It's launch day! 🎉🌿
Absolutely chuffed to share that Urban Flora of Newcastle and North Tyneside is now available on Amazon.
If you're interested, you can grab a copy here 👉 www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1036970124
Mega thanks to @nenature.bsky.social and @bsbibotany.bsky.social for making it happen.
The constant calling of the Chiffchaff is always a comforting sign that Spring is springing! @sussexwildlife.bsky.social #RSPRPulborough #birds
It was such a pleasure to spend a few hours with Guardian Country Diarist Susie White, admiring #pavementplants and other urban treasures in Newcastle’s Ouseburn Valley 🌿
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Apple Fruit 'Rhynchites Weevil ' (Tatianaerhynchites aequatus) seen in #Brighton
#Wildlife #Biodiversity #Nature #brightonwildlife
At the bottom of the photo a partial view of a pavement with a bench towards the right hand side. Behind it a mass of wild flowers, mostly Kidney Vetch and Ox-eye Daisies. In the background are houses, a few parked cars, and some small trees. There are white clouds in an otherwise blue sky.
Our Wildflower Enhancement Project at Rock Edge has increased populations of important wildflowers such as Field and Small Scabious and vastly increased the resource of nectar and pollen-rich flowers available to insects on this amenity grassland. Link in next post. 🌰🌍 #WildflowerHour
A new report from wildlife charity Buglife reveals that pesticides from common flea and tick treatments are now widespread in rivers across Britain and may be contributing to major declines in freshwater invertebrates bit.ly/4b1Pu50
Congratulations @warrenfarmnr.bsky.social!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
We can’t let this opportunity to properly protect chalk streams in planning go to waste.
Use our simple e-action template to submit a response to the National Planning Policy Framework action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/183198/...
Amidst the gloom, a small shaft of light: Large tortoiseshell butterflies confirmed no longer extinct in the UK!
Lovely piece by @patrickbarkham.bsky.social:
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Nations not on track to meet UN 2030 pesticide risk reduction targets...
news.mongabay.com/2026/03/nati...
UK map showing overall distribution of Dark-edged Bee-fly (pale grey dots) and records so far for 2026 (black dots)
A very freshly emerged male Dark-edged Bee-fly, photo by Allan Burrows in Hertfordshire
Several more bee-flies seen today - hurray 😍 So far we have records for Surrey, Beds, Bucks, Kent, Herts, Middlesex and Guernsey. Where will they appear next? Please enjoy looking out for them and send in your sightings for #BeeFlyWatch - 📸 of the Herts bee-fly by @allanburrows.bsky.social
Two large white and yellow star-shaped flowers and green lobed leaves.
The Wood Anemones down the lane are flowering a fortnight earlier than last year. Feels too soon and too fast. Still, better enjoy it 🤍.
#UKwildlife
#Sussexwildlife
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social
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A brown, grey and black House Sparrow with its chunky body and beak. Photograph by Alan Martin.
Rye News article about House Sparrows, accompanied by excellent photography.
www.ryenews.org.uk/nature-and-e...
#UKwildlife
#UKbirds
#Sussexbirds
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@sussexornitholo.bsky.social
Smiling person wearing glasses and bright green gardening gloves holds a muddy glove with a small earthworm.
Group of six people in woodland installing and inspecting a wooden bird box on a tree, one person taking notes.
Carpet of white snowdrops covering a grassy woodland floor, green leaves and a few blurred yellow daffodils in the background.
The Youth Rangers had a great session at our youth-led urban nature reserve The Deneway recently. They may have discovered something rather exciting! Words & photos by Youth Action Officer Katie Bell
https://f.mtr.cool/rowczcwlmm
Lapwing are dressed to impress and their head plumes look best during March - their month to establish territories and choose the best partner for the challenges of raising the next generation.
40+ organisations have joined #CleanWaterNow to demand urgent government action for nature and people.
Spring in #Brighton! Buff-tailed bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) on the wing.
#Wildlife #Biodiversity #Nature #brightonwildlife
Animal Medicine & Wildlife Photography – Jay Griffiths & Max Milligan | Nightingale Rooms | Brighton | 19 February 2026
An evening of ideas, storytelling and extraordinary wildlife imagery with Jay Griffiths and Max Milligan.
Book here: tinyurl.com/r66rbv9x
The Armadillo Weevil (Otiorhynchus armadillo) first appeared on plant material from Europe.
Not yet widespread in Britain this one was photographed by @pkster101.bsky.social in #Brighton
The banded appearance on the #Weevil's #elytra reminds some people of an Armadillo! #brightonwildlife
Wildlife concerns over college's artificial pitch plans #LDreporter #Brighton #Hove
www.brightonandhovenews.org/2026/02/11/a...
Cygnus cygnus, Whooper Swan Icelandic visitors at #CocklesBridge on the edge of #RSPBDungeness for a final @sussexornitholo.bsky.social sighting from the 7/2/26 outing and just enough time to see Bewick’s from NE Arctic, Bean & Pink-footed Goose on #WallandMarsh.
#ukbirding
Seven people in outdoor gear, smiling and standing in a very muddy, wooded area. Logs and puddles of mud are in the foreground.
Mud, mud, glorious mud. The Saturday Hit Squad out on Ebernoe Wildlands Nature Reserve with Ranger Sarah Quantrill. They were having to deal with some of the many types of mud we have in Sussex!
Guillemot on rock ledge. One has a spectacled shape round its eye and is known as a bridled guillemot
Gannets on a rock ledge
2 guillemot on a rock ledge
Fly pass of some Russian white fronted geese
Good to see the guillemots arriving on the cliffs at RSPB Bempton including a bridled guillemot. The gannets are beginning to pair up. 20 Russian white fronted geese flew past, they are everywhere ! #BirdsSeenIn2026 @flamboroughbird.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social
The image features an illustration of an unfolded map showing greenspaces and birds. Above this wording reads: Add your local greenspace to the Birds in Greenspaces Map.
1/ We need you to make sure your local Greenspace is included on our map ready for the Birds in Greenspaces survey! ➡️ app.bto.org/birds-in...
You can use the map to search for mapped greenspaces near you, suggest new sites and changes to existing ones if there's something we've missed!
Started my annual Goshawk fix near Crawley, Lucky to see a pair dancing and several close-ish flybys @sussexwildlife.bsky.social #goshawk #raptors #birds
Massive ancient oak
If you live in Great Britain or are just visiting, type in the places you are going to, and find extraordinary trees to view
Searchable by species, location & age
ati.woodlandtrust.org.uk/tree-search/...
Tension builds at 2am outside @calmandfearless.bsky.social's bedroom window in today's @theguardian.com country diary.
#countrydiary #naturewriting
Great news amidst all the gloom. There have been a lot of beaver releases but these wild releases are really significant in England – finally we are giving this life-giving animal the right to roam. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Our first visit to Mill Hill LNR near Shoreham today. We helped some local volunteers remove cotoneaster, privet and hawthorn to restore the chalk grassland which has declined in quality in recent years to be able to support typical chalk grassland butterflies.
