Feeding Black-tailed Godwit from late summer #ukwildife #birds #birdwatching #WildlifeFilmmaking

But "Gamekeepers = the REAL conservationists" or something...

A wonderful moment of a Marsh Harrier hovering above the reeds before dropping down and landing in them

My first Snow Flea (Boreus hyemalis) of the winter at Cali Heath @yorkswildlife.bsky.social reserve today. Nice of her to pose out in the open on a fallen leaf, so didn't need to spend hours waiting for one to emerge from the Polytrichum moss! @ynuorg.bsky.social #Mecoptera #Boreidae #ukwildlife

This is…outstanding. If I may, I urge us to read it carefully, and appreciate the details, the shape, the picture it paints.

A short video of a Cormorant hunting

In case you missed it I recently posted my video on how to film wildlife youtu.be/Zr7HqTM5saE #wildlife #wildlifefilmmaking #nature #ukwildlife #filmmaking #video

Wow I just found out that every (rare) photo sale I make on Alamy, for an already pathetically low price, Alamy take 80% of the income. + they hold all my money until I make $50. RSPB Images are shutting down next year so I guess my income from photo sales is about to be £0... :(

If you have ever fancied trying wildlife filmmaking or just want some tips on how to get better footage, I just posted a video on that very subject - its a long one though so get comfy 1st! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr7H... #wildlife #ukwildlife #wildlifefilm #filmmaking

Filming Grey Mullet #ukwildlife #Wildlifeflim #essexwildlife #fish #fishes

A clip of a couple of juvenile Cormorants from my "How I set up for filming wildlife" video I just posted Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmXY... #ukwildlife #birds #wildlife #nature #wildlife #filmmaking

Last week I was desperate to get out with my camera after of weeks of being too busy and/or bad weather - but I only lasted an hour in the hide as there as a conspiracy 'enthusiast' got irate with me when I objected to his BS + insults But I got some nice Snipe footage b4 that though, lol

This time of year, as most the invertebrates die off or go off to overwinter somewhere, always makes me a bit down, The upside is we have some rather excellent birds that overwinter on the Essex coast, like this Avocet. I plan to do a lot more filming of them (hopefully in better light!)

Scorpionfly female feeding on a dead insect #insects #invertebrates #ukwildlife #nature

A little clip of a Robin singing #ukwildlife #birds #birding

Black-tailed Godwit feeding in slow motion at Rainham #birds #ukwildlife #nature

Once when I worked at a site with a rare dragonfly I would get messages from the same wildlife photographer every year about it and I would make sure they knew when it was out Then 1 summer he found something I wanted to see and I asked him where he'd seen it. It wasn't anything rare, just an

The first #leech body #fossil predates estimated hirudinidan origins by 200 million years peerj.com/articles/199... @peerj.bsky.social #Annelida

A short clip from my Hornet Robberfly fact file video, where I where I tell the story of how I ended up obsessed enough to spend every free sunny day walking around a field near my house looking at horse poo trying to film them! @flygirlnhm.bsky.social #bugsky #ukwildlife

In June 2024, 80,000 of us marched peacefully to #RestoreNatureNow with hardly a mention in the media. Were we supposed to have thrown stones and fought the police to be noticed? www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Is this what the right wing loudmouths meant by "no go areas in London" !? Lol @ldnwildlifetrust.bsky.social

10minute walk in a country park along path bordering (a thankfully fenced off) SSSI. - 9 bird species seen/heard - 25+ dogs, walked off lead with owners busy chatting or looking at their phone. I used to moan about the lack of access to the river here, but now I'm glad its protected!

Migrant Wheatears yesterday

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

The bit the plastic grass sellers don't tell you! @shitlawns.bsky.social

Took a break today between trying to sneak up on Hornet Robberflies to film these Firebugs feasting on a dead Earwig - got the probe lens out for the last clip #bugsky #insects #macro

Last time BTO did a study like this for Songbird Survival (Trust as it was then) they found that corvids could be a local issue but were not behind the national decline in songbirds. And Songbird survival disowned the study!

Yawning #fridayfox

UK Government's Chief Veterinary Officer, Dr Christine Middlemiss claims: "Strong biosecurity is our best defence". It isn't. Not releasing 60 million gamebirds is. #AvianFlu #Ornithology raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/08/21/d...

