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@phoebe-poodle.bsky.social
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Horticultural student. Fascinated by ferns, beguiled by bees...& most other living things! Member of Bumblebee Conservation Trust & British Pteridological Society. Also on Twitter where I'm @phoebe_poodle

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Phoebe @phoebe-poodle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
❄️ Frost Alert! ❄️ Potential for grass frost in some areas tonight. #UKGardening 🌱 #GrowYourOwn #gardening
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Phoebe @phoebe-poodle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Phoebe @phoebe-poodle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
❄️ Frost Alert! ❄️ #UKGardening 🌱 #GrowYourOwn
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Thomas Etty Esq @thomasetty.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
FLOWER SEED TIMELINE. Continuing on the theme of yesterdays post, please find herewith a timeline of historical flower varieties listed in my forthcoming heritage seed catalogue. All errors in spelling & taxonomy are mine, & corrections to the dates shown (with evidence) are gratefully received
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Thomas Etty Esq @thomasetty.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🌱 A TIMELINE OF VEGETABLES. For those of you that have an interest in such things, herewith a timeline of introductory dates of vegetable varieties extracted from my forthcoming Heritage seeds catalogue
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Alex Prendergast @bramblebotanist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Killarney Ferns in Cornwall. I can’t get enough of these dripping diaphanous beauties 😍
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Peter Gibbs @petergibbs.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Google plans to bulldoze a wildlife haven in Essex – home to rare species – for a data centre. Sign the petition now to help save it before it’s gone forever 🐝🦋 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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Save Arena Essex- Tell Google to search elsewhere!
  Wedged between the Mar Dyke Valley and Lakeside Retail Park, the former Arena Essex Raceway is not your usual wildlife haven. Where once stock cars and speedway bikes lined up to cross the fini...
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David @duckinwales.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Spotted whilst on the train back from #SothportFlowerShow: Bracken (Pteridium aquilinum) as a lovely hanging wall fern 😳 #FernFriday
A green pendulous fern growing in a brick archway.
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Roger_TL45Y @rogerhorton.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Rustyback #fern, Asplenium ceterach, dry and crisp on an upright flint wall but still green on a retaining wall of similar material. Both in #BuryStEdmunds #Suffolk today. #FernFriday
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Phoebe @phoebe-poodle.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/24... #bogs #peatland
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Petition: Stop all developments on peatlands across Wales!
Peatlands in Wales provide important carbon storage, they store 30% of our land-based carbon. They are essential for our survival: healthy peatlands sequester more carbon than all the world's forests combined. They also provide crucial habitat for plants, animals, birds and insects, and help prevent flooding in the face of increasingly erratic weather. Peatland cannot be moved or recreated; once fragmented or destroyed it's lost.
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Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Help save Oaken Wood... www.kentwildlifetrust.org.uk/campaigns/sa...
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Help save Oaken Wood
Oaken Wood is under threat. Proposals to allocate Oaken Wood as a hard rock quarrying site will result in the loss of at least 41 hectares of Ancient Woodland.
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Jodrell Bank @jodrellbank.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
As a result of the recent news, we have received an extraordinary number of messages, and it has been incredibly moving to read so many heartfelt expressions of support. www.jodrellbank.net/explore/stor...
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A message of Thanks from Jodrell Bank Observatory - Jodrell Bank
As a result of the recent news, we have received an extraordinary number of messages, and it has been incredibly moving to read so many heartfelt expressions of support.
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Dr. Erika Graham-Goering @jeanneologist.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
'Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.'
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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
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AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books
If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.
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Jodrell Bank @jodrellbank.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Ever fancied going behind-the-scenes at Jodrell Bank? Our exclusive Origin Tours offer a peek behind the curtain at the inspiring stories and pioneering moments that made #JodrellBank the world-leading site it is today! 🗓️ Selected dates throughout August and September: ow.ly/VG1e50ZeCFA
A black and white photo of the Searchlight Aerial with three men stood underneath it. Caption reads: 'Jodrell Bank: Origins Tours' ; 'Step behind the scenes and into history at Jodrell Bank...'
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Jodrell Bank @jodrellbank.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Need summer holiday plans to keep the little astronauts entertained? Jodrell is proud to be part of the Great British Summer Savings scheme – meaning discounted Annual Tickets until 1 September! 🗓️ Summer programme runs 18 July – 31 August: ow.ly/cFs750ZhzQm #JodrellBank
A man and child stamp their Mission: Explore passport outside the Planet Pavilion, with the Lovell Telescope on a sunny day in the background.
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Phoebe @phoebe-poodle.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
All the petitions currently running on Change .org to hopefully help save the iconic @jodrellbank.bsky.social 📡📡📡📡 #SaveJodrellBank #SaveUKScience #astronomy www.change.org/m/save-jodre...
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Save Jodrell Bank · Movement
A wave of petitions are calling for Jodrell Bank and the observatory's Lovell Telescope to be saved, after it was announced that it has has lost its funding and could now close.
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Phoebe @phoebe-poodle.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Save Jodrell Bank Petition c.org/Ztthb4SqtQ #SaveJodrellBank
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Save science at Jodrell Bank and the iconic Lovell Telescope
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Phoebe @phoebe-poodle.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
#SaveJodrellBank c.org/j5vNjtTN4P
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SAVE JODRELL BANK – Protect a national treasure of science, heritage and inspiration
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I'm absolutely devastated for colleagues at Jodrell Bank who found out this morning that funding for the UK's e-MERLIN radio telescope array will be terminated. This is a short-sighted move, to save a tiny fraction of the overall UK science budget. #SaveJodrellBank 🔭🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands
Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.
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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Short-sighted, stupid cuts to the UKRI budget include shutting down Jodrell Bank, the icon of British astronomy. (Many other cuts too, including 20% to our brand new @vrubinobs.bsky.social). Interesting politically to shut down a major facility in...um..Manchester 🔭 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understands
Astronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.
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Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Say hello to the botanists who started it all! We've added 300+ digitised historical titles to our website, from County Floras to periodicals to Herbals dating back to 1571. We're also bringing our digital archives home & unlocking vital plant history. Explore & support: bsbi.org/blog/2026/07...
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Alex Prendergast @bramblebotanist.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Nordic Moonwort Botrychium nordicum in lovely lycophyte-rich montane heath in Glen Shee. Frilly divisions, and a shorter stem than lunaria, and GB plants tend to have a lax fertile frond too.
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ChrisGibsonWildlife @chrismothman.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
c.org/zJhSnx48VJ PLEASE consider signing this. I have visited many botanic gardens in Britain and Europe, and this is one of the best. It would be a travesty for an 'educational' institution to be allowed to desecrate it. Living heritage like this is arguably more important than fusty old mansions.
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Save Dundee Botanic Gardens and cafe
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Neil Forbes @treebeard793.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Two classic limestone ferns, Limestone Fern, Gymnocarpium robertianum & Rigid Buckler-Fern, Dryopteris submontana. Both Nationally Scarce but abundant on Farleton Knott. #WildFernHour - #WildflowerHour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social Flora of Cumbria Recording Group yesterday
Gymnocarpium robertianum, Limestone Fern. Farleton Knott SSSIGymnocarpium robertianum, Limestone Fern. Farleton Knott SSSIDryopteris submontana, Rigid Buckler-Fern. Farleton Knott SSSI
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Stuart Bourne 🌱🪴 @stuartbourne.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
🌱 #UKGardening #VegetableGarden
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David @duckinwales.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Really lovely to find a colony of Phegopteris connectilis (Beech fern) today whilst exploring Langdale #LakeDistrict #fernFriday
Light green Beech fern (centre) and lady fern (bottom) amongst dark green moss covered rocks.
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David @duckinwales.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
A few ferny finds from yesterday. Lemon scented fern (Oreopteris limbosperma) croziers still with their white scales, a crested Lady fern (Anthurium filix-femina) and Bracken (Pteridium aquilinum) looking stunning. #fernFriday #LakeDistrict
Clear white scales covering an unfurling green crozier.A bright green Lady fern with crested tips on a steep woodland bankA bracken crozier unfurling, green with ginger cinnamon hairs.
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Moira O'Donnell @naturelark.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
The unfurling fronds of this Soft Shield Fern, Polystichum setiferum, are so beautiful. They look like green seahorses swimming across the woodland floor. 💚 #FernFriday
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Dr Susannah Lydon @susieoftraken.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
A fragment of a 170 million year old delicate-looking fern frond for #FossilFriday & #FernFriday Coniopteris (this one is C. simplex I think) from the Yorkshire Jurassic. The fossil is about 3cm long. 🌏⚒🌱🌿🦕🔬
Coniopteris (this one is C. simplex I think) from the Yorkshire Jurassic. The fossil is about 3cm long. A very skeletal, fillform black frond fragment on a grey rock.
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David @duckinwales.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Happy #FernFriday #MayDay. Dryopteris affinis s.s. (Golden-scaly male fern). #Coniston #LakeDistrict
Green fern with ginger scaly croziers unfurling Infront of a stream and woodland.
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Phoebe @phoebe-poodle.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Asplenium scolopendrium, Hart's Tongue Fern, in the garden today for #FernFriday #FoliageFriday 🌱 This particular plant is believed to be 140+ years old. It was given to our family around 40 years ago by an elderly couple who had kept it in their family for over a century. A special & lovely plant!
Green unfurling fronds of Asplenium scolopendrium, Hart's Tongue Fern
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Dean Mac Cú Uladh @dmac00.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Killarney Fern (Vandenboschia speciosa) from a wooded glen in Co. Tyrone today. Gametophyte being locally frequent forming colonies up to 1m^2. Sporophytes also present in ~relatively~ open conditions. What a treat! @bsbibotany.bsky.social @bsbiireland.bsky.social
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Some 3,300 years ago, an ancient Egyptian artist painted this comic illustration of a cat herding geese! 😻 They used a flake of limestone as a sketchpad for this fun scene. From Deir el-Medina, Thebes. 📷 Egyptian Museum, Cairo. #Archaeology
The image shows a buff-coloured flake of limestone with a painted illustration of a cat herding geese, displayed against a black background. On the left of the scene, a tabby cat (brown with black line markings) stands on its hind legs in a human-like pose, facing right. In its upraised left paw it holds out a wooden staff to keep six geese in order. In its right paw it is holding the end of a long crook which it rests on its shoulder. A bag hangs by a strap from the end of the crook behind the cat. The six geese in front of the cat are arranged in two rows of three, one row above the other. The geese have brown legs, and white bodies with black plummage detail. Three of the geese have black painted heads and necks; top left, top right, and bottom middle. Above the geese there is a curved double brown line representing a nest filled with four white eggs in a row. Flake dimensions: H 11 cm x W 11 cm.
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James Common @commonbynature.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
A teenie, tiny Moonwort (Botrychium lunaria) just poking through today in Teesdale. Not at its best, but a new one for this year's fern challenge... #ferns
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Keith Smith 🪴🔭💻 @fernleaf07.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Interrupted fern, Osmunda claytoniana Close up of the fertile fronds having recently emerged. The sporangia of interrupted fern are found in three fertile pinna about a third of the way up the plant. The rest of the pinna are sterile. Thus its name interrupted. #ferns #ferns
Close up of interrupted fertile pinna. The individual pinnules will hold the sporangia, where the spores are made. The plant will continue to grow taller with sterile pinna up to the top of the plant. The fertile pinnules will turn brown and wither as the sporangia mature, releasing the spores.More plants. Close up of interrupted fertile pinna. The individual pinnules will hold the sporangia, where the spores are made. The plant will continue to grow taller with sterile pinna up to the top of the plant. The fertile pinnules will turn brown and wither as the sporangia mature, releasing the spores.

