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Jane Wisbey

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Zoologist, writer, editor, photographer. stillinthewild.substack.com

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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Very dry grassy fields, but lots of ragwort (and hogweed) #StillFlowering this afternoon in Gloucestershire. #WildflowerHour
A tall stem of flowering ragwort, with hogweed in the background, in a field of long grass, with woodland, blue sky and puffy white clouds behind.
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Water forget-me-not lending some subtle blue to the fringes of our garden pond this morning. #AquaticPlants #WildflowerHour
Close up stem of water forget-me-not at the edge of a garden pond, with several pale blue, yellow-centred open flowers and, at the top, a cluster of pinker, unopened buds.
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Lesser spearwort, prolific this year around our garden pond. #AquaticPlants #WildflowerHour
Close up bright yellow flower of lesser spearwort, with many more blooms soft focus in the background.
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
A starry marsh cinquefoil beside our garden pond this morning. Such a lovely deep magenta against the bright yellow spearwort. #AquaticPlants #WildflowerHour
Close up dark magenta star-shaped flower of marsh cinquefoil, with bright yellow lesser spearwort flowers soft focus in the background.
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
A beautiful ringlet butterfly nectaring on hogweed earlier this week at the edge of a Gloucestershire field. #PollinatorPals #WildflowerHour
Close up side view of a ringlet butterfly, wings closed, sipping nectar from hogweed flowers at the edge of a field.
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Yellow rattle doing well this year in our overgrown garden lawn aka mini meadow. #LawnFlowers #WildflowerHour
Close-up stem of yellow rattle, with three yellow blooms and jagged green leaves, in an area of garden lawn left to grow long.
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Poppy, with a frothy mass of cuckoo spit. Minchinhampton Common, Gloucestershire, this afternoon. #WildflowerHour
Close-up side view of a red poppy, with a mass of foamy white bubbles on the stalk just beneath the petals.
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Pyramidal orchid on Rodborough Common, Gloucestershire, this afternoon. #OrchidChallenge #WildflowerHour
Close-up dark pink pyramidal orchid on grassland.
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Common spotted orchid on Rodborough Common, Gloucestershire, this afternoon. #OrchidChallenge #WildflowerHour
Close-up pale pink common spotted orchid on grassland.
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
So many fragrant orchids on Rodborough Common, Gloucestershire, this afternoon. #OrchidChallenge #WildflowerHour
Close-up pale pink fragrant orchid on grassland.
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
My first bee orchid! On Rodborough Common, Gloucestershire, this afternoon. #OrchidChallenge #WildflowerHour
Close-up bee orchid, on grassland, looking very bee-like!
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Sea kale on the shingle of Monmouth beach, Lyme Regis, this afternoon. Such a sweet honey scent, especially noticeable as there was barely a breath of wind. #WildflowerHour
Close up of a mass of white sea kale flowers, with undulating, green kale leaves behind.
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Common chickweed, yesterday in a Gloucestershire field. #wildflowerhour
Close up of common chickweed flower.
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
The jazzy flowers of lungwort at Gilbert White’s House, Selborne, Hampshire. #wildflowerhour
Close up bright purple and pink flowers of lungwort.
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Beautiful blackthorn all over Gloucestershire this week. #treeflowers #wildflowerhour
Profusion of blackthorn flowers filling the frame, with some close up in the foreground.
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
A whole frame full of wildflowers for #wildflowerhour: dandelions, red dead-nettle, speedwell, shepherd’s purse, common chickweed and hairy bittercress. Yesterday in a Gloucestershire field.
A patch of low-growing wildflowers in a grassy field: four dandelions, red dead-nettle, speedwell, shepherd’s purse, common chickweed and hairy bittercress.
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Some recent nature highlights from Gloucestershire: stillinthewild.substack.com/p/early-spri...
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Early spring in the Cotswolds
Carpets of wildflowers, colourful fungi and curious shells that caught my eye in February
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Speedwell in a Gloucestershire field this week. #signsofspring #wildflowerhour
Close up of blue speedwell flower growing low in a field, showing dark striations on petals and two stamens with black anthers and white filaments.
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
A mighty dandelion in a Gloucestershire field this week. #signsofspring #wildflowerhour
Low angle close up of a bright yellow dandelion against blue sky, on the grassy margin of a field, looking as large as the distant tree beyond it.
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Many primroses this week lining the banks of the Monarch’s Way in Gloucestershire. #signsofspring #wildflowerhour
Clumps of pale yellow primroses on a grassy, sloping bank, in late afternoon light.
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
This week in Gloucestershire: the snowdrops are fading, but the celandines steal the show. #wildflowerhour
Low angle, side view of wide open lesser celandine flowers, covering a verge in rural Gloucestershire.
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Thoughts on noticing nature and being absorbed in creativity this month. stillinthewild.substack.com/p/capturing-...
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Capturing celandines with a phone
Inspiration and tips for phone nature photography in March
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Rain, rain, rain, winter aconites, rain, rain. Gloucestershire this week. #wildflowerhour
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Recent nature highlights from Gloucestershire: stillinthewild.substack.com/p/the-patter...
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The patterns of winter
From tiny spores to dancing skies: things that caught my eye in January
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Moira O'Donnell @naturelark.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Beautiful Green Hellebore, Helleborus viridis, in woodland on the edge of Croydon. 💚 It is a member of the Ranunculaceae, the Buttercup family. What look like green petals are in fact sepals, and the petals themselves are reduced to small tubular nectaries (visible in third photo). #WildflowerHour
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Hazel catkins and one tiny, red female flower, in a rare moment earlier this week when it wasn’t raining and the air was still. #Gloucestershire #wildflowerhour
Close up of yellow hazel catkins, with lots of out of focus catkins in the background, and a tiny, red female flower on the supporting twig.
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Very much enjoyed this exhibition this morning.
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Snowdrops in Gloucestershire – this week, fully open. #wildflowerhour
Close up of a clump of snowdrops, flowers fully open.
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Tree of the week: an old oak on a Gloucestershire lane. Endless rain and grey skies, not much wildlife about, but possibly the best time of year to admire old trees in the landscape?
Black-and-white image showing silhouette of an old oak tree in winter, beside a country lane, against overcast  sky.
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
My latest post… stillinthewild.substack.com/p/capturing-...
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Capturing tree silhouettes with a phone
Inspiration and tips for phone nature photography in February
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Snowdrops and raindrops. Plenty of both in Gloucestershire this week. #wildflowerhour
Close up of a clump of snowdrops covered with water droplets from recent rain.
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Lots of snowdrops on the banks in Gloucestershire this week #wildflowerhour
A clump of snowdrops on a bank strewn with fallen leaves.
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Autumn in Transylvania last month. More at stillinthewild.substack.com/p/autumn-in-...
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
The seals and seabirds are wonderful, but this week I’ve written about some of the less conspicuous nature I encountered in these magical isles. stillinthewild.substack.com/p/the-unexpe...
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The unexpected Isles of Scilly
Island nature beyond the seals and seabirds.
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Does the new-term feeling of September ever wane? Not for me, it seems. #naturephotography #natureconnection stillinthewild.substack.com/p/becoming-s...
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Becoming Still in the Wild
Time to refresh my Substack.
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
A first for me: rock sea-spurrey. Small flowers, about a centimetre across. Decorating a slipway on Tresco, Isles of Scilly. #wildflowerhour #scilly
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
A buff tip moth, hoping to pass as a birch twig. Not unusual to find in our Gloucestershire moth trap but always lovely to see #mothmonday #teammoth
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Heather and gorse looking gorgeous in the Isles of Scilly #wildflowerhour #scilly
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
The plush wings of a mint moth, about 15mm across, resting in the marjoram at the end of a Cotswolds garden. #mothmonday
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
My first sighting of a large emerald moth. Beautifully marked, scalloped-edge wings, about 5cm across. Definite highlight of summer moth-trapping in Gloucestershire. #mothmonday
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Wild carrot, done with flowering. Yesterday, at WWT Slimbridge, Gloucestershire. For #wildflowerhour
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Knapweed, this morning on the Cotswold Way, for #wildflowerhour
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Lesser spearwort and water forget-me-nots in a small garden pond, Gloucestershire, for #wildflowerhour #aquaticplants
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Yellow rattle and white clover aplenty, for #wildflowerhour. This #Cotswolds wildflower meadow is fairly new - it was sheep-grazed short grass until a couple of years ago.
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
One of my favourite ash trees, catching the early evening sun. #treetuesday #nature
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Black medick, down among the soaked long grass, for #wildflowerhour #peafamily
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Dance of the swan.
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
A look back at May in London and the Cotswolds… #nature #photography natureview.substack.com/p/nature-in-...
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Nature in jars and outside
Things that caught my eye in May.
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
A pyramidal orchid along the Cotswold Way yesterday, for #wildflowerhour #orchidchallenge
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Jane Wisbey @janewisbey.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
The joy of phone nature photography: why I ditched my DSLR and will I ever go back? Some thoughts in my latest free post natureview.substack.com/p/the-joy-of... #naturephotography #natureconnection
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