If you interested in learning how to go about identifying wild flowers, join me in the fabulous West Norwood Cemetery next Sat 27 April for a FREE workshop from 10 -11:30am. Absolute beginners very welcome. Please book your place here... westnorwoodcemetery.org/wildflowers

Lovely 💚

I'm after birders who birdwatch on golf courses to talk to for a feature... (& would be very grateful for retweets 🙏... Bird Watching Stephen Moss Ruth and Alan Dominic Couzens to help me find them😀)

Our board member Steve Ormerod 💙 is featured in the latest Bird Watching talking about why birders should care about urban #riverpollution
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... a tough subject but it was a pleasure talking to Steve Ormerod 💙...

If, like me, you're really concerned about the threat to Crossness NR in SE London, then please do support the campaign to protect it the-urban-naturalist.com/2024/04/03/30-… Erith Marshes Bird Watching

Very much looking forward to teaching my first beginner botany course for Field Studies Council - Top 10 Wildflower Families - at fabulous Juniper Hall, Box Hill, on 28 June. You can sign up here field-studies-council.org/courses-and-ex… BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland SL.Botanic Institute

Happy #SpringEquinox2024 ... there's frogspawn in the pond, Chiffchaffs are singing & the heartachingly beautiful Wild Tulips are out in my garden. 💚

Inspiring stuff from fab nature writer Jen Jones Jen Jones

Wow this is such good news! I visited Warren Farm last year for the first time & it's an amazing place for #urbannature . Congrats Kabir Kaul & others. We owe you.

For the March issue of Bird Watching I spent a fun first week of the year #urbanbirdwatching the-urban-naturalist.com/2024/03/01/thi…

Wondering if Great Black-backed Gull is a Private Eye ‘lifer’ - in this week’s edition… Private Eye Magazine Stephen Moss Dominic Couzens Amelia Hodsdon Vanessa Wright Amanda Tuke Charlie Bingham

The early starts on dark autumn days, plus neck ache are worth it when a vismigging - visible migration watching - excursion pays off... in Bird Watching the-urban-naturalist.com/2023/12/22/thi…

Hi Karen. A good point - thanks - I shd have been clearer. For id purposes we picked samples of a few of the plants we found in line w/ @bsbibotany guidance. 1 participant collected the samples for ref, hence the bouquet... so not for a photo op. bsbi.org/wp-content/upl…

At @BSBIBotany annual meeting last Saturday 2nd December, talk from Amanda Tuke Amanda Tuke about organising #urbanplant walks – where most people, & many plants, live. Also, one woman’s journey getting started with #plantID , from 0 to 100 then 300 species in a year!

A bouquet of urban wild flowers in the snow from the 1st day of winter - Deptford, SE London #urbanbotany #pavementplants BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland the-urban-naturalist.com/2023/12/04/urb…

It was such a pleasure reading back-to-back all 6 books in the 2023 Wainwright Nature-writing Prize shortlist & here's my v personal take on them... freelancenaturewriter.com/2023/11/30/the…

What an extraordinary place #Dungeness is... & a great place to have a first proper go at autumn #seawatching ... Oh, & have a mentioned I saw a pallid harrier that day too??? 😀 Bird Watching the-urban-naturalist.com/2023/11/27/thi…

Yesterday evening I talked to Bristol Ornithological Club about being a freelance nature writer, #citybirding & my #30MinuteBirder column in Bird Watching. Thanks for being such a lovely audience 💚. & thanks to the BW Mag for donating a year’s sub for the quiz winner.