Right plant starting to show the first sterile pinna. Three pairs of fertile pinna.
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Phoebe @phoebe-poodle.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
The Dryopteris are waking up in the garden! 😊🌱 #FernFriday
Unfurling fern croziers of Dryopteris, emerging from amongst a patch of Symphytum (Comfrey) flowers.Unfurling fronds of Dryopteris affinis 'Crispa'Emerging fern croziers (Dryopteris)
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Keith Smith 🪴🔭💻 @fernleaf07.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
The last stage of female Sensitive fern, Onocela sensibilis, having released all of its spores. #fern #ferns
Female plant. Sensitive fern, Onocela sensibilis. The 'beads' are specialized pinna to hold the sporangia. The plant grows in the fall, winters over, and releases the spores in the spring. The plant can be seen above a few inches of snow in the winter, knowing where to find Sensitive fern in the spring.
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Keith Smith 🪴🔭💻 @fernleaf07.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Fiddle heads. Macro pictures. Interrupted fern (L), Ostrich fern (C), Christmas Fern (R) #fern #ferns
Interrupted fern, Osmunda claytoniana. The woolly covering is still present from when the fiddle head emerged. The fern is about 6 inches off the ground. One can see the start of individual pinna.Ostrich fern, Matteuccia struthiopteris. The classic Eastern US fiddle head. The only edible fiddle head in Eastern US.

