Another hike on the Welsh coastline. Never been distracted by critters and landscapes so much 🌿

On one of my first macro hikes I found this beautiful little slug under a log. #Invert #macrophotography 🪲🪳🌿

Sometimes a #wombat's eyes light up and they move with a sudden sense of purpose, to nowhere in particular. #WombatWednesday #Tasmania #MammalWatching #WildOz #wombats

A spectacular Aurora over the house here in #Westray this evening.

Charming little octopus from a Roman villa at Villaquejida, León, Spain. Limestone, 2nd-3rd century AD. Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid 📷 me #Archaeology

“The behavior was pure misogynistic abuse, and it’s a growing movement in American culture right now.” www.glamour.com/story/the-mi...

Plant a hawthorn! These native trees are wonderful for wildlife, supporting all sorts of creatures – including more than 300 insect species. The blossoms, berries and leaves are a good source of food for bees, birds, caterpillars and more. More: littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/nat...

I just signed this petition calling for better cooperation with the EU on the environment. Will you add your name, too? www.europeanmovement.co.uk/uk-eu-enviro...

Un héron cendré, croisé en promenade hier. Il est posé à côté d'un petit ruisseau revitalisé qui passe dans le village. On a beaucoup de hérons ici, mais je ne me lasse jamais de les voir vivre à nos côtés. #oiseaux #birds #Suisse

The measure for how excellent a city is should be how quickly you can see something wonderful. It took less than an hour after arriving in #Hobart for @drdevildave.bsky.social and me to see a #platypus, which is of course the most wonderful thing there is. #Tasmania #MammalWatching #WildOz

And after it had seen off the Sparrowhawk, the Merlin gave me the eye. “Do you want some!” Not sure I’d fancy my chances! 😂 #WestrayBirding

Greetings little one 🤓🥹

@vannabartlett.bsky.social Success! Very happy to have "discovered" something new. Thank you! I think this might keep me occupied with the 📸 for a big. 😊 I've ordered a copy of the FSC guide, can you give me any pointers ahead of its arrival? #wildlifefrommywindow #arachnids #invertebrates

Kind of amazing that I can walk from my new home in the Wales to Gower AONB and sit on a beach with this view.

Needed a break from finishing, naturally I made a pseudoscorpion. Cute little guys!

One from a week or so ago. The Evening Primrose is lasting well, and is providing some late season nourishment. The low evening sun showed that sometimes there's a risk associated with a free meal though! (Another Flower Crab #spider) #wildlifefrommywindow #invertebrates #gardenwildlife #ukwildlife

Taxidermy shenanigans from the past couple of months or so… client work, not for sale.

I've never been more pleased to see #PlatypusMatters on sale than in the little shop at #CradleMountain Lodge. I started writing it by the fire here on evenings after #fieldwork, and have spent countless hours sat on this log - just minutes away - watching for #platypuses It has come full circle 🥰

A Hentzia sp jumping spider perched on the edge of a one pound coin. 🪲🪳 #Salticidae #Invert #bugsky 🌿

Perfect little caddisfly in today's garden. 😍💚 #TinyJoys Anyone know why they're called... *checks notes* Welshman's Buttons? 🤔 #Invert #Insect

Had a rest, during Fenris' morning constitutional, by a sun-drenched patch of ivy and just watched the Ivy #bees do their thing. Sound up for humming of insects, Jackdaw, and Blue Tits. #Insects #invertebrates #ukwildlife

The government’s new Planning and Infrastructure Bill could give businesses the green light to trash habitats and threaten wildlife. Say no to attacks on nature! If you agree – join me and add your name with @friends-earth.bsky.social👇 foe.uk/tffac

The government’s new Planning and Infrastructure Bill could give businesses the green light to trash habitats and threaten wildlife. Say no to attacks on nature! If you agree – join me and add your name with @friends-earth.bsky.social👇 foe.uk/tffac

For #TrilobiteTuesday, here’s the aptly named Kayserops megaspina, a Devonian trilobite. First printed in castable resin, then cast in sterling silver and oxidized to yield blue highlights. Sculpted from scratch, no scans. #paleoart #sciart

We're going on a pseudoscorpion hunt! We're going to catch a little one. What a beautiful day. We're not scared. [this weekend] ☺️

