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ThornyHedges @thornyhedges.bsky.social · 3h

Ok, point taken! 🤣

ThornyHedges @thornyhedges.bsky.social · 4h

We were in Edinburgh yesterday and realised that most towns/cities are glorified shopping centres with little difference between them.

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ThornyHedges @thornyhedges.bsky.social · 4h

Or Gaelic in Scotland

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Badger Trust @badgertrust.bsky.social · 4h

🎥🦡 BrockWatch is live! Help reveal the secret world of badgers — be a Trapper, Spotter or Watcher. Join in today: buff.ly/XeeKDkf

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Scottish Wildlife Trust @scotwildlife.bsky.social · 4h

🍁Ready for some autumnal vibes? 🍂

The latest issue of our Wildlife Watch magazine is full of autumnal activities and wonderful wildlife!

#WildlifeWatch #Autumn

A spread of pages from the autumn issue of Scottish Wildlife Trust's Wildlife Watch magazine. The pages feature a large photo of a carrion crow as well as some autumnal activities and large illustration of a fly agaric mushroom.

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ThornyHedges @thornyhedges.bsky.social · 4h

There's a company called Dalefoot in Cumbria who make use of it for their peat free compost. Bloomin fabulous stuff.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 2d

My colleagues & I have taken a huge gamble to set up @thenerve.news We’re trying to build a new independent publication from the ground up. Social media is our only distribution for now.

Sharing this article in your networks would make a huge difference. Thank you! 🙏🙏🙏

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 3d

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 23h

Yesterday my etsy shop had preciously one view. (And i think that was probably me) If you like my stuff please repost. An eccentric millionaire with lots of empty wall space could be scrolling your timeline right now. marswasrubbish.etsy.com/listing/1579...

One of my prints “And now we’ll abseil down the other side” Shows a mountain that’s actually a monster with abseilers on top of it.

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ThornyHedges @thornyhedges.bsky.social · 1d

Please don't put bird food out in net bags. The birds can become trapped in them.

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Saving Scotland's Red Squirrels @scotsquirrels.bsky.social · 1d

Noticed a lot of acorns recently? This year is what is known as a ‘mast year’, where trees produce a large number of seeds. In this case, oak trees are producing huge numbers of acorns, more than could possibly be eaten by the local wildlife, meaning more acorns successfully turn into oak saplings.

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Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social · 1d

Ardura Community Forest, Mull 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 The Mull & Iona Community Trust engaged us to find out the age of oaks which had been felled in the 1960s when the Sitka spruce plantation was created by the Forestry Commission. They were mostly around 200 years old.
#dendrochronology #ThickTrunkTuesday #Mull

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Dave Goulson @davegoulson.bsky.social · 2d

For all ages: Poster book and children's activity book versions of Insectarium now available! Long live the little creatures...

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ThornyHedges @thornyhedges.bsky.social · 1d

Have you shared this with Private Eye? They're very good at bringing issues to a wider audience.

ThornyHedges @thornyhedges.bsky.social · 2d

We're tired of being bled dry and the constant in fighting.

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ThornyHedges @thornyhedges.bsky.social · 2d

He's waiting to take it over & redevelop 😡

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ThornyHedges @thornyhedges.bsky.social · 2d

I was summoned outside by 🐈‍⬛ for a wee wander around the garden and spotted the morning dew/rain on plants & ornaments.

Dew/rain drops in crevices on Green Man garden ornament.

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 2d

Listen from 48 minutes in to hear Jack's 'A list' actions for helping wildlife in small spaces. 🐸 #Gardening #Wildlife

Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 3d

Listen to Jack Thompson, Wilder Communities Officer, talking about wildlife gardening with Pat Marsh on BBC Radio Sussex from 10:45 this morning: buff.ly/yYyuttr

Photo © Kai Hilton

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Helen Todd @helenrambler.bsky.social · 3d

This is really worth a read, a clear and informed view from an experienced forester. Reform of the forestry grants system is surely needed.

nickkempe.bsky.social @nickkempe.bsky.social · 5d

Victor Clements, a woodlands adviser, takes a look from a professional perspective at why BrewDog's Lost Forest went so wrong parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2025/10/09/b...

BrewDog's Lost Forest - What if? - parkswatchscotland

Introduction It has been well covered in the media recently that the craft beer company BrewDog have sold on their “Lost Forest” at Kinrara Estate, which stretches from Speyside into the Monadliath, t...

parkswatchscotland.co.uk

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 2d

A stick, hanging in mid-air?
What's going on?

Hazel glue fungus!

Keeping a dead twig attached to a living stem allows the glue fungus to break it down without competition from the many other fungi that work at ground level. Nature is *so* amazing!

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Brilliant Maps @brilliantmaps.bsky.social · 2d

The Shifting Position Of The North Magnetic Pole Since 1590

Find out how & why: brilliantmaps.com/north-mag...

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Biodiversity Heritage Library @biodivlibrary.bsky.social · 3d

It's #WorldAlgaeDay! Japanese algologist Kintaro Okamura (1867-1935) provided taxonomies & descriptions in English & Japanese for his monumental work "Nihon sorui zufu" / "Icones of Japanese Algae" (1907-1942). Find it in #BHLib via
#MBLWHOILibrary
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography... 🧪

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 2d

Australian printmaker Rachel Newling is inspired by the floral and fauna of her homeland.
'Grey Headed Flying Fox', hand coloured linocut #ReframjngWomenPrintmakers

Print featuring three bats hanging upside-down in branches of a tree with green leaves and orange blossoms

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 3d

“Farm workers follow where the spinner has passed and collect the potatoes in shallow baskets.
Picking up potatoes is back-aching work”
Writer: EL Grant Watson
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

On a misty day in autumn, a group of mainly women follow a tractor to gather potatoes. The figures are hunched over and you can almost feel the back pain.

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 4d

My travelling ‘Ladybird artists’ exhibition is still going strong!

Next year, Cambridge and Mansfield
2027 (tbc) Southampton and Motherwell
2028 Lichfield

Photograph of myself, smiling cheesily as I stand in front of the wall of books which is the centrepiece of my ladybird artists exhibition

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Ian Denton @iand777.bsky.social · 3d

As autumn progresses, Reed Buntings move out beyond the river valleys & begin to explore further afield.
I always give the House Sparrows a quick double-take, in case they are feeding amongst them.
Really delightful visitors to the garden but easily overlooked.
#ukbirds #nature 🌿🦉

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