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Bristol Regional Environmental Records Centre @brerc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

An amazing year for migrant lepidoptera with Humming-bird Hawk-moth, Clouded Yellow and Painted Lady the most visible. All photos from my garden where the Buddleia has been worth its weight in gold. Let us know what you've seen on our online recording form or email us.

Humming-bird Hawk-moth hovering near a lilac Buddleia flower, its proboscis uncurling

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Bristol Regional Environmental Records Centre @brerc.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

We'll be at Bristol's Brilliant Archaeology on Saturday with our Ancient Woodland display and our Big Map for any wildlife sightings.

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Bristol Regional Environmental Records Centre @brerc.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

At last we are on LinkedIn - so if you've ever volunteered or worked for BRERC you can link to us.

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Bristol Regional Environmental Records Centre @brerc.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Busy times at BRERC with staff and volunteers attending the Festival of Nature and the South West Invasive Species Forum so far this month.

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Bristol Regional Environmental Records Centre @brerc.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

We'll be at the Festival of Nature in Bristol this weekend talking all things Ancient Woodland - we've updated the mapping for the West of England. Come and see us on Millennium Square.

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Bristol Regional Environmental Records Centre @brerc.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

BRERC volunteer Dylan Peters was awarded the winner of the National Biodiversity Network Terrestrial Recorder of the Year 2025 at the @nbntrust.bsky.social conference in Bristol last week. Well done Dylan!

Photo by Tim Corner. Dylan accepting his award in a conference room

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Bristol Regional Environmental Records Centre @brerc.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Putting together an seasonal spotter sheet for Blaise Museum to use in their Autumn Family Fun at half-term. Love autumn! 🍂🍁🍄

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Bristol Regional Environmental Records Centre @brerc.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Dryad's Saddle ~Polyporus squamosus~ is a parasitic bracket fungus. New growth appears in spring and autumn and it won't persist much longer

A beige bracket fungus growing at the base of a large Ash tree which frames a view of green fields and hedges in the middle distance

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Bristol Regional Environmental Records Centre @brerc.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

BRERC attended the first Wild Summit in Bristol last week. Important to get together with all sorts of people and environmental organisations to learn, debate and plan how to reverse nature's decline.

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Bristol Regional Environmental Records Centre @brerc.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

By-the-wind Sailor ~Velella velella~ a fascinating animal. BRERC has one record - a mass stranding at Weston-super-Mare in 2004. Worth looking for after stormy weather

Blue oval shaped organism with a transparent sail, on wet sand

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Bristol Regional Environmental Records Centre @brerc.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

The maps on our website are working again 🙂 The Interactive Maps show overview data - search for a species, or click on a 1km square to see what's on the database. The Species Mapping shows the records either at 1km level or 100m level.

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Bristol Regional Environmental Records Centre @brerc.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Have you recorded wildlife? An MSc student at Leeds Uni is interested in understanding how biological recording and biological recorders contribute to conservation - survey link here: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/taGxQK7Adg

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Bristol Regional Environmental Records Centre @brerc.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

The interactive maps on our website aren't working due to maintenance + restructuring. It'll take a while to complete but will improve the website + other services. We apologise for any inconvenience + hope it won't deter you from submitting records. We're processing + making data available as usual

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Bristol Regional Environmental Records Centre @brerc.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Apologies - BRERC online maps are currently offline for maintenance 🔧

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Bristol Regional Environmental Records Centre @brerc.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

It's a good year so far for Small Heath - which used to be much more common. Help us keep track of butterfly numbers locally by sending in your records recording.brerc.org.uk 🦋

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Bath Royal Literary & Scientific Institution @brlsi.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

🌾 Can we reconcile farming and nature? Or are we facing a deepening divide?Join#BRLSI on May 14 for Faultlines a new series tackling the tensions in today’s sustainability policies. inc: #hannahneedham #georgemonbiot #marklynas #lynndicks #patrickholden #DustinBenton www.brlsi.org/whatson/faul...

