It's another garden fledging day... This time it's the Great Tits in the stump box that are beginning the next chapter... If you have the space, having a birdbox of any kind can bring you so much. Good for the #birds & good for you! Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈 #gardenwildlife #wildlife

Last year I created a mini #wildlifepond in my front #garden . Today, I welcomed the arrival of a new species of #damselfly - the Large Red Damselfly. It very kindly posed alongside two Azure Blue Damselflies 😍 #WildlifeFrontGarden

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During a trip to Antwerp in Belgium in November 2023, I visited this pilot rewilding project on the residential street, Lange Riddersstraat.

It wasn't the best weather or time of year to see the street...

What an EPIC journey for a swift. The flying dinosaur, who weighs no more than a creme egg. Ask your mates and neighbours to consider them before undertaking roof repairs.
Sheffielders get in touch. We have a list of swift friendly roofers.
[email protected]
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Make sure to download the #SwiftMapper app to report sightings/Screaming parties (rooftop height level) and nest sites! swiftmapper.org.uk

UPDATE: We're now taking sponsorship requests for street tree planting this coming winter 24/25

📌You choose the location
🔍Your council surveys
👍🌳If all ok, the tree is planted
🩷🚿You get to look after it

Find out if your council is taking part👇

In my chapter in the forthcoming Great Misconceptions, I look at #rewilding tree planting schemes & argue it's far better to let #nature do it. In these photos, Bramble is spreading, allowing Blackthorn to grow, which allows the Oak to follow. 13 different chapters by 14 writers.

These are Spindle flowers, a UK native tree that's often overlooked. Flowering now, they might not be that exciting, but the fruits that follow... Great tree for a garden, small, attractive fruits & autumn colour & great for distracting Blackfly from your veg! Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

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Out now: Beauty and Monstrosity in Art & Culture, with my chapter on 'Exploring the Urban Jungle: Making Space for Wildness in Cities'. Well done editors Chara Kokkiou and Angeliki Malakasioti, Routledge Books and all contributors: routledge.com/Beauty-and-Mon…

We can ALL do our bit to help biodiversity. #nomowsummer

#Swifts now being widely reported across the UK but many more still to come. So do keep your nerve!
Photo credit: Judith Wakelam who loved and cared for Swifts.

Hooray for the humble hedge. It's National Hedgerow Week!

A much overlooked street inhabitant is the hedge. It doesn't just add visual appeal, it also:
🥁Reduces noise
🚗Captures pollution
🐞Creates an environment for wildlife
🫧Reduces localised flooding
😎And creates a sense

What a great photo of a very communal vine!
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There’s many ways in which to manage a #garden for #wildlife , particularly when it comes to longer grassy areas/meadows. This #wildlife garden I designed & created a few years ago, still demonstrates that a #Mowsaic of habitats can be achieved, even in small gardens #NoMowSummer

Please say no to pesticides and herbicides. Cocktails of these chemicals in fields, gardens, parks, verges, community spaces are poisoning wildlife including bees, birds, hedgehogs, butterflies, beetles, frogs, damselflies, and polluting our rivers. Let's restore nature 🐝

It’s nearly time to ‘say yes to #NoMowMay and Jun - Jul - Aug’ , a #NoMowSummer as some have highlighted so unplug the mower , silence the strimmer and get the T shirt to celebrate leaving nature to thrive chrispackham.store/product/no-mo-…

But seriously , what has nature ever done for us ? You know , apart from the air we breathe , the food we eat , making us healthier . . .

Brilliant new ad from Zero Hour to promote their Climate & Nature Bill campaign , take action at zerohour.uk

#EarthDay

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I enjoyed this discussion @ldnmetarts of alternative ways to use Architecture, explaining how #rewildmystreet evolved from my background in architectural practice, won a @londonNPC competition, and became a website, plus events, live projects and writing.

Wooden posts or trees? 🤔

All too often planners prefer bollards & other hard landscaping features. We need to think differently and incorporate more 'green’ into our built infrastructure.
#Bollards don’t make for healthier more liveable streets, trees do🌳

👉Trees for Streets