Neil Forbes
@treebeard793.bsky.social
Ecologist, based in South Cumbria. Mostly focused on coastal, wetland, limestone and upland habitats; botany, birds & Natterjacks. Views my own.
#Yew saplings growing out of the walls of Minster Lovell Hall.
A handy reminder that we are never in charge for long. #Nature will always find a way.
#wildflowerhour
A handy reminder that we are never in charge for long. #Nature will always find a way.
#wildflowerhour
December 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
#Yew saplings growing out of the walls of Minster Lovell Hall.
A handy reminder that we are never in charge for long. #Nature will always find a way.
#wildflowerhour
A handy reminder that we are never in charge for long. #Nature will always find a way.
#wildflowerhour
Shepherd's purse, Capsella bursa-pastoris #StillFlowering
for #wildflowerhour
Minster Lovell, #Oxfordshire
for #wildflowerhour
Minster Lovell, #Oxfordshire
December 7, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Shepherd's purse, Capsella bursa-pastoris #StillFlowering
for #wildflowerhour
Minster Lovell, #Oxfordshire
for #wildflowerhour
Minster Lovell, #Oxfordshire
White & Red Dead-nettle, Lamium album & purpureum #StillFlowering for #wildflowerhour
Growing by the magnificent ruins of Minster Lovell Hall. Two #archaeophytes both of which can be found in flower for much of the year. L. album is a classic winter-flowering species.
#Oxfordshire
Growing by the magnificent ruins of Minster Lovell Hall. Two #archaeophytes both of which can be found in flower for much of the year. L. album is a classic winter-flowering species.
#Oxfordshire
December 7, 2025 at 8:15 PM
White & Red Dead-nettle, Lamium album & purpureum #StillFlowering for #wildflowerhour
Growing by the magnificent ruins of Minster Lovell Hall. Two #archaeophytes both of which can be found in flower for much of the year. L. album is a classic winter-flowering species.
#Oxfordshire
Growing by the magnificent ruins of Minster Lovell Hall. Two #archaeophytes both of which can be found in flower for much of the year. L. album is a classic winter-flowering species.
#Oxfordshire
Not so much about this week but I did find this Field Forget-me-not, Myosotis arvensis struggling on in the cold snap a few days ago.
#wildflowerhour
#Arnside #Cumbria
#wildflowerhour
#Arnside #Cumbria
November 30, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Not so much about this week but I did find this Field Forget-me-not, Myosotis arvensis struggling on in the cold snap a few days ago.
#wildflowerhour
#Arnside #Cumbria
#wildflowerhour
#Arnside #Cumbria
November 29, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Sea Radish, Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. maritimus.
Quite a bit sill in flower on the Arnside - Silverdale coastline.
#wildflowerhour
#NationalLandscapes
#Cumbria #Lancashire
Quite a bit sill in flower on the Arnside - Silverdale coastline.
#wildflowerhour
#NationalLandscapes
#Cumbria #Lancashire
November 23, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Sea Radish, Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. maritimus.
Quite a bit sill in flower on the Arnside - Silverdale coastline.
#wildflowerhour
#NationalLandscapes
#Cumbria #Lancashire
Quite a bit sill in flower on the Arnside - Silverdale coastline.
#wildflowerhour
#NationalLandscapes
#Cumbria #Lancashire
November 23, 2025 at 8:55 PM
November 23, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Smooth Hawk's-beard, Crepis capillaris. Holding on after recent floods & frosts.
#wildflowerhour at #RSPB Leighton Moss & along the #Silverdale shore
#wildflowerhour at #RSPB Leighton Moss & along the #Silverdale shore
November 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Smooth Hawk's-beard, Crepis capillaris. Holding on after recent floods & frosts.
#wildflowerhour at #RSPB Leighton Moss & along the #Silverdale shore
#wildflowerhour at #RSPB Leighton Moss & along the #Silverdale shore
The #Winter10 (11) from the #Silverdale coast.
#wildflowerhour in #Lancashire
Sea Mayweed, Sea Radish, Smooth Hawk's-beard, Nipplewort, Yarrow, Herb-Robert, Cock's-foot, Annual Meadow-grass, Hogweed, Smooth Sow-thistle & Ragwort.
