Tim Holt-Wilson

Looking forward to presenting this tomorrow, please re-post, thanks

What is wrong with some people?? How can anyone fail to see these animals on the road? Right next to a cattle grid too.

My Birdscapes exhibition at Glandford, North Norfolk continues until November 1st. To view/ buy online see www.birdscapes.co.uk/artists/jona...

“An Autumn gale is stripping off the leaves and sweeping them along in the slanting squall of rain” Artist: CF Tunnicliffe Writer: EL Grant Watson (What to Look for in Autumn, 1960)

Yucca optimistica

That last repost is a good excuse to share again Steven Falk's beautiful colour plate from Peter Chandler's Platypezidae monograph (The Flat-footed Flies of Europe, Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica, 2001).

Seasonal ponds here remain dry. Water beetles will be hunkered in tussocks or secreted in their pupal cells. They breathe atmospheric air, they can wait. Some aquatic snails will survive buried in mud. Long-lived adults of some caddis sit quietly in the trees, waiting to breed when water returns.

South Terrace, Cork city centre: polypody, heart's tongue and maidenhair spleenwort ferns spring from a damp old brick wall. If your eyes are open to it, we're surrounded by the relics of our lost natural rainforest heritage.

Hundreds of fish died in Norwich’s rivers this summer. But conservationists say the real warning lies in what made the Wensum vulnerable enough for it to happen. What has gone wrong with one of the world’s rare chalk rivers?

"Even if we stop emitting, Earth will remain approximately 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial temperatures."

Earth provides a canvas on which life leaves its traces. Mike Benton introduces 'Ichnology' the study of trace fossils in this primer form our Life&Earth special issue 🐾 www.cell.com/current-biol...

An incalculable quantity of exotic glacial erratic boulders is lying quietly beneath the surface of the 'boulder clay' plateau of High Suffolk. Pond excavation has brought over 25 of them blinking into daylight in one day at Finningham @megwildflowers.bsky.social. #Suffolk #Pleistocene #geology

《'Lowest possible' 1.5°C overshoot scenario limits peak warming around mid-century to 1.7-1.8°C. Emissions cuts of 18% by 2030, 45% by 2035 needed for this scenario, alongside increasing CO2 removal throughout the century.》

Grassland set-asides provide nesting habitat for bumble bees in agroecosystems... besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🌳 Are you a landowner in Charnwood Forest with geological outcrops on your land? ❓ Not sure if they might be important or need conserving? 🌐 Get in touch - we provide free advice to landowners across the Geopark area. Contact us through our website: www.charnwoodforest.org/contact/

'Alfred Savin and the North Sea Story' - now online at www.youtube.com/live/tpsOhll.... Fascinating talks by Neil Adams (NHM), Alfie Bower (QMUL), Adrian Lister (NHM). James Walker (Bradford). #Pleistocene #mammoths #PaleoSky #paleontology #Doggerland #geology @norfolkmuseums.bsky.social

Meet the fishermen fighting an ecocide. A study backs claims that toxins are most likely responsible: PCBs, metals, and the volatile ‘super-dissolver’ pyridine . All Rivers Spill Their Stories to the Sea... www.thenerve.news/p/all-rivers...

An Ice Age glacier tore huge slabs of chalk from the bedrock, carried them hundreds of metres and dumped them here at Trimingham, Norfolk. Some of these glacial rafts contain among the youngest chalk found onshore in Britain. #Norfolk #Geology #AerialPhotography

When I'm #dead, don't put my ashes in an urn. Put it into an hourglass, so I can be on time. Scatter it under a tree that's called what I am now. Grit the road with it, so I can help you one last time. #vss365

Got space for a pond? 100,000s of UK ponds have been filled in over recent decades. Even a small pond in your garden could help wildlife including frogs, toads, water boatmen, damselflies, dragonflies, insects, swallows, swifts, hedgehogs, bats & foxes 🐸 More: littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/cre...

This Saturday - streaming on YouTube, the conference 'Alfred Savin and the North Sea Story' at Cromer, focused on fossil mammal research and the #Pleistocene landscapes of Norfolk and #Doggerland. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsOk... #Quaternary #palaeontology #Palaeolithic @quaternaryra.bsky.social

How much do you know about the health of your local river? Even those that look beautiful can still be in trouble. Read our 2026 #StateOfOurRivers Report to learn what's happening in our rivers, the solutions we need, & how you can help your local river. ✊ theriverstrust.org/rivers-repor...

