#livid

4 and a half years in, and I was convinced I was magic.

don't know why I'm surprised, but I actually am.

No Tory MPs voted positively on climate issues... none of them.

remember when the NGOs were all swooning over Gove?

Just the worst of us.

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'An island nation where we fear to venture into the sea, because the Tories have turned it all to shit.'

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still jealous of that hedgepig...

Rishi being rained on whilst reading out his Government’s obituary - could anything be more fitting?

can not WAIT to wake up on 5th July and know that it's finally all over

Day 2 of #Madeira recceing

Echium candicans, the Pride of Madeira, looking pretty spectacular, and some fresh spikes of Madeiran Marsh Orchid up in the laurel forest

a herd of Striped Dolphins and some sluggish Bottle-nosed Dolphins the best of an afternoon boat trip

in #Madeira for a few days (again), plotting & planning amongst the endemics

Madeiran Firecrest & Madeiran Chaffinch both as friendly as ever, a drive-by Trocaz Pigeon & Echium nervosum looking great

Sand Martin @ Ponta do Pargo & Squacco Heron @ Sao Vicente were less expected

Ingredients: Wide buffer strip with gates to allow end of season cattle grazing + removal of land drains piping a spring into the brook + 2 days to 'pull' the water through the newly re-wetted area to create 'flashes', 'dragonfly pools' & 'wildlife ditches'.

jeez ...

spent Friday walking 23 miles from the source of the Dove down to Dove Dale

2 Cuckoos, 5 Dippers, a Red Kite near the top and a handful of Willow Warblers up around Hollinsclough

loads of Green Hairstreaks up on the moors

ended the day staring up at the Aurora like a loon

#TheEndOfDays

Although it won't be confirmed until after the event has reached Earth, there are signs tonight's Severe Geomagnetic Storm will be the strongest since 2005.

This will mean it's likely all of the UK (cloud permitting) should be able to see the the Aurora tonight if you look north

We're going back to Mongolia in August!

Can

Not

Wait

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one last morning moth session with the #MothWhisperer James Lowen & Mark Hows

amongst the goodies today

The Passenger (a near cousin of our earlier Geometrician)

Euchromius superbellus

& the lovely emerald Proteuchloris neriaria

#MothsMatter #WildlifeTravelling #Lesvos

a close run thing... I do love a good form

a day of all the beasts on the sunny #Lesvos hillsides around Molyvos...

the much-admired, thread-tailed Neuroptera sinuata

Eresus walckenaeri, a chewy ladybird spider

Grand Antlion again

and the pitch black Dasypogon diadema, a contender for next year's #WorldRobberFlyDay

Some more goodies, thanks to the moth trapping efforts of James Lowen and Mark Hows, introducing another group of Wildlife Travellers (and half the other hotel guests) to the wonderful world of moths each morning

Wildlife Travel #MothsMatter #WildlifeTravelling