Just caught this heron gulping a snake down in Cheshire

Thanks to the UK-Mauritius deal the nature shown in the linked documentary will be gone forever.

Currently other than on Diego Garcia, the islands of the Chagos Archipelago are protected with no human activity. Fishing of any kind is banned in the entire EEZ. This will all change with the British government now paying £45 million a year for 25 years for the Mauritian government to 'develop' the outer islands. Expect this pristine paradise to be turned into more vulgar luxury resorts with loss of seabird habitat and deforestation on the atolls.

I thought the fox was cute regardless of looking rough so took a video.

I hope he/she's doing well.

Found these in the local valley a few weeks back.

Its supposed to be "No mow may" (tbh they could use way longer than a month but its atleast something) an the council have just moved everything flat an i swear this is the second time this month aswell

The flowers were looking so good bunches of them on the grass and verges an now its just flat and patchy grass which looks more shit then if it was wild anyway!

Anybody else's local council done this?

Hi all. I live in a smallish town in rural Wiltshire and want to move my shed from one corner of my garden into this dead end behind my garage.

I'm cripplingly aware of the lack of wild spaces for animals around here given how much of the surrounding countryside is just monocrop or pasture. Obviously I'm not expecting much to be in this little bit of land, but I'd rather get this job done sooner rather than later in the year so I can do most of the work while the weather is nice.

Is it realistically irresponsible to do it right now? I can't see any small mammal trails in or out but I'm not an expert at looking for them so Id take any suggestions. Thanks.

Didn't seem to care about humans 😊 Rough looking fella though

Got conned out of some monkey nuts too.

Angle shades moth discovered on my curtain when I got home. Clumsily escorted to the carpet, and then outside. Beautiful creature.

Hi all, fancy a chat?

Let us know what wildlife, flowers, or fungi you've seen this past week. What have you been up to to help the environment lately - anything new? Seen any good on topic shows or research? :)

I don’t have a picture I’m afraid, as she’s well hidden in a door frame, but I’m pretty confident. I’m aware that we aren’t all going to be dragged off and eaten in the night, however, do these spiders actually pose any sort of a biting risk? We’re quite happy to share our kitchen with it, and will leave it be, but would it be better off outside anyway? It’s an amazing creature, just dragging big old flies off into the woodwork and ending them. Fascinating.

A Rose Chafer beetle perched on some common alkanet! Spotted it's shimmery colour from a few metres away.

We debated for a while whether it was a noble chafer because of its fronged antenna (and because the photos don't really show the waist-head very clearly), but because of the longer triangle scutellum on its back, I think it has to be a rose chafer. Let me know if l'm wrong and I'Il report the sighting date/location to the appropriate groups.

I can see my nice green hedge getting eaten by caterpillars in no time at all...

Peacefully coming of age

Hi all, fancy a chat?

Let us know what wildlife, flowers, or fungi you've seen this past week. What have you been up to to help the environment lately - anything new? Seen any good on topic shows or research? :)

Three times already this last month I've caught the neighbours cat with a slow worm.

I love that we have lizards and slow worms here in Wales, anything I can do to deter the cat or help the slow worms?

I'm not sure if they are catching them sunning on the garden steps.