I am very excited to share a film I worked on last year will be airing on #BBC Monday! Richard Burton: Wild Genius is due for release on iPlayer this coming Monday 10 November and will air on BBC One Wales and BBC Two network at 9pm on November 12th! #richardburtonwildgenius #weareyetimedia #bbc

Home by Loch Broom.

Moonrise

I think we should replace bonfire night with a quiet celebration of the night skies. Once every year we should turn off all lights for an hour or two, stop everything and gaze at the stars.

We loathe the use of fireworks, they frighten animals and disturb wildlife and for what?! They’re utterly pointless! Do you agree?

Really important judgment in @badgertrust.bsky.social & @wildjustice.bsky.social's case protecting environmental groups' ability to challenge plans that would damage our environment. wildjustice.org.uk/badgers/high... "something bigger than all of us is at stake: the environment which we share"

Please do add your name to this petition for the sake of wildlife! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Damn right!

For every 100 calories of grain fed to farmed animals, just 3–25 calories of meat are produced. This system is wasting food & land while also causing animal suffering. We could feed another 2 billion people by choosing #FoodNotFeed. Learn more: buff.ly/ft7zDCB

Wood burning nearly killed me. I’d like to see it banned.

Porpoises’ Pausing (At the bottom of Loch Broom today)

Mission Mouse In retrospect my mission to evict mice from the heat revcovery unit was always doomed. Far cleverer than me, they soon overturned the humane traps, stole the bait, stuffed them with bedding and made a warm winter nest. Back to the drawing board then.

So sad, I once had the pleasure of hearing her speak. Truly a well-lived life.

This consultation is an opportunity to put pressure on the HSE to restrict the use of these dangerous toxins. Consultation closes Tues 30 Sept 2025 - please take part! #RaptorResearch #Ornithology raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/09/28/n...

What if we stop shouting? Those who don’t understand science feel disenfranchised by the system and our world of technology. There’s a battle but each side is on a different battlefield screaming outrage into an infinite chasm between. It’s not a fight about the science, it’s a fight for science.

There’s clear, positive correlation between economic success and inward migration. And, there’s no alternative, realistic way for an ageing population to pay for its own care. @wanderinggaia.bsky.social

The truth: we need migration. The problem: too many politicians are terrified to say it. Why? They're led by a) toxicity of the charlatans & b) wealthy media organisations who demand these useful distractions rather than us talking about inequality. Reject it. Draw the line.

Is there any good news? www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

He would like everyone to know that his outdoor feline friends kill far more birds than wind turbines.

Imagine all cars were electric, and then one Volkswagen engineer comes up with another idea … #EMobility

"Yes your Majesty, my hat was inspired by the President's bouffant"

While it will be a roaring success with their core supporters, it will turn the council into a national example of climate denial, harming the county's interests and reputation. A strategy that prioritizes short-term cultural signalling over long-term, pragmatic governance.

Repellent climate denial from the Reform-led Kent Council, who have tabled a motion to ‘rescind the climate emergency’, in a document that is bollocks from start to end. You can’t rescind atmospheric physics. But Farage would rescind the Climate Change Act. democracy.kent.gov.uk/documents/s1...

Having lived in Kent from childhood until last year ago this makes me so sad. I left because it had become too noisy and polluted with degraded countryside and crowded villages. Once England’s idyllic Garden its council are now in idealistic denial.

Teasel #seedheads

Kissed by a Stag.

The eminent cosmologist and humanist, Carl Sagan, writing in 1995:

My sincere apologies for this blatant act of virtue-signalling ostentatiousness. I promise to offset my moral superiority by being insufferable in other ways. @bobbyllew.bsky.social

Feeling a random desire to share a wood mouse image

Being called Nigel is bad enough even without this toxic pillock’s nauseating rants.

Just now Dolphins swam so close to shore that I heard them exhale. A soft, sudden sigh, ripples, reminders that here, where mountains fall into the loch, we share the same air. 🌊🐬

Farewell Prometheus, the Greek God who gave us fire. Um, thanks mate, it's been great, but we're moving on. llewellyn.substack.com/p/farewell-p...

Cetacean Elevation Situation #DolphinLeap #LochBroomLife #MarineMagic #WildlifeInTheirWorld #NatureFun

Take it from me. I’ve monitored foxes for years and they’re mostly gentle, misunderstood creatures trying to squeeze a living from what’s left of their world.

Stag often paddles along the lochside at dawn. He didn't say why he loves it so: perhaps there are morsels in the bladderwrack or the saltwater cleans his hooves or maybe he's absorbed in the scenery and making the most of the times when he can inhale new air without fear. I felt like an intruder.

Please don’t burn wood. It emits ~20% more CO₂ per unit of energy than coal, plus toxic particulates. We don’t live in caves — and we don’t need to pretend we do.

Up before the bees were in the purple heather, I watched the Scotch Argus warm itself, tenatively unfolding in the uncut grass. 🌿🦋 @savebutterflies.bsky.social

Up before the bees were in the purple heather, I watched the Scotch Argus warm itself, tenatively unfolding in the uncut grass. 🌿🦋 @savebutterflies.bsky.social

Perhaps in another universe, giant wild grouse breed gamekeepers in captivity then release them on burned-out moors to be shot for fun by teachers and nurses dressed as wealthy Edwardians

Anyway, the lochside Pine Marten Department has recruited more staff 🦊🌿✨ #PineMarten #WildlifeInTheirWorld #Ullapool #NatureInBalance #Nightwatch

My analysis of the CEO of the Moorland Association's (Andrew Gilruth) diatribe. New blog 🔽 raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/08/12/t...

Why climate isn’t our top priority mystifies me.

Must watch -- tl;dw ~ current rate of warming is ~0.4°C per decade. 1.5°C by late 2026. www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-pZ...

There’s nothing sadder than diving over bleached coral. Where once was multicoloured teaming life and fish a million throng there only remains greyness and the stink of their deaths.

Nicked for stealing sausages probably…

What more evidence do we need that game bird shooting is an irresponsible anachronism? …

Rainbows, Loch Broom @bbcscotweather.bsky.social

Check that! Pine Marten and Hedgehog last night.

There are no small rats. They’re always: huge, massive, or, in extreme cases, as big as a cat. Personally, I think they’ve all been framed.