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Restoring Shropshire's Verges Project

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Founded 2018 by local people to restore our wildflower rich verges with support from @nationaltrust.bsky.social, Caring for God's Acre, Shropshire Hills National Landscape, Shropshire Council, and with guidance from @plantlifeuk.bsky.social

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Shropshire Wildlife Trust @shropshirewildlife.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Shropshire might be landlocked… but we’re still connected to the Ocean! There’s only one Ocean: 🔗 One system 🌍 No borders 🙌 Every action counts What we do here — waste, energy, food — all flows downstream. #WorldOceanDay #ShropshireWildlife #Wildlife #Nature
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
A massive Leatherback sea turtle was spotted near the Gulfstream yesterday, reminding us of the wonders of marine life. Nature never ceases to amaze us.
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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
0354 a swallow starts to sing outside my bedroom
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WWF UK @wwf.org.uk · 06/06/2026
#GreatBigGreenWeek is here! 💚 Whether it’s a school event, a nature walk or a local clean up, coming together locally is how we make a real difference for people and nature. 💪 Find an event near you. 👉 www.greatbiggreenweek.com
A promotional graphic with a light green background scattered with colourful environmental icons including solar panels, recycling arrows, birds, fish, footprints, leaves, and flowers. Copy reads: ‘The Great Big Green Week is here! 6th–14th June. Together for good.’
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Butterfly Conservation @savebutterflies.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
February flutters in with more butterflies and moths to spot this month 🦋 As the days get longer and the flowers return, here are some of the species to look out for over the next few weeks in your gardens and local green spaces.
Butterfly Conservation's Butterflies and Moths to see in February: Small Tortoiseshell, Herald, Brimstone, Pale Brindled Beauty, Peacock, Spring Usher, Red Admiral, Satellite, Comma
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Restoring Shropshire's Verges Project @shropsverges.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
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Restoring Shropshire's Verges Project @shropsverges.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
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johnfen1.bsky.social @johnfen1.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Field Madder. Most conspicuous in the size of its very tiny mauve-pink flowers. A new one for me observed along a well trodden Lincolnshire farmland footpath #WildflowerHour
2-3 mm Mauve-pink flowers of Field Madder amongst their whorled, pointed green leaves.
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johnfen1.bsky.social @johnfen1.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
A Restharrow of sorts but despite some apparent spines, which one I am still not sure. #WildflowerHour
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johnfen1.bsky.social @johnfen1.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
With a hint of pareidolia, this fantastic Selfheal flower at the edge of our garden path has been watching me go to work all week and was still around this late afternoon to see me in after a working weekend #WildflowerHour
A Selfheal flower amongst Muscari straps at the edge of a concrete path. Some viewers may be able to see a face or two amongst its purple bracts and calyces
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johnfen1.bsky.social @johnfen1.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Hedgerow Crane’s-bill amongst the concrete remnants of a former Lincolnshire airfield #WildflowerHour
Hedgerow-Crane’s-bill against a backdrop of concrete succeeded by moss, grasses and other vegetation
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mattrjones.bsky.social @mattrjones.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Two fab carrots from down that way also. Bupleurum tenuissimum, mostly in fruit now and Bupleurum falcatum flowering away on its road verge. #wildflowerhour
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James Harding-Morris @jameshardingmorris.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
I'm honoured to have had a positive review from Mark!
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Alex Prendergast @bramblebotanist.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Sickle-leaved Hare’s-ear Bupleurum falcatum on its Essex road verge. Native-or-not, who cares, it’s lovely and still flowering well. The second of two edge-of-patch ticks today
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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
A late flowering Common Vetch on a road verge at Canworthy Water in Cornwall today for #WildflowerHour Vicia sativa subsp segetalis
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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Meadowsweet still has a few plants in flower amongst hundreds along a rural road verge at Canworthy Water in Cornwall today for #WildflowerHour Filipendula ulmaria
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Lyn Mac @lynmac.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Penny lizard on a tree trunk #photography #treetrunk #lizard #camouflage
Close up view of a bottle brush tree trunk on the verge, the bark looks as if twisted. A small lizard, a penny lizard, is on the trunk blending in with the bark. Grass surrounds the trunk. A car wheel and rim is on the right, part of a car parked on the road under the tree. A very small part of the rear of another car parked on the road is seen at the top left corner.
