Latest video has Jake Fiennes, author of Land Healer, explaining regenerative agriculture and how to achieve both food production and nature youtu.be/B7Ur03wSpuE?...

Post-breeding flocks of Swallows write their own music on the wires of the Lowther Estate in Cumbria. One of the benefits of livestock country, graced by Longhorn Cattle, in creative nature recovery mode. Here in West Suffolk, barely enough swallows for even a brief jingle. #BirdsSeenIn2025

How do we measure life on Earth? 🌍🌱 The new summary report from the 2025 US-UK Forum on Measuring Biodiversity, hosted by the NAS and @royalsociety.org, explores tools, challenges, and solutions for tackling the #biodiversity crisis. Read here: bit.ly/460RB7R

To celebrate #InternationalVultureAwarenessDay & begin a 🧵on #BirdsSeenIn2025 in Zimbabwe, around Victoria Falls, the phenomenal Vulture Restaurant at Victoria Falls Safari Lodge which does so much to raise awareness of horrific plight of African Vultures such as these White-backed & Hooded. 1/25

Thanks Nick Meade for access & @timholtwilson.bsky.social for arranging it, near Earsham had our furthest downstream swim in River Waveney, abounding in Roach, plus a pool of gorgeous Dace where the river flowed fast, constricted by a grove of Club-rush. #MySwim #Suffolk #Norfolk #rivers #fish 🧵1/8

Last month it was amazing to swim in the strobe disco of huge shimmering shoals of Minnows in Ullswater. Water surprisingly clear. Such a different story swimming in a lake compared to a river bsky.app/profile/nume.... #MySwim #Cumbria #LakeDistrict #fish #teamfish #fishsky #Nature #Wildlife 🧵1/7

After Ely Nature-Friendly Farming Zone Water Vole Survey (nul points), swam down & up 500m of River Little Ouse. Not best snork; poor vis, sun vanished, encountered none of wonders have been seeing upstream. Wish people wouldn't litter & release helium balloons. You can't win 'em all! #MySwim 🧵1/8

Great piece today by Simon Barnes, one of last to see a Slender-billed Curlew observer.co.uk/news/science... following research confirming extinction @rspb.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social @naturalis.bsky.social @nhm-london.bsky.social @ucllifesciences.bsky.social

Fascinating Bill. My dad is a historian. I had a chat with him about this once, what the documents he studies say about farming in in the Durham Dales and uplands in the 14th & 15th Century. Not much on tree/shrub cover, but a lot fewer sheep, & more cattle than now. I'll send this to him

Thanks to expertise & interest of @timholtwilson.bsky.social, & encouragement to find them, here's his assessment of bones I found at Wretton. Not easily distinguishable from extant, now North American, Wood Bison, but probably extinct Steppe Bison, prolific in later Pleistocene of East Anglia.

So what did our uplands look like? Was it upland wood pasture with scattered trees and flower rich meadows? Did farmers used to mix trees, grassland and hay meadows? Can we recreate this habitat e.g. in Yorkshire Dales? youtu.be/YiK0mKLUzTU?...

This is a wonderful little video about meadows. Well worth the 26 minutes, especially for the horses at the end.

Understanding Cambridge’s history turned out to be key to the success of King's College's wildflower meadows. Also enjoy the shire horses making hay in front of the chapel. youtu.be/8Cywt01POXQ?...

Don't miss Sandhouse's cracking new single, with dramatic video starring Anna Sutherland and Caspar Holloway youtube.com/watch?v=MNyrdiRH1jA&list=RDMNyrdiRH1jA&start_radio=1 #NewMusic #findnewmusic #indie #Alternative #Shoegaze #indiemusic #OriginalMusicTracks #indierock #MusicSky #Sandhouse

Many of our most famous reserves, such as Minsmere, Titchwell and Cley, are coastal lagoons. Here we discuss how monitoring is key to effective management. youtu.be/UR_CGtueFAA?...

2025 is an amazing year for acorns. Here is discuss the origin of mast seeding (bonanza years followed by poor years) and the consequences youtu.be/rzsh1A8wOag?...

How they returned Holkham back to wetlands with breeding spoonbill and little, cattle and great white egret. All about water control and managing cattle grazing. youtube.com/watch?v=kirn...

This rather muggy, grey afternoon, on the Cambridgeshire chalk south of Great Abington, landscape bone dry & shrivelled, good to see chalk loving plants eg a few Lesser Calamint, big patches of Wild Marjoram, a few Hoary Ragwort & a rather sad Nettle-leaved Bellflower. #WildflowerHour #MyWalk 1/4🧵

Account of our work on making the Internet more resilient against some serious challenges by using ecological principles anil.recoil.org/notes/ecolog...

Astonished, on popping into ditch in grazing marsh on way to Little Ouse by @rspbengland.bsky.social Lakenheath Fen to find it absolutely carpeted in writhing mass of creatures reminiscent of tiny garden eels; in fact unglamorously named Sludge Worms (Tubifex tubifex). #MySwim #WormWednesday 1/19

Latest video on the 4 fundamental factors determining ecological communities and the origin of “As different as chalk and cheese” youtu.be/SFpYg0Cj1y0?...

A🧵of happy memories from a day last month at Chobe National Park, entered from Zimbabwe via Sedudu Gate, filling gaps for #BirdsSeenIn2025 in Botswana, starting with Egyptian Goose (here being photo bombed by Sable Antelope and African Savanna Elephants that have just crossed the Chobe River). 1/9

Wonderful Whitley Awards are open again for dynamic, mid-career conservationists who are leading wildlife conservation projects in the Global South. Whitley are leaders in ensuring they fund projects that embed evidnece, and so more likely to deliver whitleyaward.org/awards/

New paper on making the Internet more resilient. Steps towards an Ecology for the Internet | Proceedings of the sixth decennial Aarhus conference: Computing X Crisis dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

My video describing how can read landscapes from field shape, wiggly roads, woodland shapes and management, settlements and distinguish between those that are Ancient and those that are Planned following Inclosure acts. youtu.be/WFx1-T-i9AI?...

PHENOMENAL! River Little Ouse at @rspbengland.bsky.social's Lakenheath Fen continues to AMAZE; out of the blue y'day twas packed with at least 100 vast Bronze aka Common Bream - some half the size of me! Only once seen such a big Bream - 5 weeks ago at the reach just below this. #Rivers #fish 🧵1/14

Academic and grey literature searches in 11 European languages identified over 2,000 records of floral resource traits, complementing existing databases. #languagebarriers doi.org/10.1002/2688...

Couple of tips for creating and maintaining a hedge. Filmed on the Holkham Estate. youtu.be/m4wv4PKkiSg?...

Amazing success story for chalkhill blue butterfly population expansion and abundance Brilliant work and effort by @jakefiennes.bsky.social Agriculture and nature working brilliantly together Another lovely video by @billsutherland.bsky.social youtu.be/jdX-PxyP56c?...

Trying to discuss butterfly hollows and grazing with Jake Fiennes but interrupted by a swarm of chalkhill blue butterflies! youtu.be/jdX-PxyP56c?...

Evidence map, led by Paignton Zoo, cataloguing the scientific evidence behind 424 management interventions to help zoos and aquariums make decisions based on the best available science. doi.org/10.19227/jza...

The Society of Wildlife Art have a wonderful project at Massingham Heath rewilding project, Norfolk. Here Amie Haslam and Brin Edwards explain the project. youtu.be/hiCQiSHuaG4?...

Returned to Cambridge from Botswana at the crack of dawn and before I could even brush my teeth @billsutherland.bsky.social had me filming horses and hay outside Kings for his next Conservation Concepts episode! I do love Cambridge summers

Tonight I’ll be giving a webinar for the fine folk at Birds on Farms, summarising the multitudinous benefits of mistletoe to birds. It’s free and open to all comers. Clink on the link to register mplandcare.org.au/event/birds-...

Full-time, permanent Lectureship in Forestry or Agroforestry at Bangor University, which has an excellent reputation in forest sciences. jobs.bangor.ac.uk/details.php....

Part time chair of Chair of Forestry Commission sought. Really important opportunity for someone to make a real difference. apply-for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/8894

Last video explains the neat adaptations of mangroves to their difficult environment, why mangroves are so important and why so many restoration projects fail. youtu.be/Kwv6t9cKCFY?...

With the wonderful Erica McAlister discussing the challenges of counting the number of species on Earth. youtu.be/mOff19-zcNQ?...

Explaining the role of the spectacular strangler fig, how they strength host trees, but then kill them, and how they benefit a range of species. youtu.be/Ooez41dBQNg?...

The zebra crossing on London's Abbey Road made famous by #TheBeatles is the location for a 4-minute video by ‪@billsutherland.bsky.social‬ (Fellow 2008–23; Hon Fellow 2024) explaining the concept of albedo (the reflection of light) & its environmental consequences: www.youtube.com/watc...#TheBeatles

Much enjoy walls and the fascinating species. Here I discuss their ecology based at Bury St Edmund’s Abbey ruins. youtu.be/BF-IrmqLO-Q?...

want to be the Project Officer for the Newmarket Chalk Streams Trust and help protect our wonderful chalk streams? newmarketchalkstreamtrust.co.uk/vacancy/

When I awoke yesterday, wasn't expecting a gratis #fish manicure from the kind Minnows & Gudgeon enjoying the base of the new fish pass at Turf Lock, Mildenhall! Come tomorrow, Fri 5-7pm, to free event at Mildenhall Cricket Club to celebrate the new fish pass! brecks.org/events/turf-... #MySwim 1/17

Hugh Possingham explaining that we are already carrying out triage in focussing on a limited set of species, why we should prioritise actions rather than species and how this approach has resulted in more species being protected for the same budget. youtu.be/f2fm88EHv0A?...

Delight to be back in the River Wissey & seeing Chub again (they've been rather absent from Wissey tributary the Old Carr Stream/Stringside & lower reaches of #Rivers Little Ouse & Lark) - including a huge shoal of small ones, here mixing with Roach. #MySwim #Norfolk #TeamFish #fishsky #fish 🧵1/10

Playlist of 8 videos on the amazing ecology of parasitic plants: yellow rattle, broomrapes, mistletoes, climbing plants and more to come. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

25th Student Conference in Conservation Science, Cambridge, 31 March – 2 April 2026. Looking for postgraduate students and early-career conservation scientists, in a broad range of fields, to apply to present talks or posters on their work. www.sccs-cam.org

How do broomrapes find their hosts? How can they specialise on different hosts? Enter the astonishing world of strigolactones . youtu.be/mUp9n_RW2eg?...

There was also a couple of mighty Tench (Tinca tinca) about in the River Little Ouse by Lakenheath Fen, cruising around like great submarines, among the streams of good-sized Roach, over the Yellow Water-lily-scape, already quite tatty. #rivers #fishsky #teamfish #fish #norfolk #suffolk 2/12

Someone kindly sent details of a beechwood with masses on bird-nest orchid in Surrey? near M25. But somehow lost details before replying. Any thoughts anyone - or kind initial responder? Will they still be in flower? Thanks.