Resting Owl - by Stirlingshire artist (and my daughter), @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.socialwww.charlottestrawbridge.co.uk/art#birds#birdart 🪶 🎨
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For anyone interested in learning how to tell one #gullwww.youtube.com/watch?v=N56G...#Gulls#Birds#ornithology 🪶
YouTube video by Hampshire Ornithological Society
Autumn counts for the Winter Gull Survey are underway. Key counts can be made from now until Sunday 6th October, with the core key count date being this Sunday 29th September. Find out how to get involved ➡️ www.bto.org/wings
I'm taking part in the Winter Gull Survey with my 13 yr old grandson, and (weather permitting) we're planning to survey his local roost this weekend. Getting involved has been great for improving our gull ID skills! Have a look 👇 #UKBirding#WinterGullSurvey#birds#ornithology 🪶
Autumn Fox - by Norwich based printmaker, Vanessa Lubach More of this artist's gorgeous linocuts, here: vanessalubach.co.uk/linocutpage....#Autumn#Fox 🎨
BREAKING: Residents around a chemicals plant have been told to wash and peel homegrown vegetables before eating while an investigation into potential soil contamination with a cancer-causing chemical PFOA gets under way 1/ www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Exclusive: council issues advisory as investigation begins and documents reveal estimates of PFOA emissions
Ants are not ideal pollinators, as they don't move as efficiently among plants as do flying insects. But they are capabable of picking up and moving at least some pollen, as demonstrated by this Formica incerta field ant on Queen Anne's Lace. Townsend, Tennessee.