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Amy King @amykingwild.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

🌳Vote Preston Twin for tree of the year!🌳 It is a giant English Elm which has survived Dutch elm disease. It is also the only twin that is still standing. And it can be found in Brighton. www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-...

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Tree of the Year

This year’s Tree of the Year contest celebrates trees that are still standing strong against the odds. Choose your favourite and vote by 29 September.

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Amy King @amykingwild.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

The event itself will be in Rottingdean. We will run a Rockpooling session, host talks from some amazing guest speakers and go on a bird walk. To top it all off, we will premiere my next film Counting May. (Plus we have snacks 🍪)

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Amy King @amykingwild.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

🦀 Are you aged between 16 and 30, and live on the East Sussex Coast? We have a FREE event that you might enjoy! 🐚 The @sussexwildlife.bsky.social Youth Council (that includes me!) are running a Youth Marine Festival on the 19th of September: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sea-fest-2...

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Sea Fest 2026! Youth Marine Festival

Join us for a day of all things marine! Sea Fest is a chance for you to explore, learn and discover Sussex's amazing marine wildlife.

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Amy King @amykingwild.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I have seen 50 species of moth, which is kind of a lot higher than I was expecting for this point in the year. I've been to way more moth trapping events than I was ever expecting!

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Amy King @amykingwild.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Dewick's Plusia makes my list to 414/1000 for the year. The deficit is at 104, so I am very quickly narrowing the gap, mostly through plants and moths!

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Amy King @amykingwild.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

An unusual place for a moth! This Dewick's Plusia has decided that this pink bottle of Cream Soda is the best place to blend in...

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Amy King @amykingwild.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Half way through 2026! I am at 370 species out of 1,000, meaning that my deficit is still in the 130ish ballpark.

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Amy King @amykingwild.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

We have been growing a meadow instead of a front lawn for the last few years. Its only a small 30m^2 patch, but it hasn't been unnoticed by the local wildlife.

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Amy King @amykingwild.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Having goldfinches eating the seeds of yellow rattle in the meadow outside my window is a magical experience. What's better is I'm in suburbia - not deep in the countryside.

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Amy King @amykingwild.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Does anyone have any good shouts for Nature Reserves in the Yorkshire and Lancarshire area? (South of York if possible)

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Amy King @amykingwild.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I am at 276 species so far this year! I am 135 behind target, which is a lot, but there are still some massive groups that I have barely scratched the surface of. I did my first plant-focused day, and I got lots of new stuff! @sussexwildlife.bsky.social

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Amy King @amykingwild.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Counting goslings. They decided to come up and surround me! 🥹 It did make it harder to count them 🪿

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Amy King @amykingwild.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Nice to see that slugula one is back on after the winter break!

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Hot? Our wildlife is feeling it too! 🥵 Here are four ways to help your garden visitors stay cool this summer. 👇

A colourful graphic titled 'Help wildlife beat the heat' with illustrations and tips on creating natural habitats. Tips include letting grass grow long to provide cool refuge for insects, planting shrubs for shade, setting up shallow water stations for hydration, and creating muddy puddles to help nesting birds, amphibians and reptiles. The scene depicted shows a garden for wildlife, with long grass, pools of water, trailing plants and a muddy puddle set against a fence. The sun is pictured in the top right in orange hues.

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Amy King @amykingwild.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

A letter to my MP Peter Lamb regarding the recent EHRC draft guidance: @delivering4crawley.bsky.social

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Amy King @amykingwild.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Glaswegians, any good, free wildlife sites near and around #Glasgow?

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Amy King @amykingwild.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Im double dipping! Whilst the #Bluebells in the South East of England have gone to seed, those in Scotland are still in full bloom

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Amy King @amykingwild.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Bringing UNO no mercy on a filming trip to a remote island. What could possibly go wrong? Sounds like the start of a murder mystery. Four people go onto a Scottish island, but only three leave. The victim has a plus 10 in their hand. What could have happened I wonder...

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Amy King @amykingwild.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I have hit my 2000th record on iRecord!

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Amy King @amykingwild.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

On another note, I am two weeks behind uploading my records - eek!

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Amy King @amykingwild.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

This is a genuinely useful guide to recording software in the UK. Go have a look! #PSL

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Amy King @amykingwild.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

This is the second dead bird that I saw today. Weird that it happened twice! 📷 @colinianking.bsky.social

Amy looking confused at a dead woodpigeon

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Amy King @amykingwild.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Hoverflies are a lot harder to ID than I was expecting! 📷Syrphus Sp. (probably)

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Amy King @amykingwild.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

And yes, this does mean that I have now seen a Grass Snake this year. I am half way through the snake species that you can find in the UK. I've never seen a Smooth Snake, but it just sounds like a great excuse to go to Arne. I'm sure that I will find an excuse to go to London for the Aesculapian.

