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Kirsty @rabblechorus.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Our first little Stonechat on trail cam!

Kirsty @rabblechorus.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Well it might all be in pieces, no plumbing, wiring or windows and looking terrifyingly smashed up below the roofline but the solar panels are on & looking good with the new bargeboards, lead flashing & repointed chimney. Hanging on to the positives 😆 #OneDayThisWillBeLiveable

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Kirsty @rabblechorus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Safe to say our lemon tree has enjoyed the hot summer even if I didn't!

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Kirsty @rabblechorus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Loads of small coppers, ground nesting bees, crane flies etc in the meadow today, good to see. #Suffolk

Small Copper butterfly on yarrow flowers

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Kirsty @rabblechorus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The ground under one of our oak trees is full of enormous blue staining boletes, they are properly heavy!

This fungi quickly stains blue as you bruise or tear it

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Kirsty @rabblechorus.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Toadflax arrived in our meadow by itself, always super happy to find a new native species has appeared. It's like a teeny two fingers up to all those destroying nature elsewhere. It is covered in bees and shield bugs. #WildflowerHour

Flower head, bright deeper yellow and paler yellow petals with a brown shield bugs crawling across, it has dashing stripey antenna.

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Kirsty @rabblechorus.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Wasp spider in the meadow! V cool and very fast and aggressive! I love how they weave a big near invisible web but deliberately create a more solid white zig zag up the middle of it.

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Kirsty @rabblechorus.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Oh man this is making me sad, yet another mole has died due to the drought & rock hard ground. This one made it to one of the sumps in the groundwater fed wildlife pond, but there's been no water there for a month now. Small lives being lost everywhere ☹️

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Kirsty @rabblechorus.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Ok its apparently real & just this once I’m going to say that a plane journey was legitimately worth it 😆

A flightradar screen showing a flight that traced the shape of a bin over clacton

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Kirsty @rabblechorus.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

What a spiteful load of nonsense. The shooting fraternity really have their claws in to folk who are managing land for nature & biodiversity rather than profit & killing. Reminder that the biggest ever wildfire in Scotland was on a highly managed grouse moor in Darva. #rewilding

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Kirsty @rabblechorus.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The saplings we got from the Woodland Trust were probably the tiniest & most feeble of all the suppliers we tried and we lost hundreds in the drought of 2022. Some of the survivors are doing OK with no watering though, maybe drought hardened by that baptism of fire!

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Kirsty @rabblechorus.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Quite tempted to put in a trench across what must be an old ditch line, Time team style. The only green grass around..

A green line of grass across a parched field

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Kirsty @rabblechorus.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Oh no, Dunwich Heath wildlife reserve is on fire, right next to Minsmere bird reserve too. 14 crews out & people evacuated. This is horrendous. Views from Sizewell & Eels Foot #Suffolk #Wildfire

Smoke billowing behind a construction site

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Kirsty @rabblechorus.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Rubbish pic but fairly sure this is a Six-belted clearwing moth I spotted in our meadow yesterday. Quite rare for #Suffolk apparently. #suffolkwildlife

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Kirsty @rabblechorus.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

And that's it for the big groundwater pond for this summer. All gone, just the reedmace & loosestrife left. Luckily for wildlife the stream is still running, but wondering if it's natural or whether the environment agency are ensuring that as they did for 90 days in 2022 before they had to give up.

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Kirsty @rabblechorus.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Well the sheep's wool insulation has arrived and the MVHR guy has been and checked the routes he's designing will work, the answer is 'mostly' and 'hmmm, complicated' 😬

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Kirsty @rabblechorus.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

This is the tail of a baby barn owl sitting above my head! 😆 Two of them are beginning to do short practice flights from their box now.

Roof with small feathered tail dangling down.

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Kirsty @rabblechorus.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Meadow species count is going up year on year. (No trees or shrubs included in this count). Although have to admit couldn’t reliably include all the different species of grass because we don’t know them well enough!

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Kirsty @rabblechorus.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Good evening from the meadow, lots of meadow brown butterflies settling down for the night amongst the wildflowers.

Evening sunlight across a wildflower meadow

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Kirsty @rabblechorus.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Look at our baby barn owls! Two boys and two girls in total. Had them ringed today, so proud to have provided the right habitat for them & to see it working so well.

Female barn owl chicks almost ready to fledge

Male barn owl chick, younger, still with white fluff

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Kirsty @rabblechorus.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Absolutely sweltering here even at 8pm FFS! We had to go water some of our newest trees (not pictured, these ones should be ok 🤞), otherwise they'll have no chance getting through this heatwave. It was extremely hot work.

Grassland with young saplings dotted around, a hot sun low in the sky.

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Kirsty @rabblechorus.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Bird folk, is this a reed warbler which seems to be hanging out in our nature project at the moment?

