Nick Acheson

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This evening’s talk venue. I discovered in Elle from Norfolk Rivers Trust’s excellent talk that I identify as a chalk stream tributary: ‘Consistently cold and generally rather shallow.’

On 13th October, in the knowledge that I would bankroll her babies’ first few weeks, renowned benefits cheat Gertrude hatched a further 10 ducklings in my garden. Having reached almost 2 weeks of age, and survived Austen and Boelo, they may just make it, against all the evolutionary odds…

Please help us to spread the word about this. The first Red List update on dragonflies since 2008. british-dragonflies.org.uk/what-we-do/r...

Sunday book review: The Healing Heath by the SWLA Review: markavery.info/2026/10/25/s... Celebrating the #restoration to #heathland of a patch of #Norfolk #farmland. Wonderful #art and excellent words. 'drop-dead gorgeous' 'I was moved by the Foreword' @themarshtit.bsky.social #wildlife

It’s a Rachmaninov Piano Concerto No.2 sort of day, don’t we think?

Ploom in my room

Arch, gold

Approving the Jackdaw gas field solves none of our problems, while contributing to the existential crisis of climate breakdown. The government has privileged special interests above the general interest. It's a shameful, cowardly decision.

Aw thank you Lucy x

As I’m reading @lucylapwing.bsky.social’s funny, generous Love Is a Toad, in which she watches pinkfeet at Cley, my 1st inland pinkfeet of autumn fly over my house. Lucy will be talking to me about Love Is a Toad (and wild things) at Cley on Friday www.norfolkwildlifetrust.org.uk/events/2026-...

A contested (re)introduction conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

This hapless juvenile song thrush doubtless flew south from Scandinavia on the first harsh wind of winter, only to become a sparrowhawk’s meal on arrival. So doing it has passed its Nordic proteins, carbon, water and stories one step further on the complex cobweb of life.

Fleabanes, Mexican and Guernsey Erigeron karvinskianus E. sumatrensis So many stories of exploration, trade, colonialism and agricultural industrialisation written in their common and scientific names and their modern geographical distribution.

Much enjoyed @dioceseofnorwich.bsky.social “Sacred Spaces: churchyards for nature” event at St Andrew’s Holt compèred by @themarshtit.bsky.social with Norfolk Wildlife Trust & Norfolk Churches Trust. Congrats to All Saints’ Hemblington, winners of the inaugural NCT Churchyard Conservation Award.

"In Latin America and the Caribbean, wildlife populations fell by 95% [in 52 years, and] 80% in Africa..." How do you even compute such whirlwind annihilation of nature? *THE* best thing we can do to alter such trends? Shift towards more plant-based diets. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Today here in the UK: the first day in 117 days that temperatures across the entire country are staying below 20°C. Quite a statistic.

Entire field of grass. Selectively eats nettles. Legend.

Cuteness overload 😍 Baby 🦫 Kit collecting it’s supper ❤️#ChalkStreams

My friends at @norfolknats.bsky.social and @suffolk-nats1929.bsky.social are hosting a joint conference on nature recording for nature recovery. Details below. It’ll be good!

We are absolutely delighted to share that Ghosts of the Farm by @nicolawriting.bsky.social was awarded a Highly Commended recognition for Nature Writing at last night's 2026 Wainwright Prize @wainwrightprize.bsky.social #Booksky #Nonfiction Congratulations, Nicola! 🎉

SNS and NNNS JOINT CONFERENCE 2026 Saturday, 10th October, Diss Corn Hall. Recording for Nature Recovery – how biological recording will benefit wildlife in crisis Please see link for details and booking. Non-member tickets available from 1st September sns.org.uk/sns-meetings...

A very happy Big Pinkfoot Push Day to all who celebrate

Seago clouds, full of swallows

Very late for #wildflowerhour: small scabious

Same view, fifteen minutes apart. The first as I frantically got my laundry in. Swifts overhead, in a great swirl of house martins. Doubtless the last swifts I’ll see here this year. Go safely wild ones.

Go safely, my beautiful friends [volume up]

Hop springs eternal

Sunset over the marsh today. As the nights grow longer, you have to seize every opportunity to jump in the sea.

Please don’t take her even though you can

Exhibition at Cley VC up and running...

Went to Wales Stayed four weeks Had no WiFi Wrote 20,000 words Read two and a half books Saw The Odyssey Walked 350,000 steps Reacquainted myself with dippers, common hawkers and gold-ringed dragonflies Was deeply grateful

I don't want to have to engage in protest. I'd rather just get on with my research, and I found it quite emotional But while my government is considering pouring more fuel on the fires, despite everything we know and everything we're experiencing, what else am I supposed to do?

The Haywain 2026

NNNS are saddened to hear that Carl Chapman passed away on Friday. Carl made a massive contribution to the Society, as a Trustee, Chairman & through the creation of the Liaison Committee (which he also chaired)- a body that helped strengthen links between NNNS and other local wildlife charities. 1/x

The swallows in this village have no respect for personal space

1) fat hen, greater plantain, knotgtass sp., annual meadow-grass. 2) annual meadow-grass. #geometricalbotany

I am profoundly thankful for trees

I lost a pillowcase in the laundry this morning. Is it too early to blame Andy Burnham?

Succinct review

Asteraceae doing the heavy lifting for this week’s #wildflowerhour #stillflowering challenge: musk thistle (with painted lady caterpillar) on chalk grassland, Canadian goldenrod, wall lettuce (in this case door lettuce) and (not Asteraceae) entangled tendrils of tufted vetch and hedge bindweed.

Great idea. One of the most inspiring books when I was young, then I was lucky enough to get to know Keith in person, then later to employ Alan's daughter! Any young birders need this book.

#BigButterflyCount is here! Between now and the 9th August: - spend 15 mins in a sunny spot - count the butterflies you see - submit your sightings Find out more at bigbutterflycount.butterfly-conservation.org Happy counting folks! 🦋🦋🦋

Wild things from yesterday: black bryony berries a wasp subduing a (still living) peppered moth a painted lady caterpillar on musk thistle

Smooooooth