4 plants showing signs of Spring
#SignsOfSpring this week: Coltsfoot, a few early Blackthorn flowers (old sloe in view), Elder leaf burst and a soggy Lesser Celandine.
#WildflowerHour
Whether it’s a first Lesser Celandine flower of the year or Elder leaves unfurling. The first #WildflowerHour challenge of the year is to spot #SignsOfSpring! Share your finds this Sunday 8-9pm. Below is the link if you would like to record your #NaturesCalendar sightings ⬇️ @bsbibotany.bsky.social
The Trump administration on Tuesday took the first step toward loosening regulations that protect the endangered North Atlantic right whale from vessel strikes.
TAT: [Attacking science]
10 native or naturalised plants in bloom
Lesser Celandine, white Sweet Violet, Primrose, Common Field Speedwell, Hairy Bittercress, Ground Ivy, Common Chickweed, Cherry Plum, Dandelion & Snowdrops
#TheWinter10
#WildflowerHour
A win for tactical voting? Think all the parties should acknowledge its role.
Tiny black beetle inside a Crocus flower
A Pollen Beetle feeding on Crocus pollen. #WildWebsWednesday
Lots of ladybirds on a fence post and the surrounding Ivy
Lots of 7-spot ladybirds waking up in the Spring like weather and emerging from Ivy to sun themselves. #WildWebsWednesday
Line graph time series of monthly mean Arctic sea-ice thickness for each year from 1979 to 2026 using shades of red and blue. A seasonal cycle is shown with thicker ice in late winter and thinner ice in late summer. A long-term decreasing trend is also visible, with 2026 outlined in bright red as a record low. Data is from PIOMAS (Zhang and Rothrock, 2003)
The average sea-ice thickness around the North Pole continues to set monthly record lows (according to the PIOMAS dataset). Each line represent one year from 1979 (blue) to 2026 (red)... note the trend 📉
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10 native or naturalised plants in bloom.
Spring is coming! 😃 This week’s #TheWinter10 - Creeping Comfrey, Sweet Violet, Spurge-laurel, Primrose, Winter Aconite, Red Deadnettle, Common Chickweed, Common Whitlowgrass, Stinking Hellebore & Cherry Plum
#WildflowerHour
This is probably one the most important warnings we have ever been given. #AMOC
Really worth watching. Because at some point soon, it’ll be too late to do anything.
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3/3 Each asks my subscribers to do something - a little thing. Not to donate or to man anything but an imagined barricade - but to do something, not to shrug and move on.
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2 patches of white lichen surrounded by moss on the trunk of an Ash tree
Assumed Whitewash lichen plus moss on Ash #WildWebsWednesday
Lots of crocuses around our poor Surrey soils, this one from "old Surrey", a Richmond cemetery for #WildflowerHour ... Has a somewhat Spencer'esque "Resurrection at Cookham" feel to it?
10 native or naturalised plants in bloom
This week’s #TheWinter10 -
Hazel, Red Deadnettle, Snowdrops, Common Chickweed, Common Field Speedwell, Groundsel, Small Nettle, Daisy, Periwinkle & Cyclamen
#WildflowerHour
2 types of fungi and a lichen growing on Lime stems
A Lime hedge hosting assumed Crepidotus and Exidia sp, plus Common Orange Lichen.
#WildWebsWednesday
Murder trial due to begin: former Head Gamekeeper David Campbell of Edradynate Estate accused of killing ex-colleague with shotgun raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/02/01/m...
10 native or naturalised plant species in bloom
This week’s #TheWinter10
Cyclamen, Yew, Crocus, Dandelion, Snowdrop, Primrose, Common Field Speedwell, Stinking Hellebore, Winter Aconite & Hazel
#WildflowerHour
It would be great to get some more signatures on this #PeatFree petition: actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sal...
#Gardening #UKGardeners #GardensHour #WildflowerHour
Tiny Springtails running around under a brown fungi which is attached to an Elder stem
Springtails living underneath a Jelly-ear fungus which in turn is growing on an old Elder
#WildWebsWednesday
10 wild plants in bloom
This week’s #TheWinter10 feels like Spring is on its way. 😊 Stinking Hellebore, Hazel, Snowdrops, Yarrow, White Deadnettle, Ragwort, Daisy, Winter Aconite, Primrose & Red Deadnettle
#WildflowerHour
7-spot Ladybird sunning itself on an Ivy leaf.
#WildWebsWednesday
10 native wildflowers in bloom
This week’s #TheWinter10 -
Common Field Speedwell, Groundsel, Yarrow, Hazel (flower & catkin), Stinking Hellebore, Primrose, Common Ragwort, Daisy, Dandelion & Red Deadnettle
#WildflowerHour
The National Trust is halfway to their appeal to buy Giant Hill, one of the UKs top butterfly sites, also rich in insects and flowers. The last good habitat for Duke of Burgundy in Dorset. Please donate if you can @nationaltrust.org.uk www.nationaltrust.org.uk/support-us/a...
Green leaves and flowers of Stinking Hellebore
Horrid weather this week so didn’t go out looking for flowers but walked past the Stinking Hellebore growing by the village pond. #WildflowerHour
Tiny green spider on an Ivy leaf
Tiny, but surprisingly hardy Nigma walckenaeri seen active while it was snowing! Think it might be drinking melted snow on this Ivy leaf. #WildWebsWednesday
Guest blog - Ban Bio-beads by @chriscorrigan3.bsky.social of @sussexwildlife.bsky.social
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Stinking Helebore, Groundsel, Periwinkle, Nipplewort, White Deadnettle, Hedge Mustard, Red Deadnettle, Smooth Sowthistle, Petty Spurge, Yarrow, Primrose, Ragwort, Daisy, Green Alkanet, Annual Meadow-grass, Shepherd’s Purse, Herb Robert, Burnet Saxifrage & Common Field Speedwell.
Late for #WildflowerHour - #NYPH results. IDs in Alt text
Thank you!
A coastal #TheWinter10 some of which I guess are garden escapees - Red Valerian, Ragwort, Winter Heliotrope, Daisy, *maybe* Cat’s-ear, a Fleabane, Smooth Sowthistle, Periwinkle, Ox-eye Daisy & Cyclamen
#WildflowerHour
