No thanks - not worth your, or our, time.

After a year toiling away, my exhibition at the Cornerstone Arts Centre, Didcot, is finally up and running. I hope you enjoy it. #Bite

We enjoyed it very much!! Highly recommended. Visit it whilst you can #Bite

A bit of sparkle to start the week off with. Taken this morning in St Michael's tower on Glastonbury Tor.

Just noticed such beautiful tulips not far from my office!
Spring is here 🌷

Lovely serendipity that the owl chose exactly the right spot. What a lovely garden you've created for all your wild visitors and domestic family.

Cardamine pratensis, Cuckoo flower, Lady’s Smock.
#WildFlowerHour, #Brassicaceae #Cruciferae

Spotting a few Cuckoo flowers is easy; finding a sea of them feels like magic—just right for this week’s #CabbageFamily challenge #WildflowerHour

A downward view of the pink Cardamine pratensis flowers with a thin view of a male Orange Tip (Anthocharis cardamines) perched on it's right side.

And here's a male Orange Tip checking out the plant next door to the one above 🦋

The flower of Cardamine pratensis, several florets of pink petals, four set as a cross with yellow stamens in the middle. The flower is seen from above surrounded by a mat of lush green grass.

The #Brassicaceae family has the current star of the show in meadows: Cardamine pratensis. Lady's Smock, Cuckoo Flower: beloved food plant of Orange Tip butterfly larvae. Some butterflies are already prospecting but this year the flowers will bloom well before the 🦋 eggs hatch.
#WildflowerHour

A small blue butterfly with black edges to her open wings, and a little notch out of one wing, is sitting on sunny ivy leaves.

Just about warm enough for butterflies, especially in the sunny patches sheltered from a chilly breeze. This female Holly Blue sat patiently whilst the clouds moved away from the sun.

The owl was beautifully in shot too, excellent camera placing 👏🏻 We tend to get just the wrong angle and end up with the tip of an ear or unidentifiable blur 🤦🏻‍♀️

Wow, that's wonderful!

We had a very unexpected visitor on our hoggie cam 🦉 we know we have Tawny Owls around here but didn’t expect to have one on the patio! We guess he was after the mice who also trigger the cam when they come for their Go Cat (stops them pinching the hoggies Iams)😻💜
#Hedgewatch

An observation test for your inner 8-year-old.
Can you spot 12 deliberate mistakes?

From Treasure magazine, 1965
Official answers coming soon

Mystical archway at dawn. The view from St Michael's tower on Glastonbury Tor this morning.

Spring is here and we have a very welcome visitor.

South of Scotland Golden eagle project plans England expansion A conservation project is looking to build on its success by taking the birds into England and Wales.

This is, of course, great news it is such a pity that our dithering government didn't do something about swift bricks in new buildings. It was a low-cost, no-brainer..

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Progress for Swifts at Chapel Milton Following Public Pressure There has been an important and encouraging development in the campaign to protect swift nesting sites at Chapel Milton viaduct in Derbyshire.

The power of public action is clear to see!

protectthewild.substack.com/p/progress-f...

Wooden platter with interesting grain and whorls.

Peter's latest piece of wood-turning - a burr elm platter

Clarion Weekend, 17 April 2026 The pound signs are appearing all over Oxfordshire: Government handouts, a Singapore company buying Oxford’s other football club, venture capitalists and a solar farm share offer. Cheque-books at the ...

Our weekend newsletter has lots that hasn’t been on our feed (thanks to Bluesky’s outage!). Plus…

⚽️ Singaporean fund buys Oxford City FC
🧀 Oxford Cheese Company on the move
🚌 Express buses to the JR?
🎂 Happy birthday, Cowley LTNs
📆 Events, books, and weekend reads

oxfordclarion.uk/clarion-week...

“I cannot stress enough how important it is to do silly, frivolous things.

Dance in your kitchen.
Laugh too loud.
Buy the ridiculous thing that brings you joy.

Feed the cat extra treatos

Life doesn’t have to be so serious all the time.”

Large grey cat completely overwhelming an arm chair.

Out of scale

7:40 am and three Barn Swallows soared northwards over the hillside. Welcome back little ones. Summer's on the way.

Windy day but so much cuteness with Earl the rabbit, Tatu the duckling and Jeremy the chicken #babyanimals

More than half of Britain’s butterfly species in decline, monitoring scheme shows Warmer weather has benefited some species in Britain, but others that rely on specific plants or habitats have struggled

Really interesting data from an amazing 50 years of the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme 👏 It's a genuinely mixed picture but it doesn't look as catastrophic as various scientific studies from 5 years ago or so suggested... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A very double daffodil with white outer petals and apricot-orange inner petals in a green glass bud vase.

#Daffodils #Spring #Flowers

"Replete" living up to her name.

Sometimes the flower is too heavy for the stem and it plops over, so rescue is needed.

It's fine to use somebody else's photo if they've posted it on a public website - but it is polite to credit them if you do.

This is not a library; It's my office. And this is not just any kitten. His name is Ozymandias, King of Kings.

endbirdnetting.uk is now live!

Nesting holes at a viaduct in Derbyshire have been filled in by Network Rail. It is ridiculous. Please ask them to reopen the holes - protectthewild.org.uk/swift-petiti...