Harry Hoskyns-Abraha
@harryhallwick
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striving for agroecological nirvana
Teesdale
Joined February 2010
Can anyone tell if this is a common spotted or northern marsh orchid which do occur in Teesdale apparently?#orchid
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I find bumble bees hard enough to identify but this one might be easy for the experts? I’ve never seen it before and I spend more time than is healthy watching bees in the garden. Please help.
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Who ate my curlew eggs? My best guess is jackdaws as regular mob of them in same field. Crows were controlled. Puncture holes in shell would fit. We can’t control jackdaws anymore.
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The fine line between failure and success. Both adults off nest feeding together this morning . Sure enough, nest had been predated. Is it too late in the season for the pair to try again?
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I mow the lawn in May. But I mow it long all year. Dandelions can set seed 2/3 days later under this regime. Mowed last weekend. Am currently watching bullfinches, greenfinches, goldfinches all feasting on dandelion seeds. #NoMowMay
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Calling all twitter geeks- can you tell me what this is please?Amazing long antennae. Quite big swarm on a young hawthorn hedge.
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Mole hills can be useful for propogating wild flowers in a meadow. This one has six species on it: yarrow,speedwell,clover, pignut and celandine #wildflowermeadow
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Yellow rattle broadcast last autumn is coming really well #wildflowermeadow
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Every year we have a spotted flycatcher but it’s the first time we have had a pied. But the damn chaffinch takes the prize as this years early morning wake up call- right outside the window every….single….morning. Can’t tune out now I have the Merlin app!
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Finally. Having changed the grazing regime 2016 to allow some rough areas to develop, with @Ruralpay support, we have our first curlew nest in 25 years. Yes!!
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Spot on
Like I said yesterday, what happens in the fields that produce our food isn’t just business or economics - if it’s done in nature-friendly ways it is a public good - if it isn’t the cost to all of us is horrific We can’t solve this until we GET IT
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Signed
🤩COME ON! (📣Cheering like I’m watching a race. Because it is a race!) 💥we’ve got 26 days to get to 100k for the swifts. 📣Keep spreading the word so new people can sign #TheFeatherSpeech
https://t.co/lboVopkAgB 📣🪶
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I wish I could show you in more detail the covey of 14 grey partridges under that blue hopper over there. Deep satisfaction. Especially as I have two other coveys under similar feeders on our small grass/woodland farm. Not classic GP country but if you try hard enough…..
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Site visit Mesopotamia Energy . Greece. We are commissioning this new 3MWe biogas plant in November.
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Proud to announce that the first #Ospreys to breed in #Yorkshire after several hundred years are revealed on the Bolton Castle Estate by @TomOrdePowlett & Sacha Dench @C_no_borders & crew amid expedition following Osprey migration. https://t.co/5gmdi23x1i
bbc.co.uk
Ospreys breeding at a Yorkshire estate is described as "nothing short of a miracle".
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Always try to leave lots of #grassmargins and then delay/reduce grazing aftermath to encourage tussocky species and focus grazing pressure away from the margins.
Long grass has many benefits: moist, cool & sheltered at its base, producing abundant flowers, pollen & seeds. Beetles, caterpillars, grasshoppers – all benefit, & then so do birds, bats and others. #fwagse #fwagsoutheast #grassmargins #wildlife #conservation #farming #advice
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