Gillian Foxcroft
@GillianFoxcroft
Former lawyer;Derbyshire Wildlife Trust volunteer and trustee; support at Women's Work charity, Derby
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22-05-2011 11:07:07
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This week in the wildflowerhour charts...down to no 6 meadow saxifrage, up to no 5 dock, but straight in at no 4 hogweed, up to no 3 meadow buttercup, straight in at no 2 bush vetch and at no 1 for a 2nd week..yellow rattle
#wildflowerhour #LawnFlowers
#NoMowMay Plantlife
Art meeting nature Derby Cathedral Derby Peregrines Derbyshire Wildlife Trust Cathedral Quarter this morning
Joined and beautifully portrayed by Derby sketching club..@draw_derby @tom.burley on Instagram
Faunagraphic Derby Museums Natural Derbyshire Tours Michelle Underwood
A slightly, only slightly, more watery #FingerpostFriday having seen #EnglishPlay The RSC
Fingerpost Friday Kiln Theatre
The Northumberland Wildlife Trust Later Life Audio and Radio Cooperative project sounds excellent...forgive the pun.
Soundscapes providing more access to nature.
Derbyshire Wildlife Trust Jo Smith Matt Buckler Professor Paul Lynch Miles Richardson Dom Higgins Gary Moore The National Lottery Heritage Fund Craig Bennett Jim Dixon FRSA #NextdoorNature
Pignut enjoying the view whilst apparently provoking lust exceedingly(!).....for #carrotsandpeas #wildflowerhour
wildflowerhour BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland Trevor the botanist Flora of Derbyshire Derbyshire Wildlife Trust Debbie Alston
Lots of peregrine action for the next few weeks as the adults bring in food for this lot...come down to Cathedral Green watchpoints ..there'll be binocs/ scopes ..we'll be there 10am - 2pm for next 4 Saturdays
Derbyshire Wildlife Trust Jo Smith Professor Paul Lynch Mark Cocker Mark Avery
Yellow rattle taking over from the cowslips here...a nectar source, keeps grasses in check improving biodiversity and the seed heads become a refuge for insects
Win win
Plantlife Bumblebee Conservation Trust #NoMowMay #BeeTheChange
Derbyshire Wildlife Trust Big Meadow Search BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland
'A campaign by Hannah Bourne-Taylor to mandate the installation of “swift bricks” .., could make up for the loss of nest sites in the eaves of older buildings – if only the government would support it.'
@NorfolkBea #Wildcasting 🇨🇦
Mark Avery Derbyshire Wildlife Trust
Wild Justice Derbyshire Swift Conservation
Just ordered from VertebratePublishing
Thanks for alerting to this...saw Helen Mort reading her poetry at the wonderful Peggy's Skylight Jazz Club Bad Betty Press last Sunday and she didn't mention this...hope she gets a chance to talk about it Kendal Mountain Book Festival ? Paul Scully ?!
Early purple orchids keeping cowslips company in Tansley Dale
Derbyshire Wildlife Trust BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland
Peak District National Park
Great bird song walk for #DawnChorusDay at High Leas Farm this morning - never disappoints! Redstarts, Garden Warblers, Cuckoo, some amazing displays from the Tree Pipits and a suprise Pied Flycatcher singing on our return to the farm 😊 Derbyshire Wildlife Trust Derbyshire Ornithological Society (DOS)
Citizen-science meets rivers activism again (& filling the gap left by government): The Rivers Trust launches The Big River Watch, a monitoring scheme for local volunteers to report details of pollution.
Find out more below, participate, spread the word...
theguardian.com/environment/ar…
theriverstrust.org/take-action/th…
Please share and take part in this
It's a lovely long weekend...take 15 minutes to sit by a river, or two, or more
#BigRiverWatch
Derbyshire Wildlife Trust Jo Smith James Shooter Professor Paul Lynch Prof Lynn Crowe Tim Birch Mark Avery Mark Cocker Ewan Miles
As we celebrate chicks hatching Derby Cathedral the news of yet another enigmatic bird of prey being killed is even more shocking. Please share...wildlife crime must be taken seriously.
Raptor Persecution UK
Ruth Tingay Iolo Williams Mark Avery Mark Cocker bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
A good laundry day at Pangboche...for Margaret Adams Brightside Michelle Underwood Paula Symonds hautecommetroispommes
Laundry #clotheslinepictures #Nepal
An annual wander from home to a favourite woodland...subtlety in the understory...wood anenomes are an indicator of ancient woodland and spread slowly by their roots
#WoodlandPlants #WildflowerHour wildflowerhour BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland
Derbyshire Wildlife Trust