Nigel Owen
@ntowen.bsky.social
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Mandola player, butterfly surveyor, natural history writer. New Forest, Hampshire, UK.
Here's today's found dinosaur, bigging it up at
#NationalTrust
Kingston Lacy.
about 2 months ago
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Summer special concert, at the wonderful Earthhouse (Ancient Technology Centre, Cranborne, Dorest). A fundraiser for Salisbury Hospice.
4 months ago
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My holiday soundtrack is a melodious warbler.
5 months ago
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Hummingbird hawkmoth, on salvia, Loubressac, Lot, France.
5 months ago
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Mainly, I write about birds and beasts I cannot comprehend.
5 months ago
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Silver-studded Blue butterfly (female), emerging earlier than usual this year in the New Forest.
6 months ago
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Heath Spotted Orchid, New Forest, 20th May 25
6 months ago
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Green-veined White, on Cow Parsley, in the garden.
6 months ago
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The Emperor deigned to put in an appearance this afternoon.
7 months ago
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The fifth season of the year, "Not Summer", took place this year on Wednesday, 2nd April, between 11:19am and 12:51pm. This moveable season is defined by my first and second sightings of a swallow each year.
8 months ago
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Treecreeper, Ridley Wood, New Forest.
8 months ago
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Wych hazel flowers providing colour in the garden on a dull January day.
10 months ago
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reposted by
Nigel Owen
Wild Justice
10 months ago
Happy New Year! We want to see an end to the illegal killing of Hen Harriers, Golden Eagles, Buzzards, Short-eared Owls, Red Kites, White-tailed Eagles, Peregrines etc. If you do too, pls sign & share our petition to ban driven grouse shooting
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
#ornithology
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Christmas Eve sunset over the New Forest.
11 months ago
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Excellent concert from Green Matthews at Turner Sims this afternoon, with Gaudette. What says Christmas better than pipes and curtal?
11 months ago
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Sunset over the New Forest heath tonight.
12 months ago
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Here are a couple of goldfinches on the teasel outside our living room window.
12 months ago
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Its snowing, so the chickens get the leftover breakfast porridge. In chicken folklore, the great thunderchicken (who laid this egg we all live on) summons up porridge from the sky to bring good chickens safely through the winter.
12 months ago
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Snow! In the New Forest! Make the most of it, it will be gone by lunchtime.
12 months ago
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Saw my first Hen Harrier of the winter this afternoon, a grey male on a hunting pass low along the valley floor.
12 months ago
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Just finished writing up the summaries for the Annual Reports on the six butterfly transects I look after. Average decline over 30% on last year's numbers.
about 1 year ago
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you reached the end!!
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