Peter
@oaponabrompton.bsky.social
Retired academic, nature lover and love walking with my beautiful Dudley Labrador Rexy.
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Peter
@oaponabrompton.bsky.social
· Nov 20
The sun burns the sky bright pink to orange behind the spire of the church across the valley as it rises to oversee the unusual frozen snowy landscape; treacherous underfoot, but in the glow of dawn the beauty of the landscape and the song of the Robin lifts my spirits #FirstBirdOfMyDay #Birds
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So, what do we do with the #NewYearPlantHunt data that 1000s of #BSBImembers & supporters have collected over the past decade?
1 example: we joined forces with @metoffice.gov.uk to investigate correlations between rising temperatures & your plant records.
Initial results:
bsbi.org/about/news/l...
1 example: we joined forces with @metoffice.gov.uk to investigate correlations between rising temperatures & your plant records.
Initial results:
bsbi.org/about/news/l...
December 19, 2025 at 1:42 PM
So, what do we do with the #NewYearPlantHunt data that 1000s of #BSBImembers & supporters have collected over the past decade?
1 example: we joined forces with @metoffice.gov.uk to investigate correlations between rising temperatures & your plant records.
Initial results:
bsbi.org/about/news/l...
1 example: we joined forces with @metoffice.gov.uk to investigate correlations between rising temperatures & your plant records.
Initial results:
bsbi.org/about/news/l...
Early morning walks have consequences…………… 🐕🤪
December 8, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Early morning walks have consequences…………… 🐕🤪
Even looks incredibly impressive through the windscreen and in a downpour #Ribblehead #NorthYorkshire
July 16, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Even looks incredibly impressive through the windscreen and in a downpour #Ribblehead #NorthYorkshire
@postalpathsguy.bsky.social In a “Curiosity Shop” in Settle this afternoon.
July 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
@postalpathsguy.bsky.social In a “Curiosity Shop” in Settle this afternoon.
Trapped in the Trifold door blind this morning; Humming Bird Hawk Moth, (Macroglossum stellatarum) a first for me and it has to have passed over the rainbow bridge or whatever moths do. 😩
June 30, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Trapped in the Trifold door blind this morning; Humming Bird Hawk Moth, (Macroglossum stellatarum) a first for me and it has to have passed over the rainbow bridge or whatever moths do. 😩
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En route to the First Symposium of Alpine Lichenology. Very excited for this! I'll be discussing work from our Scottish hills and looking forward to putting it in the context of mountain environments on a wider scale.
June 29, 2025 at 6:53 AM
En route to the First Symposium of Alpine Lichenology. Very excited for this! I'll be discussing work from our Scottish hills and looking forward to putting it in the context of mountain environments on a wider scale.
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It’s Swift Awareness Week. Sadly, the iconic Swift (Apus apus) declined by 68% across the UK between 1995 and 2003. Find out some of the possible reasons for this decline here: www.bto.org/learn/about-... @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social #Ornithology #CitizenScience
June 30, 2025 at 7:06 AM
It’s Swift Awareness Week. Sadly, the iconic Swift (Apus apus) declined by 68% across the UK between 1995 and 2003. Find out some of the possible reasons for this decline here: www.bto.org/learn/about-... @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social #Ornithology #CitizenScience
I think this is the gall on Hawthorn which houses the gall mite Eriophyes crataegi
June 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I think this is the gall on Hawthorn which houses the gall mite Eriophyes crataegi
Funnel Web Spider captures Teasel in dawn raid on the field! Have a good weekend everyone. #firstbirders
June 27, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Funnel Web Spider captures Teasel in dawn raid on the field! Have a good weekend everyone. #firstbirders
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Please continue to report all sightings of dead birds for possible testing for avian influenza:
📌In England, Wales & Scotland: www.gov.uk/guidance/rep...
📌In Northern Ireland: www.daera-ni.gov.uk/services/dae...
📌In Republic of Ireland: aviancheck.apps.services.agriculture.gov.ie/report
📌In England, Wales & Scotland: www.gov.uk/guidance/rep...
📌In Northern Ireland: www.daera-ni.gov.uk/services/dae...
📌In Republic of Ireland: aviancheck.apps.services.agriculture.gov.ie/report
Report dead wild birds
How to report dead wild birds.
www.gov.uk
June 27, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Please continue to report all sightings of dead birds for possible testing for avian influenza:
📌In England, Wales & Scotland: www.gov.uk/guidance/rep...
📌In Northern Ireland: www.daera-ni.gov.uk/services/dae...
📌In Republic of Ireland: aviancheck.apps.services.agriculture.gov.ie/report
📌In England, Wales & Scotland: www.gov.uk/guidance/rep...
📌In Northern Ireland: www.daera-ni.gov.uk/services/dae...
