Try making a clay bee hotel for hairy-footed flower bees. It really seems to work: 3 residents so far :)
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Female Andrena ventralis Red-vented Mining Bee, a new arrival to the UK first seen in 2023 - currently known from one site in Hampshire where I saw this one last week but must be elsewhere in southern England

Newly-arrived Nightingale Luscinia megarhynchos male singing to attract a mate in Hampshire at the weekend

Always one of the wildlife highights of the year the 'dance' of the Adder Vipera berus, males wrestling to sort out dominance in the breeding season, Dorset

You have to say what an extraordinary job MattStaniek
and the team at #savewindermere have done, utterly brilliant.

Steve Coogan explains how corporate greed is poisoning lake Windermere.

Tadpoles love cucumber

Today on the Quantocks : pied flycatcher and a sort of pied meadow pipit, with pigment alteration. Somerset Birds Quantock Hills National Landscape

I'm addicted to Jack Hargreaves videos on YouTube. The presentation is brilliantly amateurish in the nicest possible way but the content top notch. Watch them now & they (and the sound-track) searingly evoke a time and a place lost forever.
He'd never have got a look-in today!

Spoonbills Platalea leucorodia feeding frantically on a fast rising spring tide, Bowling Green Marsh, Topsham, Devon

REVEALED: 18 Tory MPs have written to Environment Secretary Steve Barclay urging him to gut Natural England’s powers to create nature reserves (SSSIs)

This latest #AttackOnNature must not succeed

(Thanks to Joe Marshall for obtaining the letter)

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Robin Erithacus rubecula courtship feeding late pm in garden at Postbridge, Dartmoor, Devon

Annual tip. Is the water in your pond turning green? Buy a bag of water cress leaves from a supermarket. Add to a glass bowl of water on a windowsill. In a week leaves will begin to develop roots. Add plants to pond & watch the water clear during the next week or so.

Spoonbills Platalea leucorodia feeding on the estuary on the rising tide, Bowling Green Marsh,Topsham, Devon

About 60 Sandwich Terns Thalasseus sandvicensis in the roost at Dawlish Warren, Devon this evening

Many visitors have been lucky to have sightings of Otters in the Tor View Hide area this last week. But none have been as lucky as Gary who managed to capture this video last weekend.
📷 © Gary Short Photography

A bit calmer around the woods. Much less squabbling, chasing and shadowing. The male was hard at work for 5 hours excavating his hole. A few visits from the females livened things up a little. LesserSpot Network Windy but a beautiful light. I've had a magical week GusRobin

Short-necked Oil Beetle Meloe brevicollis out on the south Devon coast in very windy conditions this morning Liam Olds David Turrell