Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈 @Kate_Bradbury Twitter profile

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

1 year

Twitter you know how I always rescue caterpillars from the park nettles before the council can kill them? WELL. I have been busy. Behold 265 peacock butterfly chrysalises 🤪

Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

2 years

There’s a LOT to be completely miserable about at the moment. But… in 10 years of checking nettles for caterpillars, I’ve never found this many. Small tortoiseshell butterfly caterpillars to be precise, a species that has declined by 75% since the 1970s… 🧵

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

3 years

Just 15 days to the winter solstice, after which the days gradually start to get lighter. Just incase you needed reminding of that today (I needed to reminding of that today) ☀️🌏🌱

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

2 years

Very happy fox having a kip on my shed roof 🥰

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

13 days

Imagine if they spent £22 billion on restoring peat bogs, the oceans, forests (proven carbon capture), or on public transport, insulation, solar – literally anything but this, which is just playing into the hands of the fossil fuel bros and delaying the transition to green energy

Simon Oldridge #CANBill

@SiOldridge

21 days

Letter from leading scientists calling for the Gov to halt & re-assess carbon capture plans. We know the previous Gov was captured by Big Oil. Labour now really needs to listen to these experts. Key points 🧵 @campaigncc @Andrew9Boswell @KevinClimate

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

4 years

Hello little one ❤️

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

3 years

Wait for it...

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

1 year

When I’m feeling cheery enough to take the rejection, I sometimes get in touch with strangers who have scaffolding up, and ask if they would consider erecting bird boxes. Nearly every time they say no but today, for only the second time, someone said YES! 💫 (1)

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

2 years

2 weeks ago I rescued 41 small tortoiseshell caterpillars from some nettles the council was strimming. I took them home and fed them. 2 died and 12 were predated by Sturmia bella, but 27 became perfect adults ❤️ I’ve spent the last 4 days releasing them back into the wild 😊

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

4 months

Nothing makes me happier than when a leafcutter bee decides she’s too cool for leaves, and builds her best using petals, instead 💚💗

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

9 months

SO many bumblebee queens emerging at the moment due to the mild weather and finding very little in bloom. If you see one on the ground PLEASE don’t just walk past - gently pick it up and find some winter honeysuckle, mahonia or other winter flower it can safely feed from. Ta 🐝

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

5 years

So much hate towards @GretaThunberg today. My mate turns 40 in Nov, in Belfast. I'm travelling by train and boat, via Glasgow. It will take 13 hours and costs a bit more but who knows I might see killer whales. I'm doing this BECAUSE of Greta. Flight hate with love. Always 👊🏽 🌈

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

2 years

We will spend the rest of our lives watching everything we know and love fall apart. And we are the lucky ones. Hard to stay positive on days like this.

Climate crisis: UN finds ‘no credible pathway to 1.5C in place’

Failure to cut carbon emissions means ‘rapid transformation of societies’ is only option to limit impacts, report says

www.theguardian.com

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

2 years

If I hear one more weather reporter saying "lovely dry spell" I'm going to scream. It's SPRING. Bees, birds, hedgehogs, tadpoles are all struggling, and will die if we don't get rain soon.

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

29 days

Worst year ever for butterflies (no surprise). Yes to finally banning neonicotinoids but a reminder that neonics are widely available in bug sprays from garden centres and supermarkets for home use. "No exceptions" means banning them too @savebutterflies

‘Butterfly emergency’ declared as UK summer count hits record low

Conservation group calls on government to ban insect-killing neonicotinoid pesticides outright

www.theguardian.com

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

3 years

The mornings are now getting lighter again and within 10 days sunrise will be before 8am ☀️

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

2 years

And now, Twitter, I am DED. Three years of being nice to hedgehogs and it looks like one is finally nesting with me. No, *you've* got something in your eye 🥹

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

2 years

10th June. The ‘lawn’ is now a meadow and has its summer path back 💚

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

2 years

Between my shed and wall is a gap of about 1m, which I've filled with branches, clippings and other garden 'waste'. It's tall – almost as high as the shed, and is completely out of bounds to people, the dog, foxes and cats. "It's where the hedgehogs live", I say. 🥰

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

2 years

Sometimes wildlife gardening is accepting that bees need their dinner, and you can deal with the jungle later 😂🐝

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

1 year

Oh GIVE OVER. I'm surprised kids are even allowed to leave the house these days 🤦‍♀️ Let's all rip up our foxgloves and daffodils, now shall we? To be "safe"?

Hemlock: Anger after poisonous plant found near Bucklesham school

Safety concerns are raised about hemlock on a pathway close to a primary school.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

4 years

🐸🐸🐸 FIRST FROGSPAWN EVER 🐸🐸🐸 in my garden pond, less than two years after it started its life on @BBCSpringwatch . Couldn’t have wished for a better 40th birthday present 💝

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

4 years

Phew! Nearly a year to the day I found a wool carder bee nesting in my bee hotel, one of her eight babees FINALLY hatches. I was beginning to worry, there. During #solitarybeeweek as well 😍 🐝

Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

5 years

Spent half an hour stalking my bee hotel to get this fuzzy clip of my wool carder. She’s definitely nesting! There’s a big pile of pollen in her woolly tunnel. SO BLOODY EXCITED THERE’S A WOOL CARDER NESTING IN MY BEE HOTEL 😱😍🤪🐝 @B_Strawbridge @EDoorish @sarah_mnstr @N_Nature

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

8 months

Happy 70th birthday to my dear mum, who has literally been waiting her whole life to pose for a photo wearing purple with a red hat that doesn’t go or doesn’t suit her. ❤️

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

2 years

“All artificial turf is made with toxic PFAS compounds and some is still produced with ground-up tires that contain heavy metals, benzene, VOCs and other carcinogens that can present a health threat.” Plastic 👏🏽 grass 👏🏽 is 👏🏽bad 👏🏽for 👏🏽all 👏🏽of 👏🏽 us.

Boston bans artificial turf in parks due to toxic ‘forever chemicals’

The city joins a growing number across the US in limiting the use of artificial turf made with dangerous PFAS compounds

www.theguardian.com

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

3 years

A garden hedge: Filters wind (slows it down) Absorbs water (prevents flooding) Absorbs CO2 (fights climate change) Houses wildlife (promotes biodiversity) There are 22 million gardens in the UK. Many of them will lose a fence panel this weekend. Please replace with a hedge 🌳

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

1 year

GOOD MORNING! Today’s the day, and it’s going to be a busy one! I’ve released 15 of these gorgeous souls already this morning, so that’s 250 to go 🤦🏼‍♀️😂 A HAPPY day! 🦋

Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

1 year

Twitter you know how I always rescue caterpillars from the park nettles before the council can kill them? WELL. I have been busy. Behold 265 peacock butterfly chrysalises 🤪

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

2 years

I'm seeing lots of dead, QUEEN bumblebees at the moment, which is especially worrying as these are the founders of next year's nests/bees. Please water plants, which produce more nectar when hydrated – take a bucket into the shower with you and throw the catch on the garden. 🐝🌻

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

3 years

V proud of my city for banning both disposable barbecues AND balloon/lantern releases on council land (which includes the beach 🙏)

Council bans disposable barbecues – and balloon and lantern releases

Councillors have voted to ban disposable barbecues from the beaches of Brighton and Hove and from council-owned parks and spaces.

www.brightonandhovenews.org

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

1 year

SO happy that the hairy footed flower bees have finally decided to nest with me, just three years after I made them a cob nest 🤪

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

4 months

Was hoping to get footage of hedgehogs in the pond last night but quite happy with our resident fox having a morning drink. It’s very dry out there now so do please keep leaving out water for wildlife. Ta 💚

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

6 years

Ironic that I get a press release about the surge in popularity of #plastic lawns the day that yet another study of insect declines hits the news. Seriously, if you're thinking about paving, fake-turfing or decking large parts of your garden, please don't.

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

3 years

Want to see a hedgehog curling into a ball because a fox has a drink in the pond? Course you do:

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

3 years

#NoMowMay is coming to an end but my meadow is only just getting going. Please consider not mowing your lawn, or parts of it, until September. You’ll be *amazed* at how much wildlife comes in.

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

3 months

Jailed for telling the truth, for trying to save lives. What a world we live in.

Just Stop Oil

@JustStop_Oil

3 months

🚨 BREAKING: THE WHOLE TRUTH FIVE IMPRISONED FOR 4-5 YEARS ⛓️ Lucia, Cressie, Louise and Daniel have received 4 year prison sentences today, whilst Roger has received 5 years. ➡️ Stop jailing those telling the truth. Sign the petition —

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

5 years

**ANNOUNCEMENT FACE** This year @BBCSpringwatch is doing loads about #gardening and what we can all do to help #wildlife just by growing the right plants. Very excited to say me and my little garden will feature in five films. More here:

BBC Two - Springwatch, 2019

Nature documentary, broadcasting live from the Cairngorms National Park.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

2 years

Is it me or is red deadnettle having a good spring? Lovely to see 💚

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

2 years

This is so depressing. Please, if you have outdoor space, do more to help insects by keeping areas of grass long, growing native plants and NEVER using pesticides:

Flying insect numbers have plunged by 60% since 2004, GB survey finds

Scientists behind survey of car number plates said drop was ‘terrifying’, as life on Earth depends on insects

www.theguardian.com

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

4 years

Two hours on the allotment this morning. 3 degrees, sleety rain, cold feet and hands. BUT birdsong, fresh air, daffodil shoots and MUD. Gardening is GOOD for you 🍃💚

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

3 years

Wildlife gardening needn’t be complicated… really simple things like letting leaves pile up behind plant pots can provide vital hibernation sites for caterpillars and other critters, which means more food for birds in spring 🐛 #wildlifegardening

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

3 years

It’s nice enough to have the back door open, so the dog can come snd go. But then it went quiet and I sneaked round to see what she was up to. Quietly birdwatching! Oh my heart ❤️

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

1 year

There was a bumblebee in my garden a few minutes ago but it flew off and there are now no bumblebees. The foxgloves, catmint, cranesbills, poppies, campions and single roses remain empty. It's JUNE. FFS #SilentSpring

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

2 years

Today I watched a man using a VACUUM CLEANER to suck up the seeds from dandelions. Which was kinda funny in an end-of-times sort of a way. Of all the things to be worried about on this big rock we float through space on. Imagine prioritising hoovering up dandelions?

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

5 years

Devastated to see that this bank of wildflowers, which I last saw full of ladybirds, butterfly caterpillars and #bees , has been treated with #glyphosate at #portslade station. Why, @networkrail ?

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

2 years

Twitter I just met my first CURLEWS. Little brown blobs against brown mud and a brown sky, and their bubbly calls too brief for me to record. But I SAW them and I HEARD them. I’m VERY wet but VERY happy. Please look after the wild things. We are literally nothing without them 💙

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

3 months

Slow hand-clap for the climate change deniers noticing climate change 👍

Jeremy Clarkson

@JeremyClarkson

3 months

Just been for a walk round the farm and I’m a bit alarmed by how few butterflies there are. Something is afoot.

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

2 years

This is Tosca. Tosca knows that when she comes in from the garden she must sit and wait to have her paws wiped. If you’re thinking of getting #plastic grass because you’re sick of muddy paw prints there is another way. There’s always another way.

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

2 years

I don't understand – If it's illegal to damage or destroy nests, why is this nesting habitat being destroyed in nesting season, which almost certainly will have destroyed active nests? @Natures_Voice

Jane Hughes

@JaneHughesJOT

2 years

More mass tree felling in East Grinstead this weekend in nesting season. Destruction of vital wildlife corridor that absorbed air pollution and rainfall runoff. Some work poss needed but response was OTT. @EG_Courier @bbcsoutheast @sussex_world @WoodlandTrust @IoloWilliams2

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

2 years

Had a little cry when we hit 40C yesterday. Make no mistake, this is GRIEF. And what’s the first stage of grief, where so many of us seem stuck? Denial.

