Martin Hey

Wildlife lover and photographer - especially bugs 🐛🐝Tandem and solo cyclist. Rovers

[Martin Hey @MartinHey3]

Found this little jewel on our ride today - Chrysis Ignita. Just stunning

[Martin Hey @MartinHey3]

Should have said Gatekeeper butterfly 🦋🤦‍♂️

[Martin Hey @MartinHey3]

Headed away from the coast to Retunue de Rochereau for today’s ride. Dock bug and Meadow Brown from our picnic stop. #Vendee @thetandemclubuk @OrbitTandems

[Martin Hey @MartinHey3]

Also from today’s ride - Donjon de Bazoges en Pareds. The stunning Gum Rockrose flower and the impressive hornet mimic hoverfly. #Vendee @thetandemclubuk @OrbitTandems

[Martin Hey @MartinHey3]

More from today.
Spot the damselfly hitching a lift on a juvenile Coypu!!
Also a Longhorn beetle - Stenopterus rufus. @thetandemclubuk @OrbitTandems #Vendee

[Martin Hey @MartinHey3]

55 miles on lovely quiet #Vendee roads. The Wall lizard has a passenger! @thetandemclubuk @OrbitTandems

[Tim Birch @TimBirchWild]

@SheffCouncil why you spraying Sheffield streets with pesticides? Im HORRIFIED to see GLYPHOSATE sprayed on our streets by a Council worker. Cities across UK and Europe have banned it. It kills wildlife, is a health risk, cats and dogs can get very sick BAN IT NOW! @_OliviaBlake

[Get Wild 🐦 🦋 🐝 🍃 @mitchellsnik]

Lazy, lethal to humans, dogs and insects.

Council spraying glyphosate all over our pavements. It’s a lazy, "cheap and nasty" fix to please the tidy brigade

There are safer, better, greener alternatives available.

#Kent #StopTheSpray #Environment #PublicHealth #SaveOurBees

[Martin Hey @MartinHey3]

Ride out to Peckforton castle yesterday - cuckoo calling in the surrounding woodland. Picnic stop with an Ashy Mining bee, Large Red Damselfly with hoverfly. @thetandemclubuk @OrbitTandems #Cheshire

[Deborah Pitman @DeborahPitman]

#UnblockOurNests @networkrail #ChapelMiltonViaduct #Arch3

[Old Man of Minsmere @oldman65Suffolk]

A male Crossbill just hanging around
Suffolk
02/04/2026

[The Danny Steamship @dannyinsteam]

Not long now until we begin our pivotal 2026 season.
Tickets available for our 20 days of cruises at https://t.co/ui8JsqrLxl
#Heritage #canals #cheshire #steam #cruising #Liverpool
@railnigel @NatHistShips @AndertonLift @Mersey_Maritime @cheshirelife @HeritageFundUK

[Martin Hey @MartinHey3]

@thetandemclubuk

[Anna @tokkianami]

“Hey, guys! It’s Prince William!”

“It’s a lookalike.”
“He’s hallucinating.”

This is so funny. William wanted to be incognito at this exact moment 😂😂😂

[BELVIDE BIRDING𓅪 @BelvideBirding]

The local Fox hunt Trash Belvide SSSI nature reserve this afternoon. After being warned about their future conduct, when a similar incident happened several years back. They don't give a shit.

[Martin Hey @MartinHey3]

Great White Egret on the Weaver this morning @CAWOSBirding

[ali 🍃💚🍃 @aligreen9999]

Hard to believe @SteveReedMP valued the countryside and nature when in opposition, when last week he instructed Labour MPs to vote against an amendment in the planning bill which would have kept environmental protections.

https://t.co/cQCsug51LH

[Neil Duncan-Jordan MP @NeilForPoole]

Ancient woodlands aren’t a blocker. Wildlife isn’t a hindrance. Chalk streams aren’t anti-growth.

Our wildlife is on the brink - one in six species faces extinction.

These species help define who we are as a nation - we won’t get a second chance to save them.

[Hannah Bourne-Taylor @WriterHannahBT]

20,000 bricks make up the average 2 storey new house & all we ask is that 1 of them has a hole in it - to save a species and preserve an entire category of birds who live alongside us. Labour hated the idea to put a 3 line whip against it. Talk about betrayal.

[Hannah Bourne-Taylor @WriterHannahBT]

NEWS: Labour listened to the industry lobby. The builders are bragging that they blocked swift bricks! (Read why this is has made me enraged below in my comment) https://t.co/vLksqnYKQz

[Hannah Bourne-Taylor @WriterHannahBT]

BAD NEWS💔if the vote had taken place earlier we would have won-Tories (majority) whipped YES but by the time of the vote, support had gone home just like 2 years ago. It is an AGONISING reality. Tell [email protected] what you think. GUTTED. Labour: what a betrayal 😡

[Hannah Bourne-Taylor @WriterHannahBT]

Why has Steve Reed u-turned on swift bricks? what is a 50 million year old species worth to us? Swifts won’t have any nesting opportunity without swift bricks. Neither will any birds reliant on buildings to breed. Our easiest access to nature will go. https://t.co/hYDTQX3dRi