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Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Where's Kazakhstan? The tale of a rare bird, donations from delighted twitchers and where the money went markavery.info/2026/09/28/w... @birdguides.bsky.social #cotswolds #shrike #twitch 📷 Dave Collins/BirdGuides

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Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Guest blog by Paul Bateman - Wildlife Crime and the First Few Minutes markavery.info/2026/09/28/g... @wildjustice.bsky.social @wildlifeblog.bsky.social @rspcaoffficial.bsky.social

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Jonathan Dodds @jdbirder.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Superb views of this Corncrake were had skulking across Byrwalls, until it later zoomed across the road! @fairislebirdobs.bsky.social

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Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Crisis? What crisis? My local authority rescinds the climate emergency declaration it made five years ago markavery.info/2026/09/28/c... Do they think things have got so much better...? 📷 Sara Ward/NN Journal

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Andy Wightman @andywightman.scot · 27/09/2026

The Chair of the @johnmuirtrust.bsky.social was ousted at yesterday’s AGM. No longer a Trustee and no longer Chair.

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Steve @pertonmoths.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Found 2 Coleophora potentillae on bramble this morning, Endon staffs. Mentions that violacea cut holes all the way through so just wondering if they are potentillae? @vc28nature.bsky.social what do you reckon Rob?

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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Latest figures from Defra show 8% of English farms produce 62% of output (ie food) from 33% of farmland. Conversely 11% of output is produced from 30% of land. There is no question that there is plenty of space for nature on English farmland. Yet we still hear "every acre must be maximised".

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Miles King @milesking.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

What a farce. As farmers fail to access funds to support sustainable farming, this will undoubtedly mean valuable wildlife habitat (recently created or much older) will be destroyed, as farmers feel they have no option but to intensify their farming systems. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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‘Worse than the scramble for Oasis tickets’: England’s sustainable farming funds run out in just six hours

Entire £233m budget for 2026 allocated in less than a day, leaving thousands of farmers disappointed

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Mark D @seaskywatch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Berry Head 07:00-14:30: 2 juv Long-tailed Skuas, 68 Arctic, 9 Bonxie; 1 Great Shearwater, 5 Sooty, 69 Balearic, 93 Manx; 1 Black Tern, 1 Common, 3 Sandwich; 5 Common Scoter; c2000 kittiwakes, 2 Med Gull, 2 Common Gull; c1500 Gannets; c1500 Auks. Many C Dolphins, 2 H Porpoise. 3 Wheatear

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Roger_TL45Y @rogerhorton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Snapdragon, Antirrhinum majus, with its very own bit of pavement in #Cambridge. #WildflowerHour #PavementPlants

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Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I doubt that I'll see a Swallow today.

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Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sunday book review: Peasants by Maryam Aslany Publisher: @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social Review: markavery.info/2026/09/27/s... 'a mind-expanding read - thoroughly recommended' @labouruk.bsky.social @nfudc.bsky.social @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social

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Liz Louise @lizlouise.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My 1st Fly Agaric of the year! 🍄✨ In Edale, Peak District. (Amanita muscaria) #Fungi #Mushrooms @britmycolsoc.org.uk

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Author Alice Henderson @authorhenderson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The delightfully named chocolate chip lichen (Solorina saccata)! #solorinasaccata #lichen #chocolatechiplichen

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Mike Carr @mike-carr.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Super Shetland Surfie, Queen Eider and a juvvy Pallid Harrier - a canny start to our Shetland trip #UKbirding

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Tall Rocket on recently cleared sand dune at Par Sands, Cornwall today. See ALT for evidence of its long-lived seed. Sisymbrium altissimum

Recorded here in 1901, 1910, then 1929 and nothing until 2025 when the dunes were cleared of scrub back to bare sand. Hundreds of S. altissimum then appeared evidencing a long-lived seed bank. They'll probably disappear again as the dunes vegetate over.

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Mark Eaton @markaeaton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Top evening at Boulmer - got good views of the Lapland Bunting, and the sea was hooching with life inc. 1 Long-tailed & c16 Arctic Skuas, 1 Bonxie, 1 Sooty & 8 Manx Shearwaters, 4 Black Tern, c70 Little & 4 Med Gulls, 7 Pale-bellied Brents & a Minke Whale 🐳 #NEbirding #birds #cetaceans

Pale-bellied Brents heading for Lindisfarne

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Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

'Eight Windows – Coptic Street', Bloomsbury (2026) by Marie Lenclos marielenclos.com

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Helen Day @lbflyawayhome.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Other work by the Ladybird artists The English Lakes British Railways poster Artist: Ronald Lampitt

Scene of a lake in the Lake District with slanting sunshine breaking through the clouds and highlighting the purple tinged hills

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Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Scarce Silver-lines was a lifer for me and is such a classy moth. VC32, Raunds, Northants.

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Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Thank you for this - I didn’t know about these and have done a few (Ivy, White Dead-nettle, Butterfly-bush) since seeing your post. Next year I’ll build them into my garden routine.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 22/09/2026

Happy mushroom season!

A comic titled "Types of mushrooms" with 12 mushroom species. A wrinkly-looking morel is labeled "creepy but tasty". A brownish deadly galerina is labeled "boring but deadly". A witch's butter on a branch is labeled "jiggles if you poke it". A large puffball is labeled "egg". A creepy red-dripping bleeding tooth fungus is labeled "deeply disconcerting". A fly agaric with a green treefrog sitting under it is labeled "frog umbrella". A black chanterelle is labeled "chalice for forbidden elixers". Three straight-stemmed entolomas are labeled "haha, nipples". A bright purple viscid violet cort is labeled "purple is nice". A birch polypore sticking out of a birch trunk is labeled "tree nose". A complex yellow-tpped coral fungus is labeled "cursed citadel where dwells a fairy queen". A Ravenel's stinkhorn is pixellated at the top for your safety, and labeled "NSFW".