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

4 years

Garden and allotment. All of it grown without peat. Always. Please check compost before you buy and make sure it’s #peatfree . Using peat is not worth the habitat loss, the CO2 emissions, the increased flooding risk to nearby communities. #PeatFreeApril

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

1 year

SCREAM! I’ve got a bumblebee nest on the allotment. Despite all my efforts, in all the years, this is the FIRST bumblebee nest I’ve had on my patch. I am *delighted* 🐝🐝🐝 HOW has it taken me until September to notice? 🤦🏼‍♀️ 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️ @BumblebeeTrust

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

5 years

My absolute FAVE in the moth trap this morning. Garden tiger - it’s declined by 92% in the south-east since 1968. Proud to have them breeding on my allotment and hope to encourage them to breed in my garden. Two adults this morning - a good sign 💚🐛

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

5 years

When you lay a slate in the garden in the hope you might attract slow worms... and then you do. SO happy 💚💚💚 #ifyoubuildittheywillcome #wildlifegardening #gardenwatch

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

7 months

Good morning to everyone except my girlfriend who, instead of clearing up the coffee stains on the wall, turned them into ‘a family of ghosts’ and is now singing “you’re the littlest ghost” at me. Yep, yes I am 😭👻

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

2 years

TWITTER!!!!!!!!!! I have news of a very exciting pond development: it’s first newt!!!! The frog population will start to decrease from now but tbh it can take the hit and it’s all nature after all. Bring on the biodiversity. Hurrah! 🐸🐸🐸

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

2 years

I've stayed away from this until now as it was thought to be an elaborate hack. That now appears untrue as the company as per the @itvnews report below. It's illegal to kill hedgehogs in the UK, I'll be reporting @FerberPainting to the police.

Sale of hedgehog and badger 'killer' branded 'horrific' | ITV News

A company claiming to sell products including “hedgehog killer” and “badger killer” has been heavily criticised by those in the animal welfare community. | ITV National News

www.itv.com

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

3 years

The tree is up, and the dog is terrified 🤦🏼‍♀️

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

2 months

My wool carder bee has packed up for the season and left me with this amazing nest 🤩 You can definitely see some cells but I have left it intact incase some grubs haven’t pupated. I wonder how many eggs she laid? 🐝

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

6 years

Took my flask to the dentist so I didn't have to use a single-use #plastic cup for my rinse and spit. THEY LAUGHED AT ME. I realise dentists use a lot of single-use plastic but we have to start somewhere. If everyone took a flask to the dentist, etc... #DrowningInPlastic

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

3 years

Nearly 50k people have signed a petition to stop Channel 5 axing Neighbours, yet the petition to end ghost flights - literally flying empty planes to keep landing spots during a climate crisis - is yet to reach 10k. Humans, have a word with yourselves.

Petition: End ‘ghost' flights: reform historic rights to landing slots.

UK regulation states that airlines must use their landing slots more than 80% of the time in order to keep them. This was suspended at the outset of the pandemic but is now 50%, with plans to return...

petition.parliament.uk

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

2 years

The garden is full of LEAPING FROGS. And the birds have started singing again. I am trying to work while listening to my THREE new water butts fill up. I am all the frogs, and I am all the birds 💙

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

4 years

HAPPY PUBLICATION DAY TO ME! #howtocreateawildlifepond

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

4 years

Is there anything more cheerful than a hedge full of sparrows? 😍

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

2 years

FINALLY it is raining in the sandy desert that is Brighton. I stood in the garden and felt every drop. Now, back in bed with tea, I have every window open and I am LISTENING. Happy Rain Day Twitter, may your water butts be filled and may you not flood 🤞🏼💦

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

1 year

Climate change causes extinctions. This Silent Spring so many are reporting is likely the fall out from last summer’s drought and the changeable, wet winter, on top of existing threats from pesticides and habitat loss. I’m hoping many species are just late, but it’s SO quiet (1)

George McGavin

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1 year

I do a regular walk around our village - road verges, woodland margin and garden edges. It's the 28th May and I have never seen so little insect life. No bumble bees, no hover flies. Just a few aphids and honey bees.

