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Margi Bryant @margibryant.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Rather thrilled to see this Wall butterfly basking in sunshine on the footpath just ahead of me. They're supposed to be coastal but this was beside an inland reservoir. According to britainsfavouritebutterfly.co.uk they're rare, flashy and fussy. Unfortunately I'd already voted for a different one!

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Margi Bryant @margibryant.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I voted for this one because I love the complex squiggles on their upper wings and because I've seen them so often as the silver (washed) lining gracing otherwise pesky bracken on the woodland floor. #naturewriting britainsfavouritebutterfly.co.uk/butterfly/si...

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Silver-washed Fritillary - Britain’s Favourite Butterfly

The Silver-Washed Fritillary is one of the 60 beautiful butterflies found across the UK. Will it be Britain's Favourite Butterfly?

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Margi Bryant @margibryant.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Delighted to share my first published nature writing, in SMP's Creatives strand. I love that they interpret mountaineering as anything inspired by Scotland’s landscape and nature. @scotrewilding.bsky.social @saveourwildcats.bsky.social #naturewriting scottishmountaineeringpress.com/creatives/pu...

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Callie - Scottish Mountaineering Press

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Ian Rotherham @ianthewildside.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Wilder Visions & the Urban Wild - Creating and Managing Meadows and Scrub Conference this May www.facebook.com/reel/2273715...

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Margi Bryant @margibryant.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Delighted but a bit bemused to see this plant beside the River Derwent. I thought it was a snowdrop but it seems to have too many inner petals. There's another, not in flower, close by, but no others. Apart from trees fringing the river, the land here is open fields. Can anyone confirm what it is?

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Margi Bryant @margibryant.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Spotted this little gaggle of intruders in my local nature reserve! They saw me coming and shimmied off along the brook looking guiltily pleased with themselves, like a bunch of kids who've skipped school and headed for the park. (Yes I did dob them in to @wildsheffield.bsky.social). #naturewriting

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Margi Bryant @margibryant.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Couldn't help marvelling at the contrast between turbulent water rushing over an old weir on the River Rivelin, and an absolutely motionless heron. #naturewriting

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Margi Bryant @margibryant.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Delightful half-hour listening to earth scientist @anjanakhatwa.bsky.social walking and talking along the Dorset coast. She conveys immense knowledge and a lovely engaging personality. Must be sure to read her recent book! #WhispersOfRock #naturewriting www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Ramblings - Whispering Rocks with Anjana Khatwa - BBC Sounds

Clare joins earth scientist Anjana Khatwa in Dorset to explore the landscape she loves.

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Margi Bryant @margibryant.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

So entranced with recent time in Scotland that I'd almost forgotten how lovely my local patch is! In just a couple of weeks, the Rivelin Brook has gone full autumn. #naturewriting

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Margi Bryant @margibryant.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Great week in Scotland for stimulating paperboats.org discussion on Loch Lomond & Trossachs National Park's role as a nature refuge, followed by encounters with some wonderful new #naturewriting at aberfoylebookfestival.wordpress.com, and then a few glorious mountain walks. I do love Scotland!

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Margi Bryant @margibryant.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Stimulating time last week at www.ukeconet.org/wilder-future-for-the-uplands.html. Inspiring work going on but I'd like more focus on people as part of the process. Great wording from Steve Lipscombe @rewildingbritain.org.uk, not "people and nature" but "people and the rest of nature" #naturewriting

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Margi Bryant @margibryant.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

My brilliant daughter-in-law created a triptych of erasure poems for part of her MSc. The underlying text is Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, but the poems and images subvert and critique growth-based economics, referencing #1 colonialism, #2 degrowth and #3 reciprocity. Thoughtful and beautiful!

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Raptor Persecution UK @raptorpersuk.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Key themes: management & protection of temperate rainforest, natural regeneration, Curlews, peat cutting, grouse moors, rewilding. Oct 1-3, Sheffield. Booking now open. Details 🔽 raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/08/24/c...

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Conference: A Wilder Future for the Uplands

For those of you interested in the uplands, UKEconet and the South Yorkshire Biodiversity Research Group are co-hosting a three-day conference in Sheffield in October. The conference includes two d…

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Margi Bryant @margibryant.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Finally quit my university job and spent the week helping out with a survey of moorland vegetation. I can now confidently distinguish between bilberry, cowberry, crowberry, cranberry, assorted heathers and multiple grasses, sedges and rushes. Nice transition to a life more focused on #naturewriting

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Margi Bryant @margibryant.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Trying to convince these two that this is #internationalcatday but they're not too impressed. With their very different personalities, it took some cunning (and strategically placed treats) to lure them into the same space for a photocall. But they're a roller-coaster delight every day of the year.

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Margi Bryant @margibryant.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Taken some time off for an inspiring week at Moniack Mhor (moniackmhor.org.uk) where @kathleenjamie.bsky.social was guest writer, followed by a glorious wander round the Ardnamurchan peninsula, combining (if I can steal some earlier Jamie-isms) enraptured solitude with blethering to the locals.

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Margi Bryant @margibryant.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Seems I'm not the only person obsessed with the Derbyshire Derwent! The Derwent Pilgrimage (www.facebook.com/profile.php?...) sounds rather lovely. Thankfully, despite their main post, they're not starting at the source where it's pathless and fragile, but at the Derwent Dam. #naturewriting

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Margi Bryant @margibryant.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Not my usual river but it's very accessible and I'm taking things easy post-covid! This is the lovely Rivelin Brook, looked after by www.wildsheffield.com. Bluebells fringe the banks, orange-tips and speckled woods pay flitting visits, chiff-chaffs insistently call their own names. #naturewriting

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Margi Bryant @margibryant.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Does this qualify for #BlossomWatch? The moorland above Dovestone Clough (@nationaltrust.org.uk) is covered with it. It's beautiful in Spring, although maybe more familiar in late summer foraging for bilberry pie!

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Margi Bryant @margibryant.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Relishing some free time to reconnect with the River Derwent, beginning its journey here in the remote high moorland of Bleaklow. I'm following its entire length in stages this year, exploring its ecology and stories. Can't wait to read Is A River Alive? (@robgmacfarlane.bsky.social) out next month!

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Margi Bryant @margibryant.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Happy to be back on the Peak District's Eastern Moors, after desk-bound weeks of writing up research on .. the Eastern Moors! No surprise that for the city dwellers who make up the majority of visitors, it's a much-loved space of "wildness close to home". @rspb.bsky.social @nationaltrust.bsky.social

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