Hard work is done, time to go enjoy the day and have a great run 🥳🥳🥳

Lava fields were brutal on boots, and the grit got in through the finest mesh. I took trainers for river crossings. The trailer should be fun on the latter 😉

Pasque Flowers, Pulsatilla vulgaris, on the Devil's Ditch, Newmarket, contrasting with the Oil-seed Rape field behind. #WildflowerHour

Great work Louise - its a slippery slope you’re on now 😉

Tiny white flowers with four petals, each split for over half their length.

A mass of tiny white flowered plants, covering a gravelly slope

Neither big nor rare nor brightly coloured, but stunning en masse

I had a sudden image of you throwing some shapes to ‘Tragedy’ there 😂

Whoooop! Go go go 🥳🥳🥳

Spring is arriving in central Iberia. Adenocarpus hispanicus and Primula veris blooming on the northern slopes of the Sierra de Guadarrama, in the vicinity of a beautiful Ilex aquifolium stand.

Refreshing foot spa on a hot day, ‘orrible in midwinter 😂

Lots of those around here, interspersed with bog trotting and peat hag scrabbling for added excitement 😉

Silver stubbled gent running amok in Scotland

Gravelly path winding through opd heather and over hills into the distance beneath a cloudy sky

Steep wooden steps of doom

Those steps were *not* welcome. 3 hours and another 34k in the bag, building up the Sunday runs again 🤪

A wispy pale green young female cone splashed with pink

Bobbly male conelets, palest yellow and ganging below a shoot

Female and male Douglas fir conelets

Ash dieback is having some odd disturbance effects in ancient woodland. The extra light under dying ash canopy is allowing these wild roses to go crazy, scrambling up the tree trunks to heights of 7 m, forming these funky columns.

Acid green froth of Wych elm fruits lit by low sun, a river below and misty houses to the right

Wych elm having a bumper fruiting year around me, and the intense sun between the showers really kicks up the colour

10 books that will make you see dinosaurs differently Steve Brusatte, author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs and The Story of Birds, recommends 10 dinosaur books to dig into

Lovely that my book Uncovering Dinosaur Behavior has mad the top 10 list of books to see dinosaurs differently from @stevebrusatte.bsky.social. Nice to see it get some love on #FossilFriday.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/10-d...

Brilluant red tulip flowers, tepals marked with bkack and a splash of yellow at the base

‘Lizzy’ does really well for me, now forming a reliable clump

Lots of tiny white and off-white cupped mushrooms on a dark brown beechmast. The beechmast is on a carpet of feathery light green moss

A close-up view of tiny white and off-white cupped mushrooms on a brown beechmast. Both the mushrooms and beechmast appear hairy

I think this one is Stalked Hairy Fairy Cup - what a fab name and super tiny! 🍄‍🟫

I’ve been keeping a close eye out for fungi on beechmast for ages and finally found some!

#FungiFriends #FungiFriday

text explaining reporting suspected bird flu

Worth reporting via the BirdTrack app if anyone has it, or go via the number here

😱😱

Awesome, thank you ☺️

Looks like someone is having a blast ☺️

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

Sleep well www.theguardian.com/environment/...

It was quite comical dodging the cars and crows on it’s long legs

I get that, totally. But how many other people have done what you have planned?

Saw a Grey heron scavenging roadkill yesterday, squabbling with crows and dodging cars. Does this happen often?

This is the most extraordinary photo - a polar bear dining on a dead sperm whale in amongst the ice floes.

Cheers Lin. Hoping now I have a couple they’ll start seeding too!

Probably too good 😂

Another plant that refuses to establish in my garden but grows abundantly nearby 😂

Bright golden yellow buttercup-like flowers of Anemone ranunculoides

Success!!