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Restoring Hardknott Forest 🌎 @hardknottforest.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Another successful team up of Upper Duddon Landscape Recovery and @nationaltrust.org.uk staff. 1000 trees planted at Black Hall farm in the north of the valley. Aspen, oak, birch, hazel & willow were added to a couple of existing fenced areas. @lakedistrictnpa.bsky.social @leedsleaf.bsky.social

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Julia Sier @juliasier.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Views from today’s team day, removing fences from the side of Harter fell. An icy wind but warming work. Face now glowing.

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Julia Sier @juliasier.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

One of my new neighbours, Duddon valley, Cumbria.

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Julia Sier @juliasier.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Contrasting colours of juniper and bracken on a seed collecting outing up above the Duddon valley today.

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Julia Sier @juliasier.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

An excellent morning spent peering into ditches with @edenriverstrust.bsky.social, learning all about how to spot water vole field signs. The best sort of treasure hunt, and a new poo to add to my spotters list.

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Julia Sier @juliasier.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

The Lakes most photographed jetty? Passing by on my way to do some monitoring work, it would have been rude not to stop to take a quick snap. The quiet before the Bank holiday.

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Julia Sier @juliasier.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

#Jagged silhouette of hawthorn, Farleton knott, for #BlueSkyArtShow. Searching for a photo, more memories jogged, this one conjuring up picnics and yellowhammers.

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Julia Sier @juliasier.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Out and about, doing my favourite sort of job, camera trap checking, in my favourite sort of places, the scruffy wilder edges of the Lakes. Despite the busy August traffic, once out of my car, I didn't see a soul on my excursions. But I did meet a Dor beetle.

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Julia Sier @juliasier.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

My kind of shopping. The trackside Melancholy thistles have been drawing in the Hummingbird hawk-moths and now they're drawing in the finches. Thought we better collect a few before they clear the lot. Seed equals more plants, equals more finches.

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Julia Sier @juliasier.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Harebells at their best now, especially when decorated with raindrops, the extra weight not quite sufficient to keep them still enough for a sharp shot. Running fitness making slow progress, so more photos taken on the way up than on the way down.

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Julia Sier @juliasier.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

How's about a Beltie in the snow? #BlueSkyArtShow #Alternating. Must be art, surely?

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Julia Sier @juliasier.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Busy volunteer day at work. Funny how the conversation goes at lunchtime, don't know where it started but somewhere in the middle it went quizes, flags, grass of parnassus, what do they look like? No need for Google as handily the first nursery flower of the year was out!

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Julia Sier @juliasier.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Perks of the job. These cherry plum trees line the drive up to Naddle farm, apparently planted many years ago by someone who liked Bullfinches. This year there are enough to go around every man, bullfinch and his dog. Very tasty!

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Julia Sier @juliasier.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Rock garden, limestone and wild thyme, Arnside knott. Stopping to admire the flowers and catch my breath as I try to get my legs used to running again.

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Julia Sier @juliasier.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Contrasting colours of my day. Ominous shades of grey in the rumbling clouds above the old barn roof, across from the potting shed where we sheltered from the rain. And the drive side lavender, bathed in sunshine and bedecked with bumblebees as I arrived home.

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Julia Sier @juliasier.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Carline thistle, Carlina vulgaris, if not quite as fresh as a daisy, then looking as fresh as a Carline thistle ever looks! Bringing in the bees on Whitbarrow today. #WildflowerHour

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Julia Sier @juliasier.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

A pink peppering of Small scabious, Scabiosa columbaria, across the limestone pavements of Whitbarrow today. Also photographed whilst hanging around, waiting for fritillaries. Not a bad spot for it. #WildflowerHour

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Julia Sier @juliasier.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

I missed the Harebell memo for #WildflowerHour, but as it's one of my favourite flowers, I happened to photograph this one earlier in the week, whilst patiently waiting for fritillary butterflies to pass by. #Harebellchallenge

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Julia Sier @juliasier.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Something a little more picturesque from Whitbarrow. I dream that one day I will have a garden that looks a little bit like this. But maybe nature does it best.

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Julia Sier @juliasier.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Whitbarrow jackpot! Maybe not such good news for the Primrose (one we planted earlier, which will recover) but an excellent find for a butterfly enthusiast like myself. The telltale feeding damage from a Duke of Burgundy butterfly caterpillar. This one was obviously a particularly hungry caterpillar

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Julia Sier @juliasier.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

I enjoy looking through old photos for #BlueSkyArtShow. Do these feather droplets fall into the #Smooth category?

