phoenixsandy.bsky.social
Retired Biology teacher devoting my free time to Natural History. Keen Birder, increasingly enthusiastic "Moth trapper" and dabbler in too many other groups! The coast has always been my happy place.
👤 Joined on 30 October 2024
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@phoenixsandy.bsky.socialOur programme of winter talks & webinars is live! From evolutionary adaptations of plants to forensic botany' from Mistletoe to Water Sedge; from queer botany to urban botany. Talks every Wednesday evening from 28 Oct through to spring. Love plants? Book for our winter talks bsbi.org/take-part/ev...
Show PostWith strong NW winds, yesterday we spent 9.5 hours seawatching at Pendeen. Group totals of over 100 Sooty Shearwaters and over 35 Grey Phals were notable. Lovely Ad Sabine's Gull, Balearic Shear, Leach's Petrel, 2 Long-tailed Skua, Pom, 11 Arctics, 2 Bonxie, Puffin, 2 Little Gull #BirdingCornwall
Show PostDiggers have moved into former arable fields at Speechly's Farm in Cambridgeshire as work begins to create 136 ha of new wetland habitat – an area almost the size of Hyde Park:
Show PostRustyback Asplenium ceterach in Monkton Farleigh brought back to life after some rain. On the side of the wall they were still scrunched up and brown (like the frond centre front). #FridayFerns
Show PostHad a great time at the Birmingham Fungus Festival in Highbury Hall and Park
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