Rachel Crookes
@RachelCrookes
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Nature Recovery Lead at Wild Oxfordshire, I like bats, birds, tea and the sea 🦇🌊
Joined November 2013
It's #WorldEnvironmentDay! Here I am on my site visit today posing with a wildflower corridor I created with a local school last year, filled with bees and other pollinators! 🌼🌻🌱🐝
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A useful paper on how to make hedgehog boxes more appealing by @DrAbiGazzard , I'm frequently asked by residents how to attract their spiny neighbours! 🦔 @thePeerJ
https://t.co/2eA0GpZFp8
peerj.com
Artificial refuges provided by householders and/or conservation practitioners potentially represent one mechanism for mitigating declines in the availability of natural nest sites used for resting,...
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Join us on 7 August at Kilkenny Lane Country Park #BrizeNorton to discover more about the insects, animals and flora inhabiting the park at our very first #BioBlitz event. Read what's happening and how to sign up for our free events: https://t.co/yehXgK76S0 All welcome 🦋🦇🌼
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Changing up the mowing regime on key verges with @WodcNews has led to bee orchids popping up! We will cut and collect later in the year to make sure the soil stays suitable for them to stay and spread next year 🐝🌷 @Love_plants
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An eventful evening rescuing some ducklings from a drain and taking them to @TiggywinklesUK - I'm never leaving the house without a litter picker for emergency duck scooping again!
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Always a treat to be out ringing on a sunny afternoon with enthusiastic volunteers! 🐣🪺 @BTO_Oxfordshire @Natures_Voice
Great afternoon yesterday checking nest boxes and ringing with @RachelCrookes. A total of 81 blue tit and great tits ringed from the 17 boxes checked in Standlake. #BTO #WindrushPath #LowerWindrushValleyProject
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Want to know more about the insects in your outdoor spaces & how to support them? 🌿🐝🌸 Join us for a webinar with @gailashton on Weds 18th May, 7:30pm 🪰🌼🐞 Book your FREE place here: https://t.co/X5JChZwMpi
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My previous job is hiring again! Check it out if you'd like to work with nature reserves, volunteers, community groups and a great team 🐦🌳🏞️ @LowerWindrushVP @OxfordshireCC
https://t.co/S9jn0jNTDg
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Great paper on how pollinators use plants through the year - with 'weeds' and invasives such as Himalayan Balsam proving useful, work like this will continue to shift perceptions around what we let grow! @BritishEcolSoc @JAppliedEcology
#pollinators
https://t.co/3dHrXVELsl
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Plant recommendation lists for pollinators should distinguish between bees and hoverflies and provide evidence-based floral recommendations throughout the year that include native as well as non-na...
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🚨 #GIVEAWAY 🚨 For #InternationalWomensDay we’ve paired up with our fave female-led business Creature Candy to give away not one but TWO of their gorgeous A4 bat prints. To enter: 🦇 Like and RT this post 🦇 Follow us and @CreatureCandy9 Entries close 9am Friday – good luck!
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Great to launch the @WodcNews Hedgehog Highways campaign, encouraging residents in the district's more urban areas to create holes in their fences in exchange for free Hedgehog Highway signs from @PTES / @hedgehogsociety 🦔
This week we've launched our #HedgehogHighway 🦔 campaign to help boost urban hedgehog numbers. Making small gaps in garden fences to link up more green spaces will allow hedgehogs to travel in safety as they look for food and shelter. Find out more 👉🏼 https://t.co/QIkWcPQVHX
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Making a hedgehog highway is an easy way to help our prickly neighbours access much needed spaces for foraging and hibernation! @PTES @hedgehogsociety
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Great to start taking action to increase biodiversity at the sites I'm managing at @WodcNews 🌳
Kilkenny Country Park has 12 new apple trees, celebrating the #QueensGreenCanopy. Join others from across the UK to plant a tree 🌳, help the environment and mark Her Majesty's Platinum Jubilee. Take part 👉🏻 https://t.co/Qld1Xu2sxQ
#WestOxClimateAction
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#SolitaryBeeWeek 🐝 Cavity-nesting bees and wasps do use bee bricks. Research by @RosEcologist @RachelCrookes @GreenandBlueUK reports results from the first step in testing a new urban bee habitat. https://t.co/0cuuAHZZ3H
It's #SOLITARYBEEWEEK!! We want to do our bit to help others like Archie, so with your support, we'll be donating bee bricks to our local communities. Find out more here: https://t.co/dyA9uLgjfp
@GreenandBlueUK @UniofExeterESI 🐝
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Great to see my research on the use of @GreenandBlueUK bee bricks published in @ConservEvidence, they're a great tool for providing nesting opportunities for our often overlooked solitary bees and wasps! Thanks to @RosEcologist and @UniofExeter 🐝
Cavity-nesting bees and wasps do use bee bricks. New research by @RosEcologist @RachelCrookes @GreenandBlueUK reports results from the first step in testing a new urban bee habitat. https://t.co/90MQot1lut
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🚨 #Giveaway ALERT 🚨 For #NationalGardeningWeek we've teamed up with Kate Bradbury to give away a copy of her awesome #WildlifeGardening book! TO ENTER: 🦇 Like this post 🦇 Follow us (@LondonBatGroup) and @Kate_Bradbury 🦇 RT for an extra entry 🦇 Entries close Fri 30th 5pm
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Lockdown's impact on the UK environment is visualised in a series of beautiful infographics by the Natural History Museum, produced through a NERC-funded project. View them here: https://t.co/tpNadc33iG
@NHM_London
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Want to learn more about our farmer cluster and our conservation work? Join us at Lodge Hill on October 5th to meet our project leads and explore this #SSSI near Aylesbury. Limited places, book now at: https://t.co/zRn0In2Lwu
#chilternscelebration @ChilternsAONB
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