Tim Osborne @timnmosborne.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Slightly better image of a few of the birds in the flock of White Storks over Seasalter two weeks ago on 8th August. #rarebirdsinkent 030
Tim Osborne @timnmosborne.bsky.social · 09/08/2026#Daisyfamily for @wildflowerhour.bsky.social From Seasalter Kent. Prickly Lettuce Lactuca serriola, Bristly Oxtongue Picris Echinoidea, and Salsify Tragopogon porrifolius. @bsbibotany.bsky.social 0102
Tim Osborne @timnmosborne.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Extraordinary. A local birder says last year at this time a flock of 82 went over. 110
Tim Osborne @timnmosborne.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Huge flock of White Storks over Sportsman Inn, Seasalter, Kent, this evening at 6.45pm. @kentwildlife.bsky.social @kentbirder.bsky.social @seasalterbirder.bsky.social 140
Tim Osborne @timnmosborne.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Excellent. Very useful work sorting those out. I think that hybrid may occur more frequently than is generally considered. 110
Tim Osborne @timnmosborne.bsky.social · 02/08/2026#bythesea Carrot, Bugloss just, Sea Mayweed and Yellow-horned Poppy from Seasalter Kent for @wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social 0113
Tim Osborne @timnmosborne.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Just managed to catch the Violet Helleborines (Epipactis purpurata) in Savernake before they go over completely. Mysterious and absolutely beautiful still. @ukorchids.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social 0246
Tim Osborne @timnmosborne.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Looking through photos of several Epipactis seen 2/7/26 at Sandscale Haws Cumbria, when looking for E. dunensis and consulting Cole & Waller p.138, I am now happy these are E. phyllanthes, Green-flowered Helleborine. @ukorchids.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social 0103
Reposted by Tim OsborneSteve @kingsdowner.bsky.social · 26/07/2026A record shot of one minute's rain, so we can remember what it looked like. And a bouquet of Purple Loosestrife and Common Fleabane for #wildflowerhour @kentfieldclub.bsky.social 1221
Tim Osborne @timnmosborne.bsky.social · 26/07/2026The sky-blue flowers of Chicory (Cichorium intybus) are a most welcome sight in our sere roadside verges. As with many familiar plants it is usually worth a closer look every now and again. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social 3164
Tim Osborne @timnmosborne.bsky.social · 25/07/2026We never used to see Jersey Tigers here in our bit of North Wilts but the last year or two there have been quite a few. Here’s one obligingly showing off its striped camouflage on flowering Traveller’s Joy (Clematis vitalba). Pleased with the body shot. @bsbibotany.bsky.social 161
Tim Osborne @timnmosborne.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Also from Roundway Hill nr Devizes two days ago a remarkably pale Field Scabious (Knautia arvensis). Admittedly not as pretty as bluish-lilac but very eye catching nonetheless. @bsbibotany.bsky.social 0155
Tim Osborne @timnmosborne.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Plenty of wonderful Round-headed Rampion (Phyteuma orbiculare) in the scorched grass on Roundway Hill near Devizes yesterday. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social 1172
Reposted by Tim OsborneLiz Louise @lizlouise.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Pale Butterwort (Pinguicula lusitanica) in a Dartmoor bog @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social 1659
Reposted by Tim OsborneJeremy Sanders @jeremyjem.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Three collages of just some of the plants #StillFlowering in N. Wilts. for this week's #wildflowerhour challenge. IDs provided in ALT Text. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social 3364
Reposted by Tim OsborneJeremy Sanders @jeremyjem.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Three collages of Bellflowers #StillFlowering in N. Wilts. for this week's #wildflowerhour challenge. IDs provided in ALT Text. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social 1284
Tim Osborne @timnmosborne.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Clustered Bellflower (Campanula glomerata) our now for a week at least here in North Wilts. Always a joy to see as summer progresses. @bsbibotany.bsky.social 062
Tim Osborne @timnmosborne.bsky.social · 13/07/2026They call them Gendarmes in France. They cluster in the bark of pines. 🇫🇷 010
Tim Osborne @timnmosborne.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Excellent numbers of Gatekeepers or Hedge Browns (Pyronia tithonus), this male sunning on bramble but most were nectaring on Marjoram (Origanum vulgare) laneside in North Wilts this morning. They flew up in quite a respectable cloud as I approached. @savebutterflies.bsky.social 061