#wildflowerhour in #Lancashire
Sea Mayweed, Sea Radish, Smooth Hawk's-beard, Nipplewort, Yarrow, Herb-Robert, Cock's-foot, Annual Meadow-grass, Hogweed, Smooth Sow-thistle & Ragwort.
November 23, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The #Winter10 (11) from the #Silverdale coast.
#wildflowerhour in #Lancashire
Sea Mayweed, Sea Radish, Smooth Hawk's-beard, Nipplewort, Yarrow, Herb-Robert, Cock's-foot, Annual Meadow-grass, Hogweed, Smooth Sow-thistle & Ragwort.
#wildflowerhour in #Lancashire
Sea Mayweed, Sea Radish, Smooth Hawk's-beard, Nipplewort, Yarrow, Herb-Robert, Cock's-foot, Annual Meadow-grass, Hogweed, Smooth Sow-thistle & Ragwort.
A luxuriant patch of Black Spleenwort growing on a limestone wall in Silverdale.
Wonderful botanical name - Asplenium adiantum-nigrum. A somewhat scarce species locally these days.
#WildFernHour ahead of tonight's #wildflowerhour
Wonderful botanical name - Asplenium adiantum-nigrum. A somewhat scarce species locally these days.
#WildFernHour ahead of tonight's #wildflowerhour
November 23, 2025 at 3:39 PM
A luxuriant patch of Black Spleenwort growing on a limestone wall in Silverdale.
Wonderful botanical name - Asplenium adiantum-nigrum. A somewhat scarce species locally these days.
#WildFernHour ahead of tonight's #wildflowerhour
Wonderful botanical name - Asplenium adiantum-nigrum. A somewhat scarce species locally these days.
#WildFernHour ahead of tonight's #wildflowerhour
I thought it would be pretty much done by for the year now but there was actually a fair amount of Wild Thyme, Thymus drucei, still in flower up on Whitbarrow Scar today.
#Wildflowerhour
#Wildflowerhour
November 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I thought it would be pretty much done by for the year now but there was actually a fair amount of Wild Thyme, Thymus drucei, still in flower up on Whitbarrow Scar today.
#Wildflowerhour
#Wildflowerhour
November 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Common Cord-grass, Spartina anglica #StillFlowering despite being in the #sea repeatedly over recent days. It is a fascinating & remarkable species, albeit often a problematic one.
#Wildflowerhour
#Arnside #Cumbria
#Wildflowerhour
#Arnside #Cumbria
November 16, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Common Cord-grass, Spartina anglica #StillFlowering despite being in the #sea repeatedly over recent days. It is a fascinating & remarkable species, albeit often a problematic one.
#Wildflowerhour
#Arnside #Cumbria
#Wildflowerhour
#Arnside #Cumbria
Hogweed, a most underrated species. The flowers are beautiful when you look closely - zygomorphic (mirror symmetry) & outer flowers with the biggest size difference between the petals. A late-flowering specimen seen at #RSPB Leighton Moss.
#wildflowerhour
#wildflowerhour
November 16, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Hogweed, a most underrated species. The flowers are beautiful when you look closely - zygomorphic (mirror symmetry) & outer flowers with the biggest size difference between the petals. A late-flowering specimen seen at #RSPB Leighton Moss.
#wildflowerhour
#wildflowerhour
Hard Fern, Blechnum spicant is very common in the Lake District but as a calcifugous species you don't often see it on limestone habitats.
Found this nice specimen with both frond types in a limestone woodland at The Howe, Whitbarrow today.
#wildfernhour - #wildflowerhour
Found this nice specimen with both frond types in a limestone woodland at The Howe, Whitbarrow today.
#wildfernhour - #wildflowerhour
November 16, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Hard Fern, Blechnum spicant is very common in the Lake District but as a calcifugous species you don't often see it on limestone habitats.
Found this nice specimen with both frond types in a limestone woodland at The Howe, Whitbarrow today.
#wildfernhour - #wildflowerhour
Found this nice specimen with both frond types in a limestone woodland at The Howe, Whitbarrow today.
#wildfernhour - #wildflowerhour
Always a bit of a surprise to flush #Snipe from habitats like this.
Gait Barrows #NNR #limestone pavement
Gait Barrows #NNR #limestone pavement
November 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Always a bit of a surprise to flush #Snipe from habitats like this.
