Then Corncrake for an after-dinner snack 😉 After one arrived last week, we passed by the usual fields many times and never heard a peep. But finally last night we did hear him and his echo, both merrily singing away under a beautiful full moon

Sunset.

This beautiful #beetle Carabus granulatus, I think,in my bathroom tonight.

Join the Big Bee Hotel Experiment, and help us find out which bee hotel designs are best, and where to site them. It's easy and fun, and helps us to help the bees. Go to:
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Sunday 28th April is the #InternationalDayOfTheDandelion & we are celebrating it with this week’s #WildflowerHour challenge! Post pics of Dandelions, interesting facts or share examples of how important it is for wildlife using the hashtag #DandelionChallenge , this Sunday 8-9pm!

Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah passed away aged only nine. She lived near London's South Circular, & the coroner ruled her death was caused by the extremely high levels of air pollution, driven by road traffic, Ella was exposed to during her tragically short life. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/lif…

Bog beacon #fungi in my local #bog

Green hairstreak #butterflies in a local #bog Stunning little creatures.

Vital that you keep your dogs on short leads alongside waterways and banks, nature reserves, farmland, parks, hedgerows.
Water Voles are breeding; ground-nesting birds and those nesting low in shrubs, have eggs or young in them.

Please keep wildlife safe! 🙏

RSPB

Happy Earth Day! 🌍
I've been busy looking after all the new plants I grew from local, native seed last Autumn. It's early days but so far there's 400 wildflowers, 50 Wild Honeysuckle and 40 Trees!😀🌱🌳

First ruby-tailed wasp of the year, investigating one of our garden bee-hotels. #WaspLove

A glimmer of hope: La Oroya, Peru, - - a court ruled a metal mining company harmed local people while government failed to protect them. The court ordered health care provision, compensation & a clean up. It took 20 years of fighting to reach this point.

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At first, all I saw was the Rosebay Willowherb twitching, before my small companion appeared. Zoomed camera, rather than stepping forward.
Love the quiet determination of this ecosystem engineering Water Vole. It is such a privilege to spend time with these charismatic wild kin!

Roundabout on Downpatrick's Ardglass Road that's regularly mowed to within an inch of its life by someone who misguidedly believes they're doing us a good service John O' Dowd Donna Rainey Chris Hazzard MP 🍉 Keep NI Beautiful Trafficwatch NI DAERA

Fantastic to meet Councillor Ruth Bennett this morning to chat about how Liverpool City Council grass cutting policy could work better for biodiversity, people and existing budgets. Fingers crossed for a brighter future for Liverpool’s green spaces and their wildlife 🌱❤️

Peat on raised bogs forms at around 1m every 1000 years. Each layer with the sleán is about a century. Apart from the climate and health reasons our turf will run out. So we should stop extracting it before we eliminate all our remaining biodiverse bogs.

#Arctic

Polar bears in the Western Arctic will be safer now the Biden administration has finalized a rule to ban oil drilling on over 13 million acres.

The ruling includes protection for a vast region of tundra & wetlands teeming with wildlife.

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A relative was telling me about the beautiful #wildflowers that were along the hedgerows & hedge banks on this land. So I went to check it out. And we wonder why our native wildflowers are disappearing from the landscape!

Hoverfly just after visiting a #Dandelion