
mathew frith
@frithinwood
nature notes in the ether, curiocities, with a twinge of political whatever. student of @BathSpaUni and work at @WildLondon but views are my own...
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moth-luring sweetscent nebula of woodbine, a-burst, anemone'd and suckle-honeyed in Hildenborough wildflowerhour Plantlife Kent Wildlife Trust BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland


amongst the dank mizzled fougère of crushed bracken, a juvenile white-lipped takes advantage of the drenching mists around Kingcombe Dorset Wildlife Trust @conchol


prickly spear thistles bristling, sparkly crested as crashing horseless hussars, today's awkward guardian sentinels to Maiden Castle's ancient steepfoot sheep-ribbed ramparts English Heritage Plantlife Dorset Wildlife Trust


hints of Meissen porcelain in self-heal's towered cakestand bracts at Kingcombe's Cowleaze, their curled purples stripped to pinking butterfly-scale fancies Dorset Wildlife Trust Plantlife wildflowerhour NEDorsetHantsIOW


'bloodsucker', 'hogweed bonker' or merely red soldier, this is their time, as Lev Parikian writes 'locked in coleopteran passion... nice work if you can get it... they and their ancestors have doing it for millions of years. I am somehow cheered by the thought.' Brenda L Romero


hogweed can be gigantic, without being a phototoxic giant, as towering here near Thrupp Cotswold Canals Trust @Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust Morethanweeds



female white-letter alights on the asphalt warmth of a Dulwich wayside @WildLondon The Dulwich Society BC Surrey Richard Jones #BigButterflyCount


short-tailed field vole, recently dead at Bramley Bank @WildLondon, more upliftingly raven heard groanking overhead, and red kite spin-winging on a thermal, tho' a fox or blowflies will sniff this carrion out sooner Mammal Society


pyjamarama arctiid munchers voracious 'mongst the sunsplash ragwort flourishes around Swaffham Prior The Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs & Northants British Moths @BC_CAMBS


a cheerful sunblushing flush and buzz of purple loosestrife, once given a helping hand, now also rooting by the giraffian wharf crane tracks alongside the angular waters of Royal Victoria Docks wildflowerhour #GridPlants The Royal Docks @WildLondon


inflorescence of greater bladderwort fire lamplike over sleepy-bubbled peaty pools at @WickenFenNT wildflowerhour


sveldt feline pelt, speckled freckled, slippery as surfaced submarine, radar'd up front with victory eyestalks a-quiver, my, s/he's a large one... Malacological Society of London Brian Jones


a mistdrift constellation of furstars tipped with candleburnt wicks, glaucous seedheads of kidney vetch in their milkyway thousands at Chapel Bank @WildLondon Plantlife BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland London Rocket


whether withywind, bellbind or fairies' winecups, it's more of a scrambler than a climber; candy trumpets of field bindweed blast glorious #WildflowerHour #ClimbingPlants wildflowerhour Brian Jones


something about the nightsky Thames wherever it ebbs and flows; tonight's Blackfriars Bridge Illuminated River Port of London Authority



#Favourite Find #WildflowerHour a beaked hawk's-beard from the flat's balcony in May, but more for it's rooting tenacity and capturing it in toto wildflowerhour


gilded tide of Bohemian knotweed (or similar hybrid) all brushsweep rainbeat autumnal in downwash banks of the Sherbourne, Charterhouse, Coventry John Muir Trust BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland Warwickshire Wildlife Trust


pavement trifletop spillage of arbutus flowers eye-pop topped with 'strawberries' and tuiles of ginkgo and maple Paul Wood 🌳 Street Trees for Living The Tree Council The Dulwich Society
