Garden Tiger moth caterpillar I think - South Swale beach on Oxford Ragwort.
#moths #caterpillar
Butterfly Conservation 🦋 Butterfly Conservation Kent & SE London

Ring Ouzel at Oare today, stayed pretty distant but showed for a while. Wheatear with what I believe is its thinking expression.
Thought I'd spotted a Penduline tit near the sluice, but April 23 was the last sighting at Oare, so doubting myself!
#birds #birding #kent

Orange Tip butterflies finally around in good numbers locally, this one going from Red Campion to White Dead-nettle, ignoring its caterpillar food plants available.
#wildwebswednesday #wildflowerhour #butterflies

Green-winged Orchid at Sandwich appearing in good numbers, first Sea Kale plants coming in to flower too and lots of Forget-me-not (Early?)
#wildflowerhour

Camouflage critters of Joss Bay

Skylarks were putting on a good show at Sandwich this afternoon, at least two Wheatear on the shingle. First St Marks fly I've seen this year, and quite a decent show of GWO too.
#birds #flies #orchids

Red Mason bees started flying yesterday. I assume they clean out their nesting holes before starting the process on next year's generation.
#bees #Pollinators
Someone was doing a study on shop bought bee hotels, this one is quite successful. Buglife Solitary Bee Week

Hi Matthew Scott for Kent PCC Kent PCC's Office,

Has involvement in the Hoad's wood affair been referred to IPCC. I certainly don't have all the facts, but it is sounding like a Rotheham situation, with environment as victim, with lots of agencies involved.

Not attaching blame, just asking.

First Hebrew Charecter last night, and the Red Mason bees are emerging from the bee hotel today, fantastic.
#moths #bees #pollinators

Spring is coming along nicely, just need the soundtrack of Turtle Dove, Nightingale and perhaps a wing clap.
#woodland #orchids

Coastal wetlands can’t keep pace with sea-level rise, and our infrastructure is leaving them nowhere to go theconversation.com/coastal-wetlan…

Broom and Thyme-leaved Speedwell both starting to flower in the coppice. Broom will be spectacular in Barming / Oaken wood coppice next week.
#wildflowerhour

Bilberry starting to take on its reddish colour.
#wildflowerhour

One of the Dog Violets growing on a mossy stump, should have checked the i.d. sheet, sepals quite important!
#wildflowerhour

Or is it a St Mark's fly - that's the one I meant re huge numbers... oops. Dr Erica McAlister Steven Falk

And this is the real scandal of Rescue Hoad's Wood 🍃💚🍃 , that criminals commit crime is not a surprise.
Good thread.
#kent #woodland

#SolarEnergy farms in the UK

Same obvious arguments - does not produce in winter when we need the power. Is land inefficient. Much more efficient placed in other areas nearer equator. etc etc.

When the tech is good/cheap enough, pair rooftop solar, with battery, ev & heat pump.

First of the March flies (Bibionidae sp.) on the wing today. Can get huge numbers of these on and around flowering Broom in the coppice at Oaken/Barming woods.
#flies #insects

Think I shall name a footpath at Mereworth Woods, 'Adder ally', until the coppice regrowth gets too high anyway. Not far from the one spotted last year.
#snakes #reptile
Froglife
KRAG
Kent Wildlife Trust

The Anemone from a few weeks back, and another patch in the woods #wildflowerhour