Happy New Year! 2025 was a great year, loads of wonderful birds, insects, spiders and other wildlife seen and a project on Essex's wildlife started. I've just posted a summary on my YouTube channel here: youtu.be/VOaDqPRaU_k

Beautiful frosty morning - shame I just had a dog owner let their dog piss up my new last week camera bag FFS Its ok as she was "sorry" and tried to clean it for 2 seconds with a plastic poo bag...

If you like wildlife, please check out my UK Wildlife YT Channel Its 20 subscribers away from my target of 4000 followers in 2025, so please subscribe and share with anyone you might think would be interested :) youtube.com/playlist?lis... #wildlife #ukwildlife #nature #wildlifefilmmaking

Pack your bags, charge your batteries, #InverteFest begins at midnight your time. If you're going out to spot critters, join our community science project here: www.inaturalist.org/projects/inv...

Just uploaded my latest video, where I film Waterfowl, Waders and a Marsh Harriers while scouting out Essex Wildlife Trust Blue House Farm for a project Watch here youtu.be/2oC0PgWGLRg @essexbirdnews.bsky.social #birds #ukwildlife #nature #wildlife

If you are looking for a Christmas present for a Freshwater Invertebrate obsessed friend (or someone that thinks they are cool) I have something might be ideal, I used some of pond life photos into a handy Pond life ID chart shirt Link my Teemill page here: uk-wildlife.teemill.com/product/pond...

A short clip from my latest video, where I spent an evening filming waders, including these Redshank - Full video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwKw... #birds #birdwatching #ukwildlife #nature #wildlife

My latest video is up on YouTube, I spent an evening sitting on the foreshore of the Thames Estuary filming waders. Full video here: youtu.be/JwKwiclMMrc #birds #ukbirds #wildlife #ukwildlife #Birdwatching

Some distant footage of the Kingfisher at Thameside NR having a preen #ukbirds #ukwildlife #kingfishers

Time-lapse of tide coming in at Mucking Creek - note how it doesn't just come in, going up and down, and couple of surges come in too

I spent 5 minutes at the Ant nests at Hanningfield Reservoir NR filming Wood Ants on Monday and here are a few clips I filmed

The UK's biggest and best dinosaur-themed event - #DinoConUK - happens July 25th-26th at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole. Tickets aren't yet on sale but places for accommodation are, and we're taking vendor applications too. Put it in the diary now, we can't wait to see you!

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