Ev Graham

[Hedgehog Cabin @HedgehogCabin]

Ah, dandelions. 🌼
If only they were rare, fragile, and hard to cultivate.
Then we'd treasure them.
But because they are hardy and successful and forgiving and adaptable, we disparage them.
Consider them unworthy of our respect.
Even though they are the perfect plant - providing green all year round and cheerful flowers in the spring, are edible and highly nutritious, containing vitamins A, C, and K, along with minerals like calcium and iron, and are our precious pollinator's lifeline.
Please find a little love for these hard working flowers and leave them undisturbed, this month at least.

[Scotland's Stories - Graeme @StoryScotland]

We don't celebrate New Years Eve in Scotland, we celebrate Hogmanay!

There's a few Scottish traditions you might want to know about for the turn of the year!

[The Bee Guy @the_beeguy]

In a world that appears ever more divided, ever more angry, ever more willing to embrace the obvious annihilistic option we refuse to give up on the premise that most #people are #decent. That most people #care deeply.
Maybe we can #unite over #bees.
Do the right thing for once.
Make the good choice.
Maybe?
Please share this thread far and wide.
#retweet
We know you care.
Show us.
Show one another.
Show the bees you care.
It’s okay to care.
It’s more fulfilling than hate.
More natural than vitriol
More infectious than Covid.
More godly than prayer.
More active than hope.
More powerful than greed.
Don’t be afraid to care.
Deeply.
You’ll find you’re not alone.
Promise.
14/14

[@wild_hogcam @wildhogcam]

Hi everyone Spring is round the corner 😁❤️🦔🦔

[Ev Graham @Graham1Ev]

@autcareandshare Good luck. Best man for the job. 🍀

[Cat Rubens @catrubens]

1. I don’t often tweet about my personal life, but on 1st November, my mum Jane was hit by a large vehicle as a pedestrian in St. Louis, USA. She suffered a severe brain injury & remains in a coma in hospital.

Here's Jane & me in happier times.

[Little Green Space 🦋 @LGSpace]

Fake spiderwebs like these can trap and injure wildlife, including birds, insects and small mammals. They’re made from polyester or other artificial fibres, and aren't recyclable. Please choose eco-friendly decorations if celebrating Halloween!
More: https://t.co/eonNqP2kWT

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

Yesterday was a crazy day. Come with me behind the scenes trying to save 3 street dogs including lovely Leo Messi 🐕

Had no idea what I might be walking into. 😱

A little bit of a longer watch but will show you how a typical day unfolds. It was no dull...

[Hedgehog Cabin @HedgehogCabin]

When poor Liesel (pronounced 'leezel', like the girl in The Sound of Music) was spotted, the finder thought she was dead.
She was so weak, so terribly deathly sick that she had collapsed crossing a path and lay there, helpless, unable to move, out in the open.
The finder rushed her to the nearest vet (luckily it was mine!), who immediately called me for advice. They had grave concerns, and they were right.
Liesel is a victim of casual cruelty and overriding conceit.
Liesel has been 'treated' by a small start-up 'rescue' and then abused, by being tagged, before being released.
A hedgehog's coat of spines is their everything - their insulation and their suit of armour. They spend a lot of time grooming, scratching and shaking their coat to ensure all the spines are unhindered and can be aligned perfectly.
The stress of not being able to do that, and feeling vulnerable, is overwhelming to these little animals. And stress stops the immune system from working efficiently, leaving the tagged victim open to every parasite and disease.
Three rescues, a veterinary practice, and several members of the public have voiced their concerns to me recently about this spate of tagging.
I have been collating the evidence.
Every single tagged hedgehog found has died, despite treatment, because they were so terribly ill and stressed.
To be clear: it's illegal to tag a wild animal without a licence.
There's a very good reason why it's illegal to tag a wild animal - it causes them such terrible, constant, and unbearable stress.
And stress kills wildlife.
Under Section 14 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 and Schedule 2 of The Conservation of Habitats and Species Regulations 2017, "You need a licence to take a species from the wild.... to mark or tag. For example, to monitor, sample or manage the species after release."
And a licence is only granted when the information likely to be obtained is so important that it outweighs the risk of death to the animal.
Our hedgehogs have very little legal protection, yet they are protected from unauthorised tagging because it's well established that this activity places such a strain on the animal that they are likely to die from the stress.
Yet you'll see perpetrators trying to claim that it's nothing, and they are "collecting vital information".
No, they're not.
They are playing scientist.
Using the vulnerable animals entrusted into their care as disposable vehicles upon which to enact their expansive delusions.
Super gluing a bit of plastic containing your phone number onto a hedgehog's spines, and then releasing him, is not 'research'.
It's torture.
It's abuse of trust.
It's an ego trip.
It's not gathering information - they aren't transmitters. They are bits of plastic.
They'll never see that hedgehog again, or retrieve any information.
All that will be learned from anyone finding that poor victim is that some irresponsible person with no real understanding of how hedgehogs work has contributed to their death.
So make no mistake, if you are an inexperienced rescue and have copied one of these delusional rescues who have been applying these tags illegally, you too are breaking the law.
More importantly, you are harming a gentle, defenceless animal who already has more than enough disadvantages to deal with.

