Norma Saunders

Some days you have to find the birds and some days the birds find you--like this handsome Red-bellied Woodpecker that was obsessed with this tree knot just overhead. Did I say, 'handsome'? 🥰🥰🥰 #Woodpecker #CentralPark #birdsseenin2026

Real treat on what was The oldest Tree in Clent at NT Clent Hills NR, a 250 year old Ancient Beech tree felled by a 2023 storm. Beautiful distant spaced adnate gills of Porcelain Fungus Oudemansiella mucida, glossy Porcelain caps are pretty good too! #FungiFriends #Fungi #Mycology

Coconut-scented lanes, gorse. #wildflowerhour #nature #Eryri

Absolutely FABULOUS news for all life on Earth, especially the Amazon rainforest!!!! Despite the fascists playing every dirty, cheating trick in the book to steal this election, the people of Brazil saw through the lies. So, so, happy and relieved this morning 🇧🇷 👏 share.google/UdpzcSkD5us7...

Perfection is impossible. Choosing less harm is not.

Most of Europe’s wild bee species & 1/2 hover fly species have declined over last century Research “confirms what has long been suspected" on pollinator loss Wildlife being lost at unprecedented rate as humans destroy habitats, spray pesticides & change climate www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Banjo understands me

The King of the Boardwalk, a Northern Cardinal, dining on berries

To bring a smile to your face, here’s a c. 4,500 year-old clay vase in the shape of a little hedgehog holding a bowl! 🦔 ❤️ From Chalandriani, Syros, Greece. Early Cycladic II period. National Archaeological Museum, Athens, 📷 ArchaiOptix #Archaeology

The adjective doesn’t wash the blood away... #animalrights

Robin on the move! 😀😍🐦 You can buy my 2027 birds calendars here; www.carlbovis.com/2027-birds-c... 🐦 And here; ko-fi.com/carlbovis/sh...

A wander round the damp garden before the storms for #SixOnSaturday cherry tree leaves, viburnum, late roses, rowan berries, red apples, beautiful pears

Poet, trader, explorer: following Rimbaud's footsteps in Ethiopia

Obligatory photo of Narrow-leaved Ragwort, Senecio inaequidens, growing in masses between the tracks at #BuryStEdmunds station and behind railings in the station approaches. #WildflowerHour #Suffolk

Dryad's Saddle fungus, Cerioporus squamosus, on a fallen trunk and stump at @cambridgeppf.bsky.social #Wandlebury #Cambridge. #FungiFriday

Have a happier meal, one that lets someone else keep living. #animalrights #plantbased

I mean, after the Zionist vote I can see that there might be a drop. But is he less popular than Badenoch? and Farage? Really? I mean 2 demonstrably horrible horrible people with a much wider range of horrible horrible policy positions? I think you need to investigate the people who were poled.

Vote Zack Polanski and The Green Party. 10/8/2026.

Tomorrow, vote for Zack Polansky to be MP for Holborn & St Pancras. Vote for our country, vote for nature, vote for the climate.

For people and planet vote for Zack.💚💚 #Green #BackZack

Tomorrow we can send Zack to Parliament. And you can make the difference. Sign up for polling day linktr.ee/HSP_6thGreenMP

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Medlar providing a sheltered sunny spot for a 7-spot Ladybird. #WildWebsWednesday

I'm sick of sewage in our water! I refuse to pay the sewage portion of my Thames Water bill. Why are we paying water company CEO's obscene bonuses for the privilege of having our waterways pumped with sewage? Thames Water have failed in their responsibilities, public ownership of Thames Water now!

#GardensHour delighted my sweet peas are still flowering. These are 'Earl Grey'

Blooming cold tonight so have had to resort to the old woolly blanket and cat winter regime ❄🐈‍⬛

My contribution to this evenings #smallbeautieshour: samples of natural hedgerow dye.

At 5am this morning, after over 150 arrests on terrorism charges and a stand off that lasted over 16 hours, Mersey Police gave up & left a group of people outside the Labour Party Conference still displaying their “terrorist” signs.

We have the most disgusting government! The i paper:

A lone Harebell, Campanula rotundifolia, in a pine wood today. #Suffolk #Brecks #WildflowerHour

A peach coloured rose from our garden this morning

Ever wondered how the peacock got its eyespots? See this exquisite engraving of an Indian peacock (Pavo cristatus) from D'Orbigny's Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle (1843 - 1849). In our final study of the natural history of the Myths, look no further than the reviled Greek goddess Hera.

Go & get Eoghan’s new book from an independent bookshop or ask your local librarian to acquire it. Or get it in inter-library loan. Or e-mail my cousin’s bookshop, she ships worldwide: www.thecompanyofbooks.ie

Stop calling it a climate problem. Call it what it is: organized greed. The planet isn’t dying. It’s being killed for profit. The killers have names. And boardrooms. #ClimateJustice #StopEcocide

Israel has been found guilty today in Geneva of war crimes including extermination, forcible transfer, starvation, torture and false imprisonment, sexual violence including rape... and many more If it was any other country than Israel all of Europe would boycott them. Instead there will be silence

Greylag geese flying in formation alongside a boat. What an incredible moment to witness up close! 🪿🚤

Nunchuk tutorial: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatis...

One of those days

Trump Approves $2.8 Billion Arms Sale to Israel, Including 40,000 One-Ton Bombs The package would be among the largest deliveries of U.S. munitions to Israel. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/u...

Speak at Your Own Risk Donald Trump’s attacks on the First Amendment By Adam Serwer www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Swans might have one of the most underrated landing techniques in the animal kingdom. Original post

Packed with monuments. Some people have asked where the image from yesterday's Parish Church App announcement was taken. It is the chancel at St Mary's, Bottesford, Leicestershire. An unusual view taken from five metres up and giving a clear view of the Rutland tombs.

Remains of the 4th century Roman Town House at Dorchester (Durnovaria) in Dorset. The shelter protects some great mosaics! 📸 My own. #RomanSiteSaturday #RomanBritain #Dorchester #Dorset

🩷💙 Pink and blue, Common Blue butterfly on Tamarisk on sea defence bank at East Lane Bawdsey #Suffolk today. There were also two’s Clouded Yellows but they moved so fast all you’ll get is emojis. ☁️☁️ 💛💛

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