👍 I was delighted to be invited along to talk to the 3rd Cults Brownies last week, as part of their “animal helper” badge! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 We had a good chat about endangered Scottish Species and how we can take action to support conservation efforts! #outreach #education #brownies #conservation #environment

🌺 🌕 Flower Moon, catching up a bit here but I was pleased to capture the fifth full moon of the year! #moon #moonphotography #flowermoon #nightsky #fullmoon

“As pieces of plastic tumble against each other, they break down into particles tiny enough to be borne aloft on the wind. Once in the air, they have a climate impact that could affect us all…” edition.cnn.com/2026/05/04/c...

🏔️ 🥃 So much fun hitting the hills and having a great time with friends these last few days! That’s Ben Lui and Beinn a'Chlèibh bagged (number 167 & 168 Munro’s for me), in absolutely INCREDIBLE conditions again! @walkhighlands.co.uk #munros #munrobagging #hillwalking #whisky #scotland

“I am the Walrus”, yes Magnus, you are indeed! Absolutely fascinating to observe and photograph this Arctic visitor on his tour of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #walrus #atlanticwalrus #magnus #wildlifephotography #nature #marinelife #scotland

Congratulations! Thanks for your effort in protecting the deep. Greenpeace recently published an article to call for Congress not funding deep sea mining speculation. Could you please repost it to make more aware of the damage of sea mining? www.greenpeace.org/usa/no-deman...

📣 Absolutely delighted to announce that our paper “Monitoring a Flapper Skate (Dipturus intermedius) Egg-Laying Site in Loch Melfort, Scotland, by a Community Science Group” has today been published in: Aquatic Conservation: Marine & F.W. Ecosystems! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Waaahhhhh!!!! Villa!!!! Absolutely wild final 10 minutes flipping heck 🦁 🙌 #UTV 💜💙

Good news! #Oyster reintroduction - restoration, shoreline stabilisation and carbon capture www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🤿 Portknockie earlier this week, the visibility wasn’t bad at all! Lovely to see the new kelp growth looking golden in the sun! 🦞 Other highlights included a chilled out lobster and a well camouflaged sea scorpion. #snorkelling #freediving #underwaterphotography #marinelife #scotlandunderwater

60% of species had an above average year in the 2025 @ukbms.bsky.social results. Purple Emperor (📷 @iainhleach.bsky.social) & Black Hairstreak both had their 2nd best years on record. 🎉

✊ 🦁 Yes Villa! Solid win again tonight, semi’s here we come! ⚽️

🌊 Thank you to the organisers and year 2 students taking the Marine Environments course at SRUC for inviting me along to give a guest lecture today! #marinepollution #litter #environment #flapperskate #eggcases

🤿 The visibility is starting to improve! There’s still a fair bit of swell kicking around BUT i found a few protected gullies yesterday! 📸 Here are a few of my favourites! #snorkelling #freediving #underwaterphotography #saltwaterlife #scottishseas 🌊

Lovely to see some of the Puffins back on the cliffs! #puffin #seabird #bird #nature #wildlife #scotland @steelyseabirder.bsky.social @whysharksmatter.bsky.social (because i know you like these too!)

I’ve been struggling to find words for this since I saw it this morning. I still can’t. I just get a lump in my throat.

Saddened to hear of the passing of legendary wildlife cameraman Doug Allan. I met him a couple of times when working at Macduff Aquarium, he was a very talented and inspiring individual, my condolences to his family and friends.

Recent observations of two young-of-the-year great white sharks, Carcharodon carcharias (Elasmobranchii, Lamniformes, Lamnidae), in the Eastern Adriatic Sea 🦈 #greatwhiteshark #research #marinelife aiep.pensoft.net/article/1885...

🤿 A smash and grab snorkel yesterday in between swell forecasts! Got in at the south side of Boddam lighthouse. 📸 Shannies galore!!! Including the biggest boldest one I have ever seen lying out on a rocky ledge! #snorkelling #freediving #underwaterphotography #shanny #marinelife

Great hammerhead sharks outperform the curve journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

🩷🌕 Pink Moon (well almost - this was my back-up shot from the night before the full moon - glad i took it as we had full cloud cover last night!!) Pretty close anyways for the fourth full moon of the year! #moon #moonphotography #pinkmoon #almost #fullmoon

“Protection means nothing if these hulking industrial trawlers are allowed to devastate crucially important areas….” 🐟 🌊 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#Oysters #Japan #oceantemperature "The region’s oysters – a popular Japanese dish and the lifeblood of fisheries in Hiroshima – are dying en masse, with experts blaming a combination of rising sea temperatures and, last year, a brutally hot summer..." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🤿 A very enjoyable dip on Friday with @cathgem2000.bsky.social & Lynne from Moray Ocean Community 🌊 A sizeable swell coming in but thankfully the tidal pools were bursting with life! - Spiny Squat Lobster - Sea Hare - Common Prawn #snorkelling #tidalpool #underwaterphotography #scotlandunderwater

24 new deep-sea species found including a rare new branch of life www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... 🦑🌎🧪

