Hawthorn in bloom

OS map showing Hatherleigh village in Devon

Place-name of the day 147. Because some of these are already in bloom. Hatherleigh (Dev). OE haguþorn + leah. ‘Hawthorn wood/clearing’. #PlaceNames #naturewriting

Standing in April light
Watching a storm
Brew over the vale.
There's a taste of
Stirred water, permanence,
And tested iron on the wind.
Two ducks forage
The under-bank.
I like it here.
First tea of the day awaits.

#naturewriting #naturepoetry

Really looking forward to this talk at the brilliant Chipping Camden Lit Fest. Come join me! Cuckoos, owls and other birds—how do they shape our sense of place and how did they end up in so many of our place-names? #AuthorTalk #birdsandplace #naturewriting

From the days before social media, Rodger Deakin savoured the simplicity of random ideas…

“Jottings, in their spontaneity and complete absence of any craft, are often so much truer to what I actually feel or think at a given moment.”
#RodgerDeakin #naturewriting #eastcoastkin #writing #natureheals

Country diary: Cropping season this year brings a new worry – fuel prices | Colin Chappell Brigg, Lincolnshire: The peas are in and next up are maize and wildflowers, but with our fuel use running to 50,000 litres a year, I have one eye on the news

Interesting @theguardian.com country diary today from a regenerative arable farm in Lincolnshire, by new diarist Colin Chappell.

#countrydiary #naturewriting

Spring Smoothtail (Epistrophe eligans), a Rookery at Wentowrth and Tawny Mining Bee

🐦 Some of my favourite sightings from last week. 🌼

Curious to see what else I found?? 👇

hoverflyspotter.blogspot.com/2026/04/hove...

#Hoverflies #Insects #Bees #Butterflies #Beetles #Shieldbugs #Entomology #NaturalHistory #NatureWalk #Bugsky #BugSpotting #Birdwatching #Birding #NatureWriting

Spring Finifugal: Your Final March Daily Nature Roundup On resisting the end of Spring, Environmental News of the Week and Daily Nature Community Challenge Roundup

Goodbye to March & Hello April

The final Ostara #DailyNature Community challenge blog is now up for reading/ listening along

Complete with a positive environmental news roundup 💚

tinyurl.com/springfinifu...

#Nature #NaturePoetry #NatureWriting #Finifugal #Spring #Water

So grateful to have three poems in the first issue of Sangre Magazine, a literary magazine of the San Luis Valley! My family has deep roots there, and it’s an honor to be part of this awesome publication! #poetry #naturewriting #colorado #outdoors #sanluis #ecopoetry #naturepoetry

OTD 31yrs ago, our offer to buy 65ac in #Oxfordshire was accepted. It was the beginning of a long-held dream, my partner telling his grandmother when he was four that he wanted to be a farmer. What follows is told in 'This Is Not My Land: 30 Years on a Small #Cotswolds Farm'. #naturewriting

Country diary: A sun-warmed day has the bees feeling hot | Claire Stares Langstone, Hampshire: Solitary bees, albeit hundreds of them, are hovering low to the ground, hoping to mate before nightfall

The Ashy Mining Bees are seeking company in today's @theguardian.com country diary by Claire Stares.

#countrydiary #naturewriting

1520 : Four And A Half Months. Barry Farquharson's birding blog - birding (mostly) within Dundee, Scotland.

stonefactionbirding2014.blogspot.com/2026/04/1520...

Mid-November to the end of March walks to/from work.

#BirdingScotland #naturewriting

Nature’s Almanac: A Gift for Every Day of the Year by Susie White, published by Saraband. This book is part of Saraband's In the Moment series.

An extract from Nature’s Almanac: A Gift for Every Day of the Year by Susie White, published by Saraband. April 9th - Paigles dance along motorway edges.

Happy publication day to Susie White and Nature's Almanac 🍃

This beautifully compact book invites you to pause and notice one remarkable phenomenon of the natural world each day.

Scroll for today's entry 🌼

🍃 saraband.net/sb-title/nat...

#Booksky #NatureWriting #Wildlife #Nature
📚💙

Country diary: There’s a pecking order to my bird feeder – but should I be feeding them at all? | Gwyneth Lewis Cardiff: Robin then blue tit, siskin then goldfinch … I love this ritual, but I’m persuaded that it deserves more careful thought

There are decisions to be made at the bird feeder in today's @theguardian.com country diary by Gwyneth Lewis.

