Cowbane, a rare plant nationally, at Burton Mill Pond, West Sussex today. Gareth James BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland Sussex Botanical Recording Society wildflowerhour

Sand Wasp Ammophila sabulosa carrying a Beautiful Yellow Underwing caterpillar to her burrow. She climbed up in the heather to get her bearings then quickly located her burrow, Bovey Heath Devon Wildlife Trust

Some parts of the sward at Seaford Head looked amazing today. Excellent short chalk grassland created by sheep grazing. Now just to deal with the remaining Bramble, Tor Grass and Old Man's Beard.

Orange Conch, Commophila aeneana, from Butcherlands the other week looking a bit worn, but still so orange in life not captured by the photo. Only the 4th W. Sussex record and 10th all Sussex record. But not a new site though because guess who found it first... Graeme Lyons

Surprised to find 2 Sussex Emerald in the trap on the North Kent Marshes this morning. A long way from their Dungeness stronghold. KentMoths British Moths

What do #swifts eat? - a thread 🐦 more accurately what do they feed their nestlings 🐣 as this is from 3 lumps of swift regurgitate that Graham Denny collected from adults coming back to nests Rothamsted Research Insect Survey #farming #wildlife #wildbirds #ornithology

Loved this from Sussex Wildlife Trust 🦔 #swtphotoposts. Become a citizen scientist by contributing your photo of the same landscape so that they can monitor change! Great work!

Now no chance of halting #biodiversity decline. Truly appalling from this Liz Truss government @Defra Sussex Wildlife Trust 🦔 Nature Friendly Farming Network theguardian.com/environment/20…

Malling Down Butterfly transect totals. 38 years of regular monitoring. Almost all butterfly species had a poor year. The warm wet winter and hot dry summer may have been significant factors. I understand it was a poor butterfly year at many sites.

Such important long-term data collected by CrispinHolloway at Malling Down shedding light on population trends over decades. A 7-year cycle in Small Heath as clear as day

3.24pm - phone call, it's Mike, there's a phalarope on the pool near Gasson's Ruin. 3.52pm - photo of a first winter Red-necked Phalarope - a seabird on it's way from Scandinavia to the Persian Gulf, stopping off to refuel on tiny shrimps and flies. 1/2

Waltham Brooks Sussex Wildlife Trust 🦔 this afternoon - huge numbers of ducks inc at least 350 teal and 55 shoveler, a passing marsh harrier, but the best were my first fieldfares of the autumn: at least 100 present, and a few redwings.

1/2 Are you the kind of person who likes to spend hours exploring #HistoricalMaps of your neighbourhood? This might be exactly the thing for you... bothness.github.io/ons-basemaps/ #geographyteacher #historyteacher #gischat

Probably lauded as the greatest autumn for twitching rare birds I wonder just how many people look and realise just how devoid of birds most British habitats are now

UK Turtle Dove Survey results are grim reading. 2021 survey estimates 2,092 territories, down from 125,00 pairs in 1970. Atlas data reinforce the sense of loss. Survey by RSPB, UK RBBP, KOS with support from BTO and Natural England doi.org/10.1080/000636…

Good to celebrate mosses with #NationalMossDay! Here are Sphagnum teres (gold) and S. warnstorfii (red) in a species-rich sedge mire in Aberdeenshire last month.

Stunning day yesterday after the challenging weather of Storm Babet. Wintry on the hills but still the #autumn glow in the glens. National Trust for Scotland VisitCairngorms.com #cairngorms VisitAberdeenshire walkhighlands #rewilding #landscapephotography