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Lauren Field @renfield87.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

On Saturday, after work, we went to watch the sunset over Bolton but we were treated to something better! 🦌

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Lauren Field @renfield87.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Back to work tomorrow, but have enjoyed some lovely walks the past few days including a nice Boxing Day walk in Llangoed. 🍂🐦‍⬛🍄‍🟫

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Lauren Field @renfield87.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Successful evening walk. ☀️

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Lauren Field @renfield87.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Lovely walk around Beddgelert today. 🍃🍁

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Lauren Field @renfield87.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

….spinosaurus via the museum’s collections. It has been really exciting to explore the natural world with the kids (and adults!) of Bolton, and I can’t wait to see what 2026 brings for this group of young nature enthusiasts. 🍃🍁🦊

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Lauren Field @renfield87.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

2025 saw the launch of the Young Naturalists Club at Bolton Museum and this week we held the final session of the year. Over 6 sessions since February we have had 649 attendees and have learnt about everything from birds to botany, and from spiders to….

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Lauren Field @renfield87.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Found this amazing 🍄 today! 20cm across, 21cm tall - wow! It must be protected at all costs. (Just by accident wearing the most appropriate shirt!)

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North Wales Wildlife Trust / Ymddiriedolaeth Natur Gogledd Cymru @northwaleswt.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

⚠️ A friendly reminder ⚠️ please share! Fake spider webs can pose a real danger to autumn wildlife that can become trapped and unable to break free. Help wildlife this Halloween by making sure your celebrations don't become frightful for nature. 📷NWWT Lin Cummins, Vaughn Matthews, Jon Hawkins

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Lauren Field @renfield87.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Had a really great weekend this week, especially being out searching for and recording fungi yesterday. 🍄🍄‍🟫

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Lauren Field @renfield87.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Hey! No, not at all. With Bolton I have a bank of data from previous projects but over all I’m interested in collecting sightings from across then UK if possible, for wider research.

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Lauren Field @renfield87.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Following on from my post yesterday: here is the fox seen in 1991, in comparison with a fox seen in my mum’s back garden in January 2024. Have you spotted a fox recently? Let me know… FoxesBolton@hotmail.com

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Lauren Field @renfield87.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Going through the natural history archive at Bolton Museum today, I came across this snapshot of a fox spotted in 1991. I’m keen to start recording at the museum again to ensure an accurate understanding of our local flora and fauna; the data we already have collected is invaluable!

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Lauren Field @renfield87.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Oh my god. Yesterday I went to see bat-eared foxes in person for the first time, and I don’t think I can ever get over it. 🦊

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Lauren Field @renfield87.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Really enjoyed showing students from Sixth Form Bolton a selection of objects from the botany collection here at Bolton Museum today. They were using them as inspiration, and to explore observational drawing - a great use of the natural history collections!

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Lauren Field @renfield87.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

What a privilege it is to a) get to work with these amazing animals, and b) get to share them, and the rest of the natural history collection at Bolton Library & Museum Services, with our visitors… a real privilege every day. Join us tomorrow if you like foxes too / as much as I do! 🦊

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Lauren Field @renfield87.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

A great first day back at work after a holiday, with research requests coming in… it seems owls are the bird of the moment with our barn and tawny owls currently getting involved with very interesting studies. (A day late for this #TaxidermyTuesday!)

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Lauren Field @renfield87.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

A nice and relaxing walk around Low Hall Nature Reserve earlier this week. 🌿🦉

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Lauren Field @renfield87.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Wow! This is just wonderful. 🐻🥰

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Museum of Natural History, University of Oxford @morethanadodo.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

One of our summer placement students created a beautiful webcomic honouring one of the most popular of our touchable specimens in the Museum. Art by Olli Ellis

A webcomic with two frames, the top frame has the text ‘loved in life’ with a mother and cub brown bear, with a yellow imposed image of a bears paw print on the heart of the bear. The second frame has the text ‘and in death’ with our taxidermy brown bear showing yellow human hand prints imposed over it.

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Lauren Field @renfield87.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

A great few days leading nature walks and crafting with nature - arguably, the best job in the world. 🍃 🌸

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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · 22/08/2025

🚨New dinosaur alert!🚨 A new species of sail-backed iguanodontian has been named from southern England by the ever-prolific @valdosaurus.bsky.social. Yet another to add to the growing list! #FossilFriday 🦕🧪 www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

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New sail-backed dinosaur species unearthed on the Isle of Wight | Natural History Museum

The name of Istiorachis macarthurae honours the sailor Dame Ellen MacArthur.

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Lauren Field @renfield87.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

A hot but great walk with friends today, up Rivington Pike. 🌳☀️

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Lauren Field @renfield87.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Another lovely walk today, this time around Risley Moss Local Nature Reserve. 🌿🦊

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Lauren Field @renfield87.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Another lovely walk around Amberswood. 🌳🌿🍃🦆🦢

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Geoff Busby @gbusby.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Blood-vein (Timandra comae) Leicestershire 06/08/25 #teammoth

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Lauren Field @renfield87.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Had a lovely meal for our anniversary today. ❤️

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Lauren Field @renfield87.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Here are some corvids I have photographed. The chough was the hardest to see, as you’d expect. See more on my instagram @ren.field.2

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Lauren Field @renfield87.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

#TaxidermyTuesday - late as always! But it’s been a busy week of talking about birds, and Young Naturalist Clubs. At the start of the week (well, Saturday) I enjoyed a day in the Nature Gallery talking to visitors about corvids and how we identify the different crows... with help from this raven!