#naturewriting #countrydiary

This is the life of the mind, the body of the desert. Hills unfold in the distance like pleated cloth. On the near horizon, rock rises up—a muscle, a fist, an island, a ship, an animal.
#Southwest #desert #naturewriting

Happiness is trilium coming up, one with a tiny bud visible, and my Arthur Menzies oregon grape sprouting more stems from near the base. The garden always calms me. I've now put a fence round Arthur so the rabbits can't get to their tender shoots. #naturewriting #gardens #hope 👩‍🌾🌼☮️

“When I ask myself, how a person should live, this is the advice I now turned to: Learn to branch out like a tree, to let go like a tree, to weather hardship like a tree, to rise above like a tree, to set down roots like a tree.”

~Robert Moor, In Trees

#NatureWriting
#NonFiction
#Booksky

Domesday William I wants to assess his new territory – how good is the land? What resources can it support? How much tax can he raise? Who lives there?

The latest post in my 'A brief history of Bedfordshire in plants and animals' uses the Domesday Book to uncover a picture of rural life.

shellydennison.co.uk/2026/04/07/d...

#LocalHistory #NatureWriting

'This Is Not My Land: 30 Years on a Small Cotswolds Farm' has found its place next to a Moomin! What a fantastic place to be. On sale at Octavia's Bookshop in #Cirencester. #Cotswolds #bookshops #naturewriting #slowtravel

Country diary: A bum note amid the dawn chorus | Mark Cocker Hogshaw, Derbyshire: Our old Buxton tip is an area rich in nature. It’s depressing out local council wants it developed

Declare there's a nature emergency, while also proposing to develop a biodiverse landscape. Just another depressing example of cognitive dissonance in today's @theguardian.com country diary by Mark Cocker.

#countrydiary #naturewriting

End the sewage pollution scandal We're sick of it. Sick of the lies, sick of the greed, and sick of a system rigged against us. This is a scandal and this dirty business must end. For more than 30 years water companies have put corpo...

UK Government Petition to end the sewage scandal!

Sign here

#Environment #Pollution #Water #UKCanals #Nature #NatureWriting

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

#naturewriting

#mondayblogs #naturewriting

Hoverflies in Historical Books part 1 Exploration of hoverflies within historical books & manuscripts, examining the scientific understanding each portrayed or intended.

📚 Hoverflies in Historical Books P1 🔍

Join me to discover more as I leaf through dusty shelves in search of hidden wonders.👇
#Hoverflies #Flies #Insects #Syrphidae #Booksky #ArtHistory #NatureIllustration #NaturalHistory #HiddenWonders #HistSci #Scicomm #Naturewriting
@jillwhitelock.bsky.social

1519 : A Little Colour (28/3/26)

stonefactionbirding2014.blogspot.com/2026/04/1519...

A wee wander along the Dighty Burn.

#naturewriting #BirdingScotland

Willow Defebaugh in conversation with Robert Macfarlane about water bodies, his book, Is A River Alive? and about the #RightsOfNature movement 🌿

Listen with transcript, here: atmos.earth/podcast/robe...

Watch, here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vsa...

#NatureWriting #BookSky

#wildflowerhour #cowslipchallenge always a delight in late afternoon sun following rain
(Primula veris … ‘of spring' )
#noticingnature #naturewriting

Have you seen Jack in the Green? Celebrating March

Catching up on reading this Easter Sunday 🐇

Accidental poetry from @martinbr.bsky.social

'The earth does not need our permission to laugh.

It does not need our permission to flower.

It needs us to stop doing the things that silence it.'

#NatureWriting #poetry

open.substack.com/pub/fairsnap...

The world felt just a bit more friendly There are a set of birds that constantly visit the Hudson River Palisades across from my apartment and then visit me.

*THROWBACK ALERT!* A tiny visitor made my day. Palisades birds snack on my mums, bounce back fast, and even watch me work—now we’re friends. #NatureWriting #BirdWatching #HudsonRiver [Originally posted: 2020/11/08]

Celandine and wood anemone

Signs of spring this Easter Day. 😁 #SpringFlowers #WhatToLookForInSpring #naturewriting

Cuckoo flower (Cardamine pratensis)

Ragged robin (Silene flos-cuculi)

OS map shoring Boultham, Lincolnshire.

Break from the cranes to bring you place-name of the day 146. Because it’s Easter and spring. And it’s time we had some flower names. Boultham (Lincs). OE bulut + hamm. ‘Land hemmed in by marsh where ragged robin or cuckoo flower grows’. #PlaceNames #naturewriting