Dave Alston @davea57.bsky.social · 06/09/2026#wildflowerhour. Common fleabane at Pulborough, Sussex recently. 0102
Dave Alston @davea57.bsky.social · 03/05/2026#wildflowerhour Greater Celandine and Bramble in flower in West Sussex during the week. 0262
Dave Alston @davea57.bsky.social · 19/04/2026#wildflowerhour Greater stitchwort flowering in West Sussex earlier this week. 1251
Dave Alston @davea57.bsky.social · 07/03/2026London E1, Wapping/Shadwell area-an Edward the 8th postbox. Not too many of these about. #postboxsaturday 0162
Dave Alston @davea57.bsky.social · 01/03/2026Wood avens flowering in Friston Forest, Sussex this week. 081
Dave Alston @davea57.bsky.social · 07/02/2026#PostboxSaturday An 'anonymous', i.e. no cypher, postbox in Eastbourne, made by Handyside. 0121
Dave Alston @davea57.bsky.social · 09/11/2025Devil's bit Scabious on the Eastbourne Downs on Saturday #wildflowerhour 1405
Dave Alston @davea57.bsky.social · 12/10/2025#wildflowerhour Dandelion on the downs near Eastbourne today 0161
Dave Alston @davea57.bsky.social · 28/09/2025#wildflowerhour Two from the Eastbourne Downs today. Hogweed and Greater knapweed. 0152
Dave Alston @davea57.bsky.social · 22/06/2025Yarrow flowering on the Knepp Estate, W Sussex this week. #wildflowerhour 0394
Dave Alston @davea57.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Two butterflies seen today at Wolstonbury Hill, West Sussex. Meadow brown and Small blue. 092
Dave Alston @davea57.bsky.social · 25/05/2025Tormentil flowering at Broadwater Warren today #wildflowerhour 071
Dave Alston @davea57.bsky.social · 25/05/2025Yellow pimpernel in Broadwater Warren, E. Sussex today #wildflowerhour 060
Dave Alston @davea57.bsky.social · 18/05/2025Bramble flowering earlier this week in Park Corner Heath, Sussex. #wildflowerhour 091
Dave Alston @davea57.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Plenty of oak trees flowering in Sussex this week. This tree had several currant galls on both the blossom and the leaves! #wildflowerhour 0161
Dave Alston @davea57.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Field Maple flowering this week near Hastings, Sussex. #wildflowerhour 0163
Dave Alston @davea57.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Greater stitchwort flowering in East Sussex this week. #wildflowerhour 0103
Dave Alston @davea57.bsky.social · 27/04/2025Red campion this week in East Sussex. #wildflowerhour 091
Dave Alston @davea57.bsky.social · 22/04/2025My first Grizzled skipper of the year spotted today on the South Downs near Horseshoe Plantation. @southdownsnp.bsky.social 0112
Dave Alston @davea57.bsky.social · 13/04/2025On the South Downs near Eastbourne. Blackthorn flowering with a Speckled wood butterfly thrown in for good measure. #treeflowers #wildflowerhour 0423
Dave Alston @davea57.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Still plenty of Lesser celandines around in flower. This one has a bonus pollinator, a Melanostoma sp. hoverfly. #wildflowerhour 1172
Dave Alston @davea57.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Flowering Cow parsley is becoming more noticeable now. This one from near East Langdon, Kent. #wildflowerhour 1283
Dave Alston @davea57.bsky.social · 13/04/2025Salix sp. flowering this week near Newhaven, East Sussex. #wildflowerhour #Treeflowers 0151
Dave Alston @davea57.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Seeing more dandelions flowering now in East Sussex. #wildflowerhour 030
Dave Alston @davea57.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Plenty of Wood Anemones out this week in East Sussex. #wildflowerhour 030
Dave Alston @davea57.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Plenty of Bee-flies recently in East Sussex. Yesterday, (not great photos, but you can see the wing spots), I saw my first Dotted bee-fly at Lullington Heath. Today, a better photo of a Dark-edged bee-fly. These were in abundance in Abbots Wood. @southdownsnp.bsky.social @flygirlnhm.bsky.social 3325
Dave Alston @davea57.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Green alkanet in flower in East Sussex. #wildflowerhour 080
Dave Alston @davea57.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Blackthorn flowering today on the South Downs, East Sussex. #wildflowerhour 0303
Dave Alston @davea57.bsky.social · 29/03/2025Partial solar eclipse today, using binoculars and a bit of paper to view it! 031
Dave Alston @davea57.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Lesser celandine in East Sussex Woodland last Thursday. #wildflowerhour 0201
Dave Alston @davea57.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Wood Anemone flowering in East Sussex Woodland near the Kent border last thursday. 020
Dave Alston @davea57.bsky.social · 23/03/2025Ground Ivy today at Pulborough Brooks, West Sussex #wildflowerhour 0243
Dave Alston @davea57.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Taken on the phone camera, so not going to win any photography awards, but here's my first definite sighting this year of a Dark-edged bee fly, (Bombylius major) today in Rowland Wood, East Sussex. Will iRecord it. 181
Dave Alston @davea57.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Dog's mercury, just about flowering near Arlington, E.Sussex yesterday. #wildflowerhour 0121
Dave Alston @davea57.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Dandelion near Arlington, E. Sussex yesterday. #wildflowerhour 0121
Dave Alston @davea57.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Common green shieldbug, (Palomena prasina) on a leaf in the garden the other day. This is in its brown colour form, having overwintered. It will soon regain its green colour. 030
Dave Alston @davea57.bsky.social · 23/02/2025Lesser celandine, one of several seen flowering today in East Sussex. #Wildflowerhour 0253
Dave Alston @davea57.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Not too long before bee flies start to appear again! This one was from Fore Wood, East Sussex last year 030
Dave Alston @davea57.bsky.social · 15/02/2025Good to see dandelions flowering yesterday in Seaford, East Sussex. #dandelions 010
Dave Alston @davea57.bsky.social · 25/01/2025A female Eristalis tenax hoverfly on a sunny wall of the Parish church of St. George in Crowhurst, East Sussex today. Females of this species overwinter in crevices in walls, but can emerge if temperatures are high enough. 0100
Dave Alston @davea57.bsky.social · 04/01/2025One of two White-tailed Sea Eagles seen at Pulborough Brooks, W.Sussex today. This one was walking about on the ice! 071