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NatureBureau @naturebureau.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Fenland Flora by Owen Mountford & Jon Graham (with 300 photos & over 1000 maps). This 1400-page, 2-volume set has now gone to print. Pre-pub offer ends 31 Oct 2026 -visit naturebureau.co.uk/bookshop now & SAVE £25 on published price @bsbibotany.bsky.social @plantlife.bsky.social

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Tim Holt-Wilson @timholtwilson.bsky.social · 23h

Yes - it was frightening, and I was also five. It was the eldritch rib-cage bit that got me.

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Tim Holt-Wilson @timholtwilson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Some trees are absolutely loaded this year! The sloes in the photo on the left had just enough sweetness to eat raw without crabbing the tongue.

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Tim Holt-Wilson @timholtwilson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

They "won't go" there if they are racists because they might discover that the mixture of people from diverse backgrounds are peaceable folk going about their daily business in streets and homes, and that the racism is coming from their own side - projected intense shadow psychology.

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Mike Hudema @mikehudema.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“This is the new extinction & we are half way through it. We are in terrible, terrible trouble & the longer we wait to do something about it the worse it is going to get.” Sir #DavidAttenborough No time to wait. #ActOnClimate #ClimateCrisis #climate #nature #renewables

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Tim Holt-Wilson @timholtwilson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Silver Birch magic. The visual and textural contrasts in its bark: mithraic light and dark, smooth and rough. Is there a word for the pleasure of looking at birch bark? Betulismus? Björkenscrute? Beithenfreud? It should be a word which enacts contrasts, leaps the stave, sings the rum wonder.

The sunlight-dappled bark of a birch tree looking up the trunk into its leafy canopy, with pale blue sky beyond.

Ragged patches of silvery grey birch bark in the centre of the picture contrasting with eruptive patches of rough, stiff, corky-looking, grey-brown bark.

Fluid but ragged patches of silvery grey birch bark contrasting with patches of rough, reddish-brown bark.

Ragged patches of silvery grey bark birch contrasting with eruptive patches of rough, stiff, corky-looking, grey-brown bark which are in the centre of the picture.

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Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Norfolk housing levy idea is flawed, say environmental groups. "We are concerned that it weakens existing protections for Norfolk's nationally and globally important wildlife sites such as chalk streams, wetlands and valley fens,"... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Norfolk housing levy idea is flawed, say environmental groups

The government wants developers to fund waterways projects in Norfolk.

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Roger_TL45Y @rogerhorton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

So you're related? Seeds of Common Lime, Tilia x europaea, and Hollyhock, Alcea rosea, both members of the Mallow family, Malvaceae. #WildflowerHour

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Tim Holt-Wilson @timholtwilson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Little Englander adventurism - beast with two heads : beast with two backsides - Tory hyperclones busy cultivating racist discontent of The Plebs in the service of City Slickers - gambling on break-up of the UK.

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Tim Holt-Wilson @timholtwilson.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What do you think it might be? Reminds me of Inoceramus. Either that or Bigfungus.

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Tim Holt-Wilson @timholtwilson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

'Recording for nature recovery - how biological recording will benefit wildlife in crisis'. A joint conference @norfolknats.bsky.social @suffolk-nats1929.bsky.social at Diss, Norfolk, Sat Oct 10th Oct. What should bio recording look like in the future? Booking via sns.org.uk. Please share.

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Tim Holt-Wilson @timholtwilson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The Vestal moth (Rhodometra sacraria) in its pinky-coloured form - an immigrant native of southern Europe - espied today at Ickburgh, Breckland, during a Norfolk Flora Group outing. Worth recording? @norfolkmoths.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social

A small, pale crimson coloured moth resting on a grass leaf. The wing has a darker diagonal stripe across the wing.

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Tim Holt-Wilson @timholtwilson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I enjoy the process of thinking through intriguing specimens. Barite lends notable weightiness to a specimen. Hardness is 3/3.5 and thus similar to calcite, but does not fizz with acid.

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Tim Holt-Wilson @timholtwilson.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

《Although we’re in need of hope, hope is never a plan. As a global society and as citizens of Earth, we urgently need a tangible shift in how our legal systems treat the living world. Recognizing the universal rights of nature is the answer.》 Nature includes the abiotic natural world too.

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Tim Holt-Wilson @timholtwilson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And still she gets a platform ...

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Tim Holt-Wilson @timholtwilson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Am I alone in finding her a profoundly ugly politician? It's not about the way she looks. It's about her soul - it seems whatever she says revolves around a core of nastiness and self-adulation.

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Tim Holt-Wilson @timholtwilson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Is there any possibility that bioerosion traces on Pliocene cetacean bone could be made by echinoderms? I have assumed most likely siboglinids, due to their phosphate munching propensities on whale-fall debris.

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Tim Holt-Wilson @timholtwilson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Plus British start-ups get bought out and then developed abroad, so we never see them grow, to benefit UK-based workers (and capitalists).

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Tim Holt-Wilson @timholtwilson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Lovely video. Hope he /she has not got neonic flea treatment on. It is exceedingly toxic to fresh water invertebrates.

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Tegwyn @arachnoteg.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Badumna longinqua for today's A-Z. New to the UK and probably spreading through plant trade. Check out your local garden centre, B+Q and especially B+M stores outdoor plant areas. You will likely find the distinctive web before any spider. Visit the BAS on YouTube for more info. #Aractober

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Socrates @teamsocrates.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Why is it that we praise the loud and remember the curious? Look at history. The questioners outlast the certain. #philosophy #ethics

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Tim Holt-Wilson @timholtwilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Now all recrutes (But those of fruites) Shall bee forgott: and th’ unarm’d Soldier, Shall onely boast of what Hee did whilere, In chimneys ends, Among his friends. If good effects shall happy signes ensue, I shall rejoyce, and my prediction’s true.

