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Gardening for wildlife, rewilding, the environment. West Sussex

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Claire Laila Dines @freedomtodoubt.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
This August is definitely #SmallCopper time in the #chalkgrasslands! Adore this gem, all 36-40mm of its loveliness. It's normally speedy but today they were either keeping out of wind down on the chalky paths, looking like orange bows among grass ribbons. or feeding in swaying favourite flowers.
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Tycjan Chmiel @tycjanc.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
#ŚląskaSwifts update: sitting on my balcony after work when who should drop in but one of the parents still feeding young? Am not convinced both are here any more so will have to check the chicks out quickly as one of them might be missing out. Box 3 still has a parent coming to feed its 1 chick.
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valbee.bsky.social @valbee.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Brighton bans Boxpark founder for wearing Palestine shirt insidecroydon.com/2025/08/27/b...
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Brighton bans Boxpark founder for wearing Palestine shirt
Roger Wade, the founder of Boxpark, has been banned from Brighton and Hove Albion’s football ground just for wearing a shirt with the word “Palestine” emblazoned across the chest.…
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Inside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Only 20% 'affordable' in 676 flats proposed for College Green insidecroydon.com/2025/07/24/o... #Croydon #Tapestry #FairfieldHalls #EastCroydon @kwajo.bsky.social @london.gov.uk
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Only 20% ‘affordable’ in 676 flats proposed for College Green
Housing correspondent BARRATT HOLMES on the latest proposals for huge towers providing expensive flats and situated close to East Croydon Station The site next to the Fairfield Halls and Croydon Co…
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Labour HQ can mock “Your Party” but it is objectively an enormous failure that the Left has felt it necessary to set up an alternative. Even Tony Blair managed to keep Labour a broad church. “Your Party” isn’t just a new party - it’s an indictment of Starmer’s immoral policies and dire leadership.
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verityrhealey @verityrhealey.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
shame on Defra.
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
So much suffering, so much pain Once you look into his eyes You can never unsee it Boycott Faroe Islands now
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Wildlife @worldwildlife.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Inspiring encounter with Otter 🦦
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valbee.bsky.social @valbee.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
You can take Steve Reed to water, but you can’t make him think insidecroydon.com/2025/07/24/y...
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You can take Steve Reed to water, but you can’t make him think
ANDREW FISHER, pictured right, in his latest column for Inside Croydon, looks at the case for ending the ‘legalised larceny’ that is water privatisation, as the environment secretary si…
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Burning wood for heat emits more CO₂ than coal the dirtiest form of fossil fuels Also destroy vast areas forest and wildlife Yet its classified as green and gets billions in subsidies Between 2011 and 2023, use of biomass for heating increased by 16%. www.birdlife.org/news/2025/07...
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Burning wood for heat emits more CO₂ than coal
New BirdLife report reveals how bioenergy is accelerating the climate crisis.
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Stop the cull!! A so-called "scientific" policy based on cherry-picked data and mass slaughter. Badgers are dying for nothing. 😡
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Annie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
“We’re encouraging the [UK] government to protect existing access & extend access to the countryside, particularly in places like Dorset where there’s a real lack of meaningful access to nearby countryside. This isn’t about a mass trespass; it is about sort of asserting a historic customary right.”
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valbee.bsky.social @valbee.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Student nurses left 'abandoned' and 'neglected' by NHS Trust insidecroydon.com/2025/07/04/s...
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Student nurses left ‘abandoned’ and ‘neglected’ by NHS Trust
As government launches its 10-year plan for the NHS, newly qualified nurses are being ‘abandoned’ and ‘neglected’ and turned down for jobs at the hospital where they have sp…
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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
The government's planned changes to PIP eligibility will now NOT come in to effect next autumn. Instead the PIP assessment review (which will include consulting disabled people about) will first be conducted. Changes to eligibility will only be considered after that has concluded.
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Michael R Photography 🌿 @msriffle.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Well, the #pitcherplants season is just about over for the year. I made two trips to the bogs this year. Both of them were on foggy days. I'll be back out there next year. #photography #landscapephotography #EastCoastKin #bogplants #bogs #sarracenia
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Gernot Segelbacher 🪶 🧬 @gsegelbacher.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
More bird ringing. Highlight - little jewel🪶
Kingfisher in hand, green bushes in back
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Big Meadow Search @bigmeadowsearch.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Green-veined White, Pieris napi. In flight, April to October. Adults feed on a wide range of plants including Betony, Bugle, Common Fleabane and Hemp-agrimony.
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valbee.bsky.social @valbee.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Cut the Chase coalition exposes increase in racing dog deaths insidecroydon.com/2025/07/01/c...
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Cut the Chase coalition exposes increase in racing dog deaths
There were more greyhound fatalities at licensed dog tracks in 2024 than in any year since 2020, despite the number of approved race tracks having fallen to just 19. It is the second successive yea…
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Brass Monkeys @brassmonkeys.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
They're incompetent. All talk and no capability. All of them, absolute twats.
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Ron McIntyre @ronmac11.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Bittern watching distractions. #norfolkbirds #wherry #photography
Red kit overhead Wherry Albion drifted along the River Yare.Otter cub.Stormy clouds over the marshes.
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valbee.bsky.social @valbee.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Vote for these benefit cuts and you deserve to lose your seat insidecroydon.com/2025/06/26/v...
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Vote for these benefit cuts and you deserve to lose your seat
More than 22,000 people in Croydon claim PIP or the health element of Universal Credit. So why aren’t Croydon’s MPs opposing the government cuts? ANDREW FISHER, right, looks at the stor…
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Charlotte Strawbridge @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Little bee looking for a home… ‘Lilac Bumble’ 20x20cm oil on canvas, £210 www.charlottestrawbridge.co.uk/art
‘Lilac Bumble’ 20x20cm oil on canvas
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Inside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Commuters protest at plan to remove East Croydon cycle racks insidecroydon.com/2025/06/20/c... #Croydon #Cycling #SouthernFail @londoncycling.bsky.social @christianwolmar.bsky.social @willnorman.co.uk
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Commuters protest at plan to remove East Croydon cycle racks
Croydon’s cyclists are protesting over a late-notice and unconsulted decision by Southern Rail to remove their secure bike storage at East Croydon Station, leaving them without a safe place t…
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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.org · 20/06/2025
“Rachel Reeves told a fossil fuel giant that the industry would receive a ‘quid pro quo’ in return for higher taxes on its windfall profits” Is carbon capture a bung for the fossil fuel industry? The Chancellor seems to think of it that way (via @desmog.com): www.desmog.com/2025/06/19/r...
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Rachel Reeves Promised Oil Industry ‘Quid Pro Quo’ Over Windfall Tax in Private Meeting
Chancellor Rachel Reeves told a fossil fuel giant that the industry would receive a “quid pro quo” in return for higher taxes on its windfall profits, DeSmog can reveal. In a meeting with the Norwegia...
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Inside Croydon @insidecroydon.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Support your independent, locally-based news website. Click here to sign-up as a donor: patreon.com/insidecroydon #Croydon #News #Journalism
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Ian Denton @iand777.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
A male Chaffinch in prime breeding condition, arrives at the shade of the weedy pond to take some water on board. When you really look, what a beautiful bird. #wildlifegardenting #nature #weedypond #ornithology @bto-gbw.bsky.social
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valbee.bsky.social @valbee.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Commuters protest at plan to remove East Croydon cycle racks insidecroydon.com/2025/06/20/c...
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Commuters protest at plan to remove East Croydon cycle racks
Croydon’s cyclists are protesting over a late-notice and unconsulted decision by Southern Rail to remove their secure bike storage at East Croydon Station, leaving them without a safe place t…
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valbee.bsky.social @valbee.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Labour deselects Jewish Streatham councillor for Gaza support insidecroydon.com/2025/06/11/l...
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Labour deselects Jewish Streatham councillor for Gaza support
Councillor Martin Abrams has accused those running Keir Starmer’s party of ‘pursuing their factional obsession against the interests of both the community and the Labour Party’ Ma…
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Graeme Lyons @graemelyons.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
1/2 #speciesaday no. 611 is Red Star-thistle (Centaurea calcitrapa). Nationally Rare, Endangered and Section 41. National stronghold appears to be the East Sussex Downs. Until two days ago, I have only ever seen one or two plants at a time, then I found a pony paddock covered in it!
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valbee.bsky.social @valbee.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Shock and inaction is numbing communities to these killings insidecroydon.com/2025/06/05/s...
