Yellow rattle fading, but still a-buzz to the backdrop of a garden warbler
#30DaysWild from The Wildlife Trusts Derbyshire Wildlife Trust #30DaysWild #NoMowSummer

It may be winter outside 🎵🎶...
but Derbyshire Wildlife Trust Rose End meadows, it's late spring
#commonspottedorchid #30DaysWild #30DaysWild from The Wildlife Trusts The Wildlife Trusts Jo Smith Professor Paul Lynch Prof Lynn Crowe

An evening of lengthening shadows, singing blackcaps and baffling umbellifers
#30DaysWild
#30DaysWild from The Wildlife Trusts Derbyshire Wildlife Trust #wildflowers BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland

The no mow area now showing off a variety of grasses...ornamental grasses have their place, but look at the beauty of these and think of their value to wildlife
#30DaysWild #NoMowSummer
#30DaysWild from The Wildlife Trusts Derbyshire Wildlife Trust Plantlife

Look at the detail on this iris sibirica...a highlight of the May garden
#GardensHour GardensHour #flowers

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Start the Week on BBC Radio 4 featured some of this wonderful conversation

Wow
Interviewed the wonderful Robin Wall Kimmerer in front of 1700 people Hay Festival

And they tell me she had the biggest book signing queue the booksellers could remember in the last 25 years

There was so much love, good will and hope in the room

This week in the wildflowerhour charts...down to no 6 meadow saxifrage, up to no 5 dock, but straight in at no 4 hogweed, up to no 3 meadow buttercup, straight in at no 2 bush vetch and at no 1 for a 2nd week..yellow rattle
#wildflowerhour #LawnFlowers
#NoMowMay Plantlife

Art meeting nature Derby Cathedral Derby Peregrines Derbyshire Wildlife Trust Cathedral Quarter this morning
Joined and beautifully portrayed by Derby sketching club..@draw_derby @tom.burley on Instagram
Faunagraphic Derby Museums Natural Derbyshire Tours Michelle Underwood

A slightly, only slightly, more watery #FingerpostFriday having seen #EnglishPlay The RSC
Fingerpost Friday Kiln Theatre

The Northumberland Wildlife Trust Later Life Audio and Radio Cooperative project sounds excellent...forgive the pun.
Soundscapes providing more access to nature.
Derbyshire Wildlife Trust Jo Smith Matt Buckler Professor Paul Lynch Miles Richardson Dom Higgins Gary Moore The National Lottery Heritage Fund Craig Bennett Jim Dixon FRSA #NextdoorNature

Pignut enjoying the view whilst apparently provoking lust exceedingly(!).....for #carrotsandpeas #wildflowerhour
wildflowerhour BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland Trevor the botanist Flora of Derbyshire Derbyshire Wildlife Trust Debbie Alston

Lots of peregrine action for the next few weeks as the adults bring in food for this lot...come down to Cathedral Green watchpoints ..there'll be binocs/ scopes ..we'll be there 10am - 2pm for next 4 Saturdays
Derbyshire Wildlife Trust Jo Smith Professor Paul Lynch Mark Cocker Mark Avery

Yellow rattle taking over from the cowslips here...a nectar source, keeps grasses in check improving biodiversity and the seed heads become a refuge for insects
Win win
Plantlife Bumblebee Conservation Trust #NoMowMay #BeeTheChange
Derbyshire Wildlife Trust Big Meadow Search BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland

'A campaign by Hannah Bourne-Taylor to mandate the installation of “swift bricks” .., could make up for the loss of nest sites in the eaves of older buildings – if only the government would support it.'
@NorfolkBea #Wildcasting 🇨🇦
Mark Avery Derbyshire Wildlife Trust
Wild Justice Derbyshire Swift Conservation

Just ordered from VertebratePublishing
Thanks for alerting to this...saw Helen Mort reading her poetry at the wonderful Peggy's Skylight Jazz Club Bad Betty Press last Sunday and she didn't mention this...hope she gets a chance to talk about it Kendal Mountain Book Festival ? Paul Scully ?!

Early purple orchids keeping cowslips company in Tansley Dale
Derbyshire Wildlife Trust BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland
Peak District National Park

Great bird song walk for #DawnChorusDay at High Leas Farm this morning - never disappoints! Redstarts, Garden Warblers, Cuckoo, some amazing displays from the Tree Pipits and a suprise Pied Flycatcher singing on our return to the farm 😊 Derbyshire Wildlife Trust Derbyshire Ornithological Society (DOS)

A great start on #InternationalDawnChorusDay

Citizen-science meets rivers activism again (& filling the gap left by government): The Rivers Trust launches The Big River Watch, a monitoring scheme for local volunteers to report details of pollution.
Find out more below, participate, spread the word...
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