Working in the Morecambe Bay to help butterflies prosper and bring new management to wonderful woodland.
Joined October 2012
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Great research from Rosa Menendez, Clementine Larter and Tom Kenny on #BrownHairsteak butterflies. Also N2 effects on Butterflies by Hannah Risser, and Justin Patton on finding Least Minor moth larva. Today at student research conference @LancsUniLEC with @savebutterflies
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Brilliant butterfly research day today @LancsUniLEC hearing young people do fantastic science on priority species like #HighBrown, #MarshFritillary, #NettedCarpet and Northern Butterflies and Moths! Thanks to @savebutterflies Dan Hoare for starting the day
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Time for 2024 Lancaster autumn butterfly survey, @LancasterCC, checking the ivy and the last buddeia flowers along the alleys and the canal. Huge decline in numbers just 12 Red Admirals, 2 Comma and only 1 Peacock butterfly, in 2018 we saw average of 90! #ButterflyEmergency
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I'm calling on the Government to take immediate action to reverse butterfly declines.
So frightening to see so many important butterflies and moths missing this summer from Northern England!
Sign the petition:
butterfly-conservation.org/e…
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In such a bad year for butterflies, it’s nice to see our priority species Northern Brown Argus butterfly doing ok at #myersallotment @savebutterflies last week. Great management by the fantastic volunteer team, the grazier @grazingmatters and the landowner @LeightonHall
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What a super day I had at @savebutterflies #myersallotment reserve in Silverdale, North Lancashire. Met the A-team’ers stepping in to help out the Butterfly Conservations volunteer reserves officer. Thanks for all the above-and-beyond effort guys.
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23 Jun 2023
Seeing hills thick with regenerating trees, a rewiggled river showing #rewilding's many benefits and meadows buzzing with life made a dream visit to @WildHaweswater 🏔️
Thanks @leeinthelakes @unitedutilities @Natures_Voice for sharing its wonderful – and still unfolding – story.
ALT RSPB Haweswater showing natural regeneration and a restored river catchment that helps to prevent flooding, purify water and create habitat.
ALT Two people looking at a restored river framed by wildflowers
ALT Lee Schofield talks to visitors about Haweswater's tree nurseries that give nature a helping hand.
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23 Jun 2023
Seeing hills thick with regenerating trees, a rewiggled river showing #rewilding's many benefits and meadows buzzing with life made a dream visit to @WildHaweswater 🏔️
Thanks @leeinthelakes @unitedutilities @Natures_Voice for sharing its wonderful – and still unfolding – story.
ALT RSPB Haweswater showing natural regeneration and a restored river catchment that helps to prevent flooding, purify water and create habitat.
ALT Two people looking at a restored river framed by wildflowers
ALT Lee Schofield talks to visitors about Haweswater's tree nurseries that give nature a helping hand.
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7 Jun 2023
We've been bringing the excitement of science to music festivals for 10 years 🥳! Of course we'll be celebrating the #FestivalBugs' birthday 🎂 in the @sci_futures area of #Glastonbury, created by our founder Emma Sayer @panemma!
📰 Read about it: lancaster.ac.uk/news/univers…
ALT Three people, Gail Austen, Emma Sayer and Nigel Fisher stand with their arms around each other's shoulders wearing t-shirts with the Science Futures logo on them in front of a circus-style tent
ALT Richard Betts demonstrates a brightly coloured activity about the weather and climate
ALT Ali Birkett talking with a group of Fascinated festival goers outside a brightly coloured marquee
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Lepidopterists 113 years apart outside the #DerbyArms inn, Witherslack, Cumbria. The pic hangs in the bar. Yesterday, @savebutterflies Butterfly Conservation staff outside the pub after day surveying rare species @stanleyestates @ForestryEngland and Methop Moss @cumbriawildlife
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Working with #OurUplandCommons project, with @LancsUniLEC and PhD student Sophie Mowbray, on Derwent Common #LakeDistrict today. To reaffirm presence of Mountain Ringlet butterflies, didn’t find them at a few 550m sites but did record over 14 above 600m. Perfect day for it.
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I was staggerd to see a marsh fritillary at 470m chase off a golden ringed dragon fly on the side of Robinson, above Buttermere today…. They’re getting around!
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Mad, impulsive 4am dash from Cambridge to Cumbria (good forecast) in hope of seeing Mountain Ringlet. What a day! Also Northern Brown Argus, Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary and a completely unexpected Marsh Fritillary at Latterbarrow. #30DaysWild @BC_Cumbria @savebutterflies
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29 Apr 2023
Tragic scenes of Avian Influenza / Bird flu in a mid Wales Black headed Gull colony near Welshpool. Vibrant and noisy only a week ago and today dead and dying birds littering the colony. So so sad. Feeling helpless ☹️
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1 May 2023
New day, curlew calls
Nest cam captures beauty, grace
Morning changeover
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#haiku #birdhaiku #curlew #morningvibes #naturephotography
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This is such a good project #CurlewRecovery, working with farmers, land managers, volunteers and community to research, monitor and protect the declining curlew population in South Cumbria. Delighted to support thro #FacilitationGroup
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"Aye, I remember that field used to have lots of curlews nesting".
A tussock with a full clutch of #curlew eggs.
Finding the nest allows site-specific protection. Volunteers and farmers work together.
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So that’s how big a dodo was! Go look it up at #kendalMuseum open Thursday Friday and Saturdays.
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What a fab morning! #KendalMuseum, maybe oldest Natural History museums in UK. Wonderful old butterfly and moth collection showing the diversity that was once at some sites, Silver studied blue butterfly at Witherslack and netted carpet moth collected by Rev Euston Nurse in 1908!
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24 Apr 2023
Love nature? Love working outdoors? WCRT are offering 4 apprenticeships to help kickstart your career in conservation.
18 month placements from Sep based in West Cumbria. Help us spread the word!
📅 Closing date 30 June
westcumbriariverstrust.org/c…
#cumbriajobs #conservation
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