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RECORD LRC @recordlrc.bsky.social · Jun 10

Next Friday ourselves and @tanyptera.bsky.social are hosting a spotlight session covering Soldierflies and Allies. Join us as we practice ID in a friendly setting.

FREE event, find out more and book 👉https://www.tickettailor.com/events/recordlrc/1734115

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RECORD LRC @recordlrc.bsky.social · Jun 1

🙋‍♀️ Help us search for an elusive species of hoverfly.

🧐 Parasyrphus nigritarsis is a 'Nationally Scarce' species. We want to see if this unusual species is living in the Nature Reserve at Chester Zoo and for this we need your help!

👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/recor...

@tanyptera.bsky.social

Register – Search for a Nationally Scarce Hoverfly – Chester Zoo Nature Reserve

We're looking for volunteers to help with the search for an elusive species of hoverfly. Parasyrphus nigritarsis is a 'National...

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RECORD LRC @recordlrc.bsky.social · May 13

Join us on 21 May, 2:30pm for a Spotlight Session on Ladybirds 🐞

We'll be having a go at some ladybird identification along with
@tanyptera.bsky.social. No experience is neccessary and there will be free tea and biscuits ☕🍪

Register here 👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/recor...

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RECORD LRC @recordlrc.bsky.social · May 12

🥳The results are in 🥳

This year was a record-breaking year both here in Chester and around the world for the City Nature Challenge 🌎

THANK YOU to all who joined in and made it a success. We managed to make over 19,000 observations of 1403 different species in just 4 days in the Chester Region🤯

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RECORD LRC @recordlrc.bsky.social · May 1

A few last minute tickets left on tonight's free event, where we'll be hearing from Helen at Wirral and Cheshire Badger Group 🦡

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Register – Badgers: is it all that black and white? – Parade Enterprise Centre, Blacon, Chester

*IMPORTANT: please note different day of the week and venue to previous Wildlife Exchange Sessions! For our next Wildlife Excha...

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Andy Scargill @andyscargill.bsky.social · Apr 25

Recorded my first observation on the Chester City Nature Challenge 2025 .. head over to @recordlrc.bsky.social for more information and get recording Chester .. let's be 1st in the world this time.
@shitchester.bsky.social @chesterzoosci.bsky.social @chesterzoo.bsky.social

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RECORD LRC @recordlrc.bsky.social · Apr 25

A lovely sunny morning here in Chester for #CityNatureChallenge ☀️

Share your wildlife observations through @inaturalist.bsky.social to join in 🌸🐝

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Friends of the Countess of Chester Country Park @friendscoccp.bsky.social · Apr 24

Friday25th in #CountessChesterCountryPark

1.00pm @ramblers.org.uk Health and Wellbeing Walk

2.00pm #CityNatureChallenge20205 ID Session - download @inaturalist.bsky.social app beforehand

Meet at the Friendly Bench

@recordlrc.bsky.social @shitchester.bsky.social @chesterscibar.bsky.social

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RECORD LRC @recordlrc.bsky.social · Apr 22

Join us on Monday 28 April at Little Budworth Country Park.

🙋‍♀️ We're looking for volunteers to help us search for and record wildilfe.

👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/recor...

Register – Wildlife Recording Day at Little Budworth Country Park – Little Budworth Country Park

Join us for a wildlife recording day at Little Budworth Country Park where we will be searching for and recording wildlife as p...

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RECORD LRC @recordlrc.bsky.social · Apr 18

Great day at the National Waterways Museum today promoting next weekends #CityNatureChallenge 🛶🦊🦆

RECORD LRC @recordlrc.bsky.social · Apr 17

Join our iNaturalist project 🦋

To watch our Chester Region #CityNatureChallenge total grow next weekend 🤞

www.inaturalist.org/projects/cit...

City Nature Challenge 2025: Chester Region

The City Nature Challenge is an international Wildlife Recording event! In the Chester Region we're joining hundreds of other areas worldwide in an effort to explore and document as much local wil...

www.inaturalist.org

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RECORD LRC @recordlrc.bsky.social · Apr 14

🙋 We're looking for volunteers to help us document wildlife.

🐝 Join us at one of our wildlife recording sessions for the #CityNatureChallenge

🧐 No prior knowledge is needed, just an enthusiasm for nature and ideally a mobile phone to use iNaturalist

👉 www.tickettailor.com/events/recor...

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Bex Cartwright @bexcartwright.bsky.social · Feb 12

Curating a Starter Pack that will hopefully be useful to folk coming over to BlueSky and looking for all of the UK conservation orgs and recording societies go.bsky.app/Nget1LP Will keep adding to this. DM or reply to be added and please share.

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Friends of the Countess of Chester Country Park @friendscoccp.bsky.social · Apr 4

We are delighted to be hosting 2 events for #CityNatureChallenge2025 along with @recordlrc.bsky.social.

12th April 11.00am @inaturalist.bsky.social trianing session
27th April 6.00pm Dusk Wildlife Walk

Use link for info and bookings
record-lrc.co.uk/Get_involved...
@chesterzoosci.bsky.social

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RECORD LRC @recordlrc.bsky.social · Apr 7

💻Join us tonight at 7pm for a free webinar all about the Chester City Nature Challenge 🦊🐛🐸

📱 We'll be learning how to use the free iNaturalist app to record wildlife.

Register here 👉https://www.tickettailor.com/events/recordlrc/1596597

Register – Webinar - Using iNaturalist for the Chester City Nature Challenge (April) – Zoom

The City Nature Challenge is a global wildlife recording event which unites people in over 500 City Regions all over the world ...

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Friends of the Countess of Chester Country Park @friendscoccp.bsky.social · Apr 4

Grow Wellbeing are offering free & paid for Forest School sessions in #CountessofChesterCountryPark in the Easter holidays. Details at t.co/Ti6NBPARVh

@recordlrc.bsky.social @swettenhamfdn.bsky.social @shitchester.bsky.social @wearechester.bsky.social @cwva.bsky.social @chesterzoosci.bsky.social

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RECORD LRC @recordlrc.bsky.social · Apr 4

We have moved 🏠😀

If you need to get in touch please use our new phone number: 01244 394514

📍And our new address:
RECORD LRC, Suite 5
Parade Enterprise Centre
14 The Parade
Blacon
Chester
CH1 5HN

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RECORD LRC @recordlrc.bsky.social · Mar 27

One month to go until the #CityNatureChallenge 🌸🦊🐞

Join us for 4 fun-filled days of wildlife recording 🤗

Last year we achieved around 7000 observations in the Chester Region and this year we’ve set our target at 10,000 📈😲

Record through @inaturalist.bsky.social 25-28 April to join in 📱🦆

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Cofnod Local Environmental Records Centre @cofnod.org.uk · Mar 21

Cofnod #RecordOfTheWeek is not to be sniffed at. 150 Smelt (Osmerus eperlanus) recorded on the Dee at Chester by JoelRJ. In Cheshire, but they must have swam through Wales to get there www.marlin.ac.uk/species/deta... @sewbrec.org.uk @wwbic1.bsky.social @bispowys.bsky.social @recordlrc.bsky.social

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Soldierflies and Allies Recording Scheme @uk-soldierflies.bsky.social · Mar 18

Great to see some bee-flies appearing, and hoping for more as things warm up over the next few days 🌞 Please don't forget to add your record details to iRecord for #BeeFlyWatch & thanks to all who have already done so 🙏👍 dipterists.org.uk/bee-fly-watch

Poster: Take part in #BeeFlyWatch.
Dark-edged Bee-fly (Bombylius major) and Dotted Bee-fly (Bombylius discolor) in the UK.
1. Full info on the Dipterists Forum website (under “News and Events”)
2. Download our ID guide.
3. Go out on a warm and sunny day and look for fluffy flies, with a very long ‘nose’ (proboscis), hovering around flowers, or basking on the ground.
4. Take a photo of your bee-fly, and add it to iRecord with details of place, date and species.
5. Enjoy watching and recording more bee-flies!
#BeeFlyWatch is run by the Soldierflies and Allies Recording Scheme, and Dipterists Forum.
Earliest ever record for Dark-edged Bee-fly: 9 February (in 2022). Usually seen from early March to late May.
Earliest ever record for Dotted Bee-fly: 15 March (in 2017). Usually seen from mid March to mid May.

Map showing distribution of records in 2025 for Dark-edged Bee-fly, up to 18 March, from the first on the south coast on 22 February, to the most northerly in Cumberland on 15 March

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RECORD LRC @recordlrc.bsky.social · Mar 17

Great start to the year with surveys around the Wirral coast and closer to home on the Chester Zoo estate. Thanks to everyone who has joined us so far and helped to document add valuable records to our database 🦆🐚🦎

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RECORD LRC @recordlrc.bsky.social · Mar 14

Could this be your Saturday morning?! Join us and Chester Zoo at the beautiful zoo nature reserve tomorrow as we learn how to use the @inaturalist.bsky.social app to record wildlife 🌸🦆🦊

Book for this free event by searching RECORD LRC on Ticket Tailor 🎫

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RECORD LRC @recordlrc.bsky.social · Mar 8

Register here 👉https://www.tickettailor.com/events/recordlrc/1596554

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RECORD LRC @recordlrc.bsky.social · Mar 8

Excited for our first #CityNatureChallenge event of 2025 this Tuesday 🐝🌸🐞

Join us and Chris from Chester Zoo for a free webinar to find out how to use the @inaturalist.bsky.social app to make your wildlife observations count for conservation 👇

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environmentjob @environmentjob.co.uk · Feb 21

Senior Ecologist

Cheshire Wildlife Trust, Malpas, Cheshire (hybrid), £28,486 - £35,042 pa

environmentjob.co.uk

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