The individual pinna and veins are visible. The basic structure is present. It just gets bigger.Christmas fern, Polystichum acrostichoides. This fiddle head is unfurling in a different way. The 'ball' is remaining on the ground while the stipe grows unfurling the fiddle head. The frond would seem to then 'snap' up when unfurled. Will need to observe. A second fiddle head is emerging. This is a thick blanket of previous fronds.
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Keith Smith 🪴🔭💻 @fernleaf07.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
More horsetail. Macro pictures. The female plant on left, male on right. The hexagons of the stroblus show some white emerge, where the sporangia and spores are maturing. The hexagons will separate to release the spores. The male plant is developing its whorls. #fern #ferns
Female field horsetail on left. Male field horsetail on right. Equisetum arvense.

Strobolus is where the spores are grown. The grow between the joints of the hexagons. The hexagons separate and release the spores.

The female plant has not chlrophyll. It last only a few weeks in the spring.

The male plant is developing its whorls. They will extend 4 or so centimeters horizontally. The male plant will send nutrients to the rhizomes underground for the energy to grow the female plant in spring.Close up of strobolus.Close up of male plant.
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Keith Smith 🪴🔭💻 @fernleaf07.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
More 'family' resemblence. Cinnamon fern (L), Royal fern (C), Interrupted fern (R). All are members of the family Osmundaceae. Cinnamon fern has the thickest woolly coating. Royal fern is similar to cinnamon fern, but has brown/biege streaks. Interrupted fern is the thinnest. #fern #ferns
Cinnamon fern, Osmunda cinnamomeum. Thickly covered in woolly protection.Royal fern, Osmunda spectibilis (North American species)

Woolly covering has brown/beige streaks. It is a big flatter than cinnamon fern.Interrupted fern, Osmunda claytoniana

The woolly coating is thinnest in this species of the three. This is the fastest growing of the three.
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Anne-Laure D 🌿 @aldpaleo.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Unfurling fern for #FernFriday, eclipsed by bright flowers of purple toothwort (Lathrea clandestina), who parasites the roots of surrounding trees 🌿 #botany
Photo of a wood understory with a fern with unfurling scaly fronds and right in front of it bright purple toothwort flowers emerging from the ground
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Moira O'Donnell @naturelark.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
With info kindly provided by @sim-elliott.bsky.social and the assistance of my eagle-eyed son, I was thrilled to see a lovely big patch of Tunbridge Filmy-fern, Hymenophyllum tunbrigense, in the High Weald yesterday. The sori look like minute circular bivalve shells. #FernFriday
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David @duckinwales.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
The nectaries are frequented by early bumble bees and ants. Roughly 500 species of ferns have nectaries (but no flowers).
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David @duckinwales.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Pteridium aquilinum (Bracken) crozier pushing through last year's fronds. The fine brown hairs quickly disappear, but at the moment they highlight the extra-floral nectaries (two green glossy glands) at the pinnal junctions. #fernFriday #nectar
A green frond with fine brown hairs pushing through a pale brown blanket of dead fronds.
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Dr Astrid Biddle @astridbiddle.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Small Adder's-tongue (Ophioglossum azoricum) today in the New Forest. About 1 cm tall! Growing in a winter-wet track depression with Lesser Spearwort (Ranunculus flammula). It has a remarkable 480 chromosomes. So cool 😎 @bsbibotany.bsky.social
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Tristan Norton @trisnorton.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Selaginella denticulata and Ajuga orientalis from thd Anapo Valley at Pantalica, Sicily last week.
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James Harding-Morris @jameshardingmorris.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
This year the BSBI launched the 100 Plants in 2026 Challenge - a project encouraging brand new botanists and recorders to identify their first 100 plants this year and to submit the records. bsbi.org/take-part/ac... It's been about three months now, so how is it going?
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The 100 Plants in 2026 Challenge
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James Common @commonbynature.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Ah, I do love an Adder’s-tongue! 🐍 Species #20 in this year's little quest to see as many of Britain's ferns as possible in a single year, and plenty more to come 🌿🤓 #botany #ferns
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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Learn how identify different bird sounds in summer with this two-part online course led by our expert team. 🪶 Book a space ⬇️ Wednesday 29 April & 6 May, 7pm ➡️ bit.ly/3NPzWK7 Thursday 30 April & 7 May, 10am ➡️ bit.ly/4sgHIut Thursday 30 April & 7 May, 7pm ➡️ bit.ly/4cb9pPf #Ornithology #UKBirding
A male Stonechat perches on the top of a plant with its bill open to sing, showing its black head and russet brown breast. Wording alongside reads: Bird Sound ID in Summer Course. When Wednesdays at 7pm & Thursdays at 10am or 7pm for set dates in April & May. Where Two online sessions.
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