Always a joy to spend time birding around Norfolk with friends. 145 spp over 6 days with many highlights and many geese!

Kite and Snipe 📸 @lukestoppard.bsky.social

Don't think I'll ever beat these views of Jack Snipe! Seen just a few miles from home this evening.

2025 was perhaps my best year of botany, so I thought I'd post a few highlights from Scotland. A well-timed trip to Orkney in May produced Oysterplant (Mertensia maritima), Holy-grass (Hierochloe odorata) and Scottish Primrose (Primula scotica). @bsbibotany.bsky.social

A colourful duo from the Loch Ness area today - Purple Saxifrage (Saxifraga oppositifolia) and Yellow Star-of-Bethlehem (Gagea lutea). @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Sounds like this is the place to be now… and why not start with some blue skies! Temperature inversions and Brocken spectres up Ben Wyvis with @sibthorpia.bsky.social last Saturday, certainly a day to remember! 😊