WOS Conference 2025: 'Hear it! See it! Record it!' Great talks about the importance of monitoring & recording birds and flora & fauna sightings. Fab day👌🏼 @birdsinwales.bsky.social @rivers-disguise.bsky.social @penrhynbirder.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @btocymru.bsky.social @rspbcymru.bsky.social

Finally got round to reading this fantastic book 'Robin Prytherch: A Life with Buzzards' compiled and edited by Lyndon Roberts. I was lucky enough to meet Robin once at the 2019 BTO conference. A beautiful book celebrating buzzards and a lovely gentleman. #birds #books #art

A few more photos of @robthomasbirds.bsky.social leaving artwork. Inner to outer circle - pied flycatcher eggs, pied flycatchers, redstarts, wood warblers, storm petrels, interspersed with oak leaves #birdart #birds #nature

Thank you so much to friends, family and colleagues at Cardiff University for the wonderfully happy send-off yesterday (and today), and for the beautiful artwork by Tara Okon @rivers-disguise.bsky.social of my favourite birds. Thank you for the friendship and support -see you along the road :)

One from a while ago that I can now post. Not birds but dormice. Based on photos of different dormouse nests and individuals #dormice #art #nature

And thanks @rivers-disguise.bsky.social for another piece of wonderful sparrow artwork (can you spot the hybrid house x tree sparrow?)

House sparrows with house sparrow x tree sparrow hybrid @dingemanselab.bsky.social #birds #birdart

#FrescoFriday of a panther with a cornucopia. Housed at the Naples National Archaeological Museum (Inv. No. 8779) 📷Sergey Sosnovskiy/ ancientrome.ru

Can anyone help with the ID of this looper moth caterpillar, please? Thank you :-) #moths #UKMoths #Invertebrates

Congratulations Dr. @cdegroot.bsky.social Hope you like the artwork :-)

What a brilliant animation! Particularly loved the pied flycatchers. Excellent work @willrose.bsky.social 👏 👏👏💚

...and more behind thr scenes sketchbook pages #birdart #birds #bats #moths

Haven't posted for a while so here are a few more behind the scenes sketchbook pages #birdart #birds

We’re very pleased to announce that on August 29th, we will be releasing our new record 'The Heat Warps' on @bella_union The album’s opener and first song to see the light of day 'Pharaoh' represents the first steps for a new version of the band - UK/US dates and presave - modernnature.band

Another family outing with @han-okon.bsky.social & @marthaokon.bsky.social to see @waterboysmusic.bsky.social @mickpuck.bsky.social at New Theatre, Cardiff. Photos 2018, 2021, & 2025 #liveinthemomentbaby

This little fella made my day today. Wood warbler singing at Craig-yr-Hesg LNR/Lan Wood today. What a beaut! #birds

A few oldies of some of the brilliant birds seen this week - lapwing chicks, cuckoo, barn owl & a new bird for me, dotterel...currently musing over artwork to celebrate this beauty 🤔 #birds #birdart

They're back! Woohoo! Swifts today over Pontypridd #swifts ##boysofthesummer

Local patch Craig-yr-Hesg LNR #Pontypridd with bluebells looking resplendent in today's sunshine. Blackcap, willow warbler, chiffchaff singing. Blue tits on eggs & great tits with chicks. Magical 💚

Sneak peek at a non-bird artwork #dormice #art #nature

Curlews #WorldCurlewDay

A celebration of the birds at Newport Wetlands over the years for a dear friend #birds #birdart

Relief of a millstone from tomb 78 of the Isola Sacra Necropolis. A glimpse of work life in Rome and the importance of grain for the people. A servant with whip for horse/donkey/mule (?) preparing grain for bread, surrounded by tools. #ReliefWednesday 📷 Parco Archaeologico di Ostia Antica.

Another wheel of birds #birds #birdart

Something rather beautiful about these little botanical illustrations within a 15th century herbal. Taken at a recent trip to the Wellcome Library (item MS574) 🌿

Old sketchbook pages/doodles #birds #birdart

More behind the scenes. Early hawfinch artwork. Style still needing honing #birds #birdsart

More behind the scenes. Playing with herons #birds #birdart A post for @everyheron.bsky.social :-)

An old artwork based on an article about the effects of pollutants in the River Taff on aquatic invertebrates and dippers. Zoom in for detail. #birds #birdart

Thank you @violars.bsky.social for this very kind review of The Storm Petrels in BTO news.

1/2 More behind the scenes. How a waxwing artwork started and finished #birds #birdart

Behind the scenes #birds #birdart #maths

Leaving this here just incase anyone who likes this rather niche sort of thing missed it!

Huge thanks to @rivers-disguise.bsky.social for creating this incredible Hendrix inspired ‘album cover’ for this week’s bird!

Bird of the week #5 03/03/25 Ring-necked Parakeet

'There, full as soon, bumbarrels make a nest Of mosses grey with cobwebs closely tied And warm and rich as feather-bed within, With little hole on its contrary side' (Bumbarrel's Nest: John Clare) Watched a pair of 'bumbarrels' (long-tailed tits) doing this today #birds #birdart #poetry

‘And nightly under the simple stars As I rode to sleep the owls were bearing the farm away, All the moon long I heard, blessed among stables, the nightjars Flying with the ricks, and the horses Flashing into the dark.’ ~ Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas for #BookWormSat 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🖼️ Caspar David Friedrich, c.1836.

Even more birds #birds #birdart

🧵 1/2 News Flash!!! - a female Wren has just arrived! - such is the excitement of the male that he drops his nesting material and goes the full Romeo... Unfortunately, the sun was so hot it had shifted the lens on the camera, leading to a poor quality clip - them's the breaks... All sorted now.

Starling artworks - One in a million & detail from it; Don't let the sun go down; and detail from another artwork. Inspired by murmurationd at @rspbcymru.bsky.social Newport Wetlands & @rspbengland.bsky.social Ham Wall #starlings #birds #birdart

Apologies there was no Bird of the Week (as if anyone noticed! 😂) this week, but it’ll be back on Monday with an awesome ‘album cover’ from @rivers-disguise.bsky.social !#purplehaze

More birds #birds #birdart

More bird artwork- little owls, magpies, jay feathers, Pied flycatchers #birds #birdart

Even more birds... First one: 'Impostor Syndrome' - an all too familiar feeling (Knot/Oystercatcher); and a few nuthatch artworks (one with treecreepers) #birds #birdart

...and predictably more birds #birds #birdart

...even more birds. Claudia's (facing right) & Davison's (facing left) leaf warblers curlews, swallows, & tawny owl #birds #birdart

Even more birds & hoverflies #birds #birdart #hoverflies

More birds #birds #birdart

More birds...golden plovers, wrens, pheasants, crested tits/bearded tits #birds #birdart