On my walk today I found a fresh kill of a Woodcock and collected some of the amazing feathers. The tail feathers have contrasting tips with grey on one side and white on the other. On the same log were 3 equally fresh pellets containing only feathers so likely to have been a Sparrowhawk kill…

It's arrived! Pan-species Listing: How to Become a Super-Naturalist published by @pelagicpublishing. My first book. I am so pleased with it. It looks amazing, all those photos of incredible British species really make this a very colourful book and a celebration of how fantastic our wildlife is.

A Yellow-tailed black cockatoo enjoying some banksia seeds. Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia #birds #australianbirds #WildOz #parrots #nature #cockatoos

A rather nice Spring Usher attracted to our moth trap this evening, first time recorded in our garden #TeamMoth

Latest watercolour: Spoon-billed Sandpipers (Eurynorhynchus pygmaeus 勺嘴鹬 Sháo zuǐ yù). Classified as Critically Endangered, the decline of this charismatic shorebird has slowed thanks to an international effort involving RU, CH, UK+others but still far from saving the species. #birds #blueskyart

A Japanese Waxwing (Bombycilla japonica 小太平鸟 Xiǎo tài píng niǎo) from Beihai Park in Beijing. One of a mixed flock (with Bohemian Waxwings) that is regularly coming to drink near the north gate. #birds #beijing #china

There are few Baikal Teal (Sibirionetta formosa 花脸鸭 Huāliǎn yā) wintering at the Yellow River estuary in Shandong Province. Photo by "菜小hua". #birds #china #yellowriver

1/ Spotted Flycatchers are in trouble, declining by 92% in the UK between 1967 and 2020. New work led by @cateden91.bsky.social & involving BTO has revealed the importance of rivers for the survival of this Red-listed migratory species. ⬇️ #Ornithology 📖 www.bto.org/Spotted-Flyc...

Working with #kakapo, this is the best thing you'll ever see. When "candling" an egg you hold your breath, hoping to see this: beautiful embryo development in a fertile egg. This is Tiwhiri's second egg, about 8 days old. About half of eggs are infertile. #kakapo2026 #conservation #birds

Female #kakapo Atareta on her nest on Anchor two days ago. She has at least two eggs, which we'll "candle" to determine fertility in a few days' time, when the oldest is about 10 days old. The nest is huge, so it will be hard to access the eggs. #kakapo2026 #conservation #birds #parrots

This is the green politics I'd vote for

ADORE our new party political broadcast. It is just...YES. Precisely this. Well done that team. 👏

My father in law just described this as the most compelling party political broadcast he's seen. "Homes are for living in - not landlord's portfolios, energy is for warming those homes - not record dividends, rivers are for nature and swimming in - not being poisoned to protect profits" 👏👏👏

Excellent, inspiring and important communication in this video. Seeing that there are people like this, genuinely and actively committed to a better, fairer, socially and environmentally sustainable way forward, really does give hope and encouragement to be part of it all in whatever way one can.

Help us make hope normal again. Join the Green Party now.

Bit too cloudy to see any northern lights over our East Lothian garden just now - unless a little bit of pink counts…

Aelia acuminata, Bishop's Mitre Shieldbug, found under a plank of wood in our S.Yorkshire garden today. My first of 2026. #Shieldbug

X1.99 flare from region 4341 evacuated large parts of earth-directed corona into space. A large filament lifted off and field lines opened. We will likely see a fast earth-directed CME. Stay tuned.

If people are starting to browse through seed catalogs I can recommend fennel. It germinates easily and grows well even up here at 650 feet and look at all those visitors