Fiona
@fionapondsandtrees.bsky.social
We live on an acre of rewilded land in the west of Ireland. I love nature the sea & boats. I detest all destruction of nature & animal cruelty.
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Did u know?Put apples out for the small souls in your garden during the winter months.They're a fab source of nutrition,but also moisture when other sources are frozen over. Look closely to see the peck marks in one of them. Bet you 50p these are made by Blackbirds -they're huge apples fans. 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🐦⬛
January 8, 2026 at 6:09 AM
Did u know?Put apples out for the small souls in your garden during the winter months.They're a fab source of nutrition,but also moisture when other sources are frozen over. Look closely to see the peck marks in one of them. Bet you 50p these are made by Blackbirds -they're huge apples fans. 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🐦⬛
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Deep in the woods, the underside of a fallen tree's rootplate reveals charcoal, previously about 2 foot (61cm) under the ground surface.
My guess is these partially burned wood fragments could easily be 1,000s of years old, given their depth, and immunity to rot.
Fires the imagination... 🔥
My guess is these partially burned wood fragments could easily be 1,000s of years old, given their depth, and immunity to rot.
Fires the imagination... 🔥
January 8, 2026 at 6:28 AM
Deep in the woods, the underside of a fallen tree's rootplate reveals charcoal, previously about 2 foot (61cm) under the ground surface.
My guess is these partially burned wood fragments could easily be 1,000s of years old, given their depth, and immunity to rot.
Fires the imagination... 🔥
My guess is these partially burned wood fragments could easily be 1,000s of years old, given their depth, and immunity to rot.
Fires the imagination... 🔥
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Did u know? Look carefully & you can see that my Hydrangea bushes were shivering with Great Tits, Long-tailed Tits & Goldfinches yesterday. Birds' diets are varied, so I'm not sure what they were after - nutritional leaf buds or insects hiding in the spent flowers heads. Lovely to see though.🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🐦⬛
January 7, 2026 at 6:10 AM
Did u know? Look carefully & you can see that my Hydrangea bushes were shivering with Great Tits, Long-tailed Tits & Goldfinches yesterday. Birds' diets are varied, so I'm not sure what they were after - nutritional leaf buds or insects hiding in the spent flowers heads. Lovely to see though.🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🐦⬛
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Did u know? As summers get hotter & drier,gardeners can do a lot to mitigate the damage done to wildlife & soil by the sun. Create borders that have cheek-by-jowl planting.The ground-level green canopy you create will protect small souls from heat,stop the soil from drying out & look fab. 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🪲🐜🐸🦎🐀
January 4, 2026 at 6:29 AM
Did u know? As summers get hotter & drier,gardeners can do a lot to mitigate the damage done to wildlife & soil by the sun. Create borders that have cheek-by-jowl planting.The ground-level green canopy you create will protect small souls from heat,stop the soil from drying out & look fab. 🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🪲🐜🐸🦎🐀
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Did u know? Patios are barren spaces that can be rewilded to create new habitats. Mine has wildflowers that have self seeded in every gap; moth & b'fly pupae overwinter between patio slabs; pots provide quiet shelter & summer forage for small souls; water butts collect precious precipitation🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🪲🐜🦋
January 3, 2026 at 6:18 AM
Did u know? Patios are barren spaces that can be rewilded to create new habitats. Mine has wildflowers that have self seeded in every gap; moth & b'fly pupae overwinter between patio slabs; pots provide quiet shelter & summer forage for small souls; water butts collect precious precipitation🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🌍🪲🐜🦋
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It’s almost like green energy is the only way forward and a handful of oil barons are doing everything in their power to keep that from happening so they can get even richer at the cost of literally everything else in the world.
Wall Street’s biggest banks made more money financing green projects than they did from working with fossil fuel companies for a fourth straight year, even as they faced ongoing pressure to pull back from the business
Banks Notch Higher Fees From Green Bonds Than Fossil Fuel Debt
Wall Street’s biggest banks made more money financing green projects than they did from working with fossil fuel companies for a fourth straight year, even as they faced ongoing pressure to pull back from the business.
bloom.bg
January 3, 2026 at 3:00 AM
It’s almost like green energy is the only way forward and a handful of oil barons are doing everything in their power to keep that from happening so they can get even richer at the cost of literally everything else in the world.
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A dead, fallen tree in the rainforest explodes into a kaleidoscope of exquisite new life, colour, and beauty.
Just one example of what's lost when we 'tidy' deadwood away from a natural ecosystem.
Leave it rot down for nature. 🌍
Just one example of what's lost when we 'tidy' deadwood away from a natural ecosystem.
Leave it rot down for nature. 🌍
January 2, 2026 at 6:49 AM
A dead, fallen tree in the rainforest explodes into a kaleidoscope of exquisite new life, colour, and beauty.
