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Ross Holdgate 🇺🇦 @holdgate-ross.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Maybe lucerne? Looks freaky whatever it is

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Ross Holdgate 🇺🇦 @holdgate-ross.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Thanks. That post has inspired me to try and seek out C. extensa

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Ross Holdgate 🇺🇦 @holdgate-ross.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Ah thanks Jo, yes the two forms. I thought you meant a new East Anglia version! Are you finding much of it flowering still?

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Ross Holdgate 🇺🇦 @holdgate-ross.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Do you think they were breeding at the pond on the site? Nice to see ruddy darter there.

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Ross Holdgate 🇺🇦 @holdgate-ross.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

It was fantastic to find Silene viscaria, sticky catchfly, in Holyrood Park today.

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Ross Holdgate 🇺🇦 @holdgate-ross.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Nice. I had mine at Lake heath on Friday.

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Ross Holdgate 🇺🇦 @holdgate-ross.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Interesting plant as it's a legume and they are supposed to have high protein pollen so good for bees. Does yours cope with cold weather ok?

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Ross Holdgate 🇺🇦 @holdgate-ross.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Thanks. I can see how natural dynamic landscapes can create all these conditions but we seem to have missing components. I can see a place for some traditional / more artificial management until we can restore more natural processes.

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Ross Holdgate 🇺🇦 @holdgate-ross.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

It's hard to know what natural woodland in SE should look like, thanks for those examples though. I would expect there to be some areas of dense shrub given certain species seem to need this. I'm not very birdy but where would these species, like nightingale, fit in?

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Ross Holdgate 🇺🇦 @holdgate-ross.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

A lot of my photos from last year look like this, although possibly biased towards more open areas with nice views of ground flora. I will try to get up there this summer for another look.

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Ross Holdgate 🇺🇦 @holdgate-ross.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

It does seem to take a long time for woodlands to move on though. Examples of 100 year old canopy such as Monks Wood and the triangle at Hayley Wood still seem to have even age canopy and quite sparse understorey / few gaps. Any examples of woodland moving on to give more natural variation?

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Ross Holdgate 🇺🇦 @holdgate-ross.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Your record is obscured on the bsbi members area database. But you're in good company with people who have recorded it there. I'm in the area tomorrow and hoping to have a look for it.

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Ross Holdgate 🇺🇦 @holdgate-ross.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Well done Tristan. Does that mean you will be submitting a higher resolution record for it?

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Ross Holdgate 🇺🇦 @holdgate-ross.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Good to see chalk grassland flora doing well at Orwell Clinch Pits, S. Cambs, yesterday despite the drought like conditions. Particularly nice to find hawkweed oxtongue and leases calamint (TBC with irecord submission).

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Ross Holdgate 🇺🇦 @holdgate-ross.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Snap, I just noticed them in my garden today

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 12/07/2025

⚡️Ukraine destroys Russian drone unit after Kherson infant killed, child 'should never have been a target,' governor says. Ukrainian soldiers destroyed a crew of Russian drone operators with FPV drones, those directly involved in the fatal attack on a one-year-old child in Kherson Oblast on July 9.

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Ukraine destroys Russian drone unit after Kherson infant killed, child 'should never have been a target,' governor says

"Dmytro should never have been a target. I thank our soldiers for their just retribution. No occupier who brought death and destruction to our land will escape punishment," Kherson Oblast Governor Ole...

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Ross Holdgate 🇺🇦 @holdgate-ross.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Nice thread James, they look like cool beetles despite being invasive

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Ross Holdgate 🇺🇦 @holdgate-ross.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Lovely start to the day to scroll through this, I enjoyed the plants and invertebrates as well as the fish. Thank you Nicola.

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Ross Holdgate 🇺🇦 @holdgate-ross.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Pigs in the paddock next door were feeling playful despite the heat

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Ross Holdgate 🇺🇦 @holdgate-ross.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

I had a nice stroll round Thriplow Meadows today. Too late for marsh orchids but still some nice things around including meadow vetchling, fen bedstraw, greater birdsfoot trefoil and marbled white on marsh thistle. Plus the site managers came over to say hello.

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Ross Holdgate 🇺🇦 @holdgate-ross.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Many young professional ecologists are extremely committed to learning plant ID. Amongst other reasons getting a good FISC score is an important way to demonstrate competency and be given more responsibility.

