We're delighted that the Bats in Churches project has been nominated for the 'Best Practice Stakeholder Engagement' award!

The project has now come to an end but what a legacy they have left! Read more about it here: batsinchurches.org.uk/thank-you-and-…

First orchids of the year, couple of Orange Tips in Monks Wood and a Holly Blue in the garden. BC Cambs and Essex Wild Orchids UK & Ireland

That time of year again... #bluebells #wildflowerhour #wildlifeWednesday

Lovely morning out with Patrick Greenfield at Thornham talking bats... #workstuff #otherdutiesasrequired ChurchCare Church of England Environment Programme

Day of very fascinating, constructive Bats in Churches chat, with The National Lottery Heritage Fund The National Lottery Heritage Fund Midlands & East English Heritage Natural England ChurchCare BristolCommTransport and perfectly on cue, an actual #bat

Wee baby (Great Crested?) Newts in the wee (maybe 2ft across, £40 online) garden pond #newts #gardenwildlife Freshwater Habitats Trust Amphibian and Reptile Conservation

Just one hard living White Admiral NE West Anglia Team Monks Wood, but a much more optimistic amount of everything else after a slow spring. Plenty of Peacocks and Red Admiral, half a dozen Fritillaries and dozens of big Common/Southern Hawkers on patrol. BC Cambs and Essex

Silver Washed Fritillary presumably on day release from Monk's Wood #hedgerow #butterflies BC Cambs and Essex

Hi UPS UK Any chance of help with Schrodinger's package which according to my tracking emails both has and hasn't been delivered while also being delivered to another address who also don't have it..?

Join us on Thurs 14th Sep in London for 'Flying To The Future' our Bats in Churches Project Conference.

Hear from architects, ecologists, funders, policy makers and churches, alongside The Church of England Natural England Churches Conservation Trust BristolCommTransport and Historic England in a panel Q&A.

Not everyone's favourite but very hard not to appreciate a bit of roadside Buddleia in a butterfly drought... Probably 30 Red Admirals on three bushes this afternoon. #butterflies #invasiveish BC Cambs and Essex

Fifth trip up to Rutland Water Nature Reserve in eight days. 33 doing the business again with an absolute monster trout delivery about 6.30pm #ospreys Rutland Ospreys

I've had a sausage bap and got my binoculars cleaned so that's a good day... Global Birdfair

So nearly binned off the
Rutland Ospreys
cruise tonight due to the awful weather but got delayed talking about horses at Birdfair instead of going straight home and figured it was worth a try... #ospreys #realbirding #fairweatherbirders

Chatting non stop since 9am and my voice sounds like I've had a big night out at the Barrowlands. It's possible by Sunday we will be conveying the work of Bats in Churches through mime and interpretive dance. #voice #bats

Superb day Kenilworth Castle Rooms, ruins, gardens, generally lovely staff, tower top accessed by a non-terrifying staircase and an actual letter from Walter Scott. Definitely top 5 and possibly now my second favourite UK castle #ranking #castles #daysout

Particular shame about seeing so few butterflies this year is that the habitat for them looks absolutely phenomenal right now. Great Burnet, Sawwort, Lady's Bedstraw, Vetch all The Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs & Northants Upwood Meadows #wildflorwerhour #meadows #weeklateagain

Out on a @Batsinchurches mini tour of Gloucestershire. Starting with a bit of non work church crawling at Painswick with its clipped yews and its Civil War graffito reminder to be bold, be bold, but not too bold... #churches #generaladvice