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

6 years

First #Bumblebee of 2019! Gathering pollen from Cerinthe, obviously 🙄 Good sounds for anyone in need of a boost 😍 🐝

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

5 years

Last of the ivy bees, a few queen wasps, all the hoverflies and about 20 red admiral butterflies. Everyone grow ivy! #ivyforthewin #wildlifegardening #ifyoubuildittheywillcome

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

3 months

Been filming in the garden all day and, from mid afternoon, we’ve had the constant soundtrack of baby birds. So constant that I just went to find the source of the calls, to make sure all is ok. Twitter, I found a tree full of BABY WRENS. All is well 💚🐣💚🐣💚

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

4 years

Lost a fence panel in #StormBella ? Please replace with #hedgehog friendly panels (ideally one on either side), so hedgehogs can travel between gardens easily. You’ll barely notice it but it can be a lifeline for hogs. Or you can cut a hole in your gate like this. Thanks! 🦔

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

4 years

FIRST SWIFT OF THE YEAR KLAXON 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

4 years

Hi twitter. Please don’t forget to put water out for the hedgehogs tonight. Thanks!

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

3 years

Meet Branston Prickle, who’s just come out of Hoggy Hospital and can’t go back to the garden she was found in because it has plastic grass so there’s not enough natural food for her to eat 🙄 Reckon she’s lucked out at mine. More real gardens = more Branston Prickles. PLEASE 🦔

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

2 years

FIRST HEDGEHOG OF THE YEAR KLAXON!!! I may, briefly, stop tweeting about frogs.

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

2 years

If you don’t have a mermaid’s purse and a conker in your coat pocket by this stage in October who even are you?

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

3 months

Happy Flying Ant Day to all who celebrate! And if you don’t - Flying Ant Day is the ants’ WEDDING DAY, where daughter queens and males take to the sky to mate, and the queens then found a new nest. Please let them get on with it, thanks! #flyingantday #brighton #brightonandhove

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@Kate_Bradbury

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HAPPY WINTER SOLSTICE, TWITTER! The days get longer from now! 🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

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Slept in the spare room with the window open last night, so I could listen to frogs. Wonderful 💚🐸💚Morning update from the pond: by previous years I reckon we’re about a quarter of the way through. ☺️

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

2 years

On the last day of #NoMowMay my ‘lawn’ is full of tiny frogs. Please, if you’re going to mow tomorrow check the grass thoroughly for wildlife. Or better still don’t mow at all 🤞🏼 🐛🐸🦔🦎🐞

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

4 years

One, two, three, FOUR slow worms beneath the slow worms slate on the allotment today 🥰

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

4 years

Just had my FIRST EVER royalties cheque. Thank you to everyone who's bought a copy of Wildlife Gardening for Everyone and Everything - I really, really appreciate it X

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

2 years

Hummingbird hawk-moths are having an excellent year but I never get tired of seeing them. This one has been coming in every day to feast on my perennial sweet pea, buddleia and Verbena bonariensis 😍 They breed on bedstraws, of which I have a few. Maybe one day I’ll be lucky 🐛🤞🏼

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

2 months

We need to rewild 30% of the planet to restore nature & protect our wildlife, but Britain is falling behind. So I've signed this new petition calling on one of our biggest landowners - the Church of England - to rewild it's land. Join me? via @38degrees

Help save nature by rewilding the Church’s massive landholdings!

What would Jesus do if he owned 105,000 acres (60,000 football pitches) of land? Would he farm it for profit, or would he use it to restore forests, wetlands and meadows to help save our vanishing...

you.38degrees.org.uk

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

2 years

Hawthorn blossom! Hawthorn is my favourite small tree for wildlife: flowers for pollinators, leaves for leaf-munchers, berries (haws) for birds and fissured bark for hibernating insects. Can be grown as a small tree, shrub or as part of a hedge. #wildlifegardening

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

6 years

Neighbour just told me she wants to take up her paved garden and grow plants for butterflies. YES. #wildlifegardening #greeninggreybritain 🌿🍃🐛🦋

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

1 year

Justice for the trees 🌳💪🏽

Rt Hon Johnny Mercer

@JohnnyMercerUK

1 year

I’m afraid it’s been a terrible night in Plymouth as we lost every seat we stood in. We lost some outstanding friends and colleagues who have given decades of service to Plymouth. Take it on the chin, learn and go again tomorrow. It’s going to be a fight but I like a fight.

