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NullPointer 🍄 @nuiipointer.bsky.social · 23h

Amethyst deceiver
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Purple mushroom with gills and a thin stem seen from below.

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Rob Stephens @tillingtonchum.bsky.social · 22h

A couple of weeks ago, I thought we’d seen the last Toadflax Brocade caterpillar of the year, but no. Today I found another one.
#caterpillars #TeamMoth #MothsMatter #ento #UKwildlife

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Owen Leyshon @dungenessowen.bsky.social · 21h

Taken the lawnmower way out to the Pilot Path, Dungeness today for its annual mow

This is to help the Autumn Ladies Tresses as there are no sheep or goats to do the munching

Moved a Large Conehead out the way - which is my first of the year

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Tara @wildtara.bsky.social · 1d

At Ettington Cutting today raking the roadside banks. It’s quite thin grassland and lots of wildflowers but still hard work carrying the cuttings back up the slope!! #volunteer #conservation @bcwarwickshire.bsky.social

Volunteers carrying up the raked piles to the top of the slope where the compost piles are

The volunteers cutting, raking, picking up litter & seeding the banks by the roadside

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Temple Balsall @templebalsall.bsky.social · 20h

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Butterfly Conservation Warwickshire @bcwarwickshire.bsky.social · 1d

You might see the wonderful work we have done for the Small Blue if you click on the links below. Even though the project ran 2009-12 weeks are still actively managing those sites & working hard at ensuring the butterfly continues to thrive in Warwickshire 😀🦋

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Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · 1d

@savebutterflies.bsky.social conservation projects: colonies of butterflies surviving in small isolated pockets of land are vulnerable. Research has shown that they can be encouraged to spread their wings & expand but only if they don't have to fly too far

butterfly-conservation.org/our-work/con...

Conservation projects

Butterflies and moths may be tiny but to save them you have to think big. Colonies of butterflies surviving in small isolated pockets of land are vulnerable. Research has shown that they can be encour...

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Temple Balsall @templebalsall.bsky.social · 23h

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BirdGuides @birdguides.bsky.social · 1d

Birders across the UK are being encouraged to take part in the BTO's new Winter Bird Survey, designed to provide a clearer picture of how the nation's birds are faring outside the breeding season:

Volunteers needed to help map Britain's winter birds

The BTO has launched a UK-wide Winter Bird Survey to improve understanding of wintering bird populations in habitats such as farmland and woodland. Building on earlier work, the project aims to assess population changes and the impact of agri-environment schemes, reports BirdGuides. Birders across the UK, Channel Islands and Isle of Man are invited to take part in this important citizen-science initiative.

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@s4r4h-l @s4r4h-l.bsky.social · 1d

#WildWebsWednesday Stages of blackening #waxcaps, also known as Witches Hats! 🧹and luckily, some of these are in MY lawn! #Lancashire #fungi #mushrooms #vitaminN

'Witches hats' start off a bright golden yellow turning orange then blackening from the top.

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The White Falcon @markgolley.bsky.social · 2d

The very fine ♂️ Turkestan Shrike, in the gathering twilight at Dunwich last night ~ it really seemed to like this particular gorse perch, returning to it frequently with food items as the sun set and the full moon began to really shine...
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Simon Patient @simonpatient1.bsky.social · 1d

Managed to get over and see the Turkestan Shrike y’day at Dunwich. As always with Shrikes an absolute cracker… #rarebirduk

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 2d

The Strid Wood in Wharfedale, North Yorkshire, last week, had a superabundance of shrooms - most of them I can’t ID to species (they require breaking bits off, or sniffing) so am sticking with genus for most. Ink and watercolour drawings in my sketchbook.
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A selection of fungi seen on a walk in Strid Wood, Yorkshire (UK) - porcelain fungus, oyster longs, bonnets, boletes, funnels, stump puffballs, rosy bonnet, common puffball, Amanita. The site is an SSSI for its fabulous range of woodland fungi, moss and lichen

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Bernoid @bernoid.bsky.social · 2d

A Pale Tussock never fails to impress. ⭐️

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Roger_TL45Y @rogerhorton.bsky.social · 2d

Some #fungi growing on Icklingham Triangle SSSI #Suffolk. In the background you can see needles from Scots Pine so maybe Bovine Bolete, Suillus bovinus as in recent photos by @jeremybartlett.bsky.social - what do you think Jeremy please? 🤔

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Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · 2d

'Positive sign' as pine martens released on Exmoor..

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Pine martens released on Exmoor in 'positive sign for nature'

They are

www.bbc.co.uk

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ChrisGibsonWildlife @chrismothman.bsky.social · 1d

Precious moment in the fleeting Wivenhoe sun this morning of a pair of German Wasps snatching an intimate moment... Really brought home the size difference. This is peak wasp mating time, with the male destined to die soon; the newly mated queens being the only ones to overwinter #criticalmoment

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Dave Wheatley @wheatersdave.bsky.social · 2d

35/18 in SE Hants. Vestal and Rush Veneer the best and probable migrants. Overnight conditions were cool, clear sky and big moon. #teammoth #migrantmothuk

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Temple Balsall @templebalsall.bsky.social · 2d

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