Mick Jones
@mickdjones.bsky.social
Warden, Dancersend Nature Reserve, Bucks; MBE for conservation work; painter/writer; love beetles, fungi, slime moulds, the Chilterns & Armenia. Refugee from Twitter which used to be so good
Happy Valentine's Day from @bbowt.bsky.social Dancersend Reserve. May you find romance in the beautiful outdoors today. This Hart's-tongue fern should be miss-spelled Heart's-tongue today!
February 14, 2026 at 9:24 AM
Happy Valentine's Day from @bbowt.bsky.social Dancersend Reserve. May you find romance in the beautiful outdoors today. This Hart's-tongue fern should be miss-spelled Heart's-tongue today!
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New book on rewilding!
A curated collection of 27 articles published in British Wildlife over the last 5 yrs
So, accessible & nicely produced for a broad readership
And I’m one of the authors. Cheap at the price (£16.99)!
www.britishwildlife.com/wilding/
A curated collection of 27 articles published in British Wildlife over the last 5 yrs
So, accessible & nicely produced for a broad readership
And I’m one of the authors. Cheap at the price (£16.99)!
www.britishwildlife.com/wilding/
wilding - British Wildlife
Wilding for Conservation: An Exploration of Rewilding in Britain The complete collection of articles from British WIldlife‘s acclaimed Wilding for Conservation series – an unflinching appraisal of the...
www.britishwildlife.com
January 29, 2026 at 5:21 PM
New book on rewilding!
A curated collection of 27 articles published in British Wildlife over the last 5 yrs
So, accessible & nicely produced for a broad readership
And I’m one of the authors. Cheap at the price (£16.99)!
www.britishwildlife.com/wilding/
A curated collection of 27 articles published in British Wildlife over the last 5 yrs
So, accessible & nicely produced for a broad readership
And I’m one of the authors. Cheap at the price (£16.99)!
www.britishwildlife.com/wilding/
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🦋 TVERC Spring Recorders’ Conference
Join us on Sat 21st March at Cholsey Great Hall for a full day of inspiring talks, practical workshops, and the chance to network with fellow wildlife recorders and nature enthusiasts from Oxfordshire and Berkshire.
👉 Book your place: tverc.org/recorders/re...
Join us on Sat 21st March at Cholsey Great Hall for a full day of inspiring talks, practical workshops, and the chance to network with fellow wildlife recorders and nature enthusiasts from Oxfordshire and Berkshire.
👉 Book your place: tverc.org/recorders/re...
February 13, 2026 at 8:55 AM
🦋 TVERC Spring Recorders’ Conference
Join us on Sat 21st March at Cholsey Great Hall for a full day of inspiring talks, practical workshops, and the chance to network with fellow wildlife recorders and nature enthusiasts from Oxfordshire and Berkshire.
👉 Book your place: tverc.org/recorders/re...
Join us on Sat 21st March at Cholsey Great Hall for a full day of inspiring talks, practical workshops, and the chance to network with fellow wildlife recorders and nature enthusiasts from Oxfordshire and Berkshire.
👉 Book your place: tverc.org/recorders/re...
Join @bbowt.bsky.social Chilterns Group for their next wildlife themed talk next Tuesday 17 Feb in Great Missenden. Chris Williams, CEO of the Royal Forestry Society, will tell us 'The Story of Forestry in the UK'. All welcome!!
February 12, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Join @bbowt.bsky.social Chilterns Group for their next wildlife themed talk next Tuesday 17 Feb in Great Missenden. Chris Williams, CEO of the Royal Forestry Society, will tell us 'The Story of Forestry in the UK'. All welcome!!
Exciting days at @bbowt.bsky.social Dancersend tackling thick scrub in a south-facing clearing lost to scrub/secondary woodland in the 1970s. The amazing RoboFlail made short work of pulverising followed by volunteers raking up. Scarification should help release special flowers from the seed bank.
February 12, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Exciting days at @bbowt.bsky.social Dancersend tackling thick scrub in a south-facing clearing lost to scrub/secondary woodland in the 1970s. The amazing RoboFlail made short work of pulverising followed by volunteers raking up. Scarification should help release special flowers from the seed bank.
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Conservation works are underway at Strawberry Hill 🍓🌿
In collaboration with the Newt Conservation Partnership, new ponds are being created to support great crested newts & other wildlife, helping protect & enhance this special habitat for the future.
Watch here 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFMI...
In collaboration with the Newt Conservation Partnership, new ponds are being created to support great crested newts & other wildlife, helping protect & enhance this special habitat for the future.
Watch here 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFMI...
Pond Habitat Creation at Strawberry Hill
YouTube video by Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs & Northants
www.youtube.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Conservation works are underway at Strawberry Hill 🍓🌿
In collaboration with the Newt Conservation Partnership, new ponds are being created to support great crested newts & other wildlife, helping protect & enhance this special habitat for the future.
Watch here 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFMI...
In collaboration with the Newt Conservation Partnership, new ponds are being created to support great crested newts & other wildlife, helping protect & enhance this special habitat for the future.
Watch here 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFMI...
