Four strange looking ‘birds’ thermaling above our garden - a red one, a yellow and two blues. There was a Buzzard much higher up that I wdn’t have spotted if I hadn’t been watching these.

Hemington/Lutton ( #Cambs #northants border): nice pea fields but no waders running around in them that I could see. Wheatear though (Cambs) and a real hotspot for Stock Dove. #northants birds

Stanwick Lakes (lay-by pit): 4 Cattle Egret flew North, also 2 Collared Dove.

Guest blog - Walshaw Turbine 54 by Nick MacKinnon markavery.info/2024/05/02/gue…

Or, building your dreams of a windfarm on sand (stone) when you need true grit (stone)? A phenomenal piece of investigation and writing.

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My mum died in late March and her funeral was last week. She was heading towards 98 years of age so it's no surprise that her death certificate had Old Age as the main cause of death but the secondary one was Alzheimer's.

Megan Jane Saint (later Avery) grew up in…

Guest blog - Badger killing, is there a better way? by Alick Simmons markavery.info/2024/04/30/gue…

#badger Food Standards Agency Defra UK National Farmers' Union Badger Trust Wild Justice

🗓️On 22 June we're joining a march to #RestoreNatureNow

🌱This is a peaceful march in London to send a message to politicians that nature can be saved, but only if they take action now.

Everyone's welcome to join - find out more & pledge your support 👇 restorenaturenow.com

I genuinely believe 75% of Britain’s dog owners shouldn’t be allowed to own dogs

A lady this morning with two terriers was asking me why I was getting my dog to sit and wait while hers went past

At first I thought she was joking 😿

Nature doesn't have a voice , but we do .
Nature can't act , but we must .

Join us on June 22nd for a peaceful march with just one demand: Restore Nature Now .

Pledge to march at RestoreNatureNow.com

The full paper of our recent study on the butterfly benefits of having long grass and flowering ivy in GB gardens is now freely available for a limited time. Please RT to spread the word 📣authors.elsevier.com/c/1i~vVB8cd0JT1

Moorland burning can be environmentally damaging, especially on peatlands
We used satellite imagery to map the extent of burning across Great Britain and the overlap with sensitive habitats

Read more: community.rspb.org.uk/ourwork/b/scie…
Full paper: …lpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/rs…

Polluted rivers, lost woodlands, overfished seas…

UK Nature is struggling, & it needs us to stand up for it🥀

Let’s unite for nature in London on 22 June, sending a clear message to all politicians📢 to #RestoreNatureNow

Find out more & sign up👇

restorenaturenow.com

Extraordinary work by the Green Finance Institute today shows that damage to nature is slowing the UK economy and could lead to a 12% reduction in GDP - that's £150-£300bn - as early as the 2030s.

All political parties serious about the economy must invest and regulate to #RestoreNatureNow .

More sustainable than what? Just as the sustainability of meat depends on how it is produced and where, so does that of avos. There is what appears to me to be a good discussion of this in a book with a highly relevant title markavery.info/2023/03/19/avo…

Rarely witness 'meat anxiety'…

1/3: Hot on the heels of Campaign for National Parks #NationalParks Health Check, which highlighted that just 6% of National Parks are well-managed for nature, great to see that nature recovery has come up as the top priority for the Yorkshire Dales National Park National Park. cravenherald.co.uk/news/24259981.…

We did some analysis looking at the potential impact of the wet winter on the harvests of key crops

We estimated a net decline of 4m tonnes, driven by a 26.5% drop in the wheat harvest

All based on Defra UK yield data & AHDB crop area forecasts

Here’s a thread on it 🧵

Recent paper led by Emily Hickinbotham uses Butterfly Conservation 🦋 & Garden Moth Scheme data to investigate phenology changes in 149 moth species in Eng & Wales. Unsurprising headline = moth phenology is changing over time. But many nuances 1/5🧵link.springer.com/article/10.100…

29 moths of 16 species last night in St Mellion. New for year Spruce Carpet, Small Phoenix & Peppered Moth. Also, Frosted Green, Streamer, 4 Brindled Beauty, Pebble Prominent, Muslin, Great Prominent & 2 Flame Shoulder. Immigrants were 1 Dark Sword-grass & 2 Silver Y to ni lure

Well both my moth traps were empty in South Norwich this morning, but we did have a lovely furry Lime Hawk Moth sitting on the top of the actinic. A miracle it wasn’t gobbled up by a robin
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This morning there was one moth in my moth trap - a Muslin Moth. A lifer! The joy of being a novice moth-er. #moths #northants