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Tara
@wildtara.bsky.social
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Outdoor explorer, volunteer, ecologist. Easily excited about butterflies 🦋 Constantly distracted by wildlife 🍄🦔🐛🐞🪲🌱 Warwickshire https://linktr.ee/tarahiggs
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Tara @wildtara.bsky.social · 16h
It wasn’t the best year I think for Ettington, prob too dry. Normally lots of orchids but I didn’t see more than a couple here. Did see a few Chalkhill Blues though.
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Tara @wildtara.bsky.social · 16h
Think I know why my legs ache - 15,000 steps/ 10.5km/23 floors. 🤣
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Tara @wildtara.bsky.social · 16h
Stopped to admire this Blue Fleabane while out today as well as take this toad up the bank to the compost piles. #ettington #toad #wildflowers @arc-trust.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Toad on my gloved hand. He looks a bit put out. Blue fleabane flower with my hand as a backdrop. Didn’t pick it.
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Tara @wildtara.bsky.social · 16h
We were hard at work finishing the banks at Ettington cutting today. I always seem to forget how long & high they go! 😆 Views are across the site from the roundabout end. #volunteer #conservation @bcwarwickshire.bsky.social
View from top of bank along road verges , volunteers brush cutting & raking. We do both sides of the road. Volunteers seen in distance in banks. Having a 2 min pause from raking. You usually take downhill but then have to take the cuttings back to the top compost piles.
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Tara @wildtara.bsky.social · 1d
Turns out there is more than 1 species of Figwort weevil 😮 I will need to pay better attention next year! #weevil
Figwort weevil photo taken this year.
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Tara @wildtara.bsky.social · 1d
Listening to the Getting to know Weevils event now and trying to decide which weevil is the cutest 🤔 #weevil @eventbrite.bsky.social
A Gorse weevil pic I took earlier this year.
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Tara @wildtara.bsky.social · 2d
Flowering wildflowers on the Riverside walk in Worcester. Himalayan Balsam, Comfrey, White dead nettle & Black Horehound. #WildflowerHour
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Tara @wildtara.bsky.social · 2d
It is! 😀
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Tara @wildtara.bsky.social · 2d
That’s a very smart moth. Love how it’s described as ferruginous-orange! Nice checkered underwing bit too.
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Tara @wildtara.bsky.social · 2d
Nice find! Would love to see these 😀
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Tara @wildtara.bsky.social · 2d
Impressive eh! 😀🍎
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Tara @wildtara.bsky.social · 2d
A few apples that came home with me yesterday. The Newton Wonder, Wyken pippin, Sunset & Golden knob? #apples #appleday #heritage
Newton Wonder Apple Wyken pippin apples Golden knob apples Sunset apples
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Tara @wildtara.bsky.social · 2d
Yesterday I popped along to Hill Close Gatdens in Warwick for their Apple day! Lots of heritage apples to see & take home. The pitmaston Pine was tiny! While the Peasgood nonsuch was huge! #appleday #apple Also cake!
A selection of apples on display A view of one of the orchard plots. Plum cake
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Tara @wildtara.bsky.social · 3d
A group of Glistening Inkcaps & a slippy, shiny fungi on a log! #fungi Ufton Fields NR
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Tara @wildtara.bsky.social · 3d
Hare’s foot inkcap at Ufton Fields NR this morning. #fungi
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Biological Recording Company @biologicalrecording.co.uk · 4d
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Tara @wildtara.bsky.social · 4d
😆 Well done!
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Tara @wildtara.bsky.social · 5d
😆
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Tara @wildtara.bsky.social · 5d
Spotted a few of these Pavid Willow sawfly caterpillars on the willow (Euura pavida) Quite acrobatic!
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Tara @wildtara.bsky.social · 5d
Ooohhh 😍
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Tara @wildtara.bsky.social · 5d
Sounds fabulous! Delving into dung hopefully not just after lunch 😆 and namestalk sound great 👍
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Tara @wildtara.bsky.social · 5d
Oh my gourd! 🤣 sorry! (Not sorry 😆)
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Tara @wildtara.bsky.social · 7d
At Ettington Cutting today raking the roadside banks. It’s quite thin grassland and lots of wildflowers but still hard work carrying the cuttings back up the slope!! #volunteer #conservation @bcwarwickshire.bsky.social
Volunteers carrying up the raked piles to the top of the slope where the compost piles are The volunteers cutting, raking, picking up litter & seeding the banks by the roadside
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Tara @wildtara.bsky.social · 7d
😍
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Tara @wildtara.bsky.social · 8d
Great butterfly spotting! 🙂
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