Great bird song walk for #DawnChorusDay at High Leas Farm this morning - never disappoints! Redstarts, Garden Warblers, Cuckoo, some amazing displays from the Tree Pipits and a suprise Pied Flycatcher singing on our return to the farm 😊 Derbyshire Wildlife Trust Derbyshire Ornithological Society (DOS)

A great start on #InternationalDawnChorusDay

Citizen-science meets rivers activism again (& filling the gap left by government): The Rivers Trust launches The Big River Watch, a monitoring scheme for local volunteers to report details of pollution.
Find out more below, participate, spread the word...
theguardian.com/environment/ar…

theriverstrust.org/take-action/th…
Please share and take part in this
It's a lovely long weekend...take 15 minutes to sit by a river, or two, or more
#BigRiverWatch
Derbyshire Wildlife Trust Jo Smith James Shooter Professor Paul Lynch Prof Lynn Crowe Tim Birch Mark Avery Mark Cocker Ewan Miles

Onwards and upwards
Fingerpost Friday #FingerpostFriday

As we celebrate chicks hatching Derby Cathedral the news of yet another enigmatic bird of prey being killed is even more shocking. Please share...wildlife crime must be taken seriously.
Raptor Persecution UK
Ruth Tingay Iolo Williams Mark Avery Mark Cocker bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Education at elevation
Fingerpost Friday #FingerpostFriday
Khumbu region, Nepal

Lichens on a prayer wall/mani stones...Khumbu region, Nepal
#lichens

A good laundry day at Pangboche...for Margaret Adams Brightside Michelle Underwood Paula Symonds hautecommetroispommes
Laundry #clotheslinepictures #Nepal

An annual wander from home to a favourite woodland...subtlety in the understory...wood anenomes are an indicator of ancient woodland and spread slowly by their roots
#WoodlandPlants #WildflowerHour wildflowerhour BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland
Derbyshire Wildlife Trust

First day volunteering Moors for the Future
Planting 2800 spaghnum plugs above Goyt Valley, to the song and sight of skylark, curlew and golden plover
Aiming to improve #biodiversity #carboncapture because #peatlandmatters
Mark Cocker PeatFreeApril Bog-trotter Peatland ACTION

This way for a brackeny bottom
#PenyGhent Yorkshire Dales National Park Gauber Bunk Barn & Den #FingerpostFriday
Fingerpost Friday

Still erratic after all these years....
Back at one of my favourite trees...a hawthorn at Norber Erratics
Painted a few years ago as part of her wonderful #apaintingaday little books by Michelle Underwood

derbyshirewildlifetrust.org.uk/news/generosit…
Thanks, all who shared this appeal....we have now completed the purchase...a site which connects with others, a place for education/ opportunity...a place for increased biodiversity and abundance Ruth Tingay Mark Avery Mark Cocker Craig Bennett

On #WorldRewildingDay best wishes to Lee Schofield as he moves from Wild Haweswater
His book, interviews, appearances Kendal Mountain Book Festival have inspired me and many to think, act and campaign. Swindale and area is a revelation
Rewilding Britain Derbyshire Wildlife Trust Jo Smith James Shooter

Reflections Castlefield Viaduct

Garden design, community, increasing biodiversity, industrial heritage..well worth a visit, but needs a secure future/people on its doorstep being aware of it National Trust Postcode Lottery Manchester City Council Sow the City Groundwork Greater Manchester City of Trees

Lovely aural paddle on the River Avon with Emily Knight of BBC Radio 4 Today and The Rivers Trust
The free swimming beavers of the Avon coppicing, increasing biodiversity and giving a renewed childlike excitement...'nothing quite like watching a beaver kit scratch its bum'
Beaver Trust

Ne'er cast a clout....
Still nippy in the Lakes so these coping stones are keeping their woolly hats on
#moss #drystonewalling #Eskdale The Lost Words for Cumbria Lost Rainforests of Britain

Why British nightlife is shutting down – taking with it all its magic and messy glory. A very powerful piece by ⁦John Harris⁩ ‘fundamentally, though, this story is about everyday life’. And there’s a great idea in the final paragraph! theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Coltsfoot/feet , nestling in the dunes near Millom
#SignsOfSpring yesterday
wildflowerhour #wildflowerhour BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland