A finger post with a view! #FingerPostFriday #LakeDistrict

The perfect place to give my Ploughman Wood history talk. A room full of oak timbers felled in 1460, a product of a nearby ancient wood, Ploughman perhaps Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust

If you subscribe to our free newsletter you will be reading this morning about how Defra UK went to The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust for information in preference to taking advice of Natural England & Defra staff on gamebird licensing. This is the subject of a Wild Justice legal challenge🧵

Why not treat your loved ones, or yourself to one of Notts Dormouse Group unique #dormouse gifts featuring artwork by Courtenay of bespoke folk All profits will help fund the #Nottinghamshire #Dormouse Project …nghamshire-dormouse-group.teemill.com Mammal Society People's Trust for Endangered Species Chris Packham Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust

Ink and watercolour number 2. We spent the day in Rutland on Saturday and had a short walk around Uppingham. I can guarantee that the next building I draw will not have bow windows!

Natterer's bat are in Sherwood Forest Indy Kiemel Greene

First attempt at an urban pen and watercolour sketch of Victoria Park near where I work in Sneinton from a photo taken on a lunchtime walk last week. No idea what I'm doing with the watercolours but happy with this first go.

It can't be considered rewinding, the site is too small and too busy, but the management at Skylarks NR by Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust and these guys gives a glimpse of a wilder, more sustainable landscape

We shouldn’t have to choose between new homes, clean water & nature’s recovery 🌱

We’re urging the GOV.UK not to U-turn on promises to protect our environment and stop nutrient pollution. #NutrientNeutrality

Really looking forward to this talk.

All set up for the 68th annual Mammal Society conference. If you're around, please do come & say hello #DormouseChat Notts Dormouse Group Brackenhurst ARES

I would like to let Rishi Sunak, Keir Starmer and Ed Davey know that climate and nature policies will be the main factor in who I decide to vote for at the next election.

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Here are some ideas for policies that would win my vote... 👇

Can't believe what I'm hearing. Swift bricks aren't even controversial. They're a cheap, easy way to restore our dwindling bird population. Yet neither Tory Minister, nor Lab opposition, will commit to make them mandatory. What planet are they on?? RSPB Hannah Bourne-Taylor

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Another high #dormouse count today, resulting in a total of 46 #dormice including several pregnant individuals. Nests were varied, some with green leaves, some old leaves & bark, & 1 made entirely from willow fluff 😍 Notts Dormouse Group People's Trust for Endangered Species Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust Notts BAG Natural England East Midlands

The #ColwickPark grand prix circuit is almost complete. Shocking to see tarmacked paths being laid through woodland. Completely ruined the look & feel of the habitat. So much for #biodiversity improvements #Bonkers nottingham city ccl Nottingham Parks Nadia Whittome MP

As parliament debate #AccessToNature today, a personal essay.

Deep in my valley is a tree so old it makes my bones ache. There are only a handful like it in the country, and its boughs harbour some of our oldest stories.

Yet almost no-one has ever seen it. 🧵

People (many farmers) think the damage was done between 1945 and 1980 - farmland birds have halved since 1980

It isn’t the ag technologies so much as the scale and speed and spread of them as intensive monocultures - and the time lags on nature

(Market driven, of course)

A wonderful variety of Green-winged Orchids in a Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust meadow this morning. Just beautiful! BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland

NSF Lowland Study tour 2023 day 2. Thank you to Michael and Tom from Nottingham Wildlife Trust for showing us around the ancient woods of Threswell. Management for birds, door mice and coppicing. Quick evening visit to Major Oak. National School of Forestry UoC University of Cumbria Michael Walker