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Martin @botanicalmartin.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Some interesting earth tongues of different shapes, and a photo with a rabbit poo for scale. All on a grassy moorland road verge growing with some waxcaps yesterday. With @wonkyeggs.bsky.social who did all the digital recording because I (🙄)hadn't downloaded the @plantlifeuk.bsky.social waxcap app
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Make it Market Drayton @marketdrayton.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
🎭🎨 Market Drayton is bursting with creativity – from local artists & theatre to heritage & hands-on workshops. Explore the town’s vibrant arts & culture scene 👇 🔗 zurl.co/Unh0Z #MarketDrayton #ArtsAndCulture #MakeItMarketDrayton #ShropshireEvents #SupportLocal
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Make it Market Drayton @marketdrayton.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
🚍 North Salop Wheelers Community Bus makes it easy to explore Market Drayton! Every Wednesday, catch a ride to shop, meet friends, & enjoy the town. It's a lifeline for rural communities. 🌟 Want to join? Visit zurl.co/gHvi3 #MarketDrayton #Volunteer
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The Garden Jungle @thegardenjungle.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Skylark in the heather on The Long Mynd in South Shropshire, glad it spotted me so I could get this shot looking directly at the camera #birds #thegardenjungle #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #shropshire #UKwildlife #birdphotography #canon #photography
Skylark
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Clare Unwin @sgdesigns.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Good morning 🌞 today features the colour red. The hedgerows and gardens are full of berries. #gardenfeed 🌱
A cluster of red rowan fruit.  The red shiny fruit of the honeysuckle A hawthorn with shiny red haws and glossy green leaves
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Marburymoths @marburybirds.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
It looked like really quite traps at first this morning but it was better than it looked with 27 Species. 1 NFY with an Oak Hook-tip. Other highlights: Pale Eggar, Orange Swift, Centre-barred Sallow, Frosted Orange, Angle Shades, Ruby Tiger, Flame, Small Blood-vein #teammoth
Oak Hook-tipFlameFrosted OrangePale Eggar
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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
#Shiny beautiful. Thick-legged flower beetle on Mexican fleabane. #BlueskyArtShow 📷 #photography
A shiny metallic green Beetle on a Daisy-like flower of Mexican fleabane.
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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Pleased to get a Scorched Carpet (feedplant =Spindle) last night, albeit rather worn; adding to the ‘fire’ collection last night: Flame Carpet, Flame and Flame Shoulder. #teammoth
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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Hoary Ragwort and Fleabane providing splashes of late summer colour at @teeswildlife.bsky.social Bowesfield Marsh NR, Stockton-on-Tees.
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Curlew Action @curlewaction.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
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Restoring Shropshire's Verges Project @shropsverges.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
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Curlew Action @curlewaction.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
...The huge, overriding problems remain, however, and they are ones we share across Europe and the UK; how do ground-nesting birds live on farmland?" Read Mary's report from Curlew Action's visit to Poland in May:
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Poland trip report 2025 | Curlew Action
The Curlew Action team revisit Poland to learn about the impacts that EU Life funding is having on conserving Curlews.
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Curlew Action @curlewaction.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
"Poland’s Curlews are in crisis, but the EU Life funding is holding out a lifeline. The team, both professional and volunteers, are doing a wonderful job and it gives us all hope for the future...
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Poland trip report 2025 | Curlew Action
The Curlew Action team revisit Poland to learn about the impacts that EU Life funding is having on conserving Curlews.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Here's the Open Statement on sludge spreading launched by us at Fighting Dirty, and signed by many leading figures. The water companies are using farmland as a dump for hazardous chemicals. They mislead farmers, poison the land and threaten our health. It must stop. fightingdirty.org/open-stateme...