Just one example of what's lost when we 'tidy' deadwood away from a natural ecosystem.
Leave it rot down for nature. 🌍
Just one example of what's lost when we 'tidy' deadwood away from a natural ecosystem.
Leave it rot down for nature. 🌍
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This summer wasps made a nest in our garden beside our bike stand in an old tree stump. I persuaded the family to put up with it and the wasps have finally died off. This is what it looks like now. (Wasps don’t reuse their nests) #biodiversity #speirgorm @gardeningwell.ie
January 1, 2026 at 11:42 AM
This summer wasps made a nest in our garden beside our bike stand in an old tree stump. I persuaded the family to put up with it and the wasps have finally died off. This is what it looks like now. (Wasps don’t reuse their nests) #biodiversity #speirgorm @gardeningwell.ie
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All the data points to micro plastics being a massive human health issue, never mind the effects they're having throughout the natural world.
How is the plastics industry continuing to get away with pushing inconceivable amounts of toxic pollution into the environment, and our own bodies?
How is the plastics industry continuing to get away with pushing inconceivable amounts of toxic pollution into the environment, and our own bodies?
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“What plastics do to human organs is subject to intense study. When scientists add microplastics to human tissue samples in the laboratory, it can result in cell death, immune reactions and tissue damage. And hundreds of studies have exposed animals —
“What plastics do to human organs is subject to intense study. When scientists add microplastics to human tissue samples in the laboratory, it can result in cell death, immune reactions and tissue damage. And hundreds of studies have exposed animals —
Your brain is full of microplastics: are they harming you?
Plastics have infiltrated every recess of the planet, including your lungs, kidneys and other sensitive organs. Scientists are scrambling to understand their effects on health.
www.nature.com
December 31, 2025 at 5:15 PM
All the data points to micro plastics being a massive human health issue, never mind the effects they're having throughout the natural world.
How is the plastics industry continuing to get away with pushing inconceivable amounts of toxic pollution into the environment, and our own bodies?
How is the plastics industry continuing to get away with pushing inconceivable amounts of toxic pollution into the environment, and our own bodies?
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Did u know? This is where I'm coming from for the start of 2026....'Nuff said.... 😄🌍🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🪲🐝🦟🪳🪰🦗🐜🐞🦋🐛
December 29, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Did u know? This is where I'm coming from for the start of 2026....'Nuff said.... 😄🌍🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱🪲🐝🦟🪳🪰🦗🐜🐞🦋🐛
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A massive old oak, wrapped in ivy, down by the shores of Bantry Bay, West Cork.
So many people still believe ivy is a 'parasite', or 'kills trees', but in Europe it's a natural and vital part of forest ecosystems, providing food, shelter, and cover to a great range of wildlife.
So many people still believe ivy is a 'parasite', or 'kills trees', but in Europe it's a natural and vital part of forest ecosystems, providing food, shelter, and cover to a great range of wildlife.
December 29, 2025 at 6:26 AM
A massive old oak, wrapped in ivy, down by the shores of Bantry Bay, West Cork.
So many people still believe ivy is a 'parasite', or 'kills trees', but in Europe it's a natural and vital part of forest ecosystems, providing food, shelter, and cover to a great range of wildlife.
So many people still believe ivy is a 'parasite', or 'kills trees', but in Europe it's a natural and vital part of forest ecosystems, providing food, shelter, and cover to a great range of wildlife.
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Aidan Robbins has been making videos on temperate rainforests all over the world, but says Ireland's were the hardest to cover because they are now so rare.
Great to see these precious, neglected ecosystems getting some global attention. They deserve so much better.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qq9...
Great to see these precious, neglected ecosystems getting some global attention. They deserve so much better.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qq9...
Ireland's Invisible Rainforest
YouTube video by Aidin Robbins
m.youtube.com
December 29, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Aidan Robbins has been making videos on temperate rainforests all over the world, but says Ireland's were the hardest to cover because they are now so rare.
Great to see these precious, neglected ecosystems getting some global attention. They deserve so much better.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qq9...
Great to see these precious, neglected ecosystems getting some global attention. They deserve so much better.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qq9...
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Incredible story about a fish and the forces of time. www.cnn.com/2025/12/26/a...
This tiny ancient fish only lives between two waterfalls in one river. It’s now under threat | CNN
Along a nine-mile stretch of river between two waterfalls in the Australian rainforest lives a tiny fish that’s been there for millions of years, hiding between rocks along the riverbank by day and em...
www.cnn.com
December 28, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Incredible story about a fish and the forces of time. www.cnn.com/2025/12/26/a...
