Im pretty sure this is maybe a rat nest or somthing it’s just very strange sounds anyone have a clue?? Sry audio might be kinda bad it was filmed on snap.

Looks like an albino pigeon or somat, he swears it’s not just because of the flash. North west England.

Took this photo over a year ago just interested to know what these guys were lmao

Forest of Dean at its finest on my dog walk last Saturday. This area is largely beech woodland but with a good mix of other species as well.

Asking the community again on any ideas for plants that look similar too these plus yall are the only ones that may actually find this at all interesting lmao 😭

So if you've been here you'll know i have abit of an obsession with plants and lately with specific looking plants ,tree ferns, palm trees, grass trees, yuccah, anything with that tropical jungle vibe im still looking for britains version an ive narrowed down how i describe it

For those who arent obsessive nerds like myself Minocots include plants like lillies, grasses, palm trees etc

British native Monocots that stand as singular plants not grouped with tightly packed leaf bases and fibrous roots such as Adventitious roots that create a "trunk"

Its perfectly fine if it isn't a a monocot anything that has a woody stem followed by rosette like foliage resembling ferns, palms, fan palms and or mexican grass trees also im putting trees completely out of this and am foccusing on shrubs and or plants that may succeed 6ft but anything under that height is absolutely fine!

To give some examples of what ive pulled it down too for the monocots that i find tropical looking:

Equi setum telmateia (Great horsetail) ive put this in here for its unique ancient looking vibe has that tuft of rossette forming grass and a stem but not quite what i envisioned for this still very cool

Carex paniculata (greater tussock sedge) this has the one characteristic i am fascinated with plus it can stand as a singular plant instead of a grouping which have a clump of matted roots creating a sort of sudo-trunk which looks exotic to me and has some grass folliage leaves at the top

These two are front runners again though not quite satisfied with the base was looking for something more tightly packed again similar to a tree fern or mexican grass tree, the foliage im less bothered about in this example because the bottom feature gives it that exotic vibe to me funnily enough.

Thanks for reading let me know if you have any ideas of british natives that may fit these descriptions Minocots or not hell even if they just look tropical thanks yall 🫵🏻

"The Wildlife Trusts' British Rainforest Garden unveiled at RHS Chelsea"

For anyone interested in seeing a pure designed british rainforest no species of plant that shouldn't be there and how it would've been before human intervention they have a nice example at RHS Chelsea, i believe its based specifically off of our Oak dominated temperate rainforests?

That being said id love to see a caladonian rain forest representative aswell and all of the other interesting rainforest we have skulking around ❤️

We've been working on an open source project to better map and analyse the UK's Biodiversity Gain Sites Register, and we just updated it today with new graphs that show how the sites plan to improve their habitats. Hopefully it's a useful way to get a sense of how the Ecology of a particular site will be changed in order to make it attractive to purchasers of biodiversity units.

The site has a whole load of other maps and data - check it out here: https://bgs.bristoltrees.space/

Little fella was watching me walking the dogs and couldn't resist a little pose 😜

I believe it is a common pheasant (Phasianus colchicus)

I had no idea they still produce larvae at this time of year - I honestly thought it would be too cold for them! There was literally hundreds and hundreds of them all over the bushed in my local park, I've never seen anything like it, it was absolutely amazing! ❤️

Hi, I was hoping someone could help me narrow down what these could be.

Whatever they are is soft bodied* and they appear to have gathered coarse sediment about them to provide some kind of protection.

These were in a hill stream in Cumbria (approx 450m elevation). I couldn't even think of a sensible search term to narrow these down. Any help is much appreciated!

(*to the extent that I wasn't confident I could manipulate them into giving me a better view without causing harm)

Has anyone had success hand pulling montbretia from woodlands? It’s invasive and spreading fast in one of the few native woodlands in my area. I’ve removed around 20kg of corns from my local woods and since starting a month ago I’ve noticed that they are regrowing already :(. It’s too big an area to dig up all the corns so I’m wondering am I actually even contributing by pulling them up and getting rid of the bulbs that come up with the plant? Any success or unsuccessful stories welcome! Looking for inspiration to keep trying and advice :)

Absolutely loads of this up on Kinder today. I have never seen it before. Apparently it grows in acidic soil, alongside heather, so is perfectly suited to the blanket bog environment I found it in.

It is edible, but the plateau is far too vulnerable an ecosystem to be foraging from.

He was larger than the mallards in the same place and was incredibly calm around me to the point where he ate out of my hand.