Lisa Gill

Myself and Alistair Lockett are doing a talk next Monday 5th Feb @NENature_ in Newcastle University’s Curtis Auditorium on #PeatlandRestoration in the @NorthPenninesNL and why it’s so important! Join us at 18:29 for planting strategies with Megan Ferrell, followed by us at 7pm!

Very excited to get my copy of North east Nature @NEE_Naturalist through the door today featuring my published article!

After a weekend of doing bumble bee and meadow surveys for @NorthPennAONB didn’t stop to take any pics other than on the way back when I came across these beauts! Parsley Fern with fertile and sterile fronds, Wall-rue and Brittle Bladder-fern I believe? In upper Teesdale

Such an unusual plant, with its ferny fronds, large capsule seed heads and pretty pink flowers, Lousewort Pedicularis sylvatica, in Kielderhead on the edge of the bank and amongst the rocks next to the reservoir, only one still in flower #wildflowerhour

A day of 2 half’s surveying in Kielder today, got soaked, being closely watched by the cattle, lots of ragged robin Silene flos-cuculi and heath spotted orchids Dactylorhiza maculata, left tired, sweaty and happy! 😁

Fantastic week learning Bird ID, songs and calls, with @MJWhittingham1, but this has to be my favourite moment!

A little wander up to the Ancient woodland Baal Hill this evening to visit my daughters favourite tree, Bluebells are just coming into flower, lots of Yellow pimpernel Lysimachia nemorum and a new treasure to add to her collection, I think it’s a violet ground beetle backplate?

Trying to sort moss I collected weeks ago from a Kielder recce, amazing how quickly it springs back to form

Saw my first Sundew today in Northumberland, collecting monitoring data in the bog, such a striking little plant, the carnivorous Drosera rotundiflora surrounded by sphagnum