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Sussex Ornithology @sussexornitholo.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

By donating to this campaign, SOS will help finance part of a series of works to improve the area including a freshwater control structure, a bund built to separate the freshwater areas from the brackish water areas. @mayfieldbirder.bsky.social @mostlyscarce.bsky.social @jamko69.bsky.social

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Miles Binnie @milesbinnie.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Had a fantastic recce at Knepp yesterday ahead of our long lens assignment. Special thanks to Matt Phelps @mostlyscarce.bsky.social, Ryan Greaves and Paul Stevens for showing us around! Photos by Irina Patrut, Ed Prendeville and Hannah Wise. Rove beetle (Platydracus sp.)

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

We have TWO new podcast episodes! In Ground Control to Ranger Tom, Penny speaks to Knepp woodsman @therusticranger.bsky.social about Knepp's ancient trees. In Dam Good News for Beavers, Penny chats with Knepp's new lead ecologist @mostlyscarce.bsky.social 🔊https://knepp.co.uk/wildland-podcast/

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Matt Phelps @mostlyscarce.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

White-tailed Eagles over the garden yesterday morning. Red Kites purposefully left in shot for a sense of scale! 👀 Also only one of a handful of times I've heard WTE call - such a bizarre, almost wader-like yelping!

Four birds in a blue sky - two White-tailed Eagles and two Red Kites. The eagles are significantly larger than the kites.

White-tailed Eagle and Red Kite flying close to one another in a blue sky, photographed from below.

Two White-tailed Eagles and a Red Kite flying high in a blue sky. The eagles are over to the left-hand side of the image while the Red Kite is just in shot on the right.

White-tailed Eagle and Red Kite together in the sky.

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Alan Matthews #ClimateCrisis #FBPE @alan-matts.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Great video by c4 news on the first legal release of #beavers into the wild in England. Previously, they have been released into enclosures. #nature #rewilding youtube.com/watch?v=0XNW...

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Rewilding: beavers legally return to the wild in England

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

On the beaver news today, Knepp's Isabella Tree said: “We are absolutely delighted that the UK Government will allow licenced reintroductions of wild beavers into river catchments in England, and we commend them for this decision which follows years of campaigning by nature restoration leaders.

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Rewilding Britain @rewildingbritain.org.uk · 20/02/2025

Just one month until #WorldRewildingDay on 20 March 🥳 This year’s theme is #RewildingTogether – for people, the planet & our communities. What does rewilding mean to YOU? Share your thoughts 👇 – we might feature your comment in our celebrations! 📸 John Bryant / Knepp Wildland

What does rewilding mean to you? Image credits: John Bryant / Knepp Wildland.

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Matt Phelps @mostlyscarce.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

More Hawfinches, I hear you cry? Oh go on then! A few recent photos of these chunky beauties, mostly taken from home. Last photo of the one in flight was at @kneppwilding.bsky.social yesterday morning.

Lone male Hawfinch in among the branches of an Ash tree.

Silhouetted Hawfinch atop a bare tree in front of an orangey sky.

Hawfinch and Greenfinch in a bare Ash tree.

Hawfinch in flight showing the large and obvious white wingbars and terminal tail band.

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Matt Phelps @mostlyscarce.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Thanks to @therusticranger.bsky.social for capturing me in my natural habitat at @kneppwilding.bsky.social. Tom's view vs my view 😄🦫

Nature geek photographing a beaver chewed tree branch!

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

At Knepp we've recorded 527 different moth species, including some rare & declining ones: sloe carpet, rush wainscot, webb’s wainscott, dusky thorn, figure of eight, ghost moth & bulrush veneer. More: knepp.co.uk/rewilding/wi... 📷Pippa Reay, Neil Hulme 🧠 Matt Phelps @mostlyscarce.bsky.social (2/2)

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Sussex Ornithology @sussexornitholo.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Scientists from the University of Sussex are calling for the government to urgently reassess the environmental risk of pesticides used in flea & tick treatments after finding that 100% of the nests tested contained fipronil. Source @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/... 📷Alison Playle

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Matt Phelps @mostlyscarce.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

While out and about in the Southern Block at @kneppwilding.bsky.social on Friday, I visited an area that Hawfinches have been frequenting recently and saw ten flying up from an area of Blackthorn...

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Tony Juniper @tonyjuniper.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Marvellous to join a field visit to Boothby Wildlands Landscape Recovery project in Lincolnshire with colleagues from Natural England, Environment Agency, Forestry England & Defra, to learn of brilliant ambitions for Nature recovery being led there by Nattergal. Real Nature recovery in action.

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Matt Phelps @mostlyscarce.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Inquisitive Exmoor pony on my winter bird survey at @kneppwilding.bsky.social yesterday 🐴

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Matt Phelps @mostlyscarce.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Some Hawfinch photos from home recently. Up to three of these normally elusive, chunky finches have been regularly visiting the yew tree in our neighbour's garden since Christmas. It really is an incredible treat to be seeing these wonderful birds on an almost daily basis at the moment 😍

A Hawfinch perched on a bare ash tree branch.

Hawfinch perched on a bare ash tree branch.

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Matt Phelps @mostlyscarce.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Like so many named days throughout the year, so called 'Blue Monday' came about as the result of an advertising campaign twenty years ago. Don't buy into it. There is beauty and wonder to be found in nature every day, and it costs nothing! I particularly recommend spending some time watching pigs 🐷

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Matt Phelps @mostlyscarce.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

"To rewild is to restore hope for nature and people." It can be hard to sum up the concepts and ideas involved in rewilding in short, buzzy phrases but I think this one with which Jacinto Mathe closed his brilliant presentation at the Rewilding Futures conference this morning does it pretty well.

A man, Jacinto Mathe, stands in front of a screen depicting a landscape scene with elephants and the caption "To rewild is to restore hope for nature and people".

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Matt Phelps @mostlyscarce.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Great first day at the Citizen Zoo #RewildingFutures conference! Lovely to see so many friends from across the community together in one place and lots of inspiring talks. Also, in the University Museum of Zoology, a stark reminder of why we do what we do... (Great Auk skeletons) Bring on day two!

Panellists onstage at the Citizen Zoo Rewilding Futures conference.

Elliot Newton from Citizen Zoo talking onstage in front of a projected picture of two lynx with the caption "a rewilding future: confidence, imagination and practical hope"

Hugh Webster from Scotland The Big Picture talking onstage in front a screen showing the caption "Is Scotland ready for lynx?"

A glass case at the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology containing various skeletal remains of the extinct Great Auk.

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Matt Phelps @mostlyscarce.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Portraits of Whooper Swans from High Fen Wildland last week 🦢🦢🦢 www.nattergal.co.uk/high-fen-wil...

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Tom Burns @therusticranger.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Hi Bluesky 👋 My first post will be a tree, unsurprisingly! 🌳 The Walking Stick Oak, @kneppwilding.bsky.social #tree #knepp #ancienttrees

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