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Today's column is on the relentless march of blithering idiocy, which includes denying climate science while your house is - literally in this case - burning down.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A conversation between Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson summed up 2025 for me – and not in a good way | George Monbiot
From merrily dismissing climate science, to promoting irresponsible health claims, the podcast was an unintentional warning for our times, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 27, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Today's column is on the relentless march of blithering idiocy, which includes denying climate science while your house is - literally in this case - burning down.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A slow motion Christmas sea angel 👼🪽taken by Jamie with some of our dive-collected specimens from the Gulf of California #zooplankton #oceanography 🌊
December 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
A slow motion Christmas sea angel 👼🪽taken by Jamie with some of our dive-collected specimens from the Gulf of California #zooplankton #oceanography 🌊
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Embroidery (detail) created by women of the Otomi people of central Altiplano (Mexican Plateau) region of Mexico #WomensArt
December 27, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Embroidery (detail) created by women of the Otomi people of central Altiplano (Mexican Plateau) region of Mexico #WomensArt
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Rivers with beavers can have up to 6x more species of fish, amphibians, water insects, water plants, and dragonflies, and up to 60x more abundance, than those without.
What the beaver does for nature is absolutely mind-blowing.
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What the beaver does for nature is absolutely mind-blowing.
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Something gnawed your oak tree? Sink hole in your road? How Zurich’s beaver hotline is reassuring residents
As the number of the semi-aquatic creatures soars so can tensions. But the Swiss have a tried and tested system to calm the neighbours and restore harmony
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December 25, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Rivers with beavers can have up to 6x more species of fish, amphibians, water insects, water plants, and dragonflies, and up to 60x more abundance, than those without.
What the beaver does for nature is absolutely mind-blowing.
share.google/zRvScq1fvarX...
What the beaver does for nature is absolutely mind-blowing.
share.google/zRvScq1fvarX...
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The Express will keep doing this.
Churning out anger and division.
They don’t take a day off, even on Christmas Day.
But this Christmas I’m inviting you to choose something different:
Humanity. Kindness. Hope.
Churning out anger and division.
They don’t take a day off, even on Christmas Day.
But this Christmas I’m inviting you to choose something different:
Humanity. Kindness. Hope.
December 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The Express will keep doing this.
Churning out anger and division.
They don’t take a day off, even on Christmas Day.
But this Christmas I’m inviting you to choose something different:
Humanity. Kindness. Hope.
Churning out anger and division.
They don’t take a day off, even on Christmas Day.
But this Christmas I’m inviting you to choose something different:
Humanity. Kindness. Hope.
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Honestly, millipedes are like the cutest little arthropods in the world. They look and are just straight up completely harmless to humans and they look like they’re wearing tiny helmets… 🥺🥺🥺
They are Devine pure beings
They are Devine pure beings
December 24, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Honestly, millipedes are like the cutest little arthropods in the world. They look and are just straight up completely harmless to humans and they look like they’re wearing tiny helmets… 🥺🥺🥺
They are Devine pure beings
They are Devine pure beings
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Did u know? If you want to give a Xmas gift to your garden wildlife, add a plant they can use as food/habitat. Sarcococca, or sweet box is a fab winter food providing plant. It flowers when little else does. It's tiny sweet scented blooms offering essential sustenance to hungry pollinators.🌱🌿🇬🇧🌱🪲🐝🌍
December 24, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Did u know? If you want to give a Xmas gift to your garden wildlife, add a plant they can use as food/habitat. Sarcococca, or sweet box is a fab winter food providing plant. It flowers when little else does. It's tiny sweet scented blooms offering essential sustenance to hungry pollinators.🌱🌿🇬🇧🌱🪲🐝🌍
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Crocheted Christmas tree, Medelim, Portugal, created by 50 female textile artists who came together from all over the country for the project #WomensArt #ChristmasEve 🎄 ❄️
December 24, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Crocheted Christmas tree, Medelim, Portugal, created by 50 female textile artists who came together from all over the country for the project #WomensArt #ChristmasEve 🎄 ❄️
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Before the Storm — Gregory Jacek Olejniczak, 2024
Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
December 23, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Before the Storm — Gregory Jacek Olejniczak, 2024
Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
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Did u know? The shortest day of the year is behind us & longer,warmer days are on their way & with them,all life will follow. It's easy to forget how much life will literally explode into being.This vid is a cheery reminder of the profusion to come:ladybirds,ants, bees,flies,aphids. Whoop! 🌱🌿🌱🇬🇧🌍🪲🐞🐝🪰
December 23, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Did u know? The shortest day of the year is behind us & longer,warmer days are on their way & with them,all life will follow. It's easy to forget how much life will literally explode into being.This vid is a cheery reminder of the profusion to come:ladybirds,ants, bees,flies,aphids. Whoop! 🌱🌿🌱🇬🇧🌍🪲🐞🐝🪰