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Julia Sier @juliasier.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

I passed! This was a case of unfinished business as I started a similar course in my twenties, but due to a change of circumstance was unable to finish it & I always regretted it. Seems the considerably older brain cells are still working. (Thought I'd failed!)

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Julia Sier @juliasier.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Finished the week as I began, soggy-footed from carrying out wet grassland surveys. A good year for butterflies, horseflies & insects of all sorts, the House martens making the most of the glut, whizzing about me in large numbers, just inches above the sward. Unexpected bird of the day, a peacock!

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Julia Sier @juliasier.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Today's work took me to the scrubby, wild edges of the Lakes where Yellowhammers still sing, Gatekeepers flit through the long grass and young buzzards wheel overhead.

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Julia Sier @juliasier.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Warmth plus water equals an explosion of flowers in the Haweswater polytunnel. Angelica, loosestrife plus supersized great burnet. Thankfully cooler today.

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Julia Sier @juliasier.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Trees in fields, great for livestock, great for ecologists! Sheltered under this fine oak for some welcome respite from the sun, and 100 million horse flies, whilst out doing grassland surveys today. Bonus close encounter with a kingfisher as I cooled off in a nearby burn. What a scorcher ☀️!

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Julia Sier @juliasier.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

A fine day to be up in hills with the juniper group, talking all things juniper, with a bit of montane shrub chat thrown in. A welcome, cooling breeze higher up the fell, enough to blow away those horseflies!

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Julia Sier @juliasier.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Dale Head farmhouse, at a bend in road, #Duddon valley, Cumbria. The destination for our Sunday morning wanderings.

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Julia Sier @juliasier.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Spotted in the distance at the side of the lane, a flower in the sort of blue that makes you go oooh!? Jasione montana, Sheep's-bit, an unexpected find in the heart of the beautiful #Duddon valley, Cumbria. #WildflowerHour

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Restoring Hardknott Forest 🌎 @hardknottforest.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Our friends at Nature Rich Miterdale need some help this Friday. If you fancy a healthy combo of practical conservation tasks, stunning views & occasional lounging in the sun, use the link below to book. Pls share. @leedsleaf.bsky.social @envleeds.bsky.social www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...?

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Julia Sier @juliasier.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Home, amongst the cotton grass, west coast of Scotland. #BlueskyArtShow #Abandoned

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Reading about ravens. Reading the news. Idea: put ravens in charge.

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Julia Sier @juliasier.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Pink pick me up. While I've been busy indoors, learning about growing, my plants have been getting on with it. Daphne mezereum in full bloom and the first, minute seed leaves of Purple saxifrage pushing up through the compost, too small to be photographed but big enough to give me a boost.

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Julia Sier @juliasier.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Old wall, older tree, Langdale valley. That post exam freedom, I've been looking forward to for so long, finally arrived! So good to get out.

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Julia Sier @juliasier.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Too beautiful a day to spend in front of a computer, but only four sleeps until my exam, and I'm trying to remember why I thought it was a good idea. A booming Bittern, heard from bed, heralded the first day of spring, and I can't wait to enjoy it!

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Julia Sier @juliasier.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

After a stressful few days, there is nothing quite like breathing in a beautiful fiery sunset, a big homecoming hug from my daughter (back for a few days) and macaroni cheese for tea to put things right.

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Julia Sier @juliasier.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Waylaid by a cold, hungry Robin on the knott & never have I felt so guilty about a lack of biscuit crumbs in my pockets! It hopped in between my feet, on & off my knee, as I scuffed up frozen leaves & lifted rocks in search of tiny morsels. Fading light halted our hunt. Tomorrow there will be crumbs

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Julia Sier @juliasier.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Sad snowman remains littering the knott this afternoon and the sort of mud that results from melting snow over half frozen ground. The Lakeland fells still looking pristine white though, tinged pink and orange as the sun set.

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Julia Sier @juliasier.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Posting again for #ShareMondays2025. Betony stems in the all too brief but beautiful snow yesterday.

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Restoring Hardknott Forest 🌎 @hardknottforest.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Join Jack, our colleague from Nature Rich Miterdale, for a FREE talk at one of our finest local pubs! Follow NRM here: www.instagram.com/nature.rich....

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Julia Sier @juliasier.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Should have been in Wales with family today, but the amber warning sent us packing and chased us home early. Snowy consolation with a walk on the knott, enough to bring the child out in everyone.

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