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Painted Lady in East Ayrshire today enjoying the dandelions.

Hey, you’re getting good at this😂
I haven’t been here for a while. How you keeping?

🤣

Did a double take there - Applecross!!

Drifting North has been longlisted for the 2026 Highland Book Prize. Very humbled to find this out and thank you to everyone who has supported the project.

Mair power tae yer elbow!

HES's attempt to use the planning system to legitimise the closure of the Radical Rd could rebound - parkswatchscotland On 3rd December Historic Environment Scotland (HES) submitted a planning application (see here) to the City of Edinburgh Council which includes a proposal to erect a new “temporary” barrier across the...

Latest on the 7-year Radical Road closure. Deadline to comment on an application for permanent fencing is 13 Jan. Hopefully @ramblersscotland.bsky.social is on the case - and anyone else who is fed up with this blocked historic path in Holyrood Park
parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2026/01/02/h...

Satellite-tagged Hen Harrier ‘Circe’ disappears in suspicious circumstances in Moorfoot Hills, south Scotland Press release from Hen Harrier Action (20th November 2025) HEN HARRIER ACTION APPEALS FOR INFORMATION AS ANOTHER RARE HEN HARRIER SUSPECTED TO HAVE BEEN ILLEGALLY KILLED IN SCOTLAND A satellite tag…

Another 'missing' Hen Harrier, this time in the Moorfoot Hills, south of Edinburgh - a well known hotbed of illegal raptor persecution over several decades.

#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime

raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/20/s...

New independent report reveals locations of poisoned raptors in northern England, 2015-2023 – information that has been suppressed by government Press release from independent group, Wildlife Poisoning Research UK, 15th November 2025. WHERE THE POISONED BODIES WERE FOUND! Many people probably imagine that the use of poisons to kill protecte…

New independent report reveals locations of poisoned raptors in northern England 2015 - 2023 - info that has been suppressed by Govt.

#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime

raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/17/n...

Report of the Death of Three Young Hen Harriers | Hen Harrier Action It is with great sadness that we have to report the death of three of the four young Hen Harriers satellite tagged this Summer thanks to donations from supporters.

Sadly, we have to report the death of three of the four young Hen Harriers that were tagged this summer thanks to donations from our supporters.
#birds #conservation
www.henharrierday.uk/news/devasta...

I'm certainly finding that out already - and I've only dipped into the Kindle sample. Purchased now👍

Enjoy.

How Elizabethan!

Sounds like you'll have a lot of extra info after these events, 👍
Pity there weren't some images on screen for your talk.

😂

If anyone needed an example of how things are in the lived working countryside, how risky it is to speak up, & those old, stupid tropes ('the eternal & under-acknowledged truth..is the preachy & intrusive paternalism of city dwellers') check the comments under yesterday's Guardian Country Diary 1/4

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

No oak leaves yet, let alone flooers!

It's on my wishlist👍

Sex, Libby, not gender.

😂

A fair wheen😁

Not smarter at insect ID! Have now looked up Nursery Web spider 😂

Tree Sparrow at nest box.

Tree Sparrows back

UK Governments miss deadline for responding to recommendations for restrictions on use of toxic lead ammunition It probably won’t come as a surprise to anyone to learn that the UK Government, along with the Welsh and Scottish Governments, have missed the deadline (13 March 2025) to respond to the Healt…

How hard can it be to decide to protect wildlife, the environment & people from the toxic effects of poisonous lead ammunition?

#BanLead #RaptorResearch #Ornithology

raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/03/18/u...

Not being smart, just suggesting "mullion"? I keep looking for something different but always seem to be Walnut Orbs.

Have found a few nature posters only on here.

Hacquetia epipactis and Hepatica

Anemone

Ypsilandra thibetica

Ranunculus alpestris

Spring begins...