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Steven Wright @stevenwright58.bsky.social · 13h

Do not disturb! Peacock butterfly in the birdwatching hide at Stanford Reservoir.... @savebutterflies.bsky.social

Steven Wright @stevenwright58.bsky.social · 13h

Black Nightshade in flower at Thurlaston nr.Rugby. Not a long way from home...or Deep Purple @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

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Steven Wright @stevenwright58.bsky.social · 13h

Common Dog Violet in flower . Spotted on Thursday 9th Oct. while doing grassland management at #AshlawncuttingLNR
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social

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Steven Wright @stevenwright58.bsky.social · 13h

www.naturespot.org/species/bog-...

Bog Hoverfly | NatureSpot

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Steven Wright @stevenwright58.bsky.social · 13h

It is!! Cheers Tracy

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Northamptonshire Weather @nnweather.bsky.social · 14h

It’s 2 weeks today that British Summer Time becomes Greenwich Mean Time again as the clocks fall back 1 hour at 2am on the 26th of October.

Sunrise on the 26th will be at 6.48am and the sun will set in the county at 4.45pm.

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Pennyjs @pennyjs.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes lately, I go out with my camera thinking, “There’s nothing to photograph today. The flowers are fading, things look drab now…”

That’s when I’m forced to look. Really really look. At things I ignored before. At things that have changed with the seasons. At unexpected little things.
🌿🍂

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Steve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 3d

Denbies Hillside, Surrey: a sign of our times - October 9th, stood in a t-shirt watching Redwings and a Brambling at the same time as this Chalkhill Blue butterfly!! It’s all over the place…

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Steven Wright @stevenwright58.bsky.social · 1d

A bit further along the lane is this South facing Ivy and it was feeding these neat looking Ivy Bees

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Steven Wright @stevenwright58.bsky.social · 1d

Shared use path at Draycote resevoir was too busy and tthe Mallard were kicking off too. Egret minding its own biz though. I took the footpath loop back to Thurlaston and found Hen of the Woods. Reputed to be very tasty and good for health. @britmycolsoc.org.uk

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Steven Wright @stevenwright58.bsky.social · 1d

But still a rose :-).

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Steven Wright @stevenwright58.bsky.social · 2d

...of note in and around the resy. were Red Crested Pochard and a few Hares.

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Steven Wright @stevenwright58.bsky.social · 2d

These Meadow Pipits were bathing together in a puddle on the disused Market Harborough railway line near South KIlworth. Spotted while visiting Stanford Reservoir this afternoon...

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Butterfly Conservation @savebutterflies.bsky.social · 3d

The Speckled Wood is unique in its ability to spend the winter as either a chrysalis or a caterpillar 🐛💤

Letting your grass grow long and leaving some dead plants is a great way to support this beautiful species throughout its lifecycle.

📷: Iain Cowe, Bob Eade, Andrew Cooper

Speckled Wood butterfly resting on a yellow leaf

Green caterpillar with white stripes along its body, clinging to a dead plant stem

Speckled Wood chrysalis showing the brown and yellow speckled wings of the newly-formed butterfly inside.

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Steven Wright @stevenwright58.bsky.social · 3d

#AshlawncuttingLNR work party today. Hedge trimming,path edge cut and raked off and the last section of grassy bank cut leaving plenty uncut of everything for shelter and overwintering life stages,seed etc.

A section of layed hedge gets a trim to encourage it to thicken up.

The last of our large grassland banks part cut and raked off.

View of the last of the large grassland banks from the top of the bank .Plenty of cover left until Springtime.

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Steven Wright @stevenwright58.bsky.social · 3d

Give this post a click it shows one reason why species conservation is so important. We're part of nature not just in it!!

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 3d

Why we need to invest in basic science. Sometimes discoveries like these lead to important benefits for society!

Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 3d

Why does the naked mole rat have the longest lifespan of any rodent, nearly 40 years?
A 30-year long mystery unraveled @ScienceMagazine today!
Its cGAS enzyme in cells has 4 missense mutations that upends its function, promoting DNA repair and suppressing inflammation
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...