Today is #Earthday. Check out the 4K live stream from the ISS.

www.sen.com/video/48b728...

Rotten tree standing tall against a field of rape and a bluesky

Natural #sculpture.🦋

Cracking day at @yorkswildlife.bsky.social Staveley NR. Spring migrants singing.Close views of Whitethroat, Willow & Sedge Warblers and Blackcaps. Marsh Harriers very active and displaying in the breezy conditions. #Yorkshirebirding #birds

Ben Fogle in....

Curlew's Cry, by Barry Kerr 10 track album

Have a listen to Curlew's Cry by best folk album 2025 winner Barry Kerr, today is World #Curlew Day after all. @curlewaction.bsky.social
barrykerr1.bandcamp.com/album/curlew...

Beautiful bluebell glade in the Washburn Valley and my 1st Pied Flycatcher of the year.

Tom Cruise is set to return in Top Gun 3 but there are no longer any Iranian F-14s for him to fly according to the IDF. Maybe we'll see him in a Kuwaiti F-18, hopefully not shooting down any USAF F-15Es😬

A launch has caught my attention and for once it has nothing to do with rockets(a relief some followers no doubt). An incredible amount of voluntary work has been done to make this happen so please support it if you can. #booksofbluesky #Yorkshire #books #Leeds

Besides your good self training me, one of them trained me on the JP at Linton, I was Flt Cdr to one when I was a QFI, one was on 13 Sqn Marham when I was on II(ac) and two were in Cathay Pacific with me. Small world.

A broken blue sky. Reflecting the App's issues today.

🦋 having a challenging day.

Imagine all the good news stories if Hen Harriers ate fish.
#raptorpersecutuion

Over-the-counter pet flea treatments could be banned under new UK rules Exclusive: ministers consider restricting pesticide-based treatments, which can get into waterways and harm wildlife

“One monthly flea treatment for a large dog contains enough imidacloprid to kill 25 million bees” - & whenever a treated dog has a dip it pollutes the river

So it’s great news for nature that the Govt is planning to ban over-the-counter flea treatments:

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Loving Ade's disdain and scepticism of twitching. 🤣
www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...

Doughnut shaped cumulus cloud with a visible hole in the middle

Cloud doughnut #portal.
@simonguy.bsky.social

It's a good spot around there for Dippers😉
bsky.app/profile/andy...

Beautiful spring day at RSPB St Aidan's. Incl: Black-necked Grebes, Bitterns booming, Willow Warblers,Shovelers, a solitary Goldeneye and my first Blackcaps.

Abstract kintsugi project anyone?

10 years ago I went to a party as Maximus so took a punt* on I am Maximus in the Grand National today. 🏆
*£5

10 days of uplifting positive news came to an end today. Normal operations resume. #Artemis2 #Space
📷 #NASA

Take down bird feeders this summer to cut spread of avian disease, says RSPB Charity advises replacing seed and nut feeders, where birds gather, with small amounts of mealworms, fat balls or suet Garden birds should not be fed seeds and nuts over the summer months, the RSPB has said, in an attempt to reduce the spread of avian diseases. Bird lovers are being urged to take down their bird feeders between May and October to help birds such as the greenfinch, whose numbers have plummeted after the spread of trichomonosis, a parasitic disease transmitted more easily when birds cluster around feeders in the warmer months. Continue reading...

Take down bird feeders this summer to cut spread of avian disease, says RSPB

Latest images from Artemis II. 😍
📷 #NASA

I could imagine @leemadgwick.bsky.social painting this church in Leeds.
(I got AI to change the bright blue sky in my original photo but the rest is real)

Vangelis - Albedo 0.39 YouTube video by Confusion In Motion

youtu.be/eVH8HnGJ4RI?...

Twitching🤦🏻‍♂️

Twitchers🤦🏻‍♂️

When the Black-necked Grebes return to RSPB St Aidan's I always get a little lift. #Yorkshirebirding #birds #Ukwildlife #phonescoping

Meanwood Valley where it passes under the ring road.

Tunnel exit under the Leeds northern ring road.

Happy Easter Egg Day.

Left - Apollo 17, 1972
Right - Artemis II, 2026

Two photographs taken by one of us, of all of us, over half a century apart.

What's changed?