This could describe the situation of many of our beautiful places right now. Large scale systemic change desperately needs to happen now. Lakes Chief Lake District Karen Lloyd

One of my group took this photo North Ronaldsay Bird Observatory last week while we were looking for the Great Grey Shrike... I wondered why they were all waving frantically at me! 😂

I’ll never tire of this sound... #nightjar Sound on🔉 Wild Lakeland RSPB Iolo Williams @leeinthelakes Kerrie Ann Gardner Karen Lloyd

Trying out a cheap waterproof phone case in the Upper River Kent this afternoon. Managed to find this wonderful White-Clawed Crayfish. The only crayfish native to the UK and now endangered. Wild Lakeland @leeinthelakes CumbriaWildlifeTrust Karen Lloyd

A line which is moving apparently inexorably north and west.

Yeh but this obviously doesn’t apply to dogs that people really love I know because I’ve tried explaining and their dog can’t be a problem #dogsonleadsplease

After this weekend I can see this happening in the Lakes at some point 😳..Lakes Chief Lake District Mary Smith @TheLakesTony Dodgson Wood

I fear the limestone woodlands of South Lakeland will be decimated by this disease and will look very different to now in 5-10 years time… Wild Lakeland @leeinthelakes Lake District CumbriaWildlifeTrust

Hard to believe that this is still happening in this day and age…. Natural England Cumbria Environment Agency CumbriaWildlifeTrust Cumbria County Council

In 2020 South West Water spent 415 hours, on 63 separate occasions, dumping sewage into St Ives Bay. Just a thought.

Here is the story of one curlew, which summarises their plight. Thanks to Chris Wells for sending it. "In October 2013 an adult female Curlew was caught on her wintering grounds on the Severn Estuary in Gloucestershire and fitted with a metal BTO ring.

To you it may just look like a bit of water and mud, but to me it is the start of a new wildlife habitat for our farm. After only 5 days work, Danny Ullswater Catchment has turned a canalised 220m straight beck into a series of squiggly channels, scrapes and ponds. It is awesome!

A flying visit to curlew central, aka Shropshire, visiting Curlew Country's curlew headstarting project. These folks are seriously amazing. No sleep whilst eggs hatching and round the clock monitoring. Just fantastic efforts to save the species from extinction.

Pied Flycatcher bonanza this year on our Loweswater nest monitoring scheme - we have 65 chicks in total and 13 have already fledged! Most will fledge in the next few days. #LakeDistrict #PiedFlycatcher #Conservation

An empty curlew nest in the New Forest. It was their 2nd attempt. Camera trap showed a fox taking the eggs at night. All nests in this area failed. The harsh reality of waders in Britain. ⁦Curlew Action⁩ ⁦Curlew Recovery Partnership⁩ ⁦Wader Quest⁩ ⁦Wader Study⁩

The Lake District, where did it all go wrong? If one can be arsed…I found this blog an engrossing read today. I thought I wrote some emotive essays online but this one is rather superb in an academic way! Written by a young individual from Ambleside: ldnpa.blog/home

South Walney is famous for our gull colony, which was once the largest in Europe with 45,000 pairs of Lesser black back and herring gulls in the 70s. The colony has been in decline since the local tip shut, but since at least 2015 there's been zero chicks fledged

Could this be a Marsh Fritillary web? - on Succisa pratensis on a site with them present for the last 2 years. Leaf folded over and mostly eaten. Cumbria Butterfly Conservation Butterfly Conservation 🦋 @leeinthelakes David Morris Martin Warren m wain Jon

Over 30 headstarted curlews (raised in captivity then released) are now flying free in Shropshire - for 3rd year running. Huge congrats to ⁦Curlew Country⁩, led by Mandi Perkins. Her dedication in the face of so many obstacles is inspiring 🙏🙏🙏🙏🐦🐥⁦Curlew Action⁩

The hegemonic dominance of single land-uses in our uplands is one of our biggest problems, be it forestry in Dumfries & Galloway, intensive sheep grazing in the Lake District or DGS on the North York Moors, all of which can create species poor homogeneous upland landscapes.