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Alan Yeodal @alanyeodal.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

A few of the insects seen in the Tucking Mill (Bath) valley today. Spring hotting up! @savebutterflies.bsky.social @brerc.bsky.social @twotunnelsbath.bsky.social @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social

Beautiful Demoiselle Damselfly on dogwood leaf

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Bristol Regional Environmental Records Centre @brerc.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

#RecordOfTheWeek - this relaxed Hoopoe in South Glos. There's been a major influx to Southern England this spring so keep an eye out! 📷Steve Perryman

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Alan Yeodal @alanyeodal.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Scarlet Tiger moth larvae out in force in Bath! Seeing more of the colourful moths around the city in recent years. @brerc.bsky.social @bathnature.bsky.social

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Bristol Regional Environmental Records Centre @brerc.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Opposite-leaved Golden-saxifrage brightening a damp, shady corner.

Stone steps leading up a slope in woodland. Bright greeny yellow flowers are growing along the bottom two steps

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Bristol Regional Environmental Records Centre @brerc.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Red Dead-nettle~Lamium purpureum~ begins flowering around now and is useful food for early pollinators that are flying when it's warm enough. The leaves are a similar shape to Stinging Nettle but dead-nettles don't sting. The square stem gives away they are in the same family as Mint.

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Bristol Regional Environmental Records Centre @brerc.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

My local Toad Patrol started with a bang last Thursday, with Toads, Frogs and even a Palmate Newt appearing from all sides 🐸. The photo is from Saturday - much cooler; after being helped across the road this Toad found a warm hiding place

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Bristol Regional Environmental Records Centre @brerc.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

#DYK there are many, many species of Bramble - Rubus? We're meeting regularly with botanists to write species accounts for the 'Wild Plants of the Bristol Region' which will update and expand on the 'Flora' (2000). It took 3 meetings to get through all the Rubi 👀

A brown and cream Speckled Wood butterfly perched on a Bramble plant with glossy black blackberries

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Bristol Regional Environmental Records Centre @brerc.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Spring is on its way - have a look at our saved stories on Instagram for #SignsofSpring I saw my first flowering Cherry Plum yesterday 🌞 www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2...

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Bat Conservation Trust @batconservation.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

🦇Many people who work in the #roofing industry have encountered bats, but what are you supposed to do when that happens? Book our ' #Bats for Roofers' training course to! Online over 2 afternoon sessions on 5+11 February. Booking deadline: 29 Jan www.bats.org.uk/our-work/tra... Share widely!

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Are you ready to learn how to work alongside bats in buildings? Upcoming dates: 5 and 11 February 2025 (2 afternoon sessions online) Book the Bats for R...

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Bristol Regional Environmental Records Centre @brerc.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Catching up with @nbntrust.bsky.social recent Impact Report - chuffed to see BRERC are 5th in the top data-providing organisations: above some national organisations

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Bristol Regional Environmental Records Centre @brerc.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Happy New Year to all our recorders. It's been great to get back to the office to a busy @records inbox and lots of online records recording.brerc.org.uk/home

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Bristol Regional Environmental Records Centre @brerc.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

BRERC staff and volunteers enjoyed their Christmas 'walk' last week (there's a lot of stopping 👀). We hope all our recorders have a Merry Christmas and feel energized by the break to record even more in 2025!

Group of people on coats and hats waiting to begin a walk on a grey day

Same group posing for a photo in front of tall grey tree trunks

3 people looking over the parapet of a small stone bridge while another person looks underneath for Otter spraint

Identification challenge - 1 person photographs a fungi on a tree trunks and others look at their phones to try and find a match

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Bristol Regional Environmental Records Centre @brerc.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

It's a bit battered and trodden on, but this is a promise of next summer 🌞 Bee Orchid rosettes are identifiable all winter, and they turn up in all sorts of places, so keep an eye out!

A rosette of three, bluey-green, damaged leaves, at ground level. They are a distinctive shape and texture.

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Bristol Regional Environmental Records Centre @brerc.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Winter sunlight highlighting the seed heads of Traveller's Joy aka Old Man's Beard aka ~Clematis vitalba~ An indicator of limestone, we have records from across most of the BRERC area apart from the North Somerset Levels

Lit up pale grey seed heads of Traveller's Joy scrambling along a scrubby edge

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