Delighted to find my first Roncus lubricus aka Reddish Two-eyed Chelifer in west Norfolk last week. Not sure it was as pleased to see me though as it scarpered off pretty smartish! Certainly wasn't expecting this species to turn up in a churchyard. #pseudoscorpion #arachnids

It's been a quiet time for me with the camera, for various reasons. Couldn't resist this Ladder Backer Hover #fly though. It was a cool, wet, morning and it was waiting on the Musk Mallow for some sun to warm it up. #wildlifefrommywindow #diptera #invertebrates #insects #gardenwildlife #ukwildlife

A sweat bee busy looking for snacks. The flower is an aster and the center of the flower contains lots of small florets that produce pollen and nectar. Asters are a wonderful fall food source for lots of insects. #inverts (Augochlora sp.) PA

Here's a better idea: every data centre you build, you build enough renewable energy to power it, and you supply the waste heat from your cooling system to power homes and businesses nearby. Simple. Common sense. And fair.

Big US tech company Nvidia saying they're gonna build data centres in the UK and we have to burn more gas to power them? Uh, no. British people shouldn't be paying higher bills and suffering accelerated climate change for your bottom line.

I assume this is obvious, but I’ll say it anyway: The advantage of proscribing a non-existent organisation is that no one can prove they don’t belong to it.

Queen

Everyone should read this. It's impossible to know what it feels like to look different when you look the same as the majority. But soon it will come to all of us, as the internal differences become exposed as well.

Now that it's nearly autumn, the crows will begin their nightly migration to their roosts and I'm reminded of the time I followed them and not only found the crows getting ready to roost, but a huge murmuration of starlings as well.

My latest blog post: www.jemimasgarden.co.uk/jane-s-blog/...

This makes me incredibly proud 😎 thanks @inaturalist.bsky.social

Sabs dip feeding. Look at that footwork!

A friends daughter (18) has just been diagnosed with #mecfs , #myalgicencephalomyelitis. Does anyone have recommendations for resources I can point her at? I'm concious that my perspective, as a bloke in his 50s, is likely to be quite different to hers & want to offer the most applicable advice.

Really excited to spot a tiny green caterpillar this morning on a Bird's-foot Trefoil patch in the garden. We so hope it is a Common Blue... @ukbutterflies.bsky.social @rlewington2.bsky.social @marcusrhodes.bsky.social

🤣 Really looking forward to seeing this one develop!

A slightly different edit to the one I put on Twitter. L➡️R: Robin, LongBoy, the growing hoglet & Honeysuckle. Robin ends up eating the floor biscuits scattered by Honeysuckle, lol. Hoglet leaves, then Honeysuckle, who does a big nervous 💩 & no-one else wants to go in there afterwards 🙈!

All of the talk about "political violence" is an elite-lives-matter movement. They don't give a shit about the murder of poor people.

Days are spent just getting by, bedbaths, medication, feed, sleep, sometimes a little bit of tv, and the occasional 5-10min visitor. People forget how impactful this illness can be, and, what doesn’t kill you, doesn’t always leave you stronger, sometimes it leaves you weak, and shocked, and sad.

Had a Grabby Hands lass on my windshield this morning 🤎 (brown mantidfly)

Filling the kettle for my afternoon cuppa & I spotted a little orange butterfly fluttering about the mown meadow. Turned out to be an egg laying Small Copper, making the most of the Common Sorrel. She'd also brought a friend, a female Common Blue. 🧡☕️💙 #Gardening4Wildlife @bcwarwickshire.bsky.social

And it turns out it was CS gas after all. The irony is that notions of "mass hysteria" are just as "conceptagious" as anything else. 🙄 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This thread—complete as of today—documents much of my casting and finishing process, most of which was learn-as-you-go because I did my first home cast last December. Thanks for all the encouragement along the way! Here has been where I’ve felt most comfortable showing the struggle. 🛠️🧵

Chicory flowering by the roadside in Ely. #WildflowerHour

UK gardens cover c270,000 hectares – more than all the country's National Nature Reserves. And nature-friendly gardens – even small ones – can form a huge network of green spaces that are havens for wildlife. More: littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/Wil...

Thinking about these White Terns on Ducie Atoll that would follow us around. We called them our little Sputniks because they sounded like data being sent back from space @adriftlab.bsky.social #SuperSeabirdSunday