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Open statement by leading environmentalists demands government action over “toxic cocktail of chemicals” spread on British farmland | Fighting Dirty
In the UK, we have a dirty secret that’s recently been brought into the light. Sewage sludge, we now know, contains far more than just human waste. Not only does a wide range of synthetic chemicals po...
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Matt P @bertolicus.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
A rather pleasing serendipitous combo in a local garden hedge
Purple form of Elder growing with the royal purple one gold flowers of Woody nightshade in a garden hedge
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Moira O'Donnell @naturelark.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
"With those huge utricules, it's no wonder the inflorescence droops." One of the best sentences I've ever read in a botanical post.
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Restoring Shropshire's Verges Project @shropsverges.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
.@wclnews.bsky.social are right - exempting small sites means almost three-quarters of developments would face no requirement to compensate for nature loss - let alone enhance it. Government pledges to restore nature clearly aren’t worth the paper they were written on
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Environmental rules reviewed for small housebuilders - BBC News
Ministers are considering how costs can be reduced for small firms to help them build more homes.
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Restoring Shropshire's Verges Project @shropsverges.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
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Restoring Shropshire's Verges Project @shropsverges.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
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Verges: Case studies | Middle Marches Community Land Trust
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Restoring Shropshire's Verges Project @shropsverges.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
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Ian Denton @iand777.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
2/2 Meanwhile in the Field Maple tree, the young Goldfinches in their nest, await the arrival of the seed soup.... #ornithology #wildlifegardening #ukwildlife #birds #nature #NoSupplementaryFeedingofGardenBirds @bto-gbw.bsky.social
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Ian Denton @iand777.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
🧵1/2 This Goldfinch by the kitchen window, is gathering whole seed heads to feed it's nestlings. It was taking them to a nearby tree to dehusk & then eating the seeds. The finch then regurgitates the seeds as a soup, to feed the young in the nest. No need to buy-in seeds to feed the Goldfinches...
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Steven Wright @stevenwright58.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Floral interest @bcwarwickshire.bsky.social open day at Ryton Wood Meadows. A fine Southern Marsh orchid on one of the pastures. Thanks for telling us about it @wildtara.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social
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Rob Yaxley @robyaxley.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Some green stuff from today’s excursion with Norfolk Flora Group. Soft Shield Fern, Sweet Woodruff and Thujopsis dolabrata (Japanese Hiba).
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Martine🦋Brennan🍄 @martinebrennan.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Flowers from The Burren, a week ago: #wildflowerhour
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David Elston @1davidelston.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Had a successful day on the Moray coast surveying small blue butterflies (which aren't very blue). Great displays of yellow flowers in Hopeman quarry: gorse, broom and kidney vetch, the last being the foodplant of the butterfly.
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Lin Hawthorne @haggewoods.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
There are those among us who share my delight at the concept of Ant Gardens. Others who see this would say 'It's just grass, innit.' Some see only a barren, sheep-struck wasteland. But come back in July .. @amiesphilip.bsky.social @naturelark.bsky.social @botanybeck.bsky.social #AntGardens 🌱
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Geoff Campbell North Antrim Moths @gcampbellphoto.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Green Silver-lines (Pseudoips prasinana)North Antrim May 2025. Another stunning moth species seen and photographed recently. Not a common moth up here, so great to see a fresh one. #moths #mothsmatter #teammoth @ulsterwildlife.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social @europebutterfly.bsky.social
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Bat Conservation Trust @batconservation.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
🦇*Scoping Surveys for Arborists course* The course will give you awareness of bat ecology, behaviour and legal knowledge you need to carry out tree works with bats in mind. 📅 2 and 9 July 2025, over two afternoons (1:30pm - 5:30pm) 📍Online 💰 £145 Book here: www.bats.org.uk/events/scopi...
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Rob Yaxley @robyaxley.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Some cool beetles from today - Hazel Leaf-roller, Rhagium mordax and Elaphrus cupreus.
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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Dayingale
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