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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My friends at @norfolknats.bsky.social and @suffolk-nats1929.bsky.social are hosting a joint conference on nature recording for nature recovery. Details below. It’ll be good!

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Chelsea Green Publishing @chelseagreenbooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We are absolutely delighted to share that Ghosts of the Farm by @nicolawriting.bsky.social was awarded a Highly Commended recognition for Nature Writing at last night's 2026 Wainwright Prize @wainwrightprize.bsky.social #Booksky #Nonfiction Congratulations, Nicola! 🎉

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Suffolk Naturalists’ Society @suffolk-nats1929.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

SNS and NNNS JOINT CONFERENCE 2026 Saturday, 10th October, Diss Corn Hall. Recording for Nature Recovery – how biological recording will benefit wildlife in crisis Please see link for details and booking. Non-member tickets available from 1st September sns.org.uk/sns-meetings...

sns.org.uk

SNS meetings and events – Suffolk Naturalists' Society

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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We did a thing swla.co.uk/support-us/t...

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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We did a thing swla.co.uk/support-us/t...

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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

A very happy Big Pinkfoot Push Day to all who celebrate

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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

East of a line from the Humber to The Solent, there are more Zitting Cisticolas living & breeding than there are Willow Tits (now effectively zero).

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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Same view, fifteen minutes apart. The first as I frantically got my laundry in. Swifts overhead, in a great swirl of house martins. Doubtless the last swifts I’ll see here this year. Go safely wild ones.

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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Go safely, my beautiful friends [volume up]

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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Sunset over the marsh today. As the nights grow longer, you have to seize every opportunity to jump in the sea.

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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Please don’t take her even though you can

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James McCallum @jamesrmccallum1.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Exhibition at Cley VC up and running...

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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Went to Wales Stayed four weeks Had no WiFi Wrote 20,000 words Read two and a half books Saw The Odyssey Walked 350,000 steps Reacquainted myself with dippers, common hawkers and gold-ringed dragonflies Was deeply grateful

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I don't want to have to engage in protest. I'd rather just get on with my research, and I found it quite emotional But while my government is considering pouring more fuel on the fires, despite everything we know and everything we're experiencing, what else am I supposed to do?

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The Haywain 2026

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Norfolk & Norwich Naturalists' Society @norfolknats.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

NNNS are saddened to hear that Carl Chapman passed away on Friday. Carl made a massive contribution to the Society, as a Trustee, Chairman & through the creation of the Liaison Committee (which he also chaired)- a body that helped strengthen links between NNNS and other local wildlife charities. 1/x

A man wearing a brimmed hat is smiling. In front of his face is a Purple Emperor butterfly that is perched on the end of a grass stem.

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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The swallows in this village have no respect for personal space

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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

1) fat hen, greater plantain, knotgtass sp., annual meadow-grass. 2) annual meadow-grass. #geometricalbotany

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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I lost a pillowcase in the laundry this morning. Is it too early to blame Andy Burnham?

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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Asteraceae doing the heavy lifting for this week’s #wildflowerhour #stillflowering challenge: musk thistle (with painted lady caterpillar) on chalk grassland, Canadian goldenrod, wall lettuce (in this case door lettuce) and (not Asteraceae) entangled tendrils of tufted vetch and hedge bindweed.

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Andy Musgrove @andymus.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Great idea. One of the most inspiring books when I was young, then I was lucky enough to get to know Keith in person, then later to employ Alan's daughter! Any young birders need this book.

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Dr Marcus Rhodes @marcusrhodes.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

#BigButterflyCount is here! Between now and the 9th August: - spend 15 mins in a sunny spot - count the butterflies you see - submit your sightings Find out more at bigbutterflycount.butterfly-conservation.org Happy counting folks! 🦋🦋🦋

Butterfly Conservation Big Butterfly Count

Get out for the count. Spend 15 minutes in a sunny spot and gather vital data to save butterflies and moths.

17 July to 9 August

Take part. Identify and record your sightings at bigbutterflycount.org or scan the QR code to download our free app.

Exclusive media partner BBC Gardeners' World magazine

#BigButterflyCount

Image: Peacock butterfly by Gundula Vogel

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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Wild things from yesterday: black bryony berries a wasp subduing a (still living) peppered moth a painted lady caterpillar on musk thistle

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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Speckled wood and black darter in West Norfolk today

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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I just heard a dark bush-cricket. It’s winter.

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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Dusky sallow Eremobia ochroleuca (subsequently rescued)

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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

For this week’s #wildflowerhour #aquaticplants challenge, I have four plants (all today) growing very close to water, be it saline or fresh: purple loosestrife, hemp agrimony, sea holly and common sea lavender.

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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

You had to be there 🪰 🦆 🦫 🐜 🐸

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

*exhausted voice* I just want to copy and paste, I don’t need a popup menu of ai prompts just because I selected some text you gibbering turnip

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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Spend time with marsh woundwort today

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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Grift and Farage Grift and Farage Go together like a …

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Benoit Nabholz @benoitevol.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Very happy to have contributed to the study of the genomic differentiation of the British swallowtail butterfly (Papilio machaon britannicus). Despite the regular immigration of P. machaon from the nearby mainland, the British swallowtail butterfly remains genetically distinct. 1/..

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Jana Zikmundova @jzk55.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

#OTD #RedDevils #Belgium🇧🇪

Dessin dans le style du peintre belge René Magritte

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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Silver-studded blue on a Norfolk heath yesterday evening

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I'm so disillusioned, I almost don't even care who gets the FIFA Peace Prize next year

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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Some of the gorgeous things seen today, with the equally gorgeous @luciemr.bsky.social: Stictoleptura rubra, Conocephalus sp., and Anax imperator (emperor dragonfly)

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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

This year’s gatekeepers are really dinky

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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I know I shouldn’t, but sometimes I snort a line of Buddleja davidii before work. I can totally see what the red admirals and peacocks are getting from it.

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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I’m going to need all the white stonecrop I can find to get through today’s drama.

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