Best sunset ever this evening

This is not the video I had planned to make. YouTube video by Just Have a Think

Here is an excellent summary of last week's National Emergency Briefing in London. Well worth a watch and please sign the letter to the Prime Minister linked at the end.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sa7...
#climatechange #impacts #energy #health #tippingpoints #nationalsecurity #foodsecurity

Two-day-old zebrafish larvae, as seen through a scanning electron microscope

Mr & Mrs Bearded Tit sharing the same reed head near the sluice at RSPB Minsmere

#bird #birds #birdphotography #ukwildlife #wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #NaturePhotography

@rspb.bsky.social

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#PollinatorPals furry dronefly (Id by seek) on meadow sweet (I knew that one) #WildflowerHour at Velvet Bottom nature reserve

And last for years

Gatekeeper butterfly on teasel flower

Gatekeeper butterfly quite likes spiky teasel #wildflowerhour

A 3x3 grid of insects on oregano flowers: bumblebees, honeybee, hoverflies, butterflies (including ringlet and gatekeeper), a ladybird, and a bee mimic. Each feeds on soft pink blossoms against a blurred green backdrop. A summer feast in miniature.

At this time of year, the oregano in my garden hums with bees, butterflies, hoverflies and other insects. Fitting, perhaps, that its name means “mountain of happiness”—from Greek oros (mountain) & ganos (joy). A herb much loved by pollinators! #FlowersOnFriday #FlowerFridayFamily

20 episodes answering your questions about heat pumps, factual and expert

Galium odoratum invert associates
Over 20 species of invert rely on Galium odoratum, Sweet Woodruff, as a larval host. Flowers late spring–early summer, in leaf from very early spring, in dappled shade in clearings & woodland margins. A distinctive coumarin scent develops in dried material.

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Revealed: how tunnel through the woods cost £300,000 per bat A decision that ‘no bat death is acceptable’ will create an artfully designed £100m structure in Buckinghamshire — after a 12-year HS2 planning saga

Good debunking here of some of the nonsense pedalled about the "bat tunnel" built for HS2

It's by people with skin in the game - @batconservation.bsky.social - but worth reading
www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/04...

See also @whippletom.bsky.social's read on this
www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

Oxlips in no mow area of the garden...important early nectar source...and distinguishable from cowslips partly as they tend to face one way
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social
#ildflowerhour
#Sepals

A drawing of a woman insulating the roof of her home with the text “Isolate Putin - Insulate Homes”

A drawing of four persons erecting a wind turbine against the backdrop of a yellow field and blue sky with the slogan “More Sun, more wind - more peace”

Reminds me of this campaign by the European Greens

Abejorro colgando de una flor verde, detalle del extremo de una de sus patas y un piolet azul para comparar

This Bombus terrestris is hanging from the flower of the stinking hellebore by the hooked ends of her legs. When I look at the shape of claws at the end of bees' legs and how they use them, always comes to my mind how similar they are to ice axes - which mountaineers use for the same purpose

1/ The UK government’s ‘growth vs newts and bats’ agenda has sparked a bit of a ‘Team Bat Team Newt’ response

It’s heartening and uplifting, but it plays right into their hands
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Graphic: @rosie400.bsky.social

Support the newts! Newts do not hold up planning applications these days

Sedum covered in frost

Another sedum covered in frost

More ice crystals on another plant

Another sedum covered in ice crystals

Garden plants have turned into cacti overnight

Still some lovely flowers still out at my local nature reserve, I particularly like the harebells, oh and any scabious. I can never decide on a favourite #wildflowerhour

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Wildlife Trusts buy Rothbury estate in largest land sale in England in 30 years Charities plan to create flagship for nature recovery on 3,850-hectare portion of estate sold by Duke of Northumberland’s son

In case you missed this earlier in the week, another fantastic and exciting landscape-scale purchase by The Wildlife Trusts (requiring a bit of public fundraising too) – another exclusive story by my colleague Helena Horton. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🤩 If you of your kids are into spiders, these new Royal Mail stamps beautifully illustrated by the master naturalist & artist Richard Lewington show off some of our finest British arachnids. I’ve added some brief info about each one.

We have around 650 spider species here. What’s your favourite?
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Ivy bees have arrived

Cross section of a tree (and ivy) that fell over a footpath, not sure I could have climbed over it

MEGA FACTCHECK: Heat pumps are central for the transition to sustainable heating.

But heat pumps face relentless hostile media coverage. I comprehensively debunked 18 heat pump myths in Carbon Brief.

Find it here 👉www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-18-misleading-...

Excuse blurry phone photo, these are red kites and it’s 30 years since I saw my first one not far from here. I never get bored of seeing them

Swan

Owl

Duck

Heron

Bird art at Stowe today in the cold

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Rewilding quote of the month:

“If we’re reintroducing megafauna like wolves and lynx, we should be introducing their parasites as well,” said Craig Macadam, the conservation director of the invertebrates charity Buglife.

Does he know something we don't? 🐺

www.theguardian.com/environment/...