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Ian Denton @iand777.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Behind Fiddleford Manor, blimey the conkers looked good - scattered everywhere on the ground and splitting wonderfully in their ripeness, up in the trees. Back in the day, children would have gathered every last one but here they now are, unsought. #AutumnEquinox #Trees #Dorset

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Drew Cooper @andrewcooperx.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Dewick’s Plusia (Macdunnoughia confusa) in my Bournemouth garden last night. One of my favourites! #TeamMoth

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Fair Isle Bird Observatory @fairislebirdobs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The highlight of the past week has been an American ‘Buff-bellied’ Pipit around the Houll, along with the first Turtle Dove of the year. Read more at www.fairislebirdobs.co.uk/latest_sight... 📸 S Arlow

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Spurn Bird Observatory @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The autumns first Yellow-browed Warbler is at the Warren by the seawatch hut #spurnbirds @rarebirder.bsky.social

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Ciarán Byrne @kiwibyrne.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ivy Bee (Colletes hederae) finally made an appearance in Kildavin, Co. Carlow 😊 First recorded in Ireland in October 2021 at Raven Nature Reserve, Co. Wexford. Since then it's been spreading up the east coast as far as Meath, with inland records now from Wexford and Carlow.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

There's something very cetacean about the Kerry slug, like a tiny terrestrial whale.

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Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

50 years ago I was summer warden at St Cyrus. Good bird!

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Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Tried some wine-roping this week; mixture of booze and sugary things attract some moths which don’t go to light traps. No luck this time but Old Lady is the species I sometimes get.

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Mavis Bickle @mavisbickle.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The beautiful Brimstone looking like it had just emerged, was moon bathing like this all night #teammoth #mothsmatter

Yellow Brimstone Moth on a sheet with wings spread

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Lin Hawthorne @haggewoods.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It’s autumn now. I think this is a Lycoperdon species. I suspect you’re going to tell me it’s changed its name too.

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Mark D @seaskywatch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Biscay yesterday a couple of Fin Whales, one skua but a nice one! Dark/intermediate juv Long-tailed. Full crops as quite distant.

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David Stevens 🇺🇦 @davidst999.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hedgehog Mushrooms (Hydnum repandum) found yesterday in a West Lothian woodland. #Fungi #Mushrooms #Mycology #Nature #Phoptography #OMSystem #Scotland

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Julian Hughes @penrhynbirder.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Do you have nature records in notebooks that you never look at and wonder what to do with? I've transcribed 10,000 records from the 1960-70s from a Welsh ornithological legend into @birdtrack.bsky.social and @cofnod.org.uk. And it was fascinating... #BirdingWales www.cofnod.org.uk/news/natural...

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Naturalists' Notebooks: a treasure trove - Cofnod

Naturalists' Notebooks: a treasure trove

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Steve Dudley @stevedudley.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

One of the reasons I started using @birdtrack.bsky.social was to build up data on my #WestrayBirding such as this. Whilst I have a feel for this, with the app I can instantly see when and where I see a species here in Westray, adding a new dimension and understanding to my birding.

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Rob Chapman @scribblerrob.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Lovely sight this morning when I opened the landing curtains. after years of laying fallow and underused the playing fields of the jnr school across the way are marked out and nets are up and little 'uns in blue and yellow shirts are chasing a ball about in the favoured under 10s formation of 1-1-8

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Alan Bull @alanjbull.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Clifden Nonpareil in the garden moth trap last night 📸, #teammoth. Quick trip to Ouse washes, Pec Sand still present, at least 1 Spot 'shank and Ringed Plover #cambsbirds @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social

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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A nice specimen of Laccaria amethystina showing the purple mycelium #FungiFriends #Mycology #fungi

A purple mushroom attached to decaying leaves by purple mycelium

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Concretebotany @concretebotany.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A Locust Borer (Megacyllene robiniae) on Tall #Goldenrod (Solidago altissima) shot yesterday in the commercial district between Devil's Pocker & Forgotten Bottom. #Bloomscrolling #LocustBorer

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Richard Jones @bugmanjones.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Britain’s largest shieldbug, Rhaphidigaster nebulosa, spreading out since its first UK discovery in Peckham in 2010. Basildon today.

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

September garden & hedgerow palette: today's botanical dopamine for your brain. If you're feeling anxious or low, research shows that my photo will shift your brain biochemistry for the better - help you recover from stress & lift motivation & mood a little, so maybe pause for a few seconds 🌿🧠

Garden and hedgerow botanical finds in September, arranged in a rainbow on a white watercolour paper background and with a handwritten label

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Marburymoths @marburybirds.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Just had this amazing Beetle run across the road in front of me. A Devil’s Coach-horse Ocypus olens

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cliveaderbys.bsky.social @cliveaderbys.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

No trip to the supermarket is entirely a waste of time. What I believe to be the mines of Fomoria septembrella on St John's Wort in Sainsbury's car park 😃 #TeamMoth

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Hedley Thorne @hedleythorne.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The Uffington White Horse, Oxfordshire. The geoglyph has migrated uphill over millenia due to soil creep.

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David W. Williams @vc40orthops.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

M & F Forficula decipiens (Deceiving Earwig) seen in Gorey, Jersey last week where they were actually rather common after dark. A sp. from southern Europe which has moved north in recent times. Similar to Common Earwig but slightly smaller, wingless & almost completely lacking setae on the body.

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