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Kirsty @rabblechorus.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

My partner's city garden. We both stopped mowing a couple of years ago, my rural garden turned into nettles, alkanet & brambles, his turned into this bee paradise 🤷🙄

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Kirsty @rabblechorus.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The meadow is blooming, this is the first cornflower to appear and the beautifully iridescent and an aptly named swollen-thighed beetle is enjoying it, alongside plenty more on the scabious. #Suffolk

Cornflower with iridescent 'swollen thigh beetle'

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Kirsty @rabblechorus.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Last year's hornet nest! Beautiful geometry.

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Kirsty @rabblechorus.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

It's May. Spring not summer. Took this exactly a week ago, frost-damaged oak saplings. Getting a little fed up of the gaslighting that this heat is normal for May 🙄

Blackened crispy leaves on an oak sapling

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Kirsty @rabblechorus.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

We had perfect weather for the Easton May Fair and the Rabble were in great voice, this is a fun drinking shanty I arranged for the choir, New York Girls! #Suffolk

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Kirsty @rabblechorus.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

The stealth badgers have continued to evade detection despite all the evidence of their presence. Here’s a little selection of some things the trail camera DID catch, the ever present annoying pheasants, a grey squirrel & a Little Owl,+ then a night video of something moving the camera…?

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Kirsty @rabblechorus.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

My first Common Blue of the year, love this butterfly. #Suffolk #Rabble_Ark

Butterfly with wings closed, blue sheen front, striped black & white antenna, orange, black and white spots on wing tips

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Kirsty @rabblechorus.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I still have no explanation. Either a) We have INVISIBLE BADGERS or b) We have GENIUS BADGERS that are switching the cameras off so they can have a private poo and then switching them back on again! I also have the two cameras split up now so they can film from different angles.

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Kirsty @rabblechorus.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

INVISIBLE BADGER STRIKES AGAIN!! This is utterly perplexing. A huge new fresh badger poo and zero trail cam footage of any badger whatsoever?!?! There are now TWO cameras at this spot 😆 And yes the cameras pick up everything else!

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Kirsty @rabblechorus.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Anyone want some 40plus year old beer we found? 😆

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Kirsty @rabblechorus.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I am being trolled by a badger. I set up a trail cam by its route through the blackthorn and by the hole it has dug under our oak tree, it has dug a poo pit and used it and groomed itself leaving hair IN FRONT OF THE CAMERA and it's the only animal that isn't setting it off!!! Baffled honestly.

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Kirsty @rabblechorus.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Good morning from one of our pair of meadow kestrels!

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Kirsty @rabblechorus.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

When you find the result of lambs tail banding. They are left with just a tiny tail in the UK to swat flies & express themselves. In Sweden it is outlawed on animal welfare grounds whereas in the US they remove the entire tail so the vulva & anus is completely exposed which looks appalling.

A lambs tail on the grass, elastic band still in position.

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Kirsty @rabblechorus.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Van Gogh v latest Nasa closeup of Jupiter.

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Kirsty @rabblechorus.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Is there anything nicer than an English bluebell wood at this time of year?! If I were a badger I'd choose this spot too 💚

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Kirsty @rabblechorus.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Officially off now for a few days to catch my breath. So went down to the beach with Bazz after work, had it all to ourselves again. Another good fossil shark tooth hunting day.

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Kirsty @rabblechorus.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Huh, noticed the iron work letters at the very top of this today 'PrisonerOfWar written forwards then backwards. Art work? #Suffolk

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Kirsty @rabblechorus.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I arranged New York Girls so that the last verse in it is just for the men - apparently that includes Bazz! He joins in and then carries on until the end of the song 😆😆😆 #SingingDogs #WeRateDogs

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Kirsty @rabblechorus.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Hedgehog is back! Hope it's one of the babies from two years ago.

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Kirsty @rabblechorus.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Have had to completely remove this lovely ivy as this old shed is collapsing and asbestos removal folk are coming 😬 Worried that birds might be nesting in it so took it v slow but thankfully all clear, just in time. Glad I grew on 6 ivy plants from its seeds last year to replace it now!!

Gnarled old ivy stems on old wooden shed

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Kirsty @rabblechorus.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Our pair of noisy Little Owls are back on watch…

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Kirsty @rabblechorus.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Female kestrel on the trail cam. She has a partner, they nest & breed in our big old poplar on the river.

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Kirsty @rabblechorus.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Omg just tried the Quince vodka I made last autumn, its soooo good. If only I had measured & written down the proportions I used 🤦🏼‍♀️🤪

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Kirsty @rabblechorus.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

This made us laugh, I could go share it with all the GCNs anyone can see swimming around in there & let them know they have officially been discovered!

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