Sarah Gibson
@windsweptsarah.bsky.social
Author, Swifts and Us, the Life of the Bird that Sleeps in the Sky, William Collins (2021). Agent [email protected]. Shropshire
Starling murmuration at Whixall Moss, just after sunset.
December 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Starling murmuration at Whixall Moss, just after sunset.
Eleven hours late for #WildflowerHour but these brave flowers deserve their moment: viper's bugloss and common century (doomed never to open its petals), a celandine and a wonderfully fresh daisy.
December 15, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Eleven hours late for #WildflowerHour but these brave flowers deserve their moment: viper's bugloss and common century (doomed never to open its petals), a celandine and a wonderfully fresh daisy.
A winter chorus of song thrush, robin and great tit singing with backing vocals from a tree full of starlings.
December 12, 2025 at 9:50 AM
A winter chorus of song thrush, robin and great tit singing with backing vocals from a tree full of starlings.
'It could steal your drink from across the room' says McAllister. Its Latin name even sounds like Prosecco.
Day 3 of #InsectAdvent
For our Nativity themed posts what about a specimen from Natal (Portuguese for Christmas) that comes equipped with the best drinking straw!
Prosoeca ganglbaueri (Nemestrinidae) could even steal your drink from across the room
@royentsoc.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social
For our Nativity themed posts what about a specimen from Natal (Portuguese for Christmas) that comes equipped with the best drinking straw!
Prosoeca ganglbaueri (Nemestrinidae) could even steal your drink from across the room
@royentsoc.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 5:01 PM
'It could steal your drink from across the room' says McAllister. Its Latin name even sounds like Prosecco.
Reposted by Sarah Gibson
The Government must remember that our most important infrastructure is our natural infrastructure protecting us from floods and fires.
Weakening environmental rules – as proposed in the Fingleton Review – is not the answer.
Watch here from 11:36: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/live...
Weakening environmental rules – as proposed in the Fingleton Review – is not the answer.
Watch here from 11:36: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/live...
Watch BBC Two live - BBC iPlayer
Watch BBC Two live on BBC iPlayer.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 12:38 PM
The Government must remember that our most important infrastructure is our natural infrastructure protecting us from floods and fires.
Weakening environmental rules – as proposed in the Fingleton Review – is not the answer.
Watch here from 11:36: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/live...
Weakening environmental rules – as proposed in the Fingleton Review – is not the answer.
Watch here from 11:36: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/live...
Song thrush singing in the November gloom.
November 27, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Song thrush singing in the November gloom.
Massive relief: I feared this day would never come.
BREAKING 🚨: The government has just announced that they are ending new oil and gas exploration in the UK and have started a plan for workers and communities to transition away from fossil fuels.
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November 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Massive relief: I feared this day would never come.
Just one solitary knapweed flower for #WildflowerHour but look, it's providing nectar for a beautiful green insect.
November 23, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Just one solitary knapweed flower for #WildflowerHour but look, it's providing nectar for a beautiful green insect.
Thin ice on the floodwaters in the floodplain of the river Severn in Shropshire. Every few seconds you could hear the ice cracking. #winter
November 21, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Thin ice on the floodwaters in the floodplain of the river Severn in Shropshire. Every few seconds you could hear the ice cracking. #winter
Ten feisty flowers brightening the wet November days in town and in the Oswestry hills: Devil's bit scabious, musk mallow, meadorw cranesbill, herb Robert, self-heal, hogweed, hawkbit, viper's bugloss, daisypnll9 and evening primrose. #WinterTen #WildflowerHour
November 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Ten feisty flowers brightening the wet November days in town and in the Oswestry hills: Devil's bit scabious, musk mallow, meadorw cranesbill, herb Robert, self-heal, hogweed, hawkbit, viper's bugloss, daisypnll9 and evening primrose. #WinterTen #WildflowerHour
#SouthernWater MUST pay for the clean-up of this disastrous plastic bead spill. www.theguardian.com/environment/....
‘We feel we’re fighting a losing battle’: the race to remove millions of plastic beads from Camber Sands
A huge cleanup effort has seen volunteers working to remove beads by hand and machine. They can only wait and see the extent of damage to wildlife and dune habitat
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:16 AM
#SouthernWater MUST pay for the clean-up of this disastrous plastic bead spill. www.theguardian.com/environment/....
