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Dom Greves @domgreves.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Another busy night for migrating toads on roads in Sussex yesterday. These escorted safely to their breeding pond. 🐸🚗 @sussexwildlife.bsky.social @froglife.bsky.social

Multiple toads sitting in the bottom of a white bucket

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Dom Greves @domgreves.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Has the SSSI unit at Little Sea been reassessed since 2013 when it was considered to be 'Unfavourable - Declining'? Is the introduction of beavers expected to improve that situation? And if so, how? designatedsites.naturalengland.org.uk/UnitDetail.a...

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Dom Greves @domgreves.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

So how many beavers is that in total?

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Dom Greves @domgreves.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Thousands of tonnes of slowly disintegrating unexploded WWII bombs in Little Sea. Hope the beavers don't disturb them!

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Dom Greves @domgreves.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Seems like it's also targeted at creating wood pasture near Langton, which would make more sense.

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Dom Greves @domgreves.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

We patrol 3 toad crossings in the Wivelsfield Green area. Busy night! Where are yours?

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Dom Greves @domgreves.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

The NT (and Bournemouth Uni) was experimenting with returning much of that grassland to heath some years ago. Too expensive and time-consuming perhaps. Or hard to resist free trees.

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Dom Greves @domgreves.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Big night for migrating toads in Sussex! Lots of newts too. 🐸❤️🐸 @sussexwildlife.bsky.social @froglife.bsky.social

Male and female toads in a mating embrace on road surface.

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Dom Greves @domgreves.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

I know! 😩 Never name caterpillars after family pets. The trauma of their passing simply gets repeated. Lucky wasps though I guess?

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Dom Greves @domgreves.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

"National Trust tenant farmer, Jake Hancock, looks after land in Middlebere on the Purbeck Heaths." They're going to plant trees on heathland? Or was this the wrong NT farmer to quote?

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Dom Greves @domgreves.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

More Common Toads migrating to their breeding ponds in Mid Sussex this evening. 🐸 @froglife.bsky.social @sussexwildlife.bsky.social

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Dom Greves @domgreves.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Here's a longer video showing the full life cycle of the White Admiral butterfly. Filmed over 2 years in Sussex woodland. Guest starring several parasitic wasps! 🎥🦋🐝 @ukbutterflies.bsky.social @sussexwildlife.bsky.social @europebutterfly.bsky.social @gavinbroad.bsky.social youtu.be/SJjjYmyjzoM

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White Admiral Watch: Life Cycle

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Dom Greves @domgreves.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

See also: "harvesting" animals by humans.

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Dom Greves @domgreves.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

How many of those terms are still in active use would you say?

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Dom Greves @domgreves.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

The failure to fund BNG enforcement was so obvious it can only have been intentional.

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Dom Greves @domgreves.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I think this competition needs a most-butterflies-per-carbon-mile category! My humble Dorset entry...

Multiple blue butterflies on exposed soil.

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Dom Greves @domgreves.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Maybe we need less productivity and more relaxation.

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Dom Greves @domgreves.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Looks good. But why do the people naming these nature programmes feel obliged to invoke the supernatural?

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Dom Greves @domgreves.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

That pistacio gall is beautiful.

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Dom Greves @domgreves.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

And you snuck a few ants in there too! 🙂

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Dom Greves @domgreves.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

We should make parking spaces smaller.

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Dom Greves @domgreves.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I remember when there was a busy quarry and a boat club out there.

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Dom Greves @domgreves.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Oh wow, and this morning my Discover feed is full of stolen nature photos with no credits! Just like that other place. 😔

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Dom Greves @domgreves.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Where's the photo credit? If you can't be bothered go back to Twitter!

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Dom Greves @domgreves.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

If the source is the PR agency how do their clients benefit from links?

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Dom Greves @domgreves.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Oo couldn't submit a few records via our website form could you? Last year of the 5 year recording cycle and we're a few squares short of the record! www.dorsetbutterflies.com/sightings/re...

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Recording Form | Dorset Butterflies

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Dom Greves @domgreves.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I'd say 80% of my Discover feed is people I already follow. Occasionally it throws something cat-related in the mix, for no apparent reason.

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Dom Greves @domgreves.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

"Q: What do you do with Sussex Underwater? A: I am part of the Shore Team..." That's cheating surely? 😄

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Dom Greves @domgreves.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

The Discover feed needs a lot of work. Mostly it just repeats Following for me.

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Dom Greves @domgreves.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Not sure what access is permitted these days but we have a couple of last-minute butterfly recording squares to fill on the tip of the Arne peninsula if you're in the area again soon Nick! #WhiteHoles @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social www.dorsetbutterflies.com/sightings/wh...

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Dom Greves @domgreves.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I appreciate the symbolic gesture, but would be interested to know how many non-native Sycamores have been felled on NT land in the last year!

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Dom Greves @domgreves.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

"It is a veritable army of people that needs to be recruited each year" Are incentivises to retain existing members greater than those to recruit new ones? Not always compatible objectives.

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Dom Greves @domgreves.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

"the UK has very high densities of Red Fox compared to other European countries" How successful are foxes allowed to be?

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Dom Greves @domgreves.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

"they have held back the rising tide of brambles" Never any love for brambles. 😥

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Dom Greves @domgreves.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

And their opportunity to dominate is also a direct result of our presence.

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Dom Greves @domgreves.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

If the 60-70% loss of pollinators results from Goldenrod, what eventually succeeds it without human intervention?

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Dom Greves @domgreves.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

"A swallow is perfectly adapted to vast, open fields ... A starling murmuration ... is an adaptation to open fields". Really? Both seem at ease over open water also.

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Dom Greves @domgreves.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Or... Looks like a conifer plantation. 🙂

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Why inheritance tax charges are really good for real farmers – but not f... youtu.be/s9J0GpnXNhY?... An inheritance tax charge helps farming to reclaim farming for farmers and for the benefit of the people of this country. Labour is, for once, on their side and even doing the right thing.

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Why inheritance tax charges are really good for real farmers – but not for financial whizz kids

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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Why are you divorced from your savings? youtu.be/lq7OI-4V49o?... Most people have no clue how their pension and other savings are managed, or who by, and what the consequences for the economy, the planet or themselves of that management of their savings might be.

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Why are you divorced from your savings?

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Dom Greves @domgreves.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

But what do they do for the rest of the year?

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Dom Greves @domgreves.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

For long battery life at reasonable prices consider the Samsung Galaxy M series aimed at the Asian market.

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