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Up to 13 Goldfinches currently visiting the garden, that's the usual number for the colder months. Photo taken 17 October 2025.

A single mature tree can absorb over 48 pounds of CO2 per year, but ancient forests store up to 75% of their carbon underground in soil and roots—out of sight, out of mind!

Chanterelles (Cantharellus cibarius), mixed deciduous woodland, in Hampshire today #FungiFriday

Penny bun (Boletus edulis), mixed deciduous woodland, in Hampshire today #FungiFriday

Male Great Spotted Woodpecker(s) from the Bittern Hide at Minsmere this week - pecking, preening and posing! @RSPBMinsmere @suffolkwildlife

Cloudy but dry @tophilllow this morning. North end of the reserve Kingfisher with catch, Wren acrobatics, Cormorant nailing the landing @Britnatureguide @Natures_Voice @BNAscience @YorkshireWater @discoverHullEY

Reculver hits a true purple patch with Radde’s Warbler, Richard’s Pipit and Red-breasted Flycatcher, while Dungeness did very well on diversity of finch species which included Serin and Twite. Plus a Shrike at Worth. Full weekly highlights on https://t.co/7fMjbCHTet #kentbirding

Best views I’ve had of a Jack Snipe at Porth Hellick Pool on St Mary’s, Isles of Scilly today @ScillyWildlife #BirdsOfX #BirdsSeenIn2025 #birdwatching

I ringed the first Redwing of the Autumn today. There are good numbers being ringed north of us, so it is nice to have a few reach us. They really are a beautiful thrush.

An immature Golden Eagle making good use of an old chimney as a perching post. #GoldenEagle #IsleofIslay @Natures_Voice @RSPBScotland The Oa

Just the place to sit and soak up the peace and beauty of the woods around you. This is by the path alongside Loch Drunkie in the Trossachs 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

From Sunday’s @sussexornitholo.bsky.social walk at #CissburyRing : a posing female Kestrel, Falco tinnunculus, a species found in 50% of Sussex tetrads, and a non-posing Yellowhammer, Emberiza citrinella, found in 33% (Sussex Bird Report 2023). @BTO_Sussex

It's actually a love call 🐦😍 The 'cuckoo' call is iconic, but did you know only the male makes this sound? 👉Watch the story as I search for a nest to film: https://t.co/yI3VGE2bI8

A day around Easington and Spurn started off with good views of the Juvenile Pectoral Sandpiper. Hundreds of Pink- Footed Geese overhead, with a Yellow-browed Warbler two Brambling and lots of Tree Sparrows made a good day. @spurnbirdobs @YorksWildlife

Wildcat kittens were thought to typically disperse from their mother around six months old 🐾 Since the first wild births to released females in 2024, the team have been monitoring the litters. It's been fascinating to record them dispersing from as early as four months old 🗓️

Roger is President of the British Naturalists' Association

As autumn bird migration rolls into mid October it is the ‘time of the season’ for the ‘Winter Thrushes’ to be arriving on the Northumberland coast to make the most of the ‘berry bounty’ like this Redwing. One of the most exciting ornithological happenings.

Right place, right time for a change 😀 #LongEaredOwl roosting along the #NorthNorfolk coast today

Verdigris agaric near Temple Guiting. Similar to the blue roundhead. #fungi #MushroomMonday

I have posted this photo of the Turkestan Shrike we had for eight days at Dunwich heath, only to show how you can get the best out of a poor light day. This was taken when it was cloudy right at the end of the day the light goes flat and this enables you to get a better expossure