@marjmar.bsky.social
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Barometer earthstar, Astraeus hygrowmetricus in peak condition.
December 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Barometer earthstar, Astraeus hygrowmetricus in peak condition.
I've really enjoyed the latest series of photos by Rambling Ray...such extraordinary colours. Couldn't decide between this or the blue. Nature...we are so lucky!💚🌱
Undoubtedly Star of the Kerridge Hill Waxcap Show, Rare encounter with most Beautiful Pink Ballerina Porpolomopsis calyptriformis I've ever seen, wonderful moist Lilac Pink, one of eight seen. Nearby another one with impressive gills tutu! #fungifriends
December 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I've really enjoyed the latest series of photos by Rambling Ray...such extraordinary colours. Couldn't decide between this or the blue. Nature...we are so lucky!💚🌱
This is what life should be about. Lovely to see such joy💚🌱
Every so often I venture south of the border, and Day 11 of my botanical #adventcalendar is the amazing Large-flowered Butterwort - native to SW Ireland, but occasionally introduced in England, including this population in Edale
Like @bsbibotany.bsky.social, I couldn't stop grinning!
#wildflowerhour
Like @bsbibotany.bsky.social, I couldn't stop grinning!
#wildflowerhour
December 17, 2025 at 10:43 AM
This is what life should be about. Lovely to see such joy💚🌱
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Fungi finds at #WyverLaneNR today. Variable Oysterling, Scarlet/Ruby Elf Cup, Jelly Ear and Velvet Shank @belperbirder.bsky.social @richardttaylor.bsky.social @cliveaderbys.bsky.social @danmartinwildlife.bsky.social @derbyswildlife.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Fungi finds at #WyverLaneNR today. Variable Oysterling, Scarlet/Ruby Elf Cup, Jelly Ear and Velvet Shank @belperbirder.bsky.social @richardttaylor.bsky.social @cliveaderbys.bsky.social @danmartinwildlife.bsky.social @derbyswildlife.bsky.social
So lucky to live here. I think there should be a name for a group of Polecats
December 16, 2025 at 8:08 PM
So lucky to live here. I think there should be a name for a group of Polecats
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Congratulations to Mark Searle, winner of the 2025 UK Butterflies Photo Competition, with his image of a Dingy Skipper - clearly an inappropriate name for a butterfly that can appear quite beautiful! Winning entries can be seen at: www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/competition_...
December 15, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Congratulations to Mark Searle, winner of the 2025 UK Butterflies Photo Competition, with his image of a Dingy Skipper - clearly an inappropriate name for a butterfly that can appear quite beautiful! Winning entries can be seen at: www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/competition_...
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The word wreath is said to come from the old English word “writhen” meaning to twist, as in a circle or wheel. The wreath is also said to represent the wheel of the year, in recognition of the fact that the darkness and cold of winter will eventually fade away #folklore
December 15, 2025 at 7:20 AM
The word wreath is said to come from the old English word “writhen” meaning to twist, as in a circle or wheel. The wreath is also said to represent the wheel of the year, in recognition of the fact that the darkness and cold of winter will eventually fade away #folklore
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December 14, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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2025 wildlife highlight from David Bentley: "I saw this rare & spectacular Golden-bloomed Grey Longhorn Beetle at Castle Water, Rye Harbour Nature Reserve in June. With antennae longer than its body, the whole creature is longer than its name - a full 2 inches in total! Longhorn indeed...!"
December 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
2025 wildlife highlight from David Bentley: "I saw this rare & spectacular Golden-bloomed Grey Longhorn Beetle at Castle Water, Rye Harbour Nature Reserve in June. With antennae longer than its body, the whole creature is longer than its name - a full 2 inches in total! Longhorn indeed...!"
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Inuk artist Kenojuak Ashevak designed this stained gjass window at John Bell Chapel of Appleby College in Oakville (Ontario) near Toronto (Canada) #Womensart
December 14, 2025 at 5:27 AM
Inuk artist Kenojuak Ashevak designed this stained gjass window at John Bell Chapel of Appleby College in Oakville (Ontario) near Toronto (Canada) #Womensart
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Looking at a little slime mold like this one always reminds me of just how tiny our world is in relation to the universe. We are a cosmic speck...with a lot goin’ on.
December 13, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Looking at a little slime mold like this one always reminds me of just how tiny our world is in relation to the universe. We are a cosmic speck...with a lot goin’ on.
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Collared Earthstar, Geastrum michelianum (formerly Geastrum triplex).
Thetford Forest, on today's Norfolk Fungus Study Group foray.
#Fungi #FungiFriends
Thetford Forest, on today's Norfolk Fungus Study Group foray.
#Fungi #FungiFriends
December 13, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Collared Earthstar, Geastrum michelianum (formerly Geastrum triplex).
Thetford Forest, on today's Norfolk Fungus Study Group foray.
#Fungi #FungiFriends
Thetford Forest, on today's Norfolk Fungus Study Group foray.
#Fungi #FungiFriends
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Lichenomphalia umbellifera is a rare (in the lichen world) mushroom producing fungus that’s also a lichen. Newfoundlan, Canada. Mushrooms are about 2cm high.
#fungi #lichen #mushroom #fungifriends
#fungi #lichen #mushroom #fungifriends
December 11, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Lichenomphalia umbellifera is a rare (in the lichen world) mushroom producing fungus that’s also a lichen. Newfoundlan, Canada. Mushrooms are about 2cm high.