Liesel is still alive.
Barely.
After suffering at the hands of her would-be rescuer she has been slowly starving to death, and every parasite around has taken advantage of her weakened state.
Believe it or not Liesel is a full grown adult, yet she weighs just 400g; the weight of a 5 week old hoglet.
As you can see, her bones carry no fat at all. Each vertebrae is clearly visible and she is flat and frail. Even the effort of eating exhausts her.
Her outlook is poor, but you can save others like Liesel. Just a dish of dry cat food put out each night is all it takes.
That tiny effort, that small mercy, would mean hardly anything to you, but would mean the difference between life and death to them.

[Ev Graham @Graham1Ev]

Can any one identify this bird?

[Hedgehog Cabin @HedgehogCabin]

Easter is traditionally the time folks decide to go out and 'tackle the garden'.
(As if that wonderful little piece of nature is an enemy that needs dominating).
And Easter is traditionally the time that all wildlife rescues dread, as they are overwelmed by devastated people handing in strimmed, cut, orphaned, disturbed, poisoned and dying wild animals.
So PLEASE don't strim.
If you become one of these statistics you will never forgive yourself.
Those precious long edges are home to so many insects, who will provide pollination for human food, and larvae for animal food, like hedgehogs.
If you have to mow, please set it on the highest cut, and steer round the dandelions, leaving them and their precious life-saving nectar for our awakening bees.
And please don't be tempted to 'tidy' leaves and dead vegetation from the borders and under shrubs yet. There are lots of female hedgehogs still hibernating there.
Thinking it's safe.
Trusting you.
Happy Easter, everyone.💕

[Alex Fitzpatrick💙 @hedgefitz]

Yes please @HorshamDC!

[Little Green Space 🦋 @LGSpace]

If you've left dead plants in your garden over the winter, they'll probably have been providing sheltered spots for hibernating ladybirds and lots of other creatures. Please do leave them a while longer until spring is underway 🐞
#wildlife #gardening #nature

[Which? @WhichUK]

URGENT RECALL. If you own one of these products:
⚠️Stop using it.
⚠️Return to your local ASDA store for a full refund.
⚠️You do not need your receipt. 🧵1/8

[Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature]

People are still not seeing my tweets on their timelines like they used to. 😔
If you follow me, and you see this tweet, please retweet. 🙏
To make it more worth sharing, here's one of my favourite pics I've ever taken; 'The Puffin and the bee' 😀🐦🐝

[Hedgehog Cabin @HedgehogCabin]

If you follow a hedgehog rescue it's easy to think everyone knows that a hedgehog out in the sun is in trouble and urgently needs help.
But this isn't common knowledge.
Poor little Cooper was seen out for 3 days, by kind lovely people.
Please RT my pinned tweet whenever you can.

[Joel Ashton 🍃🌳🍃 @_JoelAshton]

DANDELIONS - they’re not just a great source of nectar and pollen for insects…! 😍👇 #Bullfinch #WildlifeGarden

Video thanks to @GeorgeMadBirdL1 👏

[Ev Graham @Graham1Ev]

@FOCRG @LGSpace @SouthLanCouncil

[FriendsOfChisRec @FOCRG]

We love our no mow sections in the Rec. 🦋 and our bee corridor 🐝

[Springhare @springhare3]

There are lots of dandelions, cowslips and cuckoo flowers on the grass verges at the moment @SouthLanCouncil. Please don't mow or spray them.