A wildcat with a striped coat sits alert in tall, lush grass. The setting is serene and natural, exuding a sense of wilderness. Logos for "Big Give" and "Earth Raise" are visible.

Without your help, wildcats could be lost from Scotland entirely 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Together, we can support their recovery 😻

Donate by 29 April, and @biggive.bsky.social will double your support as part of the #EarthRaise fund ➡️ bit.ly/SavingWildcatsEarthRaise2026

#Wildpatch #garden #insects #pollinators #PeacockButterfly #Butterflies

Looks like a honeybee in background with pollen filled baskets.

Both butterflies (+ Tortoiseshell )enjoying food in the last 10 minutes front/back gardens. 👏🏻💚

This is why ‘weeds’ are so important! Leaving a patch of #wildness in your #garden or a planter/window box enables #pollinators to continue their good work. #NoMowMay #KneehighJune #HowhighJuly is what I’m doing. It works 💚 #TortoiseshellButterfly #butterfly #LetWeedsGrow #WildflowersInWrongPlace

Absolutely love this image.

We humans continue to break Mother Earth. We need to heal and repair her - so many innocent species rely on us. 🙏🏻💚

Please follow and support BOS. 🦧🧡🤎

#EarthDay

#MondayMood
How is it Monday again already?! 😖
Let’s brighten the day by doing something positive for #orangutans! 🦧🧡
One way to help is by donating to Borneo Orangutan Survival UK / USA. Start the week with kindness and support the orangutans at BOS Foundation:
borneoorangutansurvival.org/donate/

#WillowWarbler arrived in Scottish Highlands #birds

Love an Angle shades - well done 💚

Sunday 19th April
You cannae best a fresh out of the box (or should i say pupal case) specimen!
#teammoth

#WorldCurlewDay

I took this photo at Flanders Moss, Stirlingshire - giant willow #Curlew.

#NationalMammalWeek - all images mine - I’m so lucky to have wonderful wildlife experiences every day. 💚🙏🏻

We found Bridget just before Christmas.

Her eyesight had gone and she fell of a bridge. She was alone.

She could not be an happier with us now! Safe and loved

1/2 It's #NationalMammalWeek - a celebration of Britain’s wild mammals and the people working to monitor, protect and restore populations of these vital species, including the wildcat.

Take part in Mammal Society's ‘Mammal Discovery Challenge’ and record your mammal sightings to win daily prizes ✨

Popped outside just now, it’s a stunning night! #WaxingCrescent #Moon #MilkyWay #Galaxy #Stars

My iPhone photo doesn’t do it justice.

Painting of different coloured tulips in two glass vases on a grey surface against a white background

Tulips, c. 2000 by Elizabeth Blackadder #WomensArt #April

A wee #Dipper ‘dipping’ with a beak full of nutrious insects. This was a few years ago, the joy of watching - from a safe distance - these bonnie #birds feeding young.

Be mindful & respectful during breeding season 💚🙏🏻

Absolutely wonderful charity, genuine and transparent

🐾🐾💙🩷👏🏻 #dogs

Kingfisher posing for snaps. River Kelvin near the Botanic Gardens in Glasgow. #birds

Could it be half free morel?

Ross's Gull in a potato field near Thornham this afternoon. A species that breeds in the arctic and rarely makes it as far south as Norfolk, hence there was quite a crowd out to see it. I'm normally a bit of a gull sceptic, but it was a stunning little thing #UKBirding #norfolkbirding #birds

Brigit Strawbridge Howard – Dancing with Bees - The du Maurier Fowey Literary Festival Enchanting, insightful and full of quiet magic, this event is perfect for nature lovers, gardeners, environmentalists and anyone ready to fall under the spell of bees.

Over the moon to be speaking this year at the du Maurier Fowey Literary Festival, about my book 'Dancing with Bees'

Do please come if you can... or pass details to anyone visiting, or living in Cornwall who might be interested

Fri 8th May at 11am

Tickets 👇

www.foweyfestival.com/event/brigit...

Got one last week they are very Bonnie

Love this wee snail

I’d LOVE a ‘National clean your #bird feeders, tables & baths day’ please🙏🏻

Regularly do ours - but - what’s the point when other feeders in area aren’t cleaned? I will continue to do my bit.

Limited feeding throughout Spring & Summer. Natural foraging for good better.

Love a pansy flower - they look like they have wee faces. 💚

A very welcome guest to our Shetland garden today - this absolutely stunning male Hawfinch. #PWC2026 #Birds #Patchbirding #BirdingScotland #UKbirding #UKWildlife

Male Kingfisher on the River Kelvin in Glasgow this evening. #birds

Walrus sighted in Orkney - British Divers Marine Life Rescue

British Divers marine Life rescue asking people to respect the #Walrus. 🙏🏻

bdmlr.org.uk/walrus-sight...

Mining #bees - Andrena clarkella in garden 👏🏻. Food source (willow) 15 feet away - watched her bring legs filled with pollen back to her nest.

#walrus sighted

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Common drone fly on flower

Silver Y moth on flower

Butterfly on flower and headline The Big British Garden Survey

Great to be partnering with National Garden Scheme on The Big British Garden Survey to reveal the wildlife thriving in our gardens 🦋🐞.

Record what you see and help build a national picture of UK #biodiversity.

Join in: ngs.org.uk/the-big-brit... 🧪 @abigaillowe.bsky.social