Naturalist, photographer, speaker, author, conservationist. GREEN party member. Wildlife Advocate at Beth Chatto Gardens. #BridgesNotBorders #IamEUropean www.chrisgibsonwildlife.co.uk New book for @princetonupress.bsky.social...see my website frontpage.https://bsky.app/profile/chrismothman.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/chrismothman.bsky.social/post/3my6c2xdpxc2qFirst blog (of three) from our recent Interrail extravaganza... Eating and drinking our way across Europe. https://www.chrisgibsonwildlife.co.uk/eating-drinking-our-way-across-europe-to-trieste-by-train/ Train travel, sights, wildlife and a whole lot more #NatureWriting18 Oct 2026 19:00 +0000at://did:plc:exdkc6e76i3evgmgeeasojts/app.bsky.feed.post/3my6c2xdpxc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/chrismothman.bsky.social/post/3mxwqwxgyqs2ohttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/15/pete-hegseth-crec-church-execution-livestream?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other As long as it tolerates sick bastards like this, the USA is a lost cause for civilization, humanity, democracy and reason.15 Oct 2026 19:05 +0000at://did:plc:exdkc6e76i3evgmgeeasojts/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxwqwxgyqs2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/chrismothman.bsky.social/post/3mxuelgvqls2thttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/14/green-politics-environmentalists-action?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other14 Oct 2026 20:18 +0000at://did:plc:exdkc6e76i3evgmgeeasojts/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxuelgvqls2thttps://bsky.app/profile/chrismothman.bsky.social/post/3mxtzg7dvkk2tA couple of wildside walks today for the special National Garden Scheme day at Beth Chatto Gardens in lovely weather. Highlights were the slime mould Fuligo septica and two Ectophasia crassipennis, an internal parasite-fly of shieldbugs. First seen here last October: only half a dozen Essex records.14 Oct 2026 16:58 +0000at://did:plc:exdkc6e76i3evgmgeeasojts/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxtzg7dvkk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/chrismothman.bsky.social/post/3mxrt3vimos23A bunch of weeny early-instar Southern Green Shieldbug nymphs in Harwich during the shanty festival this weekend. In Essex we have only ever seen the species along Thamesside and in the Lea Valley. The NBN has a couple of Suffolk records, but still very much at the edge of its range here.13 Oct 2026 20:00 +0000at://did:plc:exdkc6e76i3evgmgeeasojts/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxrt3vimos23https://bsky.app/profile/chrismothman.bsky.social/post/3mxj437gnrc25We have been among wonderful sights, sounds, food and drink for the past 9 days interrailing across Europe to Trieste and back, 3162km and 33hours on trains, without a hitch. There will be blogs! Eventually!! But here's out last overnighter, Dijon. So lovely I'd like to live there!10 Oct 2026 08:47 +0000at://did:plc:exdkc6e76i3evgmgeeasojts/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxj437gnrc25https://bsky.app/profile/chrismothman.bsky.social/post/3mx35d7v4js2xHeading across Europe by train, we just crossed the alps and have rocked up in Trieste. Eating and drinking and looking and enjoying our way across the continent! A blog will be on its way on our return04 Oct 2026 19:32 +0000at://did:plc:exdkc6e76i3evgmgeeasojts/app.bsky.feed.post/3mx35d7v4js2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/chrismothman.bsky.social/post/3mwlpr77rwc2yVery pleased to have helped put my home town Wivenhoe on the discerning visitors' map. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/united-kingdom/england/wivenhoe-south-east-england-escape/ @@naturetrek.bsky.social It was my swansong, but they have persuaded me do do a couple of encores.28 Sep 2026 16:19 +0000at://did:plc:exdkc6e76i3evgmgeeasojts/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwlpr77rwc2y