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Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social · 23h

Only today to go - please help if you can...

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 22h

A Kingfisher has chosen your feed for reasons known only to Kingfishers. Today is a good day.

A Kingfisher perches on a slender branch above still water, its vivid blue feathers and rich orange chest glowing in the sunlight. Looking towards the camera, it appears mildly curious.

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Jen Ratcliffe @jenratcliffe.bsky.social · 21h

Very true 😂 ... Goes to check when the next one is on

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Jen Ratcliffe @jenratcliffe.bsky.social · 21h

Being a Northern Writer= Counting 'fire' as two syllables in your head even though you have the mildest of accents #writing #northerngravy

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Nighttime on Still Waters @noswpod.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The thick darkness Of a mole-blind morning. Feet slip on gravel and tiredness. Racing clouds lower themselves To the earth in rain. No moon or stars, Just waterlogged sky And the wind among the alders. But that is alright, For I have Stars enough And windsong among alders. #naturepoetry #night

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Jen Ratcliffe @jenratcliffe.bsky.social · 23h

The cloths of wet fires litter the ground, burning away summer with barely a sound I hang them like shirts to dry in the wind only to return and find their colours thinned; 🪶 Verse 1/3 #Autumn #Fall #NaturePoetry #Nature #NatureWriting #DailyNature #Leaf #Hibernate

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Jen Ratcliffe @jenratcliffe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

For October I'll be hosting another #DailyNature challenge in honour of Samhain 🔥 Here's a little blog with a nature journal prompt calendar, details of an upcoming workshop & Water a book Club with Alpha Lo jenratcliffe.substack.com/p/as-the-woo... #naturewriting #autumn #journalprompt #poetry

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As The Wood Turns Gold: Join The Autumn Nature Challenge

Join our nature community and receive a free journal prompt calendar, plus details on an upcoming poetry workshop

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Julian Hoffman @julianhoffman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Absolutely over the moon and deeply honoured to see Waterstones select LIFELINES as one of their Paperbacks of the Year for 2026! They've backed this book right from the very beginning and I'm so grateful for the incredible support. @eandtbooks.bsky.social @waterstones.bsky.social

Image from Waterstones Paperbacks of the Year promotion with the cover of Lifelines by Julian Hoffman against a gold and starred background.

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Jen Ratcliffe @jenratcliffe.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A bit of silence, folding on ears, the mitten effect of mountains. A bit of silence, cloud-forming lungs, exhales rain rather than rants. A bit of silence, kneaded into sleep, twisted through ligaments, scooped for soup. A bit of soul silence, to cure a bit of the unheard loud. #poetry #silence

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Nighttime on Still Waters @noswpod.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Dew wet. The ducks are all Around the boats. Robin song among old branches. Mushrooms gently shoulder Leaf mould and new growth green. A heron lands and then Fades out of sight Into the autumnal landscape. #DailyNature #naturepoetry #ukcanals #autumn

Two creamy mushrooms lie half hidden beneath last year's fallen leaves and new growth green. Brush aside the crisp dried leaves to feel their domed surfaces. Feel how smooth they are, firm yet soft to your touch. Without blemish, perfect, in every way.

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Jen Ratcliffe @jenratcliffe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Idea: we all get capes and go as moths & butterflies for Halloween and create a swarm?

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Jen Ratcliffe @jenratcliffe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

📘🌊 Water Book Club 📅Today 24th Sept ⌛7pm BST / 11am PST 'By Morning, The Sea Had Taken It' Join myself and Isle of Wight Indie Press founder Lottie Begg of @lemonjellypress.bsky.social To discuss the sea, anthology, & representation in publishing 💙 substack.com/profile/1132... #NatureWriting

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Reminder of today’s Water Book Club 🌊📘 featuring the wonderful founder of @Lemon Jelly Press CIC Lottie Begg, a champion of underrepresented voices. We’ll be discussing their new anthology ‘By The Mor...

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Jen Ratcliffe @jenratcliffe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Considering the equinox is upon us, I thought I'd better skidaddle with posting the last of our summer-filled daily nature notes! This one's from Scotland & the selkies 🦭 Includes a survey for nature community events 💚 #NatureWriting #DailyNature jenratcliffe.substack.com/p/becoming-s...

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Becoming Selkie: Parting With Summer Nature

Listening to the ocean, cleaning its shores and finding myself part of its mythology - plus the last of the summers community nature roundup.

