Been buzzing about helping pollinators in Coton and neighboring communities for a while now but only joined @Twitter today in order to help @CotonBusway #SaveOurGreenCorridors and protect #Biodiversity.

Dusk to Dawn with @onthevergecambs 🔍🐝

Melancholy this evening. Trying to find the closing words to speak for a place that should not have needed defending. What will the turtle doves, house martins, fieldfares… and cuckoos return to next season, if they return❓ #SaveCotonOrchard ✏️ https://t.co/bYihukLZWC

Adding more succession trees in Coton. Vigorous rootstock, 8m apart. Nonpareil, Ashmead’s Kernal, Rosey, Rosemary Russet & Claygate Pearman @TreesAreGoodCIC @UK_Orch_Network 🌳🍎🐝

Morning rain has given way to a clear evening across the new cider orchard in Coton. Mr & Mrs fox out for a stroll. Four new species of moth recorded. Smell of bonfires and sausages in the air. Not a bad end to the week.

“Witness – if, as an outsider, I may be so bold – the @CambsCC councillors who have apparently decided to destroy hundreds of living #trees, along with the creatures for whom they are home, in order to build a bus route for electric and hybrid buses. The only value recognised

“Four reasons trees are more like humans than you think” or perhaps better than us… ⁦@guardianeco⁩ 🌳🐝 #SaveCotonOrchard

Night-flying insects over UK in decline, weather radar study reveals ⁦@guardianeco⁩

Spent the morning over at @BlueBarrelCider & @TreesAreGoodCIC Arcadia Orchard collecting Black Dabinett cider apples 🍎🐝

After a week of being pilloried by County barristers, we’re feeling a bit tender about claims that Coton Orchard has no worth, no public amenity, it’s “just trees” and that the bonkers busway would somehow improve anything. It’s not perfect and neither are we, but we care deeply

𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐚 £𝟐𝟎𝟎 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐚 𝐝𝐨𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐮𝐧𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 🔐 C2C Inquiry Coton villagers take the stand 🌳🚌❌ #SaveCotonOrchard 🔗 https://t.co/Nb8NyIR64B

A beautiful creature.

We were tasked with supplying coffee and cookies this morning, it seems the early bird catches the Merveille du Jour 🔍

𝐂𝟐𝐂 𝐈𝐧𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐫𝐲 𝐑𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐰𝐨: 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐂𝐚𝐧’𝐭 𝐃𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞, 𝐀𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐎𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 🥊 Well done, Prof H — grace under fire. Shameful tactics from @CambsCC’s KC 🔗 https://t.co/3OoW6ns62E

Bravo @HerefordshireWT & @toby_wildlife for showing the worth of traditional orchards. Here in Cambs we are lucky to have Coton Orchard, similarly recognised by @wildlifebcn, yet @CambsCC would drive a busway through it. If we care for such places, we must defend them ✊🏻🤨🌳🚌❌

The fight is on to save Coton Orchard

Members of @UK_Orch_Network visiting the old Bramleys at Coton, measuring and musing on how best to help these grand trees keep standing for many more years to come 🍎🌳

Over forty new residents checked into one of our bee hotels 🏨🐝

The fragmentation of pollinator-friendly habitat greatly increases the risk of local extinctions. Number of wild bee species at risk of extinction in Europe doubles in 10 years ⁦@patrick_barkham⁩ ⁦@guardian⁩

Coton remains bright with wings and wildflowers. 28 of the 30 butterflies named in the Council’s Butterfly Trail thrive here, and we’re planting for the two still missing — one, the magnificent Swallowtail 🌿🌸🦋 #SaveCotonOrchard ✏️ https://t.co/NWi9Gc538d

As forests are cut down, butterflies are losing their colours….