Summerfield Books
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New & second-hand books to understand the natural world.
Online and in our Penrith shop.
Botany🌼 Trees🌲 Arboriculture🌳 Fungi🍄 Birds🦉 Wildlife🐞
Online and in our Penrith shop.
Botany🌼 Trees🌲 Arboriculture🌳 Fungi🍄 Birds🦉 Wildlife🐞
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POV you're a Peacock butterfly soaking up every last scrap of winter sunshine
We'd hiss too if someone was blocking our sun!
📹: Jake Hearney
We'd hiss too if someone was blocking our sun!
📹: Jake Hearney
January 29, 2026 at 4:27 PM
POV you're a Peacock butterfly soaking up every last scrap of winter sunshine
We'd hiss too if someone was blocking our sun!
📹: Jake Hearney
We'd hiss too if someone was blocking our sun!
📹: Jake Hearney
Our #Bookofthemonth for January: Lichens of Britain and Ireland: An Introductory Guide by Frances Stoakley and Dr Rebecca Yahr. Filling a desired niche, it's a really useable and accessible guide for beginners and a faithful field guide for all! www.summerfieldbooks.com/product/lich...
January 28, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Our #Bookofthemonth for January: Lichens of Britain and Ireland: An Introductory Guide by Frances Stoakley and Dr Rebecca Yahr. Filling a desired niche, it's a really useable and accessible guide for beginners and a faithful field guide for all! www.summerfieldbooks.com/product/lich...
Weave a little bit of wonder from the weekend's wintery walk into your weekday work-scape... 🙂
#WednesdayWisdom #lichen #naturenurtures
#WednesdayWisdom #lichen #naturenurtures
January 28, 2026 at 12:47 PM
Weave a little bit of wonder from the weekend's wintery walk into your weekday work-scape... 🙂
#WednesdayWisdom #lichen #naturenurtures
#WednesdayWisdom #lichen #naturenurtures
Hey @rspb.bsky.social this counts as 'landing on your patch', right?! 🙃
#BigGardenBirdwatch
Our secondhand shelves do turn up some little gems. This delightful image is from The Life of the Robin by David Lack(1953) entitled 'Lord Grey and his robin'
#binocularsready #secondhandbooks #gardenbirds
#BigGardenBirdwatch
Our secondhand shelves do turn up some little gems. This delightful image is from The Life of the Robin by David Lack(1953) entitled 'Lord Grey and his robin'
#binocularsready #secondhandbooks #gardenbirds
January 23, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Hey @rspb.bsky.social this counts as 'landing on your patch', right?! 🙃
#BigGardenBirdwatch
Our secondhand shelves do turn up some little gems. This delightful image is from The Life of the Robin by David Lack(1953) entitled 'Lord Grey and his robin'
#binocularsready #secondhandbooks #gardenbirds
#BigGardenBirdwatch
Our secondhand shelves do turn up some little gems. This delightful image is from The Life of the Robin by David Lack(1953) entitled 'Lord Grey and his robin'
#binocularsready #secondhandbooks #gardenbirds
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January 23, 2026 at 8:01 AM
Nature under our noses! The briefest of lunchtime forays (well it is cold and wet today!) reveals a rather nice bracket fungus just doing it's thing in the corner of the car park. 😊 What's in your car park?
#onthedoorstep #noticenature #fungi #LunchBreakGoals
#onthedoorstep #noticenature #fungi #LunchBreakGoals
January 21, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Nature under our noses! The briefest of lunchtime forays (well it is cold and wet today!) reveals a rather nice bracket fungus just doing it's thing in the corner of the car park. 😊 What's in your car park?
#onthedoorstep #noticenature #fungi #LunchBreakGoals
#onthedoorstep #noticenature #fungi #LunchBreakGoals
Forthcoming in Feb! 📚 📚 📚
Will it be a fab new field guide, a deep dive into a favourite species, a directory to help you plan your days out or simply a blummin' good read that will see you through the last days of winter and into spring? These and more at:
www.summerfieldbooks.com/shop/forthco...
Will it be a fab new field guide, a deep dive into a favourite species, a directory to help you plan your days out or simply a blummin' good read that will see you through the last days of winter and into spring? These and more at:
www.summerfieldbooks.com/shop/forthco...
January 20, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Forthcoming in Feb! 📚 📚 📚
Will it be a fab new field guide, a deep dive into a favourite species, a directory to help you plan your days out or simply a blummin' good read that will see you through the last days of winter and into spring? These and more at:
www.summerfieldbooks.com/shop/forthco...
Will it be a fab new field guide, a deep dive into a favourite species, a directory to help you plan your days out or simply a blummin' good read that will see you through the last days of winter and into spring? These and more at:
www.summerfieldbooks.com/shop/forthco...
Why do we love books about nature? Because we love nature 😍 These lichens were positively sparkling in the sunshine this morning!
January 20, 2026 at 10:21 AM
Why do we love books about nature? Because we love nature 😍 These lichens were positively sparkling in the sunshine this morning!