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

3 years

2.30am: dog gets us up for a wee, Em takes her out and says the pond is like a whirlpool 3am: can’t sleep, so nip out and find 2 clumps of spawn and 20 frogs 🐸 4am: still can’t sleep so sneak into spare room and open window. Fall asleep listening to clumps 2-6 (?) being laid 🥰

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

4 months

The BEST day marching for a wilder world #RestoreNatureNow Shout out to all of the 80k+ who showed up for nature, the team who made it happen @smartyfish and @ChrisGPackham for his tireless dedication to life on Earth. Lost count of the number of times I welled up 🙌🏾🌎

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

2 years

Very useful illustration, and another reason why we should be harvesting as much rainwater in our gardens as possible. If you can, focus now on setting up water butts, water storage tanks etc, to help reduce water racing into into sewers when the rain eventually comes...

Uni of Reading

@UniofReading

2 years

In this experiment Dr Rob Thompson of @UniRdg_Met shows just how long it takes water to soak into parched ground, illustrating why heavy rainfall after a #drought can be dangerous and might lead to flashfloods. @R0b1et @UniRdg_water

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

3 years

It’s not every day I email my local pub to ask if they’ll put up bird boxes, but I’m glad I did @RockwaterH . Not only did they say YES, but they put up 10 terraces, for 30 pairs! Thanks to everyone at Rockwater and Daniel Bell for making them. I can’t wait to see them in use! ❤️

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

4 years

Learning my grasses. From left to right I think I have: meadow foxtail, fescue (sheep?), crested dogtail or Timothy, ribwort plantain (not a grass), not sure x 3, then slender creeping red fescue and finally Yorkshire fog. Can anyone help correct me/fill in the gaps? Thanks!

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

3 years

First hedgehog-nearly-falling-over-having-a-scratch, of the year 💚 Garden is suddenly full of them – at least three individuals last night. Fingers crossed they hang around and have babies 🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔🦔

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

4 years

Yay! My new GARDEN POND book has landed! All you need to know about creating a wildlife pond for your garden friends. Out next month but you can preorder here: #WorldWildlifeDay #WildlifeGardening #GardenPonds

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

7 months

Male wren just showed the female my nest box (he 'makes' a few nests and she picks her fave). She checked it out, flew to him and they did a little gambol together and then he sang his song. No idea if this is Wren for yes or no but how lucky I am to have seen it 💚

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

2 years

Day 6: they’re going to fill the whole pond aren’t they? There’s still about 50 frogs in the pond, and I just watched two more arrive. Did I mention that my neighbour is scared of frogs? 🙈

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

1 year

Oh, and here’s what they will look like. Worth saving?

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

2 years

Girlfriend just called to tell me the mowers have arrived in the park. 100 pupating caterpillars in my bathroom, taken from the very nettles that are about to disappear. Honestly, if we all adopted a patch of nettles in our local park we would have so many more butterflies...

Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

2 years

Back to the park nettles, which look due for another strim, this morning I found 15 chunks just about to pupate, and this evening another batch of fresh babies. I’ve brought them all home because I don’t want them to be lost to strimmers again

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

1 year

When rescuing bumblebees, make sure you can see them drink from the flowers you place them on, then you will know for sure they’re going to be ok. This queen buff tail was lucky - I was just leaving the allotment. Lovely to see her take big drinks from the morello cherry ❤️🐝

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

3 years

Nothing to see here, just a 40ft urban garden providing food for two red-listed species of bird (starling and house sparrow). 22 million gardens in the UK. Imagine if we ALL did more for wildlife? #wildlifegardening #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

5 years

Look at this absolute LUMP. @BBCSpringwatch @hedgehogsociety Think this is Sylvester:

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

3 years

Here’s something nice. Invited 4YO neighbour to see her 1st frogspawn. Chatted with her mum about wildlife corridors and started a hole in the wall* Then made bucket pond with spawn, for 4YO. Apparently she checks it every day 🥰 The start of a lifelong love of frogs? Hope so 🐸

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Kate Bradbury 🏳️‍🌈

@Kate_Bradbury

3 years

The dog loves the bus so much we take special trips across Brighton. Today we bussed to Kemp Town and walked home along the beach, stopping for a pint (me) and a doggy ice cream (Tosca). Here she is admiring Hove’s Brutalist Town Hall. We’ve had the best day ❤️

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