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This fantastic exhibition has been extended for a fortnight, so you can still catch it if you're quick...
Hard to believe that Hertfordshire Natural History Society's 150th anniversary is drawing to a close. But there's still a celebratory exhibition to come at North Hertfordshire Museum in Hitchin starting 16 December @hnhsoc.bsky.social @hertsbirds.bsky.social
February 12, 2026 at 11:22 AM
This fantastic exhibition has been extended for a fortnight, so you can still catch it if you're quick...
Another good turnout of our volunteers at BBOWT
Dancersend Reserve coppicing and clearing fallen ash trees along one of our rides to let more light in to benefit wildflowers like Stinking Hellebore, seen in the foreground here. @bbowt.bsky.social
Dancersend Reserve coppicing and clearing fallen ash trees along one of our rides to let more light in to benefit wildflowers like Stinking Hellebore, seen in the foreground here. @bbowt.bsky.social
February 8, 2026 at 8:53 PM
Another good turnout of our volunteers at BBOWT
Dancersend Reserve coppicing and clearing fallen ash trees along one of our rides to let more light in to benefit wildflowers like Stinking Hellebore, seen in the foreground here. @bbowt.bsky.social
Dancersend Reserve coppicing and clearing fallen ash trees along one of our rides to let more light in to benefit wildflowers like Stinking Hellebore, seen in the foreground here. @bbowt.bsky.social
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Copy arrived this week and it is fabulous, opens up a whole new world of interest. Absolutely in awe of author Martin Drake for putting it all together. It's pricey, shame the publishers couldn't have found a way of subsidising it more, but it contains priceless expertise and years of hard work.
Excellent! It's here and available to order from RES/CABI; the eagerly anticipated volume - years in the making - British Dolichopodidae. Really looking forward to having this sat on my desk. A colossal achievement by Martin.
February 7, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Copy arrived this week and it is fabulous, opens up a whole new world of interest. Absolutely in awe of author Martin Drake for putting it all together. It's pricey, shame the publishers couldn't have found a way of subsidising it more, but it contains priceless expertise and years of hard work.
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This is very concerning and is almost certainly being championed in the US by Trump's tech and oil backers, both of which see the UK as a battleground at the moment.
Remember the controversy when Obama was accused of intervening in UK politics? This is the current US government openly seeking to undermine liberal democracy in Europe.
February 6, 2026 at 1:52 PM
This is very concerning and is almost certainly being championed in the US by Trump's tech and oil backers, both of which see the UK as a battleground at the moment.
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That‘s the spirit.
February 5, 2026 at 10:46 AM
That‘s the spirit.
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A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
February 4, 2026 at 5:07 PM
A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
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Look at these lovely Oxycera soldierflies and the opportunity to learn all about them..
🪰 Meet the Oxycera soldierflies!
Small, coloured, and tied to clean streams & wetlands, these tiny flies are amazing habitat indicators.
Join @kitenet.bsky.social for our Soldierflies entoLEARN on 16 April 🧪🌎
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1976906539...
@uk-soldierflies.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social
Small, coloured, and tied to clean streams & wetlands, these tiny flies are amazing habitat indicators.
Join @kitenet.bsky.social for our Soldierflies entoLEARN on 16 April 🧪🌎
🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1976906539...
@uk-soldierflies.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social
February 4, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Look at these lovely Oxycera soldierflies and the opportunity to learn all about them..
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We’re hiring! Join us as a Volunteering Engagement Manager and help nature recover by delivering dynamic recruitment campaigns and growing a more diverse and inclusive volunteer community.
Apply now: www.bbowt.org.uk/jobs/volunte...
Apply now: www.bbowt.org.uk/jobs/volunte...
February 3, 2026 at 4:12 PM
We’re hiring! Join us as a Volunteering Engagement Manager and help nature recover by delivering dynamic recruitment campaigns and growing a more diverse and inclusive volunteer community.
Apply now: www.bbowt.org.uk/jobs/volunte...
Apply now: www.bbowt.org.uk/jobs/volunte...
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We are being spoilt this year for great new books on biological recording - congratulations Sarah 👏👏👏🍾
On a rainy grey February, a splendid parcel has arrived. What a relief… @pelagic.bsky.social @nfbr.bsky.social @nbntrust.bsky.social
February 2, 2026 at 5:29 PM
We are being spoilt this year for great new books on biological recording - congratulations Sarah 👏👏👏🍾
I'm getting a bit fed-up with endless dull, dreary, damp days whenever I can get to @bbowt.bsky.social Dancersend but have to admit that at this time of the year it is the dark, damp, weedy corners of the reserve where the jewels are. Thank goodness for snowdrops, Scarlet Elf-cups and slime moulds!
February 2, 2026 at 4:43 PM
I'm getting a bit fed-up with endless dull, dreary, damp days whenever I can get to @bbowt.bsky.social Dancersend but have to admit that at this time of the year it is the dark, damp, weedy corners of the reserve where the jewels are. Thank goodness for snowdrops, Scarlet Elf-cups and slime moulds!
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A chance to learn about fantastic soldierflies!
