I’m now peddling my wares as a full-time freelance ecologist in south of England and Scotland. I design wildlife monitoring and management plans, and I can provide training for wildlife survey volunteers. Don’t hesitate to get in touch! #rewilding #conservationecology #biologicalrecording

And that’s a wrap on #ScrublandSuperheroes! Our final task at Wowo Campsite saw 18 people planting 1,500 shrubs of 15 native species, helping kick start the creation of a new scrubland mosaic. A huge thank you to all who took part 🌳🕊️🐍🪲🍒🐛🪵🍄‍🟫🌼 @wealdtowaves.bsky.social @kneppwildlandfdn.bsky.social

Another 250 native shrub whips in the ground 🌳💪🏻☀️ boosting scrubland diversity at Cuckoo Camp in Climping. It’s Greenfinch heaven here. Great fun to have a drone out too! One more big effort to go l…. @kneppwildlandfdn.bsky.social @wealdtowaves.bsky.social #scrublandsuperheroes #habitatrestoration

The final final final days! Be part of the scrubland creation legacy 💚🐝🦋🪲🦎🐍🕊️🌼 We are particularly in need of help on Tuesday March 4th and Friday March 7th 💪🏻🙌🌳otherwise I’ll have to pitch a tent to get the job finished the next day 😅🌳 @wealdtowaves.bsky.social @kneppwildlandfdn.bsky.social

🐸💧 Want to create a wildlife pond & attract frogs, dragonflies & birds? Join us on 27 Feb for a FREE webinar and learn how to design, plant & maintain a thriving pond habitat. 📅 90-min event | Expert talk + Q&A 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1253217329... #WaterForWildlife

We're hiring! Could you help create a resilient future for the Botanical Society, working across our teams to support staff and volunteers? Apply to become our first ever Administration Officer: bsbi.org/vacancies/ad... Not applying yourself? Then please help us spread the word! Deadline: 2nd March

Perhaps the oldest known human portrait, made from mammoth ivory, about 27,000 years old. Dolni Vestonice, Czechia.

Something a bit different - last Wednesday we joined in a Juniper translocation mission with South Downs NP and Steyning Downland Volunteers… Some rare Sussex scrub in a wrong (doomed) place now moved to a safe place, got our fingers crossed it takes #scrublandsuperheroes #wealdtowaves

Vital reading for the government with its current obsession with growth at all costs (growth of what and for whom is never spelt out). A commitment to restore nature was conspicuous by its absence from PM’s Plan for Change, launched last month - that urgently needs to change 👇

Fun and informative workshop learning about bioacoustic surveys and bird song sonogram analysis, with Paul Howden-Leach from @WildlifeAcoustics.bsky.social Will be testing new skills on hundreds of hours of recordings from Scrubland Superheroes sites during 2024 🤓🐦‍⬛🎶! @kneppwildlandfdn.bsky.social

Roll up for another round of #ScrublandSuperheroes volunteer days! Tea, *proper coffee* and biscuits/cakes provided, please drop me a line via the contact email address, many hands and all that! A final push before spring 💪🏻🌱🌳 @kneppwildlandfdn.bsky.social #wildlifecorridors #wealdtowaves

We have some spaces left on this free in-person workshop at Knepp, which is open to all who are interested in bird song identification and new acoustic survey techniques - first come first served! #wildliferecording #wildlifeID

1. As Zuckerberg abandons fact checking in the name of “free speech”, let’s take a moment to examine this concept. 🧵

Annual birding pitstop on my way to Dorset, with thermos and housemate Rosie’s legendary banana cake #farlingtonmarshes

Since we had to reschedule Sunday’s task, we’ve now got a date in the dairy for revisiting Ravenswyld. All are welcome, DM me for details!! #habitatmanagement #wildingproject

Fairoaks Farm: ground prep & fencing for the nectar enclosures, invasive tree control & reptile habitat piles for ongoing scrubland enhancement plan. Stalwart volunteers from @sussexwildlife.bsky.social and the lesser spotted Penny Green joined us! @kneppwildland @wealdtowaves #ScrublandSuperheroes

Unofficial volunteering day with myself and the owners at Ravenswyld in Sharpthorne, Sussex… Sunday Dec 8th. Just bring your own loppers, bow saw or pruning saw if you have one. We will provide gloves, hot drinks and CAKE 😁 @ravenswyld.sussex #habitatcreation #habitatmosaics

The taxonomic biases in biodiversity data are growing over time. The amount of data we are collecting is growing, but the biases get bigger. We need to make a conscious effort to study the understudied! #SciComms #Science #Taxonomy 🧪 image from Troudet et al 2018 @natureportfolio.bsky.social

Have you heard of entoLIVE? It’s a series of free webinars that showcases the research of invertebrate researchers. 70 webinars to date! We’re recruiting speakers for 2025 so get in touch if you’d like to present your work. 🧪 #entomology #research #science biologicalrecording.co.uk/entolive/

Better post something I guess ! A few jobs from the past weeks - currently overseeing a scrubland creation and enhancement project, but with overall focus on habitat mosaics and long term management plans for landowners. Been great working once again with rangers from Sussex Wildlife Trust 🍂🍃🚜🌳☕️🍪

First post on Blue Sky - hopeful that this platform will be like Twitter in the early 2010s, a repository of interesting information and respectful discussions…. time will tell I guess!

Back to the dietary issues of climate change: how will our descendents view our individual and collective efforts (or lack thereof of?). What things can we do today?#TheClimateBook #climatecrisis #ClimateEmergency instagram.com/p/Cn35OYcKxiE/…

Hopefully more good things to come in 2023 with wildlife conservation works at Home Farm Field 🦎🐜🪲🐝🌼 x.com/mfgwp/status/1…

Holy unexpected second bat Batman !!!🦇🦇😍 x.com/sussexbatgroup…

Winter habitat works = completed mate! @Rootsupwards grafted in extreme weather conditions💪🌦️🌊❄️ Trialled diff techniques including conservation laying, cluttered vs open glades & new bird ringing rides. Blackthorn management never gets old @GGPWildlife #BiodiversityGatwick

Just posted a photo @ Gatwick Airport instagram.com/p/Cnmjt_MKsWH/…

Little Phobos has gone to join the big flock in the sky ❤️🕊️ Still a youngster at just over 2 yrs, she may have had trouble with passing an egg one too many times. I am very sad. I think she had a good life here though. #ZebraFinch #DeaPiccola

I love bird chaos. Everyone else just be getting on with their own dramas then A Goshawk x.com/Purbeckpilgrim…

My #BirdTrack year summary - not entirely comprehensive because I also submit some casual records via @iRecordWildlife, but I really like these infographics by the @_BTO @BirdTrack Most of this is work I carried out with @hawkeye_tom #wildliferecording #BiodiversityGatwick

2022 Gatwick trail camera compilation (sound on 🍃🦌🦊🦅🕊️🔊) #BiodiversityGatwick @naturespy #wildliferecording @GGPWildlife @SussexWildlife youtu.be/V51q-ZfrJZY

Public service announcement to all small birds - if you fly in to a bird ringing processing station you are likely to get some new bling... Our 4th Black Redstart ever to be ringed at Gatwick, and by far the most obliging 😂 All birds ringed under licence #BiodiversityGatwick

Office day #backtothegrind #BiodiversityGatwick @ Gatwick Airport instagram.com/p/Cm9ITnSqGQm/…

Diet, food waste & agriculture are key to tackling the climate crisis, as better management of all three can repair the carbon cycle. Conscious food choice is perhaps the one thing most readily within our power. #theclimatebook #climatecrisis #climateawareness

Yesterday, a gap in the foul weather led to some important clearance works with the @GGPWildlife volunteer reserve managers. We did it, we cleared them christmas treats right up. And opened up a woodland glade. #BiodiversityGatwick #ConservationVolunteering @SussexWildlife

More #antivax rhetoric out there than ever. Science communication continues down the toilet, not just on this issue but #ClimateCrisis too. As if most virologists are faceless profiteering humans with no sense of self-preservation or care for the planet. post.news/article/2J7VEa…

Had my best ever morning birding at #FarlingtonMarshes : must have been close to 1,000 Brent Geese in on the low tide. Also a great view of a lone Short-eared Owl on the hunt. Back at the car for luke warm coffee ☕ and now is always the time I gotta pee.

Much more than a pub, much more than a garden, but we are struggling. Please, if you are choosing to support a charity this Christmas, can you make it this one? A small charity with a big outreach, and every little counts ❤️🎄🕊️ x.com/brightonrebel/… moulsecoombforestgarden.org/donate/

"...in 2021, we saw the second-biggest emissions rise ever recorded." Mitigation denial: the need for deep cuts in emissions today is being substituted with empty promises of low-carbon technologies tomorrow. #theclimatebook #climatecrisis #ClimateEmergency #climateawareness

One of our coldest Xmas events ever at Moulsecoomb Forest Garden, but with the warmest of people! Merry Christmas you lot, another amazing year for the community garden🎄❄️🎉 @mfgwp

More wintry landscape shots (🥱🤣) this time from the other side at Gatwick Woodlands, Land East ❄️🌲🦅 A Buzzard and two Sparrowhawks were being harassed by Crows and Jays. Redwing on the ground everywhere in the woods #BiodiversityGatwick

A short #BiodviersityGatwick blogpost with the results from my baseline dragonfly survey. Who shall contend with us for the aerodrome dragon throne?!@BDSdragonflies @GGPWildlife biodiversitygatwick.blogspot.com/2022/12/aerodo…

0 centigrade at midday on site checks around the North West Zone. I missed the best of the snow when my car tyre burst, had only made it 2 miles from the house! Plan your journeys wisely everyone and if its not essential then just don't risk it 😁 #BiodiversityGatwick

Didn't get around to sending out Christmas cards this year, and this ugly little bat baby swayed me to donate the costs. The @sussexbatgroup group are working desperately to preserve this precious colony of rare Greater Horseshoe Bats 🦇🦇🦇💕🎄please help vwt.org.uk/donate/

Countries like ours celebrate our outsourcing, exclusion of emissions, clever accounting and negotiation of global frameworks, which is cheating other people around the world. "If that is not ecofascism - or racism - I do not know what it is." #TheClimateBook #climatecrisis

An opportunity to join our small (but growing) Environment Team here at @Gatwick_Airport! This job role would suit those with experience of environmental legislation and audits would be most welcome. Check out the link here: lnkd.in/egC9XjEd

Very sad to be saying goodbye to this legend. Tom Errett was 1/3 of the Gatwick Environment Team, and it was a real privilege to work with him the past 5 years on the project. The end of an era @Gatwick_Airport but he will go on to do great things. #BiodiversityGatwick

Our latest bird ringing session was a bit light on numbers, but high on quality! This female Sparrowhawk is one we'd been hoping to get for a while now, beautifully savage! Amazing detail of the plumage on the Woodcock... Nice work @Stu625418 #birdringing #BiodiversityGatwick

Biodiversity is acting as a buffer to climate change, but we are now living in a time of unprecedented human-induced biodiversity loss. "Restoring high carbon, high biodiversity ecosystems is a true - and urgent - nature based solution." #TheClimateBook #climatecrisis

Brilliant to catch up Susie and hear how the @GGPWildlife project started and all the barriers and hoops you had to get around! So glad you and the team from back then pushed the environment agenda hard, we are super grateful to you all 👏💚🌍 x.com/susie_howells/…

Beautifully explained - why capitalisation of common names in nature is in fact highly important. x.com/HMWTBadger/sta…