One of my favourite insects, the Hornet Robberfly sucking the insides out of another fly from last weekend! Taken at the only reliable colony in the Essex that's not been built on or under direct threat from development :( #bugsky #ukwildife #nature #wildlife #insect

Dune Villa 'twerking' as @flygirlnhm.bsky.social describes it! - possibly filmed for the 1st time? Took me over an hour to film this much footage because the ruddy thing just keep fly and flying and flying, fast and low and stop for about a second before flying and flying.... #bugsky #ukwildlife

On my local FB group someone has given up gardening due to damage by foxes. The devastating damage? A few small holes on the lawn...

Part of a nature doc "filmed in a fish tank, BBC admit" Typical Daily Fail using their amazing investigative skills to reveal this 'scandal' by reading an article by....the BBC! Those lefties at the BBC cant get anything past the mighty Mails top 'journalists' www.msn.com/en-xl/news/o...

I wasn't expecting this one over the weekend in the #NewForest. Momentarily questioning my choices when I enthusiastically shouted out 'Praying Mantis' in the company of some great natural historians! Fortunately, it transpires I was right!! Mantis religiosa I believe. #Surprise #Naturalhistory

- Upload high quality wildlife video recorded on my camera but partly filmed/edited in TikTok: 3-500 views - Upload poor quality video but filmed in TikTok app: 3-900 views - Upload either of these TikTok video files to my YouTube channels as shorts: 1000s of views! I don't get TikTok! lol

Just had an Ammophila sp. Caterpillar Hunting Wasp turn up in my garden! They burrow in sandy soil so no idea why it's flying round my solid London Clay garden! There are some sandy areas a few 100m away which is where Im guessing came from @waspwoman.bsky.social #bugsky

A quick clip from my Dragonfly Life Cycle video - a timelapse of the metamorphosis of a Willow Emerald nymph into an adult Watch in 4K here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy7V... #bugsky #pondlife #ukwildlife @odonataamericas.bsky.social @riverflies.bsky.social @britishdragonflies.bsky.social

The Amazing Life Cycle of Dragonflies - my latest video is out on my Pond Lab Channel - Watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xy7V... #bugsky #pondlife #ukwildlife #dragonfly #insect #ponds

In the last few days the BBC have run a story about a woman 'forced' to sleep on her car by bats on her house, a school delayed being built by mystery reptiles and fisherman moaning that 'their' shellfish are being eaten by the rising no. of Octopus. Its clickbait level journalism :(

Multiple Hen Harriers 'disappear', 1 with satellite tag that suddenly stopped working. Every year the same story again and again, multipe petitions calling for action but nothing happens. Those in power seem reluctant to do anything :(

@globalbirdfair.bsky.social you were amazing. Until next time ❤️

As always, I thoroughly enjoyed visiting @globalbirdfair.bsky.social yesterday. A chance to catch up with friends and fellow conservationists from across the country. The talks by @theurbanbirder.bsky.social and @rspb.bsky.social Youth Council were also a lot of fun!

I found a breeding population of Carpocoris purpureipennis yesterday! Read about it here analternativenaturalhistoryofsussex.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-...

Just seen @graemelyons.bsky.social spotted a Hornet Robberfly in Sussex - must be time for me to go check out my local site for them soon then!

#Arachnids #Spiders

Just put up a video about @globalbirdfair.bsky.social 2025 which I attended last weekend, I talk about what's there, what events were going on and discuss the claims its just a wildlife travel show. And there's a bit of bonus Osprey and Otter footage at the start too! youtu.be/_kEuIDoxOi8

Osprey, playing Otter cubs, giving a talk on Pond Life with Nick Baker, @panspecieslisting.bsky.social bioblitz catching up with friends, meeting wildlife folk, visiting interesting stalls and talks at @globalbirdfair.bsky.social this year Not bad for "just a High Carbon Wildlife Holiday show!" lol

Ummm. Imagine such sentences for raptor persecution on a shooting estate, or for river pollution, habitat destruction or felling enacted by a farmer, large landowner, private company, council contractor or developer? What could POSSIBLY be the diffence I wonder? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Reminder that, 10 years ago, Sheffield Council signed a PFI contract which led to the felling of thousands of mature street trees - mainly to save the contractor a few quid. It then took out injunctions against local residents protesting the felling and used arcane anti-union laws to lock them up.

I cant get to Dorset for Scarlet Darters, but I did get this Red-veined Darter in Central London this week :)