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Mostly wildlife and football #COYS Building a wildlife-friendly new-build garden

[F For Foxtrot 💙 @a_fallan]

Fantastic night in Norwich to see @StornowayBand. On the way up we played a game of ‘clod or hare’. And we spotted about six hares. We usually just spot clods of earth 🤭

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@StornowayBand Two of my fave bands - love it 💚

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Any ideas what this is, disguised against the fence?

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And now six SWIFTS over Woodham Ferrers

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HOUSE MARTINS!!!!!!!!

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@themarshtit @chrismothman1 Heard one from my bed this morning. A little further around the Essex coast from @chrismothman1 💚

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Took advantage of late night opening @EssexWildlife Fingringhoe Wick last night. Amazing to be surrounded by the song of so many nightingales. But what is making this knocking noise by Kit’s Pond?

[F For Foxtrot 💙 @a_fallan]

Spotted my first orange tip butterfly in my new-ish garden yesterday. I’ve deliberatively left garlic mustard for them.

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A morning of jobs you wish you hadn’t started. Cleared out the shed and found this. Does anyone have any idea what this is?

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@littleramstudio Here’s a wood pigeon eating viburnum berries 💚

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@WriterHannahBT A trilling wren - heard but not seen 💚

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@EssexHundred Definitely Essex Wildlife Trust’s visitor centre at Abberton

[Joe Barton @JoeBarton_]

Goodnight sweet prince. When you were on the pitch you gave everything. Sometimes you would leave the pitch, to take a shit, or fight someone. But you always came back. You are fully COYS and we love you

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@WriterHannahBT Mr and Mrs Blackbird searching for food in the hawthorn tree over the fence.

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@WriterHannahBT Mine was a mallard, coming in to land on a balancing pond near our house.

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@WriterHannahBT Squabbling magpies!

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@WriterHannahBT A woodpecker drumming, heard through an open window.

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@chrismothman1 @PrincetonUPress @PrincetonNature @WILDGuidesBooks @BSBIbotany @BNAscience Looking forward to getting my hands on a copy

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Dahlias being nibbled - anyone know what caterpillars these are? #caterpillarid

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There are some interesting goings on in the garden. Spotted a bank vole last week and now some mystery poo has turned up. Does anyone have any ideas? Smells awful and is about 4cm long.