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Nick Acheson

@themarshtit.bsky.social
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Nature conservation. Low carbon living. Classical music and opera. Theatre and books. Gruesome lefty vegan tree-hugger. 🏳️‍⚧️ ally. Happiest when muddy. 🦆🌱🚲🏳️‍🌈📚 themarshtit.com

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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This hapless juvenile song thrush doubtless flew south from Scandinavia on the first harsh wind of winter, only to become a sparrowhawk’s meal on arrival. So doing it has passed its Nordic proteins, carbon, water and stories one step further on the complex cobweb of life.
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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
All I want is to be LOVED Barbara 😭
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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Fleabanes, Mexican and Guernsey Erigeron karvinskianus E. sumatrensis So many stories of exploration, trade, colonialism and agricultural industrialisation written in their common and scientific names and their modern geographical distribution.
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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I endlessly take photos of those sculptures, in all their moods. They’re by Cindy Lee Wright, who’s married to Simon Barnes.
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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Entire field of grass. Selectively eats nettles. Legend.
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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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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 · 31/08/2026
Seago clouds, full of swallows
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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Very late for #wildflowerhour: small scabious
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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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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 · 26/08/2026
Hop springs eternal
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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 · 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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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 am profoundly thankful for trees
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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Succinct review
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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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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 · 15/07/2026
Smooooooth
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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
Riggit innit
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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 · 12/07/2026
Caution: Gene Kelly
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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
You had to be there 🪰 🦆 🦫 🐜 🐸
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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 · 07/07/2026
Silver-studded blue on a Norfolk heath yesterday evening
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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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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Funny the friends you make when you’re out walking
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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Carboniferous
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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
As I was crossing Night Common just now, my handsome, hirsute friend came over to say hello. ‘Where have you been?’ He asked, not having seen me for a week. ‘Downriver,’ I replied.
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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The seeds of this hollyhock came from my late best friend Sarah. She died almost ten years ago but is still in full bloom in my garden. She always made a statement.
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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I just flushed a scarlet tiger in my garden (photo from 2 weeks ago). Without wanting to be simplistic, for every species that, assisted by climate change, goes from unheard-of to common, there’s a familiar, much-loved species that can’t cope. Want cattle egrets? Kiss good bye to willow warblers.
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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Hi @jo-the-botanist.bsky.social, a couple of weeks ago I sent you a record of a Hieracium sp., growing on top of a high wall. You asked for more details. This evening I’ve walked past one, in the same population, conveniently growing at ground level.
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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The very last of this year’s clustered bellflowers. Good bye, amazing blooms, until next year.
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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Grass-leaved orache Atriplex littoralis. It used the to be a plant of salt-rich coastal habitats (littoralis = of the shore). Now, just like Danish scurvy-grass, it’s just as much a plant of roadsides where tarmac was salted in winter.
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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The most charming red beltie bull you ever did meet
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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I will never not have a moment when I see Catalpa bignonioides. Non-native? ✅ Blousy? ✅ Arguably in poor taste? ✅ But utterly fabulous? ✅ ✅ ✅
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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Some glorious south and mid-Norfolk plants today for #wildflowerhour, including spiny restharrow, sulphur clover, dyer’s greenweed and crested cow-wheat.
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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Giant fescue. Incredibly sexy auricles.
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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
First loop of the wood, looking down at plants. Second loop of the wood, looking up to the canopy for butterflies. At the first place I stop, where goat willow grows beneath a tall oak… instantly a purple emperor.
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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
hazel hawthorn hornbeam holly
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