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While everyone rejoices over the Nutcracker occurrence perhaps salutary to read the conclusions of the paper on the 1968 invasion; not good news for the species and maybe indicative of things happening across the breeding range related to climate? Most vagrants are probably doomed though!

What you fight, you feed. The right is very intentional about the vile they spread. They lie not to be believed but rather to be repeated. Congrats Brazil - may this and Serbia be a portent.

#MallardMonday @warwickshirewt.bsky.social Brandon Marsh.Bonus Wigeon and Teal...

Rays of sunshine. Hawkweeds at #AshlawnCuttingLNR this afternoon. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

#AshlawnCuttingLNR Sunday work party finishing off the "Healthy Living Walk" the bit we brush cut below the trees has some Wood Anenomes and we chose some more native bulbs to plant there today.

As autumn arrives, pumpkins take centre stage in many households for Halloween. However, for hedgehogs, they pose a potential threat... www.countryfile.com/halloween/ar...

Google plans to bulldoze a wildlife haven in Essex – home to rare species – for a data centre. Sign the petition now to help save it before it’s gone forever 🐝🦋 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

"Lovely weather for ducks". As they say. @warwickshirewt.bsky.social Brandon Marsh. #Shovelers

1st Winter Black Headed Gull vs. Kingfisher. Beauty in the eye of the beholder @warwickshirewt.bsky.social Brandon Marsh #speciesism

"Green energy isn't perfect." Nothing is. But it's a hell of a lot better than a planet that's uninhabitable. Progress, not perfection.

A few of the remaining Fly Agarics that remain untrampled at a local SSSI reserve. #FungusFriday

Rugby Wildlife group Thursday work party at #AshlawnCuttingLNR South of Ashlawn Rd. saw the largest of our grasslands cut and raked off. The West side is finished too. Some areas are left uncut until April '27.

Sign of the times....

Common Darter dragonfly and Willow Emerald damselfly spotted a couple of days ago may be the last I'll see this year. Wintry weather is coming. @britishdragonflies.bsky.social

Today we learned that some wood is so dense it sinks. The remains of this structure had been stopping the boat from getting next to the landing stage and we fished it out. A lovely job for a rainy day!! The timbers are likely to be greenheart, a hardwood from Guyana and are in "as new" condition.

Praise the Lord - absolutely ridiculous that this environmental vandalism by an American billionaire came back a second time. Massive thanks to everyone who fought this including the incredible Tom Dargie and @groatbury.bsky.social

#Twosday Teal

It would have been treacherous working on the blue lias clay slopes at Newbold Quarry today so Rugby Group volunteers decided that discretion was the better part of valour. We had a walk round and litter picked instead of brush cutting. #volunteers.

Better in context than a close up. Kingfisher @warwickshirewt.bsky.social Brandon Marsh. #habitat

Shoveller @warwickshirewt.bsky.social Brandon Marsh today #MallardMonday

"In two phrases this can be summed up as ‘Greenwashing’ and ‘Canned Hunting’. I wonder how these developers would feel if they knew that a service they had bought was elite level greenwashing.” www.banburyguardian.co.uk/news/environ...

Naturalised Michaelmass daisies at #AshlawnCuttingLNR. buds like stars and flowers are novas. It's a spreader though. #PlantAlert @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

#KIngfisher @warwickshirewt.bsky.social Brandon Marsh

All reserves with feeders take note!!

Every study shows that decarbonising and *doing the things we legally agreed to do but needed Insulate Britain to remind us about* are cheaper for everyone and bring bills down. Cutting “The Green Crap” has only ever put bills *up* short term and long term. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

@stanfordbirder.bsky.social thanks for the tip :-). Whooper Swans were relaxing at Stanford Reservoir this morning. Shortly after they all tucked their heads in and fell asleep!!

www.theguardian.com/environment/... #Bees #Hymenoptera #Pollinators

In the frame. Brandon Marsh @everyheron.bsky.social @warwickshirewt.bsky.social

I was leaving @warwickshirewt.bsky.social Brandon Marsh when someone mentioned the Stonechats. It would have been churlish to leave without having a look. #birdwatching

Climate change is creating new ecosystems worldwide. “We need to redefine our conservation goals”... www.tum.de/en/news-and-...

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

Here's a few of the Speckled Wood #butterflies that were making the best of the warm and sunny morning at #AshlawnCuttingLNR. @bcwarwickshire.bsky.social @warwickshirewt.bsky.social Bonus red Admiral and a high flying Holly Blue too.

“The purchasers of the biodiversity units that pay for this site enhancement and management are essentially funding a playground for the criminal gang known as the Warwickshire Hunt.” Read more in our latest article. Don't forget to subscribe: westmidlandshuntsaboteurs.substack.com/p/the-hypocr...

A consequence of a warming climate enabling the 3rd brood to survive/ @savebutterflies.bsky.social

Good balance from @savebutterflies.bsky.social encouraging people to also grow caterpillar foodplants, essential for butterflies & moths to complete their life cycle 🐛 National pollinator survey reveals insects’ favourite flowers 🦋 butterfly-conservation.org/news-and-blo...

Rugby Wildlife Group volunteer work party was at Newbold Quarry today.Tackling the steep lower slopes of Gun Hill, beneath the Cotoneaster regrowth is Wild Strawberry. With a Grizzled Skipper colony 1/2 a mile away we're hopeful that colonisation is possible. @bcwarwickshire.bsky.social

🦇 Would your place of worship benefit from a small grant to help manage bat roost-related issues? Living Alongside Bats in Churches Grant applications are open and will close at 10am, 26 October. More information: www.bats.org.uk/our-work/bui...

Moorhen and Shoveler. Both more colouful than a cursory look reveals @warwickshirewt.bsky.social Brandon Marsh. #MallardMonday

It was a grey drizzly day today in Rugby. if it's going to rain it should do it properly but all we got is 1mm at most. Here's a cheery pic of 2 Ladybirds obeying the biological imperative taken yesterday to cheer us up.

A couple of years ago, an electrician tried to convince us to install a "smart" electrical panel that would balance our power usage via an app, turning off electricity to various appliances as needed. We declined. "I don't want to worry about my fridge getting hacked," I said. He laughed.

Do we have any #micromollusc experts around? Found this yesterday doesn’t at 21m on a wreck in the UAE, was 3mm in length - but super cool #invertebrates #marinelife #gastropods #mollusc

Cutting and raking at #AshlawnCuttingLNR And time to chat when the work is done. #Conservation #Volunteers

The climate crisis in one sentence: We have enough food, technology, and money to save the planet. We just have a system where destroying it is more profitable. That's not a climate problem. That's a greed problem. #ClimateJustice

Common Toadflax in flower at #AshawnCuttingLNR. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

A few birds in the bush seen at #AshlawnCuttingLNR today.