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Tim Holt-Wilson @timholtwilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Or gentle Doves, their yong-ones there shall feede: In musket barrells Mice shall raise quarrells For their quarters: The ventriloquious drumme (Like Lawyers in vacations) shall be dumme:

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Tim Holt-Wilson @timholtwilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The rusticke spade Which first was made For honest agriculture, shall retake It’s primitive imployment, and forsake The rempires steepe, And trenches deepe. Tame conyes [rabbits] in our brazen gunnes shall breed,

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Tim Holt-Wilson @timholtwilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ralph Knevet (1600-1671; vicar of Lyng, Norfolk) FAREWELL TO ARMS The Helmett now an hive for Bees becomes, And hilts of swords may serve for Spiders loomes, Sharp pikes may make, Teeth for a rake: And the keene blade, th’ arch enemy of life, Shall bee digraded to a pruneing knife:

Woodcut image of an ornate 17th century military helmet which has become a beehive.
Image from a blog post by Andrew Green
https://gwallter.com/literature/the-poet-and-the-mapmaker.html

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Tim Holt-Wilson @timholtwilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This paper reminds me of a floating ice berg - most of its mass is underwater, in a colossal compendium of references. Meanwhile my quest to understand the mystery of pitting on Pliocene Crag bone continues...

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Tim Holt-Wilson @timholtwilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I've never wanted to get up close enough to them to find out whether they do indeed stink.

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Philip Amies @philipamies.eurosky.social · 01/10/2026

Engraving by M. Merian after S. Vrancx. Vrancx, Sebastian, 1573-1647 Let us start in the top left and work our way through this busy image. A distant town, a water body with barges. On land a wagon carting what may be hay a man on the horse, followed by a man with a pitchfork.

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Tim Holt-Wilson @timholtwilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It is a peopled landscape. Such a contrast to now.

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Tim Holt-Wilson @timholtwilson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Any thoughts @norwichbirder.bsky.social? Jeremy suggests Sooty Bark Disease, Cryptostroma corticale, but I understand this is found under the bark, not on it.

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Tim Holt-Wilson @timholtwilson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The Late-Glacial period in Holland - a landscape studded with ice mounds 20 m high. Here is a cool landscape video - www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBmd.... Introducing a new word #pingoruins ! East Anglia is different: we have clusters of much smaller pingoid landforms here. #periglacial #Doggerland

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Ontstaan van pingo's en pingoruïnes

YouTube video by Provincie Drenthe

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Tim Holt-Wilson @timholtwilson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

'Government report highlights Britain’s overseas invertebrates are in great peril'. www.buglife.org.uk/blog/governm... Based on 'Update on the status of endemic and globally threatened species in the UK Overseas Territories' (Report 835 @jncc.bsky.social). #Buglife #Insects #conservation #ecology

Spiky Yellow Woodlouse - Pseudolaureola atlantica - looking like a bright yellow, bristly loo brush. Photo @ MikeThorsen

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British Dragonfly Society @britishdragonflies.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

A new report from wildlife charity Buglife reveals that pesticides from common flea and tick treatments are now widespread in rivers across Britain and may be contributing to major declines in freshwater invertebrates bit.ly/4b1Pu50

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Buglife News: Love Your Pet, Not Pesticides: New Report Warns of Flea and Tick Treatment Threat to Rivers

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Morning. 🖼️ Tunnicliffe, What To Look For In Autumn, 1960.

Autumnal forest floor scene of leaves, red squirrel, fungi, nuts, jay in flight in distance and thrush, falling leaves, illustration.

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Tim Holt-Wilson @timholtwilson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Add "That's just a banded flint" to your repertoire?

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Tim Holt-Wilson @timholtwilson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Pendant squibble Tree slug Mast master Aiken stasher Cussing semaphorist Cable biter Pain in the arse

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Geological Society of Norfolk @geolsocnorfolk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Pitted #fossil bone frags are common on #Suffolk UK beaches with #Pliocene Red Crag debris. Phosphorite nodules from the basal Crag are similarly pitted. Hypothesis: bioerosion by #siboglinid worms munching phosphate-rich substrates. Any thoughts? @thepalass.bsky.social @coastalpaleo.bsky.social

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Geological Society of Norfolk @geolsocnorfolk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The caput femoris ball of a fossil mammoth femur picked from the Waveney valley gravels today. Almost certainly Mammuthus meridionalis originating in the Crag, a near-shore marine deposit of Plio-Pleistocene age. Picture a dead animal floating out to sea. Hard bits remain, rolled around by tides.

Someone is holding the half ball-shaped head of a mammoth femur covered with sand.

The reverse side of a mammoth femoral head held by someone in a fluorescent vest. A heap of sand and gravel is visible in the background.

A close up view of the cellular structure of the bone in the femoral head.

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Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Moths Matter - Let's give them their moment. Will you help create a Red List for Britain’s macro-moths, give these overlooked species the recognition they deserve & help open doors to funding opportunities & inclusion in nature recovery projects? www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/moths-matter

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Moths Matter - Let's give them their moment

Will you help create a Red List for Britain’s macro-moths and give these overlooked species the recognition they deserve?

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Tim Holt-Wilson @timholtwilson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

'The Fairy Engine' - that is a rum concept.

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