Bog-tastic news! 🎉 Our Bog Squad has been granted £31,000 to keep protecting precious peatlands in the Central Belt between Glasgow and Edinburgh for another year. Full story 👉 butterfly-conservation.org/news-and-blog/… 📸: Polly Phillpot, Iain H Leach Peatland ACTION BC Scotland

Beachy Head: An outstanding raptor watch 10am/1pm. A total of 8 Honey Buzzard, including a single flock of 5 whilst an Osprey went out to sea at 12.50pm. LP/SL Sussex Birding

Plenty of peat pipes percolating water through the peat on Beinn y Phott 😬 These are tricky to deal with and can cause the drying out and erosion of nearby peat 🤔

Today's Juvenile Honey Buzzard that arrived off the sea at Langdon hole, 13.10 Presumably either a continental persuaded over by the SE wind or headed back in after flying South over the channel elsewhere.

I think this might be simultaneously one of the saddest and life affirming posts I’ve seen.

Long-legged lightning strikes same spot twice in 70 years!

Superb insight into river life.

Excellent read 👍

Spent a fantastic weekend at Newburgh sketching at the wonderful Ythan estuary, Newburgh. The Grey seals were their very obliging and entertaining selves. #wildlifeart #sketching #NewburghandYthanCommunityTrust #YthanSealWatch #ForvieNationalNatureReserve

First Pinks of autumn for me! A little skein of twenty coming in from the northwest over the Lomond Hills here in Fife.

Honey Buzzard nest still active 5th Sept, Oslo

The red-breasted flycatcher at The Crown & Anchor today is an eraly contender for bird of the weekend at #Migfest24. What a stunner! Spurn Bird Observatory

Another contender for bird of the weekend was this superb bee eater on Easington Straight earlier today. #Migfest24 Spurn Bird Observatory

"Sub-lethal" pesticides turn out to be highly lethal...

Butterfly #vismig

Butterfly #vismig

#Swifts need homes as do House Sparrows and House Martins. The Gov's Biodiversity Net Gain #BNG doesn't provide for cavity nesting species this needs correcting. Christian Wakeford MP Kirith Entwistle MP

Record-breaking Red Admiral #vismig at De Nolle, NL yesterday.