#WaxcapWatch is back! 🎉🍄 This autumn, help us find Britain’s most colourful and important fungi - waxcaps! 🔍How to take part? All you need is to download the app, visit a site and tell us what you find! Find out more 👉 bit.ly/3RlkF2W 📷 Sarah Shuttleworth

I’ve enough green hay to seed 150sqm from my gardens if anyone might be interested in the Liverpool area or nearby? All introduced species are true natives which are locally sourced with no invasives or agricultural cultivars. 🌱❤️

Here we go! Next stop the continental shelf edge. It’s been over 18 months in the making and we’re underway! 🌊 ⛵️ See you in week 👋

An update on this week's featured Butterflies of North Greece tour - now just four places remaining available. A tour that offers the chance to see some SE European specialities, like the mighty Tessellated Skipper, and the dapper Balkan Marbled White. #Leptember lovelies!

Little Stint Showing well on seaweed at Ferrybridge Weymouth last evening 8th Sept 2024 More Images on My Blog : Steve Carey Bird Photography

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Bladetail (Lindenia tetraphylla) seen in northern Greece. This dauntingly large and impressive dragonfly is just one of the expected non-butterfly wildlife bonuses on the Butterflies of North Greece tour I'll be leading for Mariposa Nature Tours next June.

I’m shocked, shocked to hear that the ‘net zero aspiration’ for farming trumpeted by the National Farmers Union in 2019 is now ‘in doubt’ The NFU’s plan refused to consider significant land use change or dietary shift & favoured bioenergy crops instead 1/ bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

An update on this week's featured Butterflies of North Greece tour - now just two places remaining available. A tour offering the chance to see many of the varied blue family, including examples of some of Europe's largest and smallest species. #Leptember

22/52 #OrchidsOfRhodes April 2024 #AnOrchidAWeek Green-winged Orchid (Anacamptis morio subsp caucasica) Spots and stripes, a winning combination. In dappled light at the edge of a tree-fringed meadow. Thistle lies in wait to ambush a kneeling photographer #orchids #wildflowers

The teeny mystery bolete I found yesterday has been identified as the Crimson Bolete, Rubinoboletus rubinus. Apparently it’s very rare, vulnerable on the IUCN Red List! A lovely surprise for #FungiFriday & another amazing record for this wonderful old cemetery!!!! 🥰

I’ve been Ghost Orchid-hunting this week with my good pal Dr Richard Bate - spoiler alert, we didn’t find one on this occasion! - but for #FungiFriday, here’s some lovely verdigris Cholociboria-stained wood.

It'll be all white on the night!😉 Sometimes wildflowers go off piste... The weekly #WildflowerHour challenges are always a lot of fun, but this week's is a particular gem - have you seen any #WhiteForm wildflowers in 2024? Now's your chance to share them, on Sunday night 8-9pm.

Coppers are pennies from heaven - one of of our favourite butterfly families. North Greece is particularly blessed with them, and we'll hope to see Small, Large, Scarce, Balkan, Purple-shot, Sooty, and Lesser Fiery during our week of butterfly-watching there next June. #Leptember

Winner of the 2024 Ig Nobel prize for Botany, a study that found evidence that the South American plant Boquila trifoliata mimics the leaf shape of plastic plants beside it, suggesting 'plant vision' is a plausible hypothesis. Mind=blown!🤯@bsbibotany ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Our featured tour this week is the Butterflies of North Greece tour, a guaranteed departure next June with just two places now remaining available. Brilliant butterflies are also guaranteed - but so are some wonderful wildflowers, like Woolly Foxglove, and Balkan Lizard Orchid.

This week's #WildflowerHour challenge is #WhiteForm wildflowers. A chance to share a very special Late Spider Orchid.

Good morning, and welcome to the new week! Our featured tour this week is A Spring in Provence, a lovely general wildlife tour in a beautiful region of France, at a time of year it's bubbling with colourful life. (1/4) mariposanature.com/tours/wildlife…

Sat writing about this week's Tennessee Warbler in Shetland for RareBirdAlertUK, and reminded of dashing to see that, and Blackburnian Warbler, in Septembers past with Red. I miss her so much.