MandyForde

Just heard from the solicitor that we've finally completed today😃 After 3 years of managing the meadow for the birds, insects, mammals, flowers and fungi it's now officially ours 🐰🐞🪰🦋🐝🦉🌼🍄

The incessant ads & scantily clad followers has finally made my mind up. So it's goodbye to Twitter until things change. Hoping to catch up with my previous followers on Blue sky. Mandy Forde @mandyforde.bsky.social

What a pleasure to welcome Mike Dilger @DilgerTV to see the #Chough in my garden yesterday. Reduced numbers due to the imminent breeding season but we were still treated to a visit by 32 individually identifiable colour ringed birds. @CerrigAnglesey

Didn't need to search too hard for this week's #Wildflowerhour challenge #YellowFlowers Daffodils, Gorse, Lesser Celandine, Dandelion & Marsh Marigold all found within a few minutes walk from the front door 😃🌼

4 clumps of Frog spawn spotted just now in my garden pond. Spotted on 3 March last year too. #spawnmap @PondDip

Marsh Marigold flowers beginning to open this week. Apparently farmers used to hang the flowers over cattle byres on May Day to protect the cows from faeries and witches #wildflowerhour

It's the 30th annual Anglesey Chough Count tomorrow (8/2/25). If you're lucky enough to see a #Chough anywhere on #Anglesey please let me know a grid ref & photos to show id would be great. #birding #birdwatching #NaturePhotography

We don't often get frost on Anglesey but last night we did 🥶 A tiny defiant fungi amongst the lawn moss for #WildWebsWednesday

For day 2 of the @BSBIbotany #NewYearPlantHunt a 3 hour walk around Menai Bridge #Anglesey with @AngleseyFlora resulted in us finding 34 species in flower including Green Alkanet, Fox and Cubs, Holly, Wood Avens, Winter Heliotrope & Wild Strawberry

For the 1st day of this year's #NewYearPlantHunt a walk through Aberffraw Dunes #Anglesey with 4 species in flower - Gorse, Dandelion, Groundsel & Poa annua Bee Orchid rosettes too & a lovely cluster of Honey Fungus I think growing on driftwood on the beach #Wildflowerhour

Local #Lapwing have started their own version of a 'murmuration'. Must be close to 2000 birds. #Anglesey @AngBirdNews

Growing in an almost straight row. 19 counted in my meadow just now. Possibly Lepista sordida. Caps really solid/tough to touch. #FungiFriday

Wildflowers still in bloom around the farm this week for #wildflowerhour #thewinter10 Shepherd's-purse, Creeping Buttercup, Red Campion, Chamomile, Hare's-foot Clover, Dandelion, Stork's-bill, Herb-Robert, Selfheal, Daisy, Common Ragwort & Bramble

First Redwing of the season today near Llyn Traffwll #Anglesey Redwing - 2 Song Thrush Blackbird - 2 Dunnock - 2 Chaffinch - 6 House Sparrow - 8 Starlings - 50+ Curlew - 37 Reed Bunting - 4 Raven - 2 Buzzard - 2 Chough - 45 @AngBirdNews

Wasn't expecting to find Hogweed still flowering in my meadow today. Gorgeous pattern of pink on the flowers that are still in bud. #wildflowerhour

Bar-headed Goose spotted this morning near Llyn Traffwll amongst a flock of 200+ Greylag and Canada geese. Also 300+ Starlings, 42 Chough, 2 Great Crested Grebe, 20 Lapwing & 4 Curlew. #Anglesey @AngBirdNews @birdsinwales @cofnod

Big thanks to Ellie for running the class today. If you have a family member or friend who suffers from Dementia the class is well worth attending 😀 #Anglesey

An amazing collection still in flower seen on today's survey with Anglesey Flora Group @AngleseyFlora #Wildflowerhour Best finds were Datura stramonium, Orbanche minor & Blackstonia perfoliata

Twittter used to be an enjoyable way to share your views/discuss your interests. Now X is a platform for scantily clad girls to bombard everyone with unwanted attention. Might as well have changed the name to X-rated. Come on @elonmusk please sort this out 👃

Small-flowered Catchfly, Silene gallica from @BSBIbotany Summer Meeting in Guernsey my botanical #FavouriteFind of 2024 for #Wildflowerhour

Thought I'd struggle to find anything with the meadows having been cut for hay, but ended up finding so many #StillFlowering that I couldn't fit them all in the collage. Photos taken this week around the farm & a few from Porth Trecastell #Anglesey earlier today #Wildflowerhour