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Always happy to help and advise Cliffe House

We’re so excited to announce The UK’s first ever National Hedgerow Week will take place Saturday 29 May – Sunday 6 June 2021. Hedgerows are wonderful wildlife habitats, provide uplifting greenery and can even help tackle climate change. 💚 Save the dates! 📅

Swallows were spotted here in South Yorkshire this week flying around the barns Wentworth Garden Centre

The #Slowworm aka legless lizard has a stronghold in #Worcester. the 12 I found today in tussocky grass supports this but we can help boost numbers in other parts of the country by encouraging grass tussocks and laying down corrugated iron or felt mats that trap in the heat.

Scrub is a much underrated habitat! Now is the time to spot lovely and aptly named Green Hairstreaks along scrubby edges. More info for scrub-lovers on our website.. 👇 Butterfly Conservation 🦋 Nature Friendly Farming Network farmwildlife.info/how-to-do-it/e…

Staying in the Brecklands at our usual holiday cottage near Knettishall Heath. Lots of cuckoos around on the Heath, and in the garden of the cottage there are hares in the paddock, a cream spot tiger caterpillar, and a brambling feeding under the feeders! SuffolkWildlifeTrust

it was a day I'll never forget BNA science so special to hear and meet the greatest naturalist

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It's not just about flowers. Letting grass grow long so it flowers and seeds is valuable in its own right. It provides structure to the grassland, plus shelter and food for insects. Long grass has a beauty to it too!

We should all encourage less mowing of grass in public spaces, Councils please do your bit and stop the grass cutting and spraying.

Beautiful bluebells in Wath Woods. Thanks Jean Hayter for the photos.

☁️ Swallows have a long forked tail, pale underside and dark-looking throat ☁️ Swifts have a dark underside and longer wings ☁️ Sand martins have all-brown upperparts and a dark band across the breast ☁️ House martins have all-white underparts wildlifetrusts.org/wildlifehow-id…

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Slow motion video of a nomad bee from Kevin Hinchcliffe

Excellent. BNA president Roger Tabor organised the "Motorways & the Biologist" conference chaired by Prof Kenneth Mellanby held back in Oct 1973 at NELP (now UEL) with aim of encouraging motorway verges for wildlife, which had a great outcome.

Important comments made here dispelling the myth of a silver bullet to save us by planting trees and growing flowers for honey bees, well done for being brave enough to make them.

Checking the LGA Wentworth Garden Centre found 10 slow worms of several generations Amphibian and Reptile Conservation

In Dumfries and Galloway for a week seeing small white and speckled yellow, click beetle - Ctenicera cupra and garden chafer beetle. Butterfly Conservation 🦋 Ground Beetle Recording Scheme Royal Entomological Society

Good to see so much snow on Cairngorm, we've not seen this much in June for many years and it's so important for the alpine flora.