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Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well, happy Charles Darwin is “very poorly today & very stupid & hate[s] everybody & everything” to all who celebrate, because he wrote those words in a letter to his friend (and author of Principles of Geology) Charles Lyell 161 years ago today

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind

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Steve @kingsdowner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Good to see a willing White Bryony flowering vigorously this week. #wildflowerhour

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Steve @kingsdowner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A few migrant birds visible during the volunteer session at Hawkshill this morning, including 3 GSW and 4 Jays flying south. Chiffchaffs calling from the hedges. #BigKentBirdMigrationDay #kentbirding

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Steve @kingsdowner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"I'll stand on your foot until you give me some crumbs" #birdstare

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Steve @kingsdowner.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The spectacular hips of Sweet-briar. On a coal tip in East Kent, just spared from development. #wildflowerhour

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Steve @kingsdowner.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Moth Mullein on a coal mine spoil heap. "Rare and decreasing" per Hanbury & Marshall 1899, now thriving on industrial relics. #wildflowerhour

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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

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Steve @kingsdowner.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Always good to see a Road Closed sign... for roadside finds. Here, 60m of Common Purslane, by far the most I've seen.

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Steve @kingsdowner.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The marvellous seed pods of Narrow-leaved Everlasting Pea #wildflowerhour

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Steve @kingsdowner.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A fine description of this summer's drought: rxbirdwalks.wordpress.com "The palette comprises the full Windsor & Newton range of browns from Naples Yellow to Yellow Ochre, through Raw & Burnt Sienna and “Raw Umberto” then Van Dyck brown, Indian Red, Copper, Rust, Rose Madder even…"

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Steve @kingsdowner.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Deadly Nightshade flourishing by Dover Castle.... aka "Naughty-man's Cherries" in Buckinghamshire according to plant-lore.com #wildflowerhour #commonnames

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Steve @kingsdowner.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Yarrow - or "Nose-bleed Plant" according to plant-lore.com, c/f "Saigne-nez" in French #wildflowerhour #commonnames

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Steve @kingsdowner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Never happier than when pottering around in the water. Today's lesson - comparing Water-milfoil with Hornwort. (Spiked and Rigid)

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Steve @kingsdowner.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

#DaisyFamily member Common Ragwort is valuable for pollinators when all around is dessicated (while umbellifer Wild Parsnip hosts smaller insects) #wildflowerhour

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Steve @kingsdowner.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Good to see Loose Women's Morris, and Wolf's Head & Vixen at Broadstairs Folk Festival.

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Steve @kingsdowner.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Bittersweet var. marinum and Common Toadflax somehow surviving on the burning shingle #ByTheSea #Wildflowerhour

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Steve @kingsdowner.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

A few little things flowering in the dried-up mire of Burnham Beeches, including a tiny flower of Marsh Pennywort. Thanks to the Chiltern group for the meeting.

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Steve @kingsdowner.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Marvellous display of chalk grassland species at Sands Wood LNR/LWS, and by the Wycombe Wanderers car park. Clustered Bellflower in abundance @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Steve @kingsdowner.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

A record shot of one minute's rain, so we can remember what it looked like. And a bouquet of Purple Loosestrife and Common Fleabane for #wildflowerhour @kentfieldclub.bsky.social

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Steve @kingsdowner.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

#stillflowering in a dried-up pond in mid-Kent, Narrow-leaved Water-plantain #wildflowerhour

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Really enjoying the increasingly probable prospect of Trump having to present the World Cup trophy to Spain. Odds he tantrums out?

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Steve @kingsdowner.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Greater Bladderwort is abundant in some East Kent dykes at the moment #wildflowerhour

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Steve @kingsdowner.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

On this anniversary day, I remember the album Spirit of '76. Perhaps one of the most self-indulgent double albums of the '70s and that's saying something. But some good stuff in there in places, with enough cynicism that remains valid now. youtube.com/watch?v=KpwK...

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America The Beautiful/The Times They Are A Changin'

YouTube video by Spirit - Topic

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Steve @kingsdowner.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The fire bugs are invading the allotment! At least three instars on show here.

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Steve @kingsdowner.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

An extraordinary horse paddock nearby - short turf with marvellous plants, including hundreds of Basil Thyme. Whatever the graziers are doing, it's working well. #wildflowerhour

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christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Ok so SOMEBODY convinced me to make this and it took me absolutely ages when I was supposed to be doing something else so enjoy it! sgtp.lovable.app

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Who is still alive on the Sgt Pepper album cover?

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Steve @kingsdowner.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

So good to see more insects on the wing, after last night's rain. These seemed to be attracted to the curry plant.

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Steve @kingsdowner.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Just getting ready to sit in a shaded nook in the garden... laptop, drink, snacks, chair all set out. And then discovered that the blackbirds have fledged and are not happy with my presence. Back into the house.

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Amanda Chadburn 🏺 @amandachadburn.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

I get a free subscription (so don’t judge me please!) and this link shouldn’t be paywalled. 🏺https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/0a7e7137e5b3fd5a

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Stonehenge’s construction brought to life

Visual reconstruction suggests how 25-ton sarsen stones were pulled into place in about 2500 BC

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Steve @kingsdowner.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Delighted that Dropwort has returned to its old site in Kingsdown! #wildflowerhour

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Steve @kingsdowner.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Heath Fritillary on Corky-Fruited Water-dropwort. Not a combination I've seen before.

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Steve @kingsdowner.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

The diminutive flowers of Buckthorn - Rahmnus cathartica. #wildflowerhour

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Steve @kingsdowner.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Stinking Chamomile is lovely to look at, but stinky to smell. #wildflowerhour

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Steve @kingsdowner.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Damatic weather for counting orchids in Kingsdown.

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Steve @kingsdowner.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Had a quick walk around the estate first #lawnflowers #wildflowerhour. The contractors haven't cut (first time). All kinds of nice things - including 3 Corky-fruited Water-dropwort.

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Steve @kingsdowner.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

You know you're in good quality chalk grassland when there's so many botanists' thistles you can't sit down.

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Steve @kingsdowner.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Upright Brome pollen contributing to hay-fever suffering. #wildflowerhour

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Steve @kingsdowner.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

In praise of "ordinary" plants - Rough Hawkbit and Smooth Hawk's-beard. #wildflowerhour

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Steve @kingsdowner.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

A fine reward for habitat management on a disused road - a Lizard Orchid pops up. #wildflowerhour

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Saunders' law: "There is no gap in a window so narrow that a fly cannot find a way in. And there is no gap so large that it will ever find its way out".

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Steve @kingsdowner.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

First Meadow Brown of the year. It's May.

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Steve @kingsdowner.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Kidney Vetch glowing in the setting sun. Each flower-head carefully scrutinised for Small Blue eggs. #wildflowerhour

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Steve @kingsdowner.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

An unusual cream variety of Bush Vetch for #wildflowerhour. Plus ant.

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Steve @kingsdowner.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

A fine setting for a Kent botany meeting - Allington Castle.

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