Clever corvids! 🖤 This rook is dipping stale bread in water to make it easier to eat! The corvid family intelligence has been researched in depth and they've been found to work out many complex puzzles #Springwatch

#wildflowerhour #grasschallenge The flowering grasses of Madrigal meadow. My favourites, Quaking grass, with it’s beautiful heart shaped flower heads and Grass Vetchling, though I guess the latter is cheating, botanically speaking! Day 6 #30DaysWild

We're giving away THREE copies of the new book "His Imperial Majesty" by Matthew Oates! 💜 To be in with a chance of winning: 👉 RETWEET this tweet 👉 Make sure you're following Butterfly Conservation 🦋 and Bloomsbury Wildlife #Giveaway #CompetitionTime 📚

A bumblebee can only fly for about 40 minutes between feeding. But we've lost 97% of our wiłdflower meadows. So every nectar-rich flower you plant in your garden could be the pit stop that saves a bee 🐝

Every council across the U.K. should aspire to this - it’s beautiful and productive and what people want from a new normal for wildlife and the environment . Top work Musselburgh !

Have you seen yellow flag iris flowering along waterways and ponds? Iris was the Ancient Greek goddess of the rainbow, who carried messages for the other gods 🌈

Otters are the guardians of our underwater forests #BluePlanet2 #OurBluePlanet bbc.in/2zrwGsT

Why would anyone go wild flower hunting in the winter? BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland explains on our Wild Flower Half Hour podcast buff.ly/2n6Qn7A

The new #TreeCharter has 10 principles which support people as well as woods and trees, continuing the traditions set out in the original Charter of the Forest 800 years ago. You can sign the charter here sign.treecharter.uk/page/6023/peti… WoodlandTrust

Everything we do is made possible #becauseofyou - #Thankyou!

#AdventBotany2017 Day 5 from Dr. Dawn Bazely is @[email protected] revisits ivy blogs.reading.ac.uk/crg/adventbota… and visits victorian gardens. #AdventBotany Maria Christodoulou Robbie Blackhall-Miles University of Reading Special Collections RNG Herbarium

The wide vocabulary of smaller woods: "shaw, copse, covert, hanging, grove, orchard, underwood, spinney, dene, coppice, holt, thicket, inclosure, carr, lea." From Sue Clifford in 'Arboreal'. Lyscombe, #Dorset Little Toller 🇺🇦🇵🇸 Common Ground Dorset AONB

“Doing things you truly enjoy will make you less tempted to go online so often” positive.news/2017/lifestyle…

With insect populations struggling, we need more buildings with wildlife walls! Pic via 🌱SEEDBALL 🐝

“Art is not about art. Art is about life, and that sums it up,” | How to Be an Artist, According to #LouiseBourgeois artsy.net/article/artsy-… #WednesdayWisdom #artshealthwellbeing

The Winter Aconite, Eranthis hyemalis is a member of the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae. Native to calcareous woodlands of Southern Europe, it was introduced to Britain as a garden plant in 1596. Now widely naturalised it was first recorded in the wild in 1838.

"I spent so much time away when you were young..." Father and legendary wildlife cameraman @JohnAitchison1 talks with his son Rowan about his life's work. Recorded📍 Islay, Scotland for #Winterwatch