Reposted by Tim OsborneBotanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social · 13/07/2026As the climate changes, so flowering times are changing. To help you keep track of these changes in phenology, any time you look up 1 of c3.5K plants on the Plant Atlas website, there's a useful phenology tab you can click on. Try it for Narrow-lipped Helleborine: plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...plantatlas2020.orgPlantAtlas 2266
Tim Osborne @timnmosborne.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Two gorgeous plants from Lakeland bogs and mires, Round-leaved Sundew (Drosera rotundifolia) and Bog Asphodel (Narthecium ossifragum). 30th June, Wrynose Pass. @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social 0134
Tim Osborne @timnmosborne.bsky.social · 12/07/2026A rather late Early Marsh Orchid, (Dactylorhiza incarnata) 3rd July Sandscale Haws, Cumbria. Just this one. @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social 0234
Tim Osborne @timnmosborne.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Astonishing hybrid vigour with these classic Northern Marsh X Common Spotted Orchids (Dactylorhiza x venuster) at Sandscale Haws Cumbria, hundreds like this but mostly now over. @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social 1294
Tim Osborne @timnmosborne.bsky.social · 06/07/2026My thoughts and sympathy too Rebecca, so worrying for you. 110
Tim Osborne @timnmosborne.bsky.social · 05/07/2026One of the many joys of Sandscale Cumbria, is the profusion of the delightfully pretty Wild Pansy (Viola tricolour Ssp curtisii) and their endlessly varied colours. For #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social 0111
Tim Osborne @timnmosborne.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Sandscale Haws was amazing but the best find there on the rarity scale was Dune Helleborine (Epipactis dunensis) of which six plants found. @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social 1172
Tim Osborne @timnmosborne.bsky.social · 04/07/2026Also from Sandscale Haws the lovely Grass of Parnassus (Parnassia palustris) just beginning to flower. @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social 1152
Tim Osborne @timnmosborne.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Thank you. Last seen at Kenfig, in 2000 28th August! 010
Tim Osborne @timnmosborne.bsky.social · 02/07/2026A visit today to the superb Sandscale Haws nature reserve, Cumbria, produced some lovely finds including several Round-leaved Wintergreen plants (Pyrola rotundifolia) just coming into flower. @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social 1112
Reposted by Tim OsborneLiz Louise @lizlouise.bsky.social · 01/07/2026A few plants seen along the River Parrett in Langport today - Blue-water Speedwell (Veronica anagallis-aquatica), Purple Loosestrife (Lythrum salicaria), Flowering Rush (Butomus umbellatus) & Arrowhead (Sagittaria sagittifolia) 🪷🌿🌾 @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social 1808
Tim Osborne @timnmosborne.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Correction to the last…of course. (Epipactis atrorubens) 010
Tim Osborne @timnmosborne.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Very happy to find three Dark Red Helleborines (Epipactis palustris) including one peachy one at Gait Barrows NNR, nr Arneside today. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social 2324
Tim Osborne @timnmosborne.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Sea Milkwort (Glaux maritime) from the lovely Solway, Cumbria. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @cumbriawildlife.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social 040
Tim Osborne @timnmosborne.bsky.social · 27/06/2026An obliging Flower Crab Spider with prey on Field Scabious in our ‘wild garden’. #nomow 071
Tim Osborne @timnmosborne.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Always a handy tip if in any doubt as to Small or Field Scabious, Small has the dark bristle tipped bracts underneath the flower head and Field does not, as can be clearly seen here. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social 0113
Reposted by Tim OsborneMoira O'Donnell @naturelark.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Please consider signing this petition to save the Botanic Gardens in Dundee, my home town. The gardens are a place of learning, solace and inspiration, and are cherished by both Dundonians and visitors to the city. Its closure would be a terrible loss. c.org/syGLMR2NQLc.orgSign the PetitionSave Dundee Botanic Gardens and cafe 136939
Reposted by Tim OsborneDave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 21/06/2026A clump of Zig Zag Clover from a road verge at Widemouth Bay, Cornwall today for #wildflowerhour Trifolium medium 0181
Reposted by Tim OsborneMark Coller @markcoller.bsky.social · 23/06/20266 Red veined darter in Kingsgate Park Yate this morning @britishdragonflies.bsky.social @bristolbirding.bsky.social 0302
