A few #DandelionChallenge photos for wildflowerhour taken this week in Lincolnshire. #wildflowerhour #DandelionChallenge #InternationalDayoftheDandelion Love Lincs Plants LNU BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland Plantlife

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Enjoyable recording session with LNU today around the private Barlings Wood Park. About 154 plant species incl. Wood Sorrel, Early Purple Orchid, Hairy Woodrush, Pignut, Yellow Archangel, Wood Anemone, frequent white Bluebells, Bugle Love Lincs Plants Lincs Wildlife Trust

Led a dawn chorus walk around Kettlethorpe this morning for Lincs Wildlife Trust 12 people braved the chilly weather. 36spp noted eBird incl. Cuckoo, Cetti's Warbler, Treecreeper, Lesser & Common Whitethroats, Green and Great Spotted Woodpeckers, 2 Shelduck LNU

Lovely to see Scaly Male Fern (Dryopteris affinis) bursting from the ground like fireworks in a damp Lincolnshire woodland this week. BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland Plantlife LNU Love Lincs Plants wildflowerhour

Decent RSPB Frampton Marsh 🌍 visit today. 84spp noted (incl Tabs Head walk). Red-breasted Goose, Black-winged Stilt, 3 Spoonbill, Black Tern, Little Gull, 9 Whimbrel, Med Gull, Bearded Tit, 4 White Wagtail, Peregrine, Marsh Harrier, 2 Egyptian Geese, Swifts Lincsbirding LNU

Sombre Tit, a new bird for me 😊

Looks like it’s a classic overcast rainy late April day today with Bar-tailed Godwits and Arctic Terns on the move, get out if you can!

Good morning, wee Red! 😍❤️🐿

Decent patch of Goldilocks Buttercup (Ranunculus auricomus) at Riseholme, Lincs, yesterday. Always a treat to come across. 🐻🐻🐻
Plus some local Cowslips (Primula veris) 🌼 for #wildflowerhour

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🗣️ It’s World Curlew Day!

This iconic wetland species faces huge challenges - like habitat loss, predation and flooding.

Here’s what we’re doing to give vulnerable curlew chicks a fighting chance 👇💚

#WorldCurlewDay

A calling Cuckoo along Willingham Rd (Marton) brings up my 💯th species for #PWC2024 Scores now 100/108. Patchwork Challenge Lincsbirding

Green Dock Beetles (Gastrophysa viridula) back in force at Trent Port (Marton) today. 1000's of them munching through the riverside Broad-leaved Docks. LNU Lincs Wildlife Trust Coleopterists Society of Britain and Ireland Buglife

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Plenty of Field Mouse-ear (Cerastium arvense) locally for wildflowerhour this week. BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland Love Lincs Plants #wildflowerhour LNU

Enjoyable (and dry) early Breeding Bird Surveys visit to square north of Lincoln this morning. Highlights were 2 Ravens, Common Sandpiper, 2 Little Grebes, Whitethroat and both Green and GS Woodpeckers. Plus 2 singing Corn Buntings on way home. Lincsbirding BTO LNU

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Turtle Dove purring away near Cambridge this morning Cambs Bird Club

Cracking few hours at Westbere this afternoon opening my odonata account for 2024. In some warm sunshine I found 21 Large Red Damselfly and 13 Variable Damselfly. A few shots to come later. British Dragonfly Society BDS Scotland The British Nature Guide NatureUK BBC Springwatch Adrian Parr

My first damselfly of the year (a Large Red) this afternoon just behind my garden in Marton, Lincs. Presumably from a neighbours pond. LNU Lincs Wildlife Trust The British Nature Guide British Dragonfly Society Nick Tribe