Join us for our 2026 conference! Tickets can now be booked here: www.eventbrite.com/e/working-for-norfolks-bats-2026-tickets-1999482129875?aff=oddtdtcreator Please share!

Fish art Incredible historical Chinese fish drawings, most of them dated from the Song Dynasty (960-1279), with photographs for comparison Sinoperca, Silurus and Carassius From the paper by Ning Qiu and Wenjing Li www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/18...

A cobble from the Westleton Beds of the Norwich Crag - a nice example of a Picture Flint, a vision-inducing pattern of iron staining, aka Café au Lait patterning beloved of @pavementgeology.bsky.social. The Westleton Beds were deposited in tundra conditions - is that why I see a phantom Polar Bear?

@hburningham.bsky.social Ground-truthing called for!

I love Wych Elm, Ulmus glabra. Sometimes its leaves look Lothlorien; sometimes Barad Dur. They are always rough and leathery. #Suffolk #native #trees

This Saturday - streaming on YouTube, the conference 'Alfred Savin and the North Sea Story' at Cromer, focused on fossil mammal research and the #Pleistocene landscapes of Norfolk and #Doggerland. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsOk... #Quaternary #palaeontology #Palaeolithic @quaternaryra.bsky.social

"In this landscape, energy bills are the battleground. Labour blames exposure to fossil fuels, the Conservative leadership blames Net Zero and the Lib Dems want short term relief on fuel prices. Whoever wins that argument will shape climate policy for a decade."

🌍 Great insect photography does more than showcase beautiful images - it helps people appreciate, understand and connect with the tiny creatures that shape our world. Share your best insect photograph and help celebrate insect science through imagery. ⏰ Entries close 31 October buff.ly/pkwv08O

It's a first for North Tethya. "Results suggest that bats first evolved in Europe during the late Paleocene. Their descendants then moved into Africa." #bats www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Why would an animal weighing less than a teaspoon bother flying 150 miles in a night? We have fitted almost 100 with 'airtags for bats' to find out. When one flies near an iPhone, its position is pinged to us. Look what Mike and Mira did last night! @batconservation.bsky.social @sussex.ac.uk

#MolluscMonday Giants from the south. A display cabinet in the Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge houses huge rudists from the Upper Greensand (Albian) of Shillington, Bedfordshire, an unexpected occurrence in the British Cretaceous far away from the Tethyan homeland of these bivalves.

Tracey calls it Critch but I've always called in Bullace; taxonomists call it Prunus mirabilis or P.cerasifera. The trees quietly shepherd their secret DNA identity. They fruit abundantly in my garden most years - this the best year ever. Their mother was a sucker from a hedge in Finningham.

Apple Day and Guided Walk at Thrandeston today - we had a plethora of apple & pear varieties to sample as well as rare specimen saplings to buy (for me, a Golden Russet). We are lucky to have such wonderful diversity. Among them a hard pear stored and used as winter survival food 500 years ago.

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What does the health of the soil beneath our feet have to do with the price of food on our supermarket shelves? Quite a lot, actually, writes Martin Lines. After a summer of extreme drought, the case for farming that works with nature has rarely been stronger.

I will be giving an introduction to the aquatic wildlife around Buckfastleigh including Dippers, Lampreys and Kingfishers at this free event. Moor Imagination Centre, Chapel Street, Buckfastleigh TQ11 0AB on Saturday 10 October 2026 at 11 am

The Fenland Flora by Owen Mountford & Jon Graham (with 300 photos & over 1000 maps). This 1400-page, 2-volume set has now gone to print. Pre-pub offer ends 31 Oct 2026 -visit naturebureau.co.uk/bookshop now & SAVE £25 on published price @bsbibotany.bsky.social @plantlife.bsky.social

“This is the new extinction & we are half way through it. We are in terrible, terrible trouble & the longer we wait to do something about it the worse it is going to get.” Sir #DavidAttenborough No time to wait. #ActOnClimate #ClimateCrisis #climate #nature #renewables