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Amy King @amykingwild.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Just found out that the grass snake we get in the UK is no longer natrix natrix, but instead natrix helvetica. I am devastated, especially as the reclassification happened in 2017! I am almost a decade behind on my #grass-snake news!

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Amy King @amykingwild.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

One day I will figure out how to wear a hat correctly 😅

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Amy King @amykingwild.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

What did you do in the Christmas to New Years gap? Well, I went to one of the most iconic places on the #Sussex coast, to film a dead dolphin! The film is now up on the @sussexwildlife.bsky.social YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB5l... It was a bit Gory, but was a lot of fun to film.

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Scavengers at Seaford Head

YouTube video by Sussex Wildlife Trust

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Amy King @amykingwild.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I am currently at 185 species out of 1000 for the year, which is good, but I am behind schedule by 78. The year is still long, and I am yet to get any dragonflies, or do moth trapping. I have been focusing on ground beetles which means lots of log flipping! #PSL @sussexwildlife.bsky.social

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Amy King @amykingwild.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Just mis-recorded a Pill Millipede as a Pill Woodlouse. Whomever decided that the one Woodlouse looking Millipede would have a confusingly similar name to a Woodlouse, well done, you got me.

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Amy King @amykingwild.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Huuuge huge good news in the world of energy: BBC News - Heat pumps for all new homes and plug-in solar in green tech drive - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... We have just had solar panels installed at home, and it is about time that newbuilds get them too

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Heat pumps for all new homes and plug-in solar in green tech drive

Solar panels that can be plugged in at home could be available to buy in supermarkets in the coming months.

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Amy King @amykingwild.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

First Peacock Butterfly of the year just outside my GP surgery!

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Amy King @amykingwild.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I like how neat and tidy the first few days of my species record book is. It really starts to spiral into a mess on the 3rd of January, and by the 6th, it is just completely unsaveable.

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Amy King @amykingwild.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Surprising omissions include Red Fox and Snipe. #PSL

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Amy King @amykingwild.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Smooth, Palmate and Great Crested Newts have made my total species seen this year sit at 147. I am currently slightly behind my target, but I am yet to tap into plants and insects. I've seen 86 bird species so far, and 21 different species of fungi.

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Amy King @amykingwild.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I'm currently watching a very wet Blackbird make her nest in my very wet back garden

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Amy King @amykingwild.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Today I saw my first Adder of the year! A large female, no less

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Amy King @amykingwild.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

They were cinnamon rolls! I didn't make them, but they were very nice.

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Amy King @amykingwild.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Me trying to ID some #Fungi at the Deneway @sussexwildlife.bsky.social 📷Tallulah

A young person looking at fungi with an ID book

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Amy King @amykingwild.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

I recently updated to the latest version of DaVinchi Resolve, but I foolishly downloaded the free version, and not the studio one. I was so confused at why I could only use proxies and not the full footage. Oops

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Amy King @amykingwild.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Blackmagic Cloud being down gave me a fright. I genuinly thought that I had managed to delete the edit that I have been working on...

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Amy King @amykingwild.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

It was fab to hear about so many different projects happening across Sussex. It's amazing just how much is occuring between the two counties.

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Huge thanks to everyone for coming/contributing to the Sussex Biodiversity Record Centre Recorders Seminar last Saturday. It was a wonderful day & great to see everyone. Special thanks to the fab Youth Rangers for excellent volunteering 📸Katie Bell/Charlie Peverett

Group of smiling youth rangers behind a blue stall

large group of people in a hall listening to a talk

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Amy King @amykingwild.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Smartphones really have killed of the small compact camera

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Amy King @amykingwild.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Did you managed to see any Sundew Plume Moth caterpillars? I know it is probably too early for them, and they haven't been seen in Sussex for a while now, but it must be worth a look...

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Amy King @amykingwild.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

I wrote a blogpost for @sussexwildlife.bsky.social about a trip I went on with a bunch of other youth rangers. We tried to find eagles... 🦅 sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/news/deneway... #birds

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Deneway Youth Rangers meet up with the Arun Regional Group | Sussex Wildlife Trust

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Amy King @amykingwild.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I was very lucky today as I spotted none other than a Weasel. Super cute. Super teeny

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Amy King @amykingwild.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Just hit 101 species in total this year! Just 899 to go...

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Amy King @amykingwild.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

One flew right over our heads! It was a definite "woooaaahhh, thats huge!" moment. One of those things when you just know you have seen it, regardless of if you know what to look for. Still can't quite believe that they are in Sussex!

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