Ridiculously, knowingly saw my first Scotch Argus yesterday 😁🦋

Broch-bathing. It's a thing. #brochs #clachtollbroch Caithness Broch Project

Nowt but the mutter of an Eider this evening as I reflect on life. #IsleofMay @ForthNatureScot Former NatureScot account

How it started - How it's going now. The Former NatureScot account restoration of Flanders Moss NNR. Removal of conifer+add water=recovering peatland+quality habitat+stored carbon #ScotClimateWeek Peatland ACTION PeatlandConnections BES Peatlands and Wetlands SIG 🌱 …ogsaswampandsomeislands.wordpress.com/2021/09/15/how… via WordPress.com

Some pretty things from the office trap this morning: the audacious Angle Shades, the subtle Sallow, the fabulous Frosted Orange, and the ball-achingly beautiful Burnished Brass #TeamMoth

A wet morning and afternoon for volunteers at Flanders Moss @ForthNatureScot today. This gave an insight into how important peat bogs are to our #environment . 🤔💭Did you know #Scottish peat bogs hold 1.7b tons of Carbon?

Little Stint from the Isle of May last week. I HAVE to start bringing a tripod with me... @ForthNatureScot David Steel Former NatureScot account BTO #IsleofMay

Flanders Moss is getting wetter and wetter thanks to the installation of 'mega dams'. Great conditions for sphagnum to grow and peat to form! 👍 Read more in the latest blog: ow.ly/QaQ550Gf1Km #peat #sphagnum Peatland ACTION

At 2mm not easy to photograph, this tiny larva will eventually morph into a Sundew Plume #moth & help sustain the population on #HumberheadLevels #Yorkshire's stronghold of an enigmatic & iconic species that is able to avoid being eaten by its carnivorous host plant Sundew😵

Working out in nature? Things don't go according to plan? Here are more (un)helpful fieldwork tips that have been learnt the hard way - on the bog blog Former NatureScot account @ForthNatureScot Iolo Williams RSPB Loch Lomond Ellie Lawson …ogsaswampandsomeislands.wordpress.com/2021/09/27/mor… via WordPress.com

How many bog balloons we found in a year? Surely not many just on our 3 reserves...What happens on a bigger scale? If this doesn't put you off balloon-releases, I don't know what will. Former NatureScot account @ForthNatureScot David Pickett @BethiaPearson Chris Packham wp.me/p8PJqv-2WY

21 mm of peat and not doing an Elvis - well that's me leaving the bog (and other places) after 21 years of working on Former NatureScot account NNRs - more on the bog blog …ogsaswampandsomeislands.wordpress.com/2021/10/18/21-… via WordPress.com

The bog isolation can get to you from time to time... @ForthNatureScot Former NatureScot account UK Fungus Day Scottish Fungi #bogfungi #ukfungi 🍄 wp.me/p8PJqv-3TE

For those of you that are keen gardeners, here is a list of people and companies that not only use peat, but also wish to push Europe’s remaining bogs off the edge, alongside countless species that live on them. Change is needed and it is needed now. Defra UK

ICYMI Flanders Moss NNR! Dank, ancient and quite fantastic: Scotland’s peat bogs breathe again theguardian.com/environment/20…

This is a story about peat — the brown stuff lurking in bogs and swamps and potting soil — and why it may be nature’s greatest champion against climate change. nyti.ms/3BYREk1

Our Stirling NNRs team is looking for new seasonal members! Here's your chance to get to work on, not just one, but three amazing national nature reserves! Closing date 18 March. Details below. ow.ly/UIkf50I6Ent

Found 7 Rannoch Brindled Beauty #moths at Flanders Moss today (4 ♀️ & 3 ♂️ incl. one mating pair). The ♀️ is flightless. At this time of year, she climbs up a tree trunk or fence post and emits pheromones to attract the male.

Tiny #Adder on the boardwalk at Flanders Moss today. Body no thicker than an Earthworm, and no longer than a large Common Lizard. Presumably one of last year's young. Also 3 Rannoch Brindled Beauty #moths. Fuzzy head-on pic as light was poor. One very bedraggled.

Rannoch Brindled Beauty #moths at Flanders Moss. The hairy female is flightless, and climbs tree trunks or fence posts to attract the flying males using pheromones.