🚨 Hi everyone. To celebrate Arsenal’s title win I'll be giving away THREE 'Champions' prints by the brilliant @matthewjiwood to three random winners
- Simply repost this to enter
Winners picked on Saturday.
(If you're not feeling lucky the prints - and loads of others - can be found here: https://t.co/718xYZwECf)
Watch as @nationalgriduk chomps through a hedge. In nesting season. Despite its DCO stating “”In accordance with good practice measure B02, vegetation with the potential to support breeding birds will be programmed to be removed outside of breeding bird season (March to August inclusive) where practicable”. So why was it not practicable not to do it in this instance?The ecologist found nothing (what a surprise) but there is no way a hedge like this does not have nesting birds.
(This is Bramford to Twinstead, not Norwich to Tilbury)
@PylonsEAnglia
The older I get, the more I believe happiness lives in the ordinary. Pets. Plants. A quiet morning coffee. Blue sky. Cotton clouds. Birds singing. The gentle breeze through the trees. A clean, cosy house. Good food. Good hearted simple poeple. So much of life’s beauty is quiet, gentle, and already here. And somehow, one of the sweetest feelings is knowing I get to wake up and meet it all again tomorrow.
Classic traction meeting modern this evening at Nuneaton. The 125 Group's 43025 & 43159 heading back to London Euston while 390112 sits in platform 3.
#train#railway
Your fence is accidentally trapping your neighborhood’s wildlife in tiny prisons.
A 4-inch gap at the bottom of your fence connects your yard to every other yard on the block.
Toads, salamanders, chipmunks, and small mammals can't climb fences and don't belong on streets.
A solid privacy fence turns each yard into an isolated island, where a single salamander born in your back corner has nowhere to go for the rest of its life.
The fix is ridiculously easy:
Cut a 4 by 4 inch square at ground level, anywhere along the fence. Smooth the edges. That's it.
In the UK, this is called a hedgehog highway and it's a recognized conservation strategy.
In the US, the same gap works for turtles, salamanders, and ground beetles trying to find a mate or a den site.
The fence stays, but the wildlife gets to move.
Class 31 31459 & Class 33 33201 looking great in the sun today at the Battlefield Line. A short video link is below if you’re interested in watching.
https://t.co/FkIJTJHPBz
#trains#railway
Rotherham, England replaced 8 miles of mowed grass with wildflowers.
They saved £25,000 in mowing costs a year and bees, butterflies, and birds showed up almost immediately.
You don’t need to wait for your city to act. Start small in your own patch:
🏡 Let your front verge or sidewalk strip go wild this spring
🌻 Toss a few native wildflower seed balls into neglected spots
🌱 Stop mowing one strip and see what shows up
📧 Contact your city government. One email from one person has started initiatives like this before
One person. One small patch. Real habitat.
Your street could be next.