Rebecca Cheape

Ecologist interested in plants, birds, moths , rivers & Islands | Bird Ringer 🪶PADI Diver 🌊 | Ecology & Conservation 🌿

[matt prior @mattthesparrow]

Last night we were monitoring birds on a farm. The Pulsar Telos has revolutionised our work and we ringed 19 Skylarks and right at the end we ringed this stunning Golden Plover. They are just the most beautiful wader.

[Ireland's Trees & Mythology @Tree_Folklore]

The Hawthorn tree grows in special places. Places where magic happens and its berries were once believed to be a cure for a broken 💔

Associated with love and marriage in Ancient Greece, this Hawthorn in County Antrim grows by a magnificent Fairy Rath stop which, hidden by a wall of Furze, sits the Holestone 🌳💮

An ancient standing stone with one large hole bored through it by the fairies that dwell beneath 🪨🧚‍♂️

Couples pledge their undying love for one another at this place and it is the woman who must reach through to grasp her partner's hand as legend has it that the stone will only accept female hands 🤝💚

[Joshua Styles @joshual951]

AMAZING NEWS!!!!

Known from less than 10 places in England and just one site left in Cheshire, this beaut saltmarsh flat-sedge (Blysmus rufus) was found for the first time today on Hoylake beach on Wirral!!! So exciting eeee 😍🌱

[Eadha Enterprises @EadhaAspen]

Completed another phase of #treeplanting at Pennyvenie Farm near Dalmellington for our Coalfields to Wildwoods project @CoalfieldCLP. This time 700 trees in a new shelterbelt and wildlife corridor. Don't recommend the experience of planting along an old dyke line though...

[The Wildlife Trusts @WildlifeTrusts]

Did you catch us on @Channel4News last night? 🌼

After decades of work, one of Britain’s rarest wildflowers is back in the wild for the first time in nearly 100 years — thanks to @YorksWildlife!

📺 Skip to 48:48 to watch: https://t.co/RohGBYo9eb

[Donna Rainey @donnarainey4]

Lots of Common spotted orchids popping up in my #dontmow garden ,along with Red clover, Yellow rattle & Meadow buttercup. A real feast for #pollinators

[West Midlands Ringing Group @RingersWm]

More good news! At the weekend we checked some of our Red kite nests in Worcestershire. We were pleased to find 8 chicks (3,3,2) They were all healthy and well fed. A great success story, hopefully more nests nest year!!! Ringed under Schedule 1 licence

[Fair Isle Bird Observatory @FI_Obs]

Fair Isle saw its third PALLAS'S REED BUNTING, yesterday - a spring male, no less - following two autumn birds, the last some 43 years ago! https://t.co/2m3gIzPipr
Please note - no sightings so far today, although the bird can be slippery, and today's weather wild!
📸A Penn

[wildflowerhour @wildflower_hour]

It’s that time of year when social media just seems to be full of gorgeous orchid pics! The challenge this week is to see if you can find one! Share your orchidaceous finds for #WildflowerHour this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #OrchidChallenge. 📸 William Keble Martin

[Ed Phillips @Ed_P_Wildlife]

Some of the guests in our bee-hotel this weekend. We offer rooms 2mm to 10mm in diameter that attract mason and leafcutter bees; and other solitary bees/wasps (including parasitic/cuckoo species). Also get a range of interlopers that just need a room for the night. #Staffs

[Lee Barber @lee00barber]

What do you think @BBCSpringwatch! An absolutely amazing Jay's nest, monitored for the BTO's #NestRecordScheme. The scheme only gets around 5 nest records per year, so this will provide well needed information.

[Trees for Life @treesforlifeuk]

Peatlands are wet, wild and wonderfully important 💦

These unique wetland landscapes store carbon, reduce flood risk, improve water quality, and support biodiversity. They’re not just beneficial - they’re also beautiful, wild places, rich with wildlife and plant life.

📷 Mark Hamblin / Scotland: The Big Picture
#WorldPeatlandDay

[Ashley Banwell @AshBanwell]

This lovely male Pallas’s Reed Bunting gave the few of us lucky enough to be on Fair Isle today the runaround before it settled into the heather for a while, it had been very skittish at the bottom the cliffs for a couple hours, top find by Alex Penn @FI_Obs

[Butterfly Conservation 🦋 @savebutterflies]

Look out for the colourful Cinnabar (Tyria jacobaeae) this month 👀

This common and well-distributed day-flying moth is often mistaken for a butterfly because of its vibrant red and black markings.

📷: Iain H Leach, Rachel Scopes, James Peat
#MothMonday #MothsMatter

[Butterfly Conservation 🦋 @savebutterflies]

There is no place for pesticides in our communities as we face the #ButterflyEmergency 🦋

On 25 April, MPs will debate phasing them out. Urge yours to back Sian Berry’s #GoPesticideFree bill and protect our precious pollinators! 👉 https://t.co/PpRJQD0CPQ

📷: Ian A Kirk @PAN_UK

[UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme @PoMScheme]

Our latest newsletter celebrates the new FIT Count season tomorrow (Tues 1 April), + opportunities to join the 1 km square survey, & links to some recent pollinator research (some courtesy of @JeffOllerton). Read at https://t.co/kbLuviJAzO & subscribe at https://t.co/O1Jk2K3RBK

[Wader Quest @waderquest]

It's that time of year again here in the Northern Hemisphere, time when waders & other ground nesting birds are returning to their breeding grounds.
Pls stick to footpaths, keep dogs on leads & avoid disturbing these birds.
Artwork by Lars Jonsson
#waders #shorebirds

[BirdGuides @BirdGuides]

A major influx of Hoopoe to Britain and Ireland is underway, with bumper numbers of the colourful bird recorded during recent days: https://t.co/P00jo3xzzi

[Graham Appleton @GrahamFAppleton]

Migration in full flow!
There's a blog about the waders that migrate between Ireland and Iceland, many of which stop off in Tiree:
https://t.co/NU80eZzVbN
#ConservationScience

[Butterfly Conservation 🦋 @savebutterflies]

Happy #SpringEquinox!

Today we're celebrating the arrival of #Spring and all the colour and new life the season brings. 🌼🦋

What do you enjoy most about this time of year?

📷: Tim Melling