral diversity as SSSI grassland. All on less than an acre. #Meadow #NoMowSummer
November 17, 2025 at 9:18 PM
A beautiful day for cutting hay! Managing one of the many #wildflowermeadows that I’ve created over the last 20 years. This one has 31 recorded butterfly species and has the same floral diversity as SSSI grassland. All on less than an acre. #Meadow #NoMowSummer
A beautiful day for cutting hay! Managing one of the many #wildflowermeadows that I’ve created over the last 20 years. This one has 31 recorded butterfly species and has the same floral diversity as SSSI grassland. All on less than an acre. #Meadow #NoMowSummer
November 17, 2025 at 9:18 PM
A beautiful day for cutting hay! Managing one of the many #wildflowermeadows that I’ve created over the last 20 years. This one has 31 recorded butterfly species and has the same floral diversity as SSSI grassland. All on less than an acre. #Meadow #NoMowSummer
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Beech leaves looking their BEST right now…! 😍👌🍃🍁🍂
November 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Beech leaves looking their BEST right now…! 😍👌🍃🍁🍂
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We interrupt this butterfly broadcast, for an orchid post...
Ophrys reinholdii from the @greenwingstours.bsky.social orchids of Rhodes tour in April.
Ophrys reinholdii from the @greenwingstours.bsky.social orchids of Rhodes tour in April.
November 2, 2025 at 12:38 PM
We interrupt this butterfly broadcast, for an orchid post...
Ophrys reinholdii from the @greenwingstours.bsky.social orchids of Rhodes tour in April.
Ophrys reinholdii from the @greenwingstours.bsky.social orchids of Rhodes tour in April.
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Terabytes of footage. Shocking discoveries. The fight to end bird shooting starts now.
November 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Terabytes of footage. Shocking discoveries. The fight to end bird shooting starts now.
Beech leaves looking their BEST right now…! 😍👌🍃🍁🍂
November 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Beech leaves looking their BEST right now…! 😍👌🍃🍁🍂
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Great day today putting up boxes for two of my favourite birds - 1 x Barn Owl & 1 x Kestrel on my latest wetland project in #Lancashire. Both available via @wildyourgardenltd.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Great day today putting up boxes for two of my favourite birds - 1 x Barn Owl & 1 x Kestrel on my latest wetland project in #Lancashire. Both available via @wildyourgardenltd.bsky.social
Great day today putting up boxes for two of my favourite birds - 1 x Barn Owl & 1 x Kestrel on my latest wetland project in #Lancashire. Both available via @wildyourgardenltd.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Great day today putting up boxes for two of my favourite birds - 1 x Barn Owl & 1 x Kestrel on my latest wetland project in #Lancashire. Both available via @wildyourgardenltd.bsky.social
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My latest mini wetland project is coming along nicely in #Lancashire. 4 of 5 scrapes now complete and today I started excavating the main wildlife pond. Fingers crossed for a few dry days!
September 29, 2025 at 8:51 PM
My latest mini wetland project is coming along nicely in #Lancashire. 4 of 5 scrapes now complete and today I started excavating the main wildlife pond. Fingers crossed for a few dry days!
My latest mini wetland project is coming along nicely in #Lancashire. 4 of 5 scrapes now complete and today I started excavating the main wildlife pond. Fingers crossed for a few dry days!
September 29, 2025 at 8:51 PM
My latest mini wetland project is coming along nicely in #Lancashire. 4 of 5 scrapes now complete and today I started excavating the main wildlife pond. Fingers crossed for a few dry days!
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Always a good day when you see your first skein of Pink-footed geese for the year! Especially when it’s over your house! 😍👌❤️ #PinkFootedGeese
September 22, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Always a good day when you see your first skein of Pink-footed geese for the year! Especially when it’s over your house! 😍👌❤️ #PinkFootedGeese
Always a good day when you see your first skein of Pink-footed geese for the year! Especially when it’s over your house! 😍👌❤️ #PinkFootedGeese
September 22, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Always a good day when you see your first skein of Pink-footed geese for the year! Especially when it’s over your house! 😍👌❤️ #PinkFootedGeese
Scrape 2 of 5 now complete on my latest mini wetland project in #Lancashire. These mini scrapes are designed to provide a feeding ground for wading birds such as Curlew, Oystercatcher, Snipe & Lapwing and will sit alongside wildlife pond number 6 - a larger, lined water body.
September 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Scrape 2 of 5 now complete on my latest mini wetland project in #Lancashire. These mini scrapes are designed to provide a feeding ground for wading birds such as Curlew, Oystercatcher, Snipe & Lapwing and will sit alongside wildlife pond number 6 - a larger, lined water body.
Loving my new @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social level. This piece of kit will be pivotal in the creation of many wildlife habitats for many years to come, including my latest project - a new wetland including a 20m x 10m #wildlifepond with 5 x adjacent scrapes for wading birds in #Lancashire.
September 9, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Loving my new @leicamicrosystems.bsky.social level. This piece of kit will be pivotal in the creation of many wildlife habitats for many years to come, including my latest project - a new wetland including a 20m x 10m #wildlifepond with 5 x adjacent scrapes for wading birds in #Lancashire.
Amazed to not only see a new species of butterfly that I’ve only previously seen abroad, but also to record it less than a mile from my house, and to top it off, an even rarer variant call “Helice.” Ladies & gentlemen, I give you the Clouded Yellow…! 😍🦋
September 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Amazed to not only see a new species of butterfly that I’ve only previously seen abroad, but also to record it less than a mile from my house, and to top it off, an even rarer variant call “Helice.” Ladies & gentlemen, I give you the Clouded Yellow…! 😍🦋
Share if you love dogs. This is one of my 6 - Frank - A 3.5 y/o GSD/Belgian Mali cross, rescued from spending 23 hours a day in a concrete shed. He was beaten & abused. An absolute goof & I love him to bits. As humans, we don’t deserve dogs. They’re the best friend you’ll ever have ❤️🐺
August 24, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Share if you love dogs. This is one of my 6 - Frank - A 3.5 y/o GSD/Belgian Mali cross, rescued from spending 23 hours a day in a concrete shed. He was beaten & abused. An absolute goof & I love him to bits. As humans, we don’t deserve dogs. They’re the best friend you’ll ever have ❤️🐺
Just a Red Admiral doing its thing…😍🦋
August 8, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Just a Red Admiral doing its thing…😍🦋
I think I’m going to need more cabbages! 😆👍 #Butterflies #WildlifeGarden
July 22, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I think I’m going to need more cabbages! 😆👍 #Butterflies #WildlifeGarden
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Huge thanks to everyone that came to visit my mini #wildlifegarden over the weekend @GlobalBirdfair. Met some amazing people & am now planning future projects for wildlife. Thanks also to all the amazing volunteers that make this yearly event the best of its kind ❤️
July 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Huge thanks to everyone that came to visit my mini #wildlifegarden over the weekend @GlobalBirdfair. Met some amazing people & am now planning future projects for wildlife. Thanks also to all the amazing volunteers that make this yearly event the best of its kind ❤️
Huge thanks to everyone that came to visit my mini #wildlifegarden over the weekend @GlobalBirdfair. Met some amazing people & am now planning future projects for wildlife. Thanks also to all the amazing volunteers that make this yearly event the best of its kind ❤️
July 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Huge thanks to everyone that came to visit my mini #wildlifegarden over the weekend @GlobalBirdfair. Met some amazing people & am now planning future projects for wildlife. Thanks also to all the amazing volunteers that make this yearly event the best of its kind ❤️