#fungi #lichen #mushroom #fungifriends
#fungi #lichen #mushroom #fungifriends
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Glynn Rubidge's wildlife highlight of 2025 was seeing this young, male Kestrel back in spring. "Beautiful birds". Indeed.
December 12, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Glynn Rubidge's wildlife highlight of 2025 was seeing this young, male Kestrel back in spring. "Beautiful birds". Indeed.
Before I became disabled I would not have dreamt of interfering in legislation around disability so why does Tanni Grey-Thompson think it's OK to try to stop people with terminal illness from seeking a humane ending?
‘Cruel’ amendments are being used to thwart assisted dying bill, says lead MP
‘Cruel’ amendments are being used to thwart assisted dying bill, says lead MP
Lords’ demand for 1,150 changes include many that are ‘unnecessary’ and likely to run down clock, says Kim Leadbeater
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Members of the House of Lords have proposed “totally unnecessary” and “very cruel” amendments to the assisted dying bill in a bid to scupper it, the MP leading the campaign has said.
Kim Leadbeater said on Friday she believed that peers opposed to the bill were trying to block it by putting forward hundreds of changes, including one to film terminally ill people as they undergo an assisted death. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Before I became disabled I would not have dreamt of interfering in legislation around disability so why does Tanni Grey-Thompson think it's OK to try to stop people with terminal illness from seeking a humane ending?
Time to get rid of the Lords and replace with a (PR) elected chamber. Disgraceful behaviour...they should consider what the majority of the public want.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Senior opponents of assisted dying bill urge Lords not to deliberately block it
Letter says there is danger of Lords losing legitimacy as more than 1,000 amendments tabled, delaying any vote
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Time to get rid of the Lords and replace with a (PR) elected chamber. Disgraceful behaviour...they should consider what the majority of the public want.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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'Snow Bound' by Kerry Phippen, contemporary Scottish artist #womensart #ArtAdvent
December 11, 2025 at 6:26 AM
'Snow Bound' by Kerry Phippen, contemporary Scottish artist #womensart #ArtAdvent
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Morning All 👋 Middle of the week already and time for #wrensday ~ a gorgeous little Jenny Wren here at Forest Farm Nature Reserve ~ Cardiff ~ South Wales 🪶 🦉 #birdingWales #ukbirding #ukwildlife #naturephotography #birdwatching #birdsky #birdphotography #wren
December 10, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Morning All 👋 Middle of the week already and time for #wrensday ~ a gorgeous little Jenny Wren here at Forest Farm Nature Reserve ~ Cardiff ~ South Wales 🪶 🦉 #birdingWales #ukbirding #ukwildlife #naturephotography #birdwatching #birdsky #birdphotography #wren
Deadly! 🔥❤️
Nyunmiti Burton, Indigenous Australian artist from Tjala Arts, an Indigenous-owned and managed initiative on the APY Lands, South Australia. Established in 1997 #WomensArt
December 4, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Deadly! 🔥❤️
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December 4, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Disgraceful. Fake news everywhere. Scientific journals should be better than this but it seems like if you pay a fee you get any old crap published
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/28/n...
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/28/n...
Nature’s latest AI-generated paper — with medical frymblal and Factor Fexcectorn
Nature’s open-access sideline Nature Scientific Reports is the “we’ve got Nature at home” of scientific publishing. It appears to run any garbage for a mere $2,690 processing charge. A snip, I’m su…
pivot-to-ai.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Disgraceful. Fake news everywhere. Scientific journals should be better than this but it seems like if you pay a fee you get any old crap published
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/28/n...
pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/28/n...
I got quite emotional looking at this - think I needed a nature uplift and... I got one! Thanks Tony and Wagtail💚
Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Reflections with the alternative of #LongTails. How about this Grey Wagtail (Motacilla cinerea) that manages to combine both?
A regular visitor to Oxford's Lye Valley, it seems to love the mud round the ponds.
@robcrank68.bsky.social #OX3 #birds #UKWildlife 📷
A regular visitor to Oxford's Lye Valley, it seems to love the mud round the ponds.
@robcrank68.bsky.social #OX3 #birds #UKWildlife 📷
December 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I got quite emotional looking at this - think I needed a nature uplift and... I got one! Thanks Tony and Wagtail💚
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NO ARRESTS IN EXETER
35 sign-holders with “I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action” signs were not arrested today in Exeter.
Instead, Devon & Cornwall Police decided to remove the signs from protestors and make a megaphone statement, before simply leaving the scene.
35 sign-holders with “I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action” signs were not arrested today in Exeter.
Instead, Devon & Cornwall Police decided to remove the signs from protestors and make a megaphone statement, before simply leaving the scene.
November 29, 2025 at 6:11 PM
NO ARRESTS IN EXETER
35 sign-holders with “I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action” signs were not arrested today in Exeter.
Instead, Devon & Cornwall Police decided to remove the signs from protestors and make a megaphone statement, before simply leaving the scene.
35 sign-holders with “I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action” signs were not arrested today in Exeter.
Instead, Devon & Cornwall Police decided to remove the signs from protestors and make a megaphone statement, before simply leaving the scene.
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Short-eared Owl, this morning on Tealham Moor
November 27, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Short-eared Owl, this morning on Tealham Moor
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November 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM