This splendid looking male Iberian emerald lizard (Lacerta schreiberi) in the Sierra de la Culebra, Zamora. Endemic to the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula. After taking this, standing on one leg, arm outstretched, I fell into a bush of thorns. Lagarto verdinegro in Spanish.

It is an incredible feat of engineering for the time: apparently rope cableways were used to get materials to each arch.

For a huge fan of watersports like him, it's quite apt.

The towering, ten-arched railway viaduct at Crimdon Dene on the Durham coast was built 1905 and is still in use.

Little 'Un photographed the Northern Lights from Birk Brow on the North York Moors last night.

It wasn't recorded north of the Humber until 1999 and was first detected in Cleveland around 2010, so it's a very recent arrival though it's now reached southern Scotland.

In Europe we are seeing rapid changes in migration patterns driven by climate change. Many Scandinavian and subarctic birds which used to migrate to Britain in winter are now rare visitors. Storks, raptors and hirundines which once wintered in sub-Saharan Africa now linger in the Mediterranean.

American ISIS. MAGA are simply jihadists with a different religious affiliation.

Hegseth Snuff Videos Inc, a subsidiary of MAGA Enterprises.

The mood at the Restore Britain post-count party was somewhat deflated.

Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error. Same error amplified by right-wing think-tanks, press It suited their ideological leanings. Future historians might say - planet earth and human life was shattered by a spreadsheet error.

Did Liz Truss do the spreadsheet?

The Zionism motion is itself symptomatic of GPEW's inability to resist entryism. Its proponents are mostly members of various Leninist groupuscules who have an intensely sectarian mentality. Few have any long-term record of environmental activism. They will tear GP apart then leave.

Some pools and runnels are at last holding a little water. This grassy rill on Seaton Common produced the Nationally Scarce scavenger water beetle Helophorus strigifrons. This seems to be the first Cleveland record. A species of seasonal pool systems in long-established fens and grazing marshes.