BENHS Dinton Pastures - Soldierflies and Allies workshop - Martin Harvey May 3rd, 10:30 - 16:00. Dinton Pastures, Nr. Reading.
To book a place mail; [email protected], please supply a mobile phone contact number
Image: Steven Falk
To book a place mail; [email protected], please supply a mobile phone contact number
Image: Steven Falk
February 1, 2026 at 5:21 PM
A chance to learn about fantastic soldierflies!
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📣 Because we've had such a great response to our offer of half-price membership for one year, we have decided to extend the offer until the end of Wednesday 4 February!
So you still have time to join for as little as £2.25 per month 👇 bbowt.org.uk/join-us
📸 Mark Hamblin/2020VISION
So you still have time to join for as little as £2.25 per month 👇 bbowt.org.uk/join-us
📸 Mark Hamblin/2020VISION
February 1, 2026 at 10:05 AM
📣 Because we've had such a great response to our offer of half-price membership for one year, we have decided to extend the offer until the end of Wednesday 4 February!
So you still have time to join for as little as £2.25 per month 👇 bbowt.org.uk/join-us
📸 Mark Hamblin/2020VISION
So you still have time to join for as little as £2.25 per month 👇 bbowt.org.uk/join-us
📸 Mark Hamblin/2020VISION
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We’re hiring! Join us as an Assistant Reserves Officer (North Bucks) and help nature recover through hands-on habitat management across woodland, wetland and floodplain meadow reserves. 🌿
Apply now: buff.ly/rfEodit
Apply now: buff.ly/rfEodit
January 30, 2026 at 4:12 PM
We’re hiring! Join us as an Assistant Reserves Officer (North Bucks) and help nature recover through hands-on habitat management across woodland, wetland and floodplain meadow reserves. 🌿
Apply now: buff.ly/rfEodit
Apply now: buff.ly/rfEodit
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It's arrived! Pan-species Listing: How to Become a Super-Naturalist published by @pelagicpublishing. My first book.
I am so pleased with it. It looks amazing, all those photos of incredible British species really make this a very colourful book and a celebration of how fantastic our wildlife is.
I am so pleased with it. It looks amazing, all those photos of incredible British species really make this a very colourful book and a celebration of how fantastic our wildlife is.
January 30, 2026 at 12:27 PM
It's arrived! Pan-species Listing: How to Become a Super-Naturalist published by @pelagicpublishing. My first book.
I am so pleased with it. It looks amazing, all those photos of incredible British species really make this a very colourful book and a celebration of how fantastic our wildlife is.
I am so pleased with it. It looks amazing, all those photos of incredible British species really make this a very colourful book and a celebration of how fantastic our wildlife is.
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I am looking forward to exhibiting some insect field paintings at the @entographica Collective exhibition Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Queen’s Square, Bath BA1 2HN
2 – 25 FEBRUARY 2026
Mon–Sat 10am–4pm | Admission Free
more information
entographica.co.uk
Queen’s Square, Bath BA1 2HN
2 – 25 FEBRUARY 2026
Mon–Sat 10am–4pm | Admission Free
more information
entographica.co.uk
Entographica - Insect-inspired Art from The Entographic Collective
This unique exhibition features the work of sixteen artists from The Entographic Collective, a group of artists with a passion for insects. Art that explores...
entographica.co.uk
January 29, 2026 at 11:17 PM
I am looking forward to exhibiting some insect field paintings at the @entographica Collective exhibition Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Queen’s Square, Bath BA1 2HN
2 – 25 FEBRUARY 2026
Mon–Sat 10am–4pm | Admission Free
more information
entographica.co.uk
Queen’s Square, Bath BA1 2HN
2 – 25 FEBRUARY 2026
Mon–Sat 10am–4pm | Admission Free
more information
entographica.co.uk
It was a very pretty drive down to @BBOWT
Dancersend Reserve for our Wednesday work party - still below freezing down in the Vale and the Chilterns showing up beyond Mentmore Towers. Clearing scrub and fallen trees from one of our most important grassy clearings soon warmed us up.
Dancersend Reserve for our Wednesday work party - still below freezing down in the Vale and the Chilterns showing up beyond Mentmore Towers. Clearing scrub and fallen trees from one of our most important grassy clearings soon warmed us up.
January 29, 2026 at 12:53 PM
It was a very pretty drive down to @BBOWT
Dancersend Reserve for our Wednesday work party - still below freezing down in the Vale and the Chilterns showing up beyond Mentmore Towers. Clearing scrub and fallen trees from one of our most important grassy clearings soon warmed us up.
Dancersend Reserve for our Wednesday work party - still below freezing down in the Vale and the Chilterns showing up beyond Mentmore Towers. Clearing scrub and fallen trees from one of our most important grassy clearings soon warmed us up.
Finally made it here from Twitter. Hoping to find old friends and have a more civilised, respectful time. Here are recent photos from my world - Dancersend BBOWT reserve in Bucks, which is what I will be mostly posting about.
January 8, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Finally made it here from Twitter. Hoping to find old friends and have a more civilised, respectful time. Here are recent photos from my world - Dancersend BBOWT reserve in Bucks, which is what I will be mostly posting about.