Bond between dogs and humans dates back more than 15,000 years, study finds

🌊 Wowo! What a wave!! Looks absolute perfection… wave of the season at Mullaghmore! #surf #wave #bigwavesurfing www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🏔️ Great to get a bit of time off last week and make the most of this magic forecast! Gairich was absolutely perfect! My 166th Munro (just a few to go 😉) @walkhighlands.co.uk #hillwalking #munrobagging #scotland

🦕 ☕️ I have spent an inordinate amount of time today, thinking about #Dinosaurs, #Triceratops in particular (my favourite - always has been) & getting creative with AI, oh & drinking cups of tea! Could I be waiting for a weather window for hiking & surfing??? Highly likely 😆 #mesozoic #animation

Good news! The number of nightjars recorded in the South Downs National Park is thought to have doubled in the past five years. Seventy eight of the elusive birds, which are known for their "churring" song at sunset, were recorded last year @southdownsnp.bsky.social @sussexwildlife.bsky.social

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🦉 A delightful chance encounter with a short eared owl yesterday in my local nature reserve! #shortearedowl #owl #birdphotography #wildlife #nature

“Two mass strandings involving hundreds of dolphins in Argentina probably happened because the pods were being hunted by orcas, highlighting the role of predators in these mysterious events…” #dolphin #orca #massstranding #marinelife www.newscientist.com/article/2518...

🌊 The Sea cleared up this week, with the visibility improving so I could finally see beyond my own nose! Particularly pleased to come across my Shanny pals, hanging out in their usual haunts! Glad they have weathered the big stormy swells! #shanny #blenny #fish #underwater #freediving #marinelife

🪱 🌕 Last nights Worm Moon! Brilliant clear skies last night and no problem capturing this third full moon of the year! #fullmoon #wormmoon #moonphotography #nightsky #moon

It’s been an age since i posted for #seabirdsunday i was up at Troup Head last week & its great to see the #gannets starting to come back on the cliffs with some courtship behaviour starting. Check out the colour change in the pupil of one of the pair (as a result of its exposure to bird flu)!

🍩DYK Small Spotted Catsharks are known to curl up into a protective circle/doughnut shape when they feel threatened? I have only ever seen this once diving all others have behaved like this one - not the slightest bit bothered by this neoprene clad air breather! 🤿🌊🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social

Seasonal Project Officer position, various locations invasivespecies.scot/about/join-o...

I am so pleased with how this went yesterday, I have done many cleans-ups in Aberdeen over the years, this one had unusual challenges (following threats from politically motivated groups - yes really!), so great to see how the community came together! #beachclean #community

🐟 🪸 Blue Damselfish abound this shallow coral reef in the Philippine Sea. Incredible memories!! #damselfish #coralreef #wildlifewednesday #underwaterphotography #scubadiving #marinelife @bsacdivers.bsky.social @oceana.bsky.social @oceanconservancy.org

10 species were identified from shark landings in Vietnam, all categorised as Near Threatened to Critically Endangered. This paves the way for management & opens doors for research into the largely uncharted shark diversity of Vietnam. More in Thinh Dinh Do’s blog. saveourseas.com/update/proje...

🦐 Last week I got so bored of waiting for the wind and swell to subside, I immersed myself in the churned up shallows and in tidal pools to get my fix! Critters were hard to come by but i was pleased with my captures nonetheless! 🌊 🤿 #underwaterphotography #tidalpools #snorkelling #saltwaterlife

💙 Here’s a cracker from the archives! The glorious Pyjama Nudibranch (Chromodoris quadricolour). 📸 Panasonic #nudibranch #underwaterphotography #seaslug #wildlifewednesday #diving #marinelife 🤿 🌊

🦈 Always fun to get sent links asking for an ID! Check out this neat clip of a Bluntnose Sixgill Shark 😎 youtu.be/VdT0W04AbEk?...

🦈 🧪 A useful blog for high school and undergraduate students interested in a career in shark science, by Neil Hammerschlag 👍 #shark #career #sharkscience atlanticsharkexp.com/how-to-becom...

🦖 🐦‍⬛ Part 3 of “Encounters with tiny theropods” last week! After the corvid shenanigans off I went into the woods and had a lovely encounter with a Coal Tit that was bold enough to perch on my hand! #coaltit #bird #wildlife #birding #nature

🦖 🐦‍⬛ Part 2 of “Encounters with tiny theropods” last week! 🥜 I stopped and got some peanuts out of my bag, not quite tame enough to take from my hand but would take from the ground in front of me! Love the bit where it hears other crows calling & calls back. #crow #corvid #theropod #bird #wildlife

🦖 🐦‍⬛ Part 1 of “Encounters with tiny theropods” last week! I was on route to do a bit of photography and became aware of this Crow following me 😃 #crow #corvid #theropod #bird #wildlife

🦈 Nurse sharks living in light-polluted waters off Miami had supressed melatonin levels compared to those living in nearby darker environments. This wasn’t true for blacktips, which are more mobile & move between areas of high & low artificial light at night. sharkresearch.org/wp-content/u...

🪼 Very cool ROV footage of a giant Phantom Jelly (Stygiomedusa gigantea) off the coast of Argentina! www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts... #marinelife