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Lauren Field @renfield87.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

A great day today at Smithills Hall for a nature walk - lots of leaves identified and lots of insects spotted. And the perfect weather again, very lucky! 🌿🐞🪰☀️

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Lauren Field @renfield87.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

For #TaxidermyTuesday today, a closer look at this barn owl. Did you know, barn owls have a specialised serrated edge on the underside of their middle toe! Possibly a grooming adaptation, acting basically like a comb.🦉

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Adam Marsh @notthatmarsh.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

This week I found a Chindesaurus femur head that attaches to a specimen collected 21 years ago… #fossilfriday 🦖🧪

A hand attaching two pieces of the same fossil

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Lauren Field @renfield87.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

It’s #TaxidermyTuesday and a good news day! At Bolton Museum we work with conservation students, and this starling has just been completed. Sadly not displayable before, but now is thanks to their excellent work. I’m very pleased with this. 👏🏼

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Lauren Field @renfield87.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Very into Hindley train station actually! 🚂🍃

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Well this is exciting! Wildling, a new, free mobile app, launches today. 😍🍃 From secret woods to riverside trails to *stunning* RSPB reserves (not that we’re biased), it brings wild places & hidden green spots together in one simple place. Download now & get into nature: brnw.ch/21wU0ga

“Find nature near you. Download WILDLING today for free,” with logos for the App Store and Google Play. Below, a photo shows two people walking through tall summer grass towards a wooded trail, surrounded by greenery. A dotted trail line curves across the corner of the graphic.

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Lauren Field @renfield87.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Very pleasant walk around Amberswood Nature Reserve yesterday… 🌿

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Lauren Field @renfield87.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Another late #TaxidermyTuesday - You can’t get too close to these two golden eagles in the Nature Gallery at Bolton Museum (they are nesting!!) but if you look up from the Bolton’s History gallery, they are always looking down! 🦅

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Woodland Trust Scotland @wtscotsocial.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Fox faces🦊 So expressive and full of character! 📷 Beautiful portraits by Rosanna Forbes.👏 #Fox #UrbanWildlife #NaturePhotography

The face of a happy looking fox. Pic by Rosanna Forbes

The face of a fox looking sinister. Pic by Rosanna Forbes.

The face of a fox looking curious. Pic by Rosanna Forbes

Face of a fox looking alert. Pic by Rosanna Forbes.

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Hot? Our wildlife is feeling it too! 🥵 Here are four ways to help your garden visitors stay cool this summer. 👇

A colourful graphic titled 'Help wildlife beat the heat' with illustrations and tips on creating natural habitats. Tips include letting grass grow long to provide cool refuge for insects, planting shrubs for shade, setting up shallow water stations for hydration, and creating muddy puddles to help nesting birds, amphibians and reptiles. The scene depicted shows a garden for wildlife, with long grass, pools of water, trailing plants and a muddy puddle set against a fence. The sun is pictured in the top right in orange hues.

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Lauren Field @renfield87.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Learning about foxes in the #BoltonsEgypt gallery at Bolton Museum. @trumerz.bsky.social

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Lauren Field @renfield87.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

#TaxidermyTuesday - I’m sharing an office with these two currently as they have just come off display, but they are one of my favourites at the museum! Full of character, a great educational tool - not all bad. 🐀🐀

Two taxidermy rats, surrounded by litter such as cans, egg shells and food packages. One rat is emerging from a drain pipe.

A taxidermy rat, surrounded by litter such as cans, egg shells and food packages.

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Lauren Field @renfield87.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Enjoyed a walk around a small portion of the Isle of Anglesey Coastal Path this weekend… you have to take my word for it when I say that in these photos is a heron, two oystercatchers, and an egret. It was a nice break in the rain! 🌧️ 🦆

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Lauren Field @renfield87.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Cow portraits. 🐮 (I’m quite pleased with these actually!) 🐄

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Lauren Field @renfield87.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Day 7 of #MuseumWeek2025. Today’s theme is Oceans. One of our newest displays in the Nature Gallery at Bolton Museum looks at sawfish, but that’s not all your can learn about - we have octopuses, sharks, dolphins, fish, crabs and even whales in the collection! Who knew?! #WorldOceansDay #OceansMW

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Lauren Field @renfield87.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Day 6 of #MuseumWeek2025. Today’s theme is Visit Museums. I’d recommend Bolton Museum of course; we have lots going on! 🦡🏛️ #VisitMuseumsMW

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Lauren Field @renfield87.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Day 5 of #MuseumWeek2025. The purpose of almost everything I do at the museum is to ensure that the nat history collections are accessible - the collections in store should be as available as those you see on display. Here are some palaeontology objects, not currently on display. #AccessibilityMW

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Lauren Field @renfield87.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Day 4 of #MuseumWeek2025. Today’s theme is Togetherness. It was so great to see so many people at our Shark Night tonight at Bolton Museum, part of #FestivalofLibraries. A real joy to share the shark collections! 🦈 #TogethernessMW

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Lauren Field @renfield87.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Day 3 of #MuseumWeek2025. Today’s theme is Games. Or a game bird?! This pheasant in Bolton Museum’s collection is not currently on display but you might remember it from last year’s exhibition, #BirdsOfBolton. #GameMW

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Lauren Field @renfield87.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

This duck enjoyed looking at me as much as I enjoyed looking at her. 👀🦆

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