A nice early spring double along Burton Farm cycleway today Richard Smith - not great pics - but nice to find a Grasshopper Warbler and a Whinchat RSPB RSPB Burton Mere Wetlands RSPB Chester NearbyWild #RewildTheEarth 🍃💚🍃 Team4Nature

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You will really love this Helen Roy!

‘Garden safari’ collage from today. Newts under a piece of bark by the pond, lizards basking on the bark. A water vole ‘larder’/‘snacking point’ at the pond edge (there are lots of these) and a fair number of insects about. #gardeningforwildlife #pond

Richard Fox Lisbeth Hordley Butterfly Conservation 🦋 UK Butterflies The British Nature Guide Team4Nature NearbyWild #RewildTheEarth 🍃💚🍃 Presumably, this would also be true for grass verges. If councils actually left them to grow over the summer (April-September) then this would also be beneficial for grass loving butterflies.

The Cuckoos are back! Over the moon to have seen this beautiful female on the moor today. Watch to the end and you'll hear a male calling, too!

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A Hedgehog visited the feathers last night.
Is this an example of self-anointing in this clip?
Note how the 'hog presses itself down on the feathers before reaching around to lick itself.
(View previous tweet, to see the feathers)
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Box of BEASTLYS

A sad find yesterday; it’s likely this Grass Snake was killed by a pheasant, something I’ve seen before. Juveniles are eaten while adults are readily assassinated on sight.

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NearbyWild #RewildTheEarth 🍃💚🍃 Richard Fox Robert Macfarlane Matthew Wright Miles King Brigit Strawbridge Donna Rainey Eoghan Daltun 🌍 Craig Bennett Ian Denton Last year council caught up w/ me so was served weed notice 1st time in 12 years.
Cut back, got all-clear, now grow grasses + other food & nectar plants until they catch up again. Best year for insects was when plots around mine were in fallow! Try explain this to deaf ears 🙄

Cute solitary bee, I love them ❤️

A force for people + nature,Cllr liz grey has continuously fought for nature across Wirral,from spearheading the region’s verge & tree strategies to her support of Hoylake’s developing dunes

Congrats on being finalised for the national CIEEM Climate & Nature Action award!🌱

A Chiffchaff collecting feathers.
When brooding, the f will leave the nest frequently to feed - as much as every 30/40 mins!
Important then, that the nest is lined with a thick thermal insulation of feathers.
Other warblers like the Blackcap & Whitethroat have grass-lined nests.

Love Weevils!

NearbyWild #RewildTheEarth 🍃💚🍃 Richard Fox Robert Macfarlane Matthew Wright Miles King Brigit Strawbridge Donna Rainey Eoghan Daltun 🌍 Craig Bennett Ian Denton Vital to remember that grasses feed larvae of at least 17 of our native butterflies, some increasingly scarce/rare. Allowing grasses to grow on my allotment (though inspectors told me they were a serious infringement of rules🙄) increased the butterfly count by 5 new species!

NearbyWild #RewildTheEarth 🍃💚🍃 Interestingly the Gatekeepers on my allotment seem to prefer to mate in the Hedge bedstraw every year and then I presume the female moves on to the bents, the fescues or Meadow grasses to lay her eggs although I have yet to observe this event.

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And of course, the knock-on effects for other wildlife would be significant too, such as foraging hedgehogs and birds. Win win!

RobTheRunt 🌱Ⓥ Tofu-eating wokerati Butterfly Conservation 🦋 UK Butterflies The British Nature Guide Team4Nature NearbyWild #RewildTheEarth 🍃💚🍃 Yes, although our study only used data from gardens, it seems highly likely that the same benefits for butterflies would occur in parks, cemeteries, road verges etc