Most unexpected flower this week was a little sprig of blackthorn in an otherwise wintry hedgerow. Also seen white deadnettle, wood avens, speedwell, dogwood, bramble, knapweed and a campion flower with SPECTACULARLY TWIRLING anthers! #WildflowerHour
November 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Most unexpected flower this week was a little sprig of blackthorn in an otherwise wintry hedgerow. Also seen white deadnettle, wood avens, speedwell, dogwood, bramble, knapweed and a campion flower with SPECTACULARLY TWIRLING anthers! #WildflowerHour
Farron is scaremongering!
Regressive, anti-environment talk from… the Lib Dems’ Tim Farron.
I dare @timfarron.bsky.social to publish the ‘evidence’ he claims to have here that Sea Eagles “would not enhance biodiversity” & would be a “huge threat” to lambs
Ignorant & scaremongering
www.wfelibdems.uk/news/article...
I dare @timfarron.bsky.social to publish the ‘evidence’ he claims to have here that Sea Eagles “would not enhance biodiversity” & would be a “huge threat” to lambs
Ignorant & scaremongering
www.wfelibdems.uk/news/article...
Tim Farron calls for rethink over plans to reintroduce sea eagles to Cumbria
Westmorland and Lonsdale MP Tim Farron has written to the Lake District National Park Authority, raising concerns about the impact the potential reintroduction of sea eagles will have on sheep farms i...
www.wfelibdems.uk
November 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Farron is scaremongering!
Flowering this week in north-west Shropshire for #WildflowerHour are common knapweed, sowthistle, scentless mayweed, tormentil and in the 2nd collage buttercup, campion, wild carrot, self-heal, devil's-bit scabious and ragwort. These are #theWinter10.
November 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Flowering this week in north-west Shropshire for #WildflowerHour are common knapweed, sowthistle, scentless mayweed, tormentil and in the 2nd collage buttercup, campion, wild carrot, self-heal, devil's-bit scabious and ragwort. These are #theWinter10.
The shocking pink berries of spindle are just opening out to reveal their equally flamboyant orange seeds,their leaves turning a subtler shade of gorgeous colour.
October 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The shocking pink berries of spindle are just opening out to reveal their equally flamboyant orange seeds,their leaves turning a subtler shade of gorgeous colour.
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October 13, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Fieldfares! A flock of 40+ chacking and flying between ash trees in the Oswestry hills.
October 13, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Fieldfares! A flock of 40+ chacking and flying between ash trees in the Oswestry hills.
October 10, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Last summer my husband was given some puss moth caterpillars by a guy he met while in hospital. We fed them on willow leaves and watched in fascination as they grew. In time they developed chrysalises. Today two of them emerged! #moths
April 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Last summer my husband was given some puss moth caterpillars by a guy he met while in hospital. We fed them on willow leaves and watched in fascination as they grew. In time they developed chrysalises. Today two of them emerged! #moths
Cuckoo flower, a favourite food plant for orange tip butterflies. #wildflowerhour
April 20, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Cuckoo flower, a favourite food plant for orange tip butterflies. #wildflowerhour
Field speedwell growing between the tarmaced pavement and my neighbour's wall. #tinyflowers #wildflowerhour
April 20, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Field speedwell growing between the tarmaced pavement and my neighbour's wall. #tinyflowers #wildflowerhour
I'm late for #Wildflowerhour but here is a cluster of Field Maple flowers. They are so easily overlooked but exquisitely lovely when you notice them. #treeflowers
April 13, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I'm late for #Wildflowerhour but here is a cluster of Field Maple flowers. They are so easily overlooked but exquisitely lovely when you notice them. #treeflowers
You have to seek out town hall clock, a tiny woodland plant with 5 green flowers arranged in a unique cube-shape. Every spring I go back to an old, overgrown tramway cutting where it thrives in the damp shade.
#WildflowerHour
#WildflowerHour
April 7, 2025 at 9:24 PM
You have to seek out town hall clock, a tiny woodland plant with 5 green flowers arranged in a unique cube-shape. Every spring I go back to an old, overgrown tramway cutting where it thrives in the damp shade.
#WildflowerHour
#WildflowerHour
Town hall clock, bluebell, cherry blossom and wood anemone for #wildflowerhour #woodlandplants
April 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Town hall clock, bluebell, cherry blossom and wood anemone for #wildflowerhour #woodlandplants