Mark Tutton

A favourite one from May a few years ago, Pearl-bordered Fritillary at a local site.

Took the opportunity to check the Clouded Yellow numbers at Southbourne prior to the arrival of storm Austen 🌬. ☀️ 15c with breeze at lunchtime but still managed a respectable count of 18 many looking fresh 😀 @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social

Nice to find a bunch of late flowering Cowslip Orchids (Caladenia flava flava) in the Perth Hills this morning. These orchids are so bright and sunny, it’s hard not to love them 💛🌿 #orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist #bloomscrolling

I think they call this “Keepers Moult”. 🤬

Sign now to ramp up the pressure: weownit.org.uk/StopTheBailout

Caladenia harringtoniae - Pink Spider Orchid Endemic to the Jarrah forests in southern parts of Western Australia where it grows in seasonally wet areas. Classified as threatened/vulnerable #orchids #ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #inaturalist #bloomscrolling 🌿

The death of Kavantissa, Sri Lanka’s tallest elephant, from gunshot wounds has sparked widespread public outrage. In response, authorities are launching daily raids to confiscate illegal firearms, while international animal rights groups urge elephant repatriations. Kamanthi Wickramasinghe reports.

A heads up on my forthcoming book: Where the Wild Things Live. Available: late November. A search for species, from lichens to mammals & from moths to fungi, in an ordinary garden. How many species would you find in your garden? More details markavery.info/my-new-book-...

A Knot Grass caterpillar has decided the back door is a good place to pupate!

Corporate Welfare Rolls-Royce closing in on £200m govt subsidy to fund development of new engine. Free money. No means-testing. Govt not taking equity stake, money not repayable. RR had operating profit of £3.5bn in 2024-25, will hand up to £9bn to shareholders over next 3 years. archive.ph/r18wm

Ramp up the pressure on Andy Burnham: weownit.org.uk/StopTheBailout

‘You need persistence’: the Norfolk couple who took on environmental regulators three times – and won

The last day of our Coast Ghosts & Zombies Pilot project. We restored a small overgrown #pond & then dug a new one. We placed some mud from the restored pond into the new one to speed up plant colonisation. A rainbow told is we were doing the right things!!!

Sure, we should, if we can (many cannot). But as I keep pointing out, the government itself is making no provision at all. No stockpiles, no back-up, no alternative sources. It's individuating the response to a collective problem, and that never ends well. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Donald Trump just said something I said. Data centres should be responsible for their own power - they should not be allowed to just connect to the grid we have. It makes perfect sense, these mega projects in all senses and their design and build should include their own power needs - and water.

Great. Needs to be fast. And the rest of Europe should switch too (Always assumed Estonia would be the one to help with this but Nokia makes sense 🤞)

We're delighted to announce this #InternationalSnowLeopardDay that we're continuing our support of Purevjav Lkhagvajav our Conservation Partner from Snow Leopard Conservation Foundation (SCLF) in Mongolia🐾🎉

Britons should use money we haven't got to buy food the country doesn't grow, store it in homes that don't exist, in spare rooms that got taxed away, so we can survive when reservoirs nobody built run dry because of a climate the govt won't protect. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Remember we didn’t have any money to build the electric rail network that would negate short-haul flights but we can keep giving out endless taxpayer money to subsidise development of engines entirely used for short-haul flights.

Google illegally cleared an estimated 250,000 trees across 330 hectares of forest in Muhos, northern Finland, to prepare for a new AI data center before completing mandatory environmental impact assessments And another 150,000 trees felled at Otanmäki www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The most startling example I can find of Batesian mimicry involves Danaid Eggfly, a completely palatable (if you're a bird) butterfly that's evolved to look uncannily like the toxic, foul-tasting, and unrelated Plain Tiger. The former trades heavily on the latter's reputation...

Sky wants to take over ITV. It could mean 86% of the UK's news run by either the BBC or Sky & spell disaster for UK media. Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy is thinking about intervening - tell her to stick to her guns & stop this deal. Sign the petition now: 38d.gs/xvqd

1. Did u know? One of the most exciting newcomers to our wildlife garden are Large-headed Resin Bees. These tiny little blips, only 5mm long are rare in the UK, with most records in the south east, but its territories are expanding, north, like to us, in the Cotswolds.... 🌍🪲🐝🌿🌱🇬🇧🌱

We keep bending over backwards so that imbeciles can waste money on destructive plans that are funded and fanned into flame by Russia and America. Brexit is still the Grade A example.