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Persiflage @persiflage.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Nine Canada Goose A'honkin' go Flying Southwards. #DailyNature #NatureWriting

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James McCulloch @jamesimcc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

New species now out in @soilorganismsj.bsky.social! soil-organisms.org/SO/article/v... The latest addition to the UK's springtail fauna: Entomobrya terraeincognitae sp. nov. I found this species on fieldwork for my PhD @sangerinstitute.bsky.social at the Cambridge botanics. 🧵

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Jen Ratcliffe @jenratcliffe.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The US recently ruled that clean drinking water is NOT a fundamental right for their citizens... But is it simply an Earthly right? Does water itself not have the right to be clean? Do animals not have the right to access clean environments or drinkable resources? #Environmentalism

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Jen Ratcliffe @jenratcliffe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Spent my early morning learning more about local invertebrates, including chatting canal habitats with the fabulous @flygirlnhm.bsky.social 🪰, new (for children but is honestly very good) portable microscope for my birthday - I am armed for fun in nature this autumn I tell thee! 💙

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Jen Ratcliffe @jenratcliffe.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A little apology for those awaiting the final #DailyNature roundup & #WaterBookClub catch-up recordings Something I have learnt this summer is that grief has its own timeshares and I can't always predict it's arrivals. They've been written and are awaiting reading/ transcribing accompaniment 💚 x

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Jen Ratcliffe @jenratcliffe.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Alas, it seems this month has been full of woe. I noticed lots of Wendell Berry and it dawned on me I beat look why. Thank you for the words & thanks for @noswpod.bsky.social for sharing this

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James Gilbert @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

A new poem. It’s called “Stop, Look & Sparrows”. Freshly written & follows a situation I had last week. (Perhaps a 2-minute read, & so any reads here appreciated.)

A photo of a printed poem, written by me, titled “Stop, Look & Sparrows”.

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Jen Ratcliffe @jenratcliffe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

And the winged song of returning winter geese

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Jen Ratcliffe @jenratcliffe.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

autumn I am yours the last soft chick of Black poplar seeds float in spinning paths across the sky. Less and less each year it seems. Rain came running in the night, like the steps of children at school gates, by morning golden leaves sit on windows, ready to learn a new season, hold new life.

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Michael Jones @mixaeljones.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Oh puddles, how I’ve missed you! 💦 #DailyNature

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Nighttime on Still Waters @noswpod.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Old summer light. With each gust of wind, The hiss of last night's rain Still falls from the oak's Gnarled fingers. The canal holds the sky close, Waiting for the moorhens to hatch. My legs are wet from the long grass. #DailyNature #ukcanals #poetry #nature #summer

Feel the dappled warmth of a morning sun. The hiss you hear is last night's rain, held in the leafy fingers of the oak that leans over us. The ground beneath us is soft. The smell is wet earth and stirred water. That silence is a moorhen waiting in a nest

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Persiflage @persiflage.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A flash of blue and orange darts upriver catching my eye, pulling me from the Mallards and juvenile Moorhens swimming along. A Kingfisher, bright jewel of the river bank, momentarily lifts my exhaustion, makes me smile. #DailyNature #NatureWriting

A blue and orange Kingfisher perching on a tree branch over the river is partially obscured by leaves. Below several Mallard are swimming on the River Wye.

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Jen Ratcliffe @jenratcliffe.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

On a bed of moss my back turns to feather, eyes of powdered cornflowers and rose petal glow. Theres nothing quite like falling asleep in the pastel masterpieces of unknown gods #DailyNature

In a soft cornflower blue sky is the melting heart of the sun, rose, orange, yellow, it reflects pink light onto the faded jeans waves of the ocean with one single ships light on the horizon

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Jen Ratcliffe @jenratcliffe.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Love this little one, feels very EA Poe

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Jen Ratcliffe @jenratcliffe.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Coastal camping bliss #DailyNature Cormorants Kittewakes Swallows Gannets Terns Shags Fulmar

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James Gilbert @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

a landscape of loss industry community place love ecology scattered wounds seen & hidden scars these wuthering heights

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Landowners release ~50million pheasants a year into the countryside. It’s long past time this was regulated, such as through a stringent licensing regime. The government announced they’d explore licensing earlier this year; this piece is a useful update: www.theguardian.com/food/2026/au...

