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I filled in the survey and told them I hated the new version. ⛈️
January 16, 2026 at 10:38 AM
I filled in the survey and told them I hated the new version. ⛈️
The purring! 🤎
January 16, 2026 at 10:34 AM
The purring! 🤎
Good morning 🌞
January 16, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Good morning 🌞
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A maxim from a few of my fellow farmers (from over here across the pond):
Make making habitat a habit.
Make making habitat a habit.
January 15, 2026 at 12:41 PM
A maxim from a few of my fellow farmers (from over here across the pond):
Make making habitat a habit.
Make making habitat a habit.
Badgers and hedgehogs are in direct competition for inverterbrate prey. If there were more wild places suitable for both, they would encounter each other less frequently and the assymetry would be less pronounced.
January 15, 2026 at 11:51 AM
Badgers and hedgehogs are in direct competition for inverterbrate prey. If there were more wild places suitable for both, they would encounter each other less frequently and the assymetry would be less pronounced.
The asymmetric intraguild predation relationship cannot be denied. But it's mostly the lack of hedges and the ever-widening spread of industrialised farming practices that's harming the hedgehog.
January 15, 2026 at 11:51 AM
The asymmetric intraguild predation relationship cannot be denied. But it's mostly the lack of hedges and the ever-widening spread of industrialised farming practices that's harming the hedgehog.
There used to be a magazine programme on BBC on Sunday nights called In the Country. Angela Rippon would sit and talk to Phil Drabble, Gordon Beningfield (an outstanding artist) and Joe Henson (father of Adam and founder of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust) about countryside issues. It was brilliant.
January 15, 2026 at 9:50 AM
There used to be a magazine programme on BBC on Sunday nights called In the Country. Angela Rippon would sit and talk to Phil Drabble, Gordon Beningfield (an outstanding artist) and Joe Henson (father of Adam and founder of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust) about countryside issues. It was brilliant.
Large powerful predators that live predominantly on earthworms and beetles.
January 15, 2026 at 9:45 AM
Large powerful predators that live predominantly on earthworms and beetles.