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Shock and inaction is numbing communities to these killings
CROYDON COMMENTARY: The founder of a charity that addresses violence against women and girls, JENNIFER McDERMOTT, pictured right, responds to the tragic news at the weekend of Marjama Osman, anothe…
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
It was so lovely to have an in-depth chat with Naga Munchetty about Who Wants Normal? on 5Live today. We covered working twice as hard as non-disabled people, medical bias, and not being “a pain in the arse” for advocating for your rights. Listen (2hr 34 mins in): www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
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Naga Munchetty - 04/06/2025 - BBC Sounds
Naga Munchetty features news, experiences, and big name interviews from around the UK.
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Ian Denton @iand777.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
🧵1/2 The Chiffchaff nest by the weedy pond. The nestlings are brought (mostly) caterpillars by the parents circa every 3 minutes, from dawn until dusk - an incredible work rate. They are around 10 days old now and will fledge at c17 days. #ornithology #wildlifegardening @katebradbury.bsky.social
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Jeremy Bartlett @jeremybartlett.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
"Billionaires do not emerge in a vacuum. They are the product of deliberate choices."
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valbee.bsky.social @valbee.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Labour blocks proposal for ‘swift bricks’ in all new homes www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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South Downs National Park @southdownsnp.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
It's a good day for a stroll in the South Downs. The rhythm of a gentle walk makes everything feel more harmonious. #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek #MHAW
A tree lined footpath of a gloriously sunny day
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Alison Copland @alisoncopland.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Some more photos of this morning's juvenile White-tailed Eagle seen from Coombe Heath, Arne. @harbourbirds.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social
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dizzygirl66.bsky.social @dizzygirl66.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
@harbourbirds.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social great morning at Arne distant Osprey buzzard black tailed godwits dartford warbler cuckoo stonechats swallows martins I know raptor photo is dire but hoping it’s a goshawk
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Just a few millimetres long, but the female oak flowers are turning into acorns
Just a few millimetres long, but the female oak flowers are turning into acorns
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
England used to be one big forest, but hardly any ancient woodland still survives We don’t ‘own’ this treasure, we just have a duty of care to look after it
A sea of English Bluebells beneath a tree canopy
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Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Our new paper led by Rachel Carmenta explodes the myth that poverty drives biodiversity loss - we show that it is wealth that has a disproportionate role 🌍 authors.elsevier.com/c/1l3Im6gsyP...
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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Good news for Marsh Tit fans: some of these chicks survived the woodpecker attack, as the parents were still carrying food into the damaged nest today. 'Partial predation' is quite common - predators don't always take everything, and don't always come back: doi.org/10.1642/AUK-... #ornithology
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valbee.bsky.social @valbee.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Perry closes down entire floor of flagship Central Library insidecroydon.com/2025/05/14/p...
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Perry closes down entire floor of flagship Central Library
CROYDON IN CRISIS: The council’s library closures did not stop with the four public libraries which shut last year, as the Tory Mayor pushes through more service cuts without debate or consul…
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Carl Bovis @carlbovisnature.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Grumpy Pheasant approaching... 😁😍 Taken last weekend at RSPB Ham Wall in Somerset. 😊🐦 #birds 🪶
Male Pheasant approaching the camera, surrounded by green
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valbee.bsky.social @valbee.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Ashen Grove is up for auction again - as site for 27 houses insidecroydon.com/2025/05/05/a...
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Ashen Grove is up for auction again – as site for 27 houses
Alarm bells are sounding among concerned residents in Selsdon, after a patch of public open space that sold at auction last month for more than five times its guide price has now been put straight …
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Nick Acheson @themarshtit.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
The four stages of a bloody-nosed beetle walking along a viviparous lizard
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
“I could play with myself at the Pope’s funeral and not lose a single vote.”
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Jeremy Sell @jeremysell.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Halloween pennants (Odonata: Libellulidae: Celithemis eponina) likely get their name from their jack o'lantern colors, but adults are active in the summer. They patiently wait on foliage for prey insects to fly past, then catch them mid-air. Metzger Marsh near Bono Ohio, 28 Jun 2014.
Halloween pennants (Odonata: Libellulidae: Celithemis eponina) likely get their name from their jack o'lantern colors, but adults are active in the summer. They patiently wait on foliage for prey insects to fly past, then catch them mid-air. Metzger Marsh near Bono Ohio, 28 Jun 2014.
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Tristan Norton @trisnorton.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Oodles of Shepherd's Cress Teesdalia nudicaulis at Bordon Military Cemetery, NE Hampshire this morning. Loads of the lovely Subterranean Clover Trifolium subterraneum too. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
the Lake District is one of my favourite places in England, this was the view north from Fairfield today
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