Gait Barrows #NNR #limestone pavement
Gait Barrows #NNR #limestone pavement
Petty Spurge, Euphorbia peplus prefers "... well-drained and nutrient-rich soils in sun-warmed situations..." & so probably isn't enjoying the current water levels at RSPB Leighton Moss all that much at present.
@rspbengland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...
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plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...
November 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Petty Spurge, Euphorbia peplus prefers "... well-drained and nutrient-rich soils in sun-warmed situations..." & so probably isn't enjoying the current water levels at RSPB Leighton Moss all that much at present.
@rspbengland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...
@rspbengland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...
November 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Sea Radish, Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. maritimus, growing on a recently inundated upper #saltmarsh
We've had several more very high tides since so it's probably looking very bedraggled by now.
#Wildflowerhour
We've had several more very high tides since so it's probably looking very bedraggled by now.
#Wildflowerhour
November 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Sea Radish, Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. maritimus, growing on a recently inundated upper #saltmarsh
We've had several more very high tides since so it's probably looking very bedraggled by now.
#Wildflowerhour
We've had several more very high tides since so it's probably looking very bedraggled by now.
#Wildflowerhour
A second #Winter10 for #Wildflowerhour.
From another lovely limestone site, Helsington Barrows.
Wild Thyme, Harebell, Mouse-ear Hawkweed, Rough Hawkbit, Gorse, Bramble sp, Herb-Robert, Daisy, Dandelion & Creeping Buttercup.
#Cumbria
From another lovely limestone site, Helsington Barrows.
Wild Thyme, Harebell, Mouse-ear Hawkweed, Rough Hawkbit, Gorse, Bramble sp, Herb-Robert, Daisy, Dandelion & Creeping Buttercup.
#Cumbria
November 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
A second #Winter10 for #Wildflowerhour.
From another lovely limestone site, Helsington Barrows.
Wild Thyme, Harebell, Mouse-ear Hawkweed, Rough Hawkbit, Gorse, Bramble sp, Herb-Robert, Daisy, Dandelion & Creeping Buttercup.
#Cumbria
From another lovely limestone site, Helsington Barrows.
Wild Thyme, Harebell, Mouse-ear Hawkweed, Rough Hawkbit, Gorse, Bramble sp, Herb-Robert, Daisy, Dandelion & Creeping Buttercup.
#Cumbria
My favourite find this week, a ting Common Centaury on the exceptionally species-rich limestone grasslands at Jack Scout, #Lancashire
#Wildflowerhour
#Wildflowerhour
November 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
My favourite find this week, a ting Common Centaury on the exceptionally species-rich limestone grasslands at Jack Scout, #Lancashire
#Wildflowerhour
#Wildflowerhour
You can rely on Gorse to brighten up a day at any time of year.
#wildflowerhour
#Silverdale #Lancashire
#wildflowerhour
#Silverdale #Lancashire
November 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
You can rely on Gorse to brighten up a day at any time of year.
#wildflowerhour
#Silverdale #Lancashire
#wildflowerhour
#Silverdale #Lancashire
I'd just about given up looking for Harebell's yesterday, assuming that was it for the year. And then...
#Wildflowerhour
#Wildflowerhour
November 9, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I'd just about given up looking for Harebell's yesterday, assuming that was it for the year. And then...
#Wildflowerhour
#Wildflowerhour
With no real cold weather to speak of yet there's still lots in flower on NW England limestones - Common Centaury, Common Cat's-ear, Lesser Trefoil, Mouse-ear Hawkeed, Red Clover, Rough Hawkbit, Nipplewort, European Gorse, Daisy & Common Ragwort.
The #Winter10
#Wildflowerhour
#Silverdale
The #Winter10
#Wildflowerhour
#Silverdale
November 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
With no real cold weather to speak of yet there's still lots in flower on NW England limestones - Common Centaury, Common Cat's-ear, Lesser Trefoil, Mouse-ear Hawkeed, Red Clover, Rough Hawkbit, Nipplewort, European Gorse, Daisy & Common Ragwort.
The #Winter10
#Wildflowerhour
#Silverdale
The #Winter10
#Wildflowerhour
#Silverdale