I'm thrilled to share my first foray into nature writing. I describe my travels through Aotearoa New Zealand to see the country's rarest birds—and use this as a vehicle to tell the stories of the islands' evolutionary history and the bold conservation efforts that saved these creatures. Gift link

A great way to mark #SnowLeopardDay this year... #SnowLeopardDay2026 #conservation #farming #socialscience #scicomm #coexistence 🌳 🌿 🌍🦤🧪🦊

What about the marine animals, like baleen whales, seals, penguins, seabirds, fish, sharks, and squid that need krill? Aker Biomarine posts $13.9m gross profit in Q2 2026... www.bairdmaritime.com/fishing/proc...

Thames Water asks creditors for another £2.4bn. Up to 30% of TW revenue covers financial costs. Debt spiral deepens problems, it borrowed to pay dividends. Hedge funds funding TW, hoping to asset-strip, hike bills, govt bailout. Let it go bust. Nationalise permanently.

I usually get better results with Firecrest pics but although there were four feeding in a patch of Holly at Rushcombe, no way would they play ball with me today .Nice to be able to show them to some interested walkers though ,who have not ever seen one . @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

Sometimes I know what a drawing is. But sometimes I really don’t. This one feels a little lion-like to me, and a little elephantine. But…yeah. I’m not sure.

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I spent this week helping translocate some animals you have probably never heard of: Vodjvodina Blind Mole-Rats. There are fewer than 1,000 left: ploughing destroys their habitat. They are not moles, not rats, but are blind! They live 20+ years and need your help! gofund.me/ce3134007. Pls share.

Leucistic Eurasian Wigeon flew west past Holme-next-the-Sea last weekend. Surely it will be found in a flock somewhere soon. Have you seen it? #NorfolkBirding

Mr Healey - you are an ignorant, short-sighted, fool Have you taken any time to look around you - to see and understand what is happening to our world? There is NO growth on a dying planet www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

☀️13c with a cool offshore breeze for this mornings walk at Southbourne. Along the wind free undercliff I was greeted with dozens of nectaring Clouded Yellows. A total count of 75 including 5 of the helice form. This species continues to have an amazing year. @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social

The world turned upside down. Pearl-bordered Fritillary in the Wyre Forest this afternoon (17/10/26.) @westmbms-99.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social @ukbutterflies.bsky.social

Can someone help us get this message to Andy Burnham? Labour voters want public ownership, not public control - it is time to deliver it

The goal of sane people must be to defund Elon Musk and get him as far away from politics as possible. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/defund-musk

Calling all moth trappers in Warwickshire that have Holm Oak nearby… Last night David Brown had 3 Oak Rustic & a Spiny Hook-tip to his Charlecote garden! He has asked that you run traps during the next few weeks to find out the true distribution of these interesting species. 🙏#TeamMoth

The British Dragonfly Society has published “A review of the Red List status of the Odonata of Great Britain 2026”... british-dragonflies.org.uk/what-we-do/r...

This is a brilliant explanation of their paper. Butterflies avoid bird predation by having brightly coloured upperwings that fool birds they are going slower than they are. The comparison with the spiral barbers pole is genius. Add butterflies erratic flight means no birds have evolved to catch them

Simon Templar and his Volvo 1800. THE SAINT (1962-69) Remembering ROGER MOORE — born 99yrs ago today.

After a year or so of working in Essex it would have been rude not to go and see the fantastic Fisher's Estuarine Moth recently. As good as mothing gets - awesome moths in a wonderfully atmospheric setting. Great to see the equally-rare Hog's Fennel specialist Agonopterix putridella too #UKMoths

Absolutely beautifully put. 👇

Work in progress. Been drawing Jumping Spiders last few days and I now have enough to make bookmarks! Salticids are my favourite spiders, they were the 'gateway' species that helped me overcome childhood 'fear' of spiders. #arachnids #spiders #invertebrates #Arachtober

IMO, the Marine Conservation Society does more harm than good. It mis-rates species & spreads confusion, when it should be telling us to eat less fish/simply stop. Now, FFS, it has given bluefin tuna a green rating, despite v little data. www.theguardian.com/environment/... 1/2