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Restoring Hardknott Forest 🌎 @hardknottforest.bsky.social · Apr 19

Sad news and dodgy goings-on. Please share & keep up the pressure to uncover what happened here and why.

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The illegal felling of the Whitewebbs Oak #whitewebbsoak

YouTube video by Ian Phillips

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Dr Joanna Clare Dobson @joannacdobson.bsky.social · Apr 19

Sitting in the presence of my Quaker ancestors, I found a confused bird had something to tell me about protest and threat.

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The dunnock and the police raid

Some thoughts on waging peace

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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · Apr 19

In a place where there’s been a whitethroat territory and a grasshopper warbler territory for the 14 years I’ve lived in the village, both are back this morning. My second territory for both this year.

Welcome home little ones.

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Michael J. Warren @drmjwarren.bsky.social · Apr 19

Bird place-name of the day folks. Crows today, because I was back at one of the corvid places in my book this week in Devon too. My favourite crow place though is in Yorkshire. CRACKPOT. Old Norse kraka + Middle English pot. 'Rift in rock where crows abound'. #naturewriting #birdsandplace

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Jamie @movingslowly.bsky.social · Apr 19

Approaching Crackpot... 🔍 🤪

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Jamie @movingslowly.bsky.social · Apr 19

That’s a cracking shot, Jake 👌

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Moira O'Donnell @naturelark.bsky.social · Apr 19

These galls on some local Sweet Chestnut had me confused as they were not in my big gall book. A bit of googling however led me to the Oriental Chestnut Gall Wasp. I don't know if the tiny wasp near the galls is the gall wasp itself, (continued in next post)
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Jake Fiennes @jakefiennes.bsky.social · Apr 18

I’ll just leave it there

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Stone Club @stoneclub.bsky.social · Apr 18

“Mên-an-Tol, formation of standing stones, in Cornwall”
John Piper

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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · Apr 18

A brilliant Grist essay on the immense de-damming of the Klamath River in Oregon/California: a project that has resulted in the restoration of one of the largest salmon runs on the West Coast, and has also “set a profound new precedent for how the U.S. manages its water.”
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How the Klamath Dams Came Down

Last year, tribes in Oregon and California pulled off the largest dam removal in U.S. history. This is their story.

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Dandelion Appreciation Society @dandelionappre1.bsky.social · Apr 18

Another angle from the lunchtime stroll for #FlowersOnFriday those #dandelions and #daisies were so beautiful. Happyness in a single view. #ThePhotoHour #NatureCommunity #wildflowerhour

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Jon Moses @jon-moses.bsky.social · Apr 18

Always striking how different the attitudes of the major landowner body is on access in Scotland since the Land Reform Act.

"As a large estate owner.. [it] feels like a moral contract that we need to provide the basic services required for people to take safe access"

bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0029zpk

Farming Today - An Excess of Access? - BBC Sounds

Are Scotland's liberal access laws working?

www.bbc.co.uk

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Charlotte Rankin @bumble-being.bsky.social · Apr 18

The first of the worker bumblebees!

Tree, Early, Red-tailed and Heath Bumblebees all enjoying Dandelion!

The first workers are teeny! As the season progresses, workers increase in size with more food & helpers in the nest to feed them as larvae 💛

@bumblebeetrust.bsky.social

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Jamie @movingslowly.bsky.social · Apr 18

Simon Barnes’ hitting it for six (once again). 💚

A brilliantly accessible, open hearted, confidence-building (and life-affirming!) nature writer.

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Jamie @movingslowly.bsky.social · Apr 18

9th century awesomeness…

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Helen Baczkowska @helenb92.bsky.social · Apr 18

Sunset yesterday, at the gates of USAF Lakenheath.

Tea and good company in the face of weapons of mass destruction felt quietly, powerfully hopeful. And there blackbirds, singing their hearts out from inside the fences.

#LakenheathAllianceforPeace.
#Nonukes

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Jamie @movingslowly.bsky.social · Apr 18

#Deadhills - the worst welcome to Scotland imaginable for wildlife… please sign & share 🙏

Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · Apr 18

Caught in a springtrap , right next to the pairs two unhatched eggs – this is the true story of a hen harrier attempting to breed on the infamous Leadhills Estate in Scotland .

We must ban driven grouse shooting , add your name now govpetition.uk/700036

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wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social · Apr 17

Some of our #wildflowers are so incredibly minuscule they are very easy to miss! This week’s challenge is to get your specs 🤓 on & see if you find any #tinyplants in bloom. Share your finds for #WildflowerHour this Sunday 8-9pm! Happy teeny flower spotting! 🧐🌸🌿

Some of our wildflowers are incredibly tiny but when you take the time to look more closely, they are fascinating and beautiful, like this teeny Cornsalad pictured in the photo.

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Dandelion Appreciation Society @dandelionappre1.bsky.social · Apr 17

Cheeky lunchtime #dandelion boost. It looked so pretty a sea of yellow peppered with dots of daisy white. Have a lovely evening. #NatureBeauty #Spring get ready for swamping social with #dandelions this weekend #InternationalDayoftheDandelion 😁

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · Apr 17

Eye-opening graph. The biggest wildfire incidents in the UK don't occur when it's hottest, in high summer: they take place in April - *when landowners set fire to their grouse moors & lose control of burns.*

Time to ban moorland burning.

Source:
www.iucn-uk-peatlandprogramme.org/sites/defaul...

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Cumbria Wildlife Trust @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social · Apr 17

Our #Bloomscrolling share this week is the irresistible cuckooflower 😍 Have you spotted any this spring?

They're an especially important food plant for the caterpillars of orange-tip and green-veined white butterflies 🦋

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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · Apr 17

Caught red-coated . Today's #FoxOfTheDay from @uk-wildlife.bsky.social‬ on BlueSky !

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Dandelion Appreciation Society @dandelionappre1.bsky.social · Apr 17

Celebrating the small things this #InsectThursday tiny #bees in #dandelions, St Marks Fly (I think), an elegant red ant, a tiny early instar cricket judging by the length of antennae, frog hopper giving side eye check out it's antennae and a dock beetle #NaturePhotography 🪲

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Jamie @movingslowly.bsky.social · Apr 16

The cherry road into Kendal and a local variety of apple tree’s zingy bloom #TreeFlowers

#WildflowerHour

Main route into south Kendal. A tree-lined road with hundreds of thousands of cherry tree flowers.

An apple tree of the vivid Pinks and greens you’d expect at a carnival - but here in our garden…

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