📌In Republic of Ireland: aviancheck.apps.services.agriculture.gov.ie/report
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Happy World Rainforest Day! #Lichens are an important feature of these wonderful habitats. From loop lichens, to yellow speckle-belly’s to the red eyed shingle lichen & everything in between - they add so much beauty to our rainforests! #worldrainforestday2025 #worldrainforestday
June 22, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Happy World Rainforest Day! #Lichens are an important feature of these wonderful habitats. From loop lichens, to yellow speckle-belly’s to the red eyed shingle lichen & everything in between - they add so much beauty to our rainforests! #worldrainforestday2025 #worldrainforestday
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This is the side of the hunting community that rewilding needs to build bridges with: the side with an *ecological consciousness*.
It both exists, and is utterly crucial to restoring natural ecosystems.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
It both exists, and is utterly crucial to restoring natural ecosystems.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Lithuanian hunters refuse to kill bear that ambled around capital for two days
Permit was issued to shoot, as a last resort, young female that entered Vilnius despite dwindling bear population
www.theguardian.com
June 21, 2025 at 6:12 AM
This is the side of the hunting community that rewilding needs to build bridges with: the side with an *ecological consciousness*.
It both exists, and is utterly crucial to restoring natural ecosystems.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
It both exists, and is utterly crucial to restoring natural ecosystems.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Dear #RoyalMail, Please can you not let the art of letter writing go the same way as the dinosaurs. Thanks so much, Dinah and co #Kimmeridge #PostboxSaturday ☺️🦖🦕💌
June 21, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Dear #RoyalMail, Please can you not let the art of letter writing go the same way as the dinosaurs. Thanks so much, Dinah and co #Kimmeridge #PostboxSaturday ☺️🦖🦕💌
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By my count, there are about 35 of these left.
£25 or more and you get a fiver back alongside your books!
#indiebookshopweek
£25 or more and you get a fiver back alongside your books!
#indiebookshopweek
Today is the start of #IndieBookshopWeek and to celebrate you can get yourself a £5 National Book Token!
All you have to do is spend £25 on bookson the website or in the shop and we’ll send one with your order.
(Excludes subscriptions)
All you have to do is spend £25 on bookson the website or in the shop and we’ll send one with your order.
(Excludes subscriptions)
June 15, 2025 at 8:34 AM
By my count, there are about 35 of these left.
£25 or more and you get a fiver back alongside your books!
#indiebookshopweek
£25 or more and you get a fiver back alongside your books!
#indiebookshopweek
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In the Sunday Telegraph today. If you have a Tory MP please email them asking for their advocacy on this tiny measure, by asking them to speak in support of mandating swift bricks to Kevin Hollinrake the Shadow Housing Minister.
June 15, 2025 at 8:41 AM
In the Sunday Telegraph today. If you have a Tory MP please email them asking for their advocacy on this tiny measure, by asking them to speak in support of mandating swift bricks to Kevin Hollinrake the Shadow Housing Minister.
Camptogramma bilineata, the yellow shell, found in hedge on my early morning walk with Rexy. Beautiful
June 6, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Camptogramma bilineata, the yellow shell, found in hedge on my early morning walk with Rexy. Beautiful
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From today, our film The Invisible Doctrine is on general release.
Well, with the exception of Amazon, which has banned it. theinvisibledoctrine.com
Well, with the exception of Amazon, which has banned it. theinvisibledoctrine.com
THE INVISIBLE DOCTRINE
theinvisibledoctrine.com
June 4, 2025 at 8:16 AM
From today, our film The Invisible Doctrine is on general release.
Well, with the exception of Amazon, which has banned it. theinvisibledoctrine.com
Well, with the exception of Amazon, which has banned it. theinvisibledoctrine.com
Swifts have lost more than half their population in 20 years. A simple £35 brick in new builds could help save them. Labour used to support this – now they’re planning to backtrack. Sign the petition now to show them the public still backs this nature-friendly fix:
June 3, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Swifts have lost more than half their population in 20 years. A simple £35 brick in new builds could help save them. Labour used to support this – now they’re planning to backtrack. Sign the petition now to show them the public still backs this nature-friendly fix:
@galling.bsky.social early stage red bean gall??
June 3, 2025 at 8:29 AM
@galling.bsky.social early stage red bean gall??
@galling.bsky.social Red Bean Galls caused by Pontania proxima on Willow???
June 3, 2025 at 8:27 AM
@galling.bsky.social Red Bean Galls caused by Pontania proxima on Willow???
@galling.bsky.social any suggestions? Found on hedgerow Bracken, country- lane, west Notts. Not sure it’s a gall, eggs? Reluctant to take apart.
June 3, 2025 at 8:13 AM
@galling.bsky.social any suggestions? Found on hedgerow Bracken, country- lane, west Notts. Not sure it’s a gall, eggs? Reluctant to take apart.
Keys forming on a beautiful Ash
June 2, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Keys forming on a beautiful Ash