Finest purple toothwort selfie on Twitter today, I’ll wager.

A very clear response from Tony Juniper and Natural England about their role in this process. The process is quite clear, it's based on statute. And by the way Norfolk County Council have known about the bat issue for 10 years....

About that sequel.

I was hoping for a bigger role…

Cuckoo is IN 🤩

I’m having my hair cut before nine.

My hairdresser may find it a bit… slimy 🙈

#roofduck du jour

Helpful clarification for MPs who signed the recent letter requesting NE’s advice on barbastelle bats be overruled, including my MP Jerome Mayhew MP.

The legal goalposts have not, as some Norfolk County Council councillors suggest, been moved. NCC has been advised of the bats for 10 years.

Tweeting live from the tubbiest water vole I ever did see.

Half a coypu.

April is the cruellest month

Rain eased. Went for a walk. Made some friends.

22:15 Built a ramp on the river entrance which seems to be going down well. Some evenings the Otters will just go in and out in search for one another.

This animation is a didactic piece of data visualization, arguably more powerful than the climate stripes in showing how much change has already happened, and how fast.

While watching a very good YouTube lecture by Pete Cooper (to show my students on Thursday), I just looked up to see a sand martin fly over the pond. Welcome home little one*.

*sand martin, not Peter, who’s less long-distance-migratory.

Still time to get tickets to hear the very lovely Matt Gaw ✨ talking to me at NWT Cley Marshes next week. Matt's books are gorgeously observed, beautifully written, touching and witty. His new book - In All Weathers - is no different.

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What a difference a day makes

Pedunculate oaks - blushing mustard green with flower on this morning’s early walk - for this week’s #wildflowerhour #treeflowers challenge

What did I do to deserve to share this world with bullfinches?

Have a Sunday song thrush on me.

I hope you feel as joyful and exuberant as he sounds.

50 years old. Still squelching through mud.

Second grasshopper warbler of the morning (one either side of the river) ☺️