Anna Shergold

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Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds

Lovely, I’ve been looking in NE Hampshire, and none so far!

If you go back, in Heysham there is also a fab nature reserve (not far from the power station).

Beautiful pic

Biodiversity collapse threatens UK security, intelligence chiefs warn Ecosystem destruction will increase food shortages, disorder and mass migration, with effects already being felt

Biodiversity collapse threatens UK security, intelligence chiefs warn www.theguardian.com/environment/...

It’s so lovely when we get some great urban wild flowers, we have a patch near us too

Loddon Lily Leucojum aestivum

Loddon Lily Leucojum aestivum

For #WildFlowerHour Loddon Lily (Leucojum aestivum) from NE Hampshire in a small copse which is a SINC (ancient woodland) - we’re not too far from the Loddon, so maybe native.

Definitely blackthorn is flowering our way, complete with a few left over sloes!

The joy of 🦋, you can admire flowers from around the world, some fab flowers from Death Valley (we won’t be going to the US any time soon, but so lovely to see pics)

Primula veris, the cowslip - a sign of spring

A day late for #wildflowerhour, but worth waiting for a dry day, and so nice to catch a little sunshine! Today on my walk my first cowslips of the year (well first couple), a welcome shot of yellow #wildflowerhour #signofspring

No but the map is a visual to support the arguments!

We’re using the maps to show significance of habitat & wildlife corridors in an objection our local #wilder group is writing to a planning aplication. it’s a good visual aid (we suspect, the drive for houses outweigh the protection the LNRS looks like it should give to dormice, GCN & bats etc)

Snowdrops in an ancient wood

Stinky hellebore

For #WildFlowerHour, snowdrops in a local woodland SINC and a stinky hellebore with a ladybird (hiding from all the rain this week?)

Congratulations

I was wondering that, thank you

Winter heliotrope, gorse, periwinkle, hazel, white dead nettle, snowdrops, petty spurge, sweet violet, daisy, primrose

For #wildflowerhour #winterTen - Winter heliotrope, gorse, periwinkle, hazel, white dead nettle, snowdrops, petty spurge, sweet violet, daisy, primrose & a few others that didn’t make the collage! So pretty now it’s reached ‘snowdrop carpet season!’

Clematis

An interesting find, growing through brambles - a clematis - such pretty markings, I think a garden escapee #wildflowerhour

Snowdrops

Winter heliotrope

Bird song

What a difference a dry sunny day makes - today’s walk, the scent of winter heliotrope, the sound of birdsong & seeing snowdrops flowering in the verges #spring

Villager by Tom Cox

‘Were there a fruit that grew in my garden throughout winter, I wonder if winters would seem a little less interminable.’ Just what I needed to hear, waiting to watch spring appear, whilst reading Villager. Thanks @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social #books

net zero and commitments to use less carbon fuels is non negotiable, I want a world that my children (and theirs, if they have any), can inhabit. Climate change is here, it will impact - can’t pretend it doesn’t matter #headinthesand #noplanetB

Primrose

Hazel (male & female flowers)

Celandine

Signs of spring for #wildflowerhour - primrose, hazel & my first celandine

I read a book about walking the Thames - ‘Mudlark: In Search of London's Past Along the River Thames’ by Lara Maiklem, you might enjoy it - there was a chapter on this bit of path, so lovely to see your pictures!

Retiring in your 60s (because ageism exists), and doing voluntary work - I’ve learnt so much about conservation, wilding and ecology since retiring

It’s so depressing, where I live we‘re fighting plans for houses, and being told having habitats of regional or national importance is unlikely to stop it. How do we protect the environment for future generations & build on brownfield sites instead?

From green to grey: why ‘growth at all costs’ is threatening British wildlife This weekend amateur naturalists will spend an hour logging the birds that visit their gardens to contribute to national data

As the 2026 Big Garden Birdwatch begins, why is dedicated birdwatcher David Jobbins staying away? He wonders, what's the point when the government’s growth-at-all-costs policy rides roughshod over our impoverished natural environment. Read his analysis ⤵️

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I love sea glass, and learnt some silversmith skills - one of my aims was to make things from sea glass, although finding the glass is the hard bit. Yours are lovely, so I will have to visit your shop, when I need a gift for a friend.

I love libraries, so many interesting books I've discovered over the years. I now rely on borrow box (for online borrowing) which is a library service (as libraries have reduced in number, and yes, you can always drive to nearby bigger towns - but I don't go there often enough).

The local #wilder team went for a walk to see what we could find, and were excited to find hazelnuts which had been chewed by dormice. Lovely to know we have some in our village. Isn’t the chew pattern pretty! #patternsInNature #dormice

Helleborus foetidus

A stinky hellebore (Helleborus foetidus) seen as a pavement plant wandering round some of the roads where I live, I love the little red line round the flower head. For #wildflowerhour, slightly late

Sounds great, will watch 📌