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Ross Holdgate 🇺🇦 @holdgate-ross.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

It's difficult to know what to make of a statement like that without being there. Recognising a beech from 20m away is different to having chance to look at features close up, you need to see things a lot of times to move from identification to recognition.

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Ross Holdgate 🇺🇦 @holdgate-ross.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

In our household they are called the bossy bee as they are so territorial with any other flying insects around lambs ear plants.

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Ross Holdgate 🇺🇦 @holdgate-ross.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Yes there were plenty of these last weekend. When I first went there about 25 years ago I seem to remember seeing oxlips in little cages to protect them but they are doing well at the moment.

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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

From 5am and for the next 12h, a group of Kyiv teenagers were waiting on the site of the russian missile strike which destroyed their friend's home. They hoped he'd be pulled alive out of the rubble. Unfortunately, no miracle happened as their 17yo friend was found dead. This is unbearable.

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(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

You don’t negotiate with Russian terrorists who fire missiles with cluster ammunition warheads at playgrounds and killing 9 children, as happened in Krivyi Rih. You send those Russian terrorists straight to hell and break their remaining empire into pieces. Period.

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Ross Holdgate 🇺🇦 @holdgate-ross.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Great to see this series. I've started with the beaver episode and impressed by all the work Matt and others have done to make it a reality.

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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Forgetting brings impunity. russians carpet-bombed Mariupol, blocked civilian evacuations, forced people to seek refuge in the Drama Theater, bombed it too, and then kept shelling the area to make any rescue mission impossible. There can be no normalization with this evil.

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Ross Holdgate 🇺🇦 @holdgate-ross.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Or were seals following the drones around and outwitting humans and AI?

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Rusty Masluk @rustymasluk.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

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Ryan Reads and Writes 📚✨ @ryanreadsandwrites.me · 21/01/2025

I have a big ask. My 9yo son is autistic and he’s been raising a betta fish he named Kevin. Yesterday He asked if he could “share a photo of Kevin with the whole world“. I don’t know if this will work, but a dad’s gotta try. Like and share if that’s your thing. Kevin says hi! 🐟👋

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Ross Holdgate 🇺🇦 @holdgate-ross.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

@stickybeak.bsky.social good to see you over here. The ecology of an island is a fascinating thing. Surely now is the time to dramatically quit from the other place and start sending your posts this way.

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Sussex Wildlife Trust @sussexwildlife.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

A great turn out for the #StopDumpingOnOurReef rally organised by @sascampaigns.bsky.social Brighton Marina is currently allowed to dump dredged sediment in Beachy Head West Marine Conservation Zone but their licence is up for renewal. Find out more ⬇️ sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/what-we-do/l...

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Ross Holdgate 🇺🇦 @holdgate-ross.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

From the abstract the effect of the council stopping herbicide use looks interesting.

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Olexander Scherba @olexscherba.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

One more year of the country coloured in red unable to break the country coloured in gold. F you, russia! Happy New Year, decent people of the world! #StandWithUkraine

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Ross Holdgate 🇺🇦 @holdgate-ross.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Tripleurospermum maritimum, sea Mayweed, in flower today in N. Cornwall.

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Ross Holdgate 🇺🇦 @holdgate-ross.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Cernuella virgata, striped snail, from coastal grassland in N. Devon yesterday. A smart looking beastie.

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Ross Holdgate 🇺🇦 @holdgate-ross.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Nice blog Graeme. How easy or hard was it to find the nudibranchs? Did you need to visit rock pools at the lower end of intertidal zone?

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Ross Holdgate 🇺🇦 @holdgate-ross.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Do you think having flightless females is contributing to it's decline? Might local extinctions not be countered by colonisation of new areas unless they are in crawling distance.?

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Ross Holdgate 🇺🇦 @holdgate-ross.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Looks like lots of great plant stories in this, I'm looking forward to curling up with it over the Christmas break @kentfieldclub.bsky.social

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Dave Goulson @davegoulson.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Didn't Just Stop Oil folk get arrested for this?

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

rally was held in Vladivostok, Russia, calling for strategic nuclear missiles to be aimed at the United States. Because in their opinion, Washington is to blame for the "genocide of Russians."

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Ross Holdgate 🇺🇦 @holdgate-ross.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

They are still doing ok at Therfield Graeme. This taken there back in May this year.

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Ross Holdgate 🇺🇦 @holdgate-ross.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

It would be good to know more about the species involved. Does the conclusion just apply to widespread generalist pollinators or scarce and declining species as well?

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