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New licensing for game shoots could stop poisoning of birds of prey

Scheme planned for England could also curtail tradition of releasing pheasants for people to pay to shoot

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Ian Denton @iand777.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Lots of Goldfinches outside the bathroom window just now, many of which I couldn't bring into focus because of the state of the windows. I blame the Saharan dust - a task for the day to sort them out.

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Persiflage @persiflage.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Sounds of a Sunday morning Magpie rattles repeatedly, Moth bumps against the window frame, Somewhere a cock crows, Followed soon after by a Crow, Then a Herring Gull yells by, And finally a Robin begins to sing. #DailyNature #NatureWriting

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Nighttime on Still Waters @noswpod.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

An old man Sitting beside the canal Watching the minnows Of his youth. Where does the time go? And yet, here, It hangs so motionless Above these waters. #DailyNature #ukcanals #naturepoetry #aging #growingold

A brown oak leaf, crisp from summer drought, floats on the surface of the canal. The water underneath bends to cushion it, as if the canal is carrying something so valuable and sacred.

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Jen Ratcliffe @jenratcliffe.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Excuse my late contributions to #DailyNature I've been away encased within it 21st Nothing - not even waving slosh of sea on canyon wall for seconds not rustling tree or Curlews call Returning - wood pigeon rave breezes arrival through cave sandpiper siren my smiling exhale blending with ocean

Green and yellow tent tarp open to a small canyon leading towards light

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Jen Ratcliffe @jenratcliffe.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The black oil of mountains, sitting like wrinkled gum, waits to be untangled. I encase myself within it, easing into nature's grease. Here I visit islands only open to things that fly or swim: beetles, humans, geese. I let the shy sun seal my new armour. Anointed by a summit. #DailyNature

We see green rolling hills and a dark pooled lake

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Persiflage @persiflage.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A round dozen Red Kites float effortlessly on the breeze, tails steering them sideways, wings outstretched as they stoop, soar, and swoop. Heart swelling in unfettered delight I watch the raptors rapturously. #DailyNature #NatureWriting

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James Gilbert @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

buzzard hovering moorland slope wind-assisted sun-lit dale backdrop

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Jen Ratcliffe @jenratcliffe.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

What of small things winged hearts stenciled on sleeve kindness exceeding heart & height gliding shores of air touch guided by shimmering light will you offer your hand for this long fight? #DailyNature

In hand in front of a lake sits a European crane fly

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Jen Ratcliffe @jenratcliffe.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I lost a dear aunt during these past few days, also slightly lost the days too... 'lost', I always wonder if it's a particularly English expression, like you'll suddenly come across them again at the bottom of your handbag - only, that's exactly it, isn't it? ...

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Jen Ratcliffe @jenratcliffe.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

"Eclipse It All Take our crumbs, feast them to the crow, when starlight returns, let a new season grow" ..When politicians disappoint but your nature community doesn't tinyurl.com/DailyNatureA... #DailyNature #NaturePoetry #Substack #NatureWriting #NaturePodcast #NatureBlog #UKPolitics #Climate

Eclipse It All: Nature Roundup [August Week 2]

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Persiflage @persiflage.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Heavy grey clouds You promise much, Yet deliver nothing. Won't you set down your burden Gently upon a dying land? #DailyNature #NatureWriting

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Jen Ratcliffe @jenratcliffe.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

"It is not a bad thing to enjoy a simple life" - JRR Tolkein Hushed brush strokes of evening alchemy ignite the jewels of trees. Their drifting romance blushing all those in their aura. Seasons are seedling, as quietly as the strong white arms of owls in flight... #DailyNature #NatureWriting

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Persiflage @persiflage.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Heavy grey clouds piled unmovingly, Background to 6 Red Kites, Who circle, soar, swoop, dip, & dive In a mesmerising ballet More controlled and precise Than any human ballet could hope to be: Their medium the air none can see, Navigated with tails & wings unfailingly. #DailyNature #NatureWriting

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Jen Ratcliffe @jenratcliffe.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Still at the willow. Her fingertips are mauve, they've been soaking for years in eau du canal. Mine will become mauve too enforced duck-bobbing for the foreseeable. Drought has her unveiled naked prune tipped. We stay, still watch another tourist use the locks drain water move. #DailyNature

A willow tree can be seen long but cut short above the waters edge, yellow leaves splinter to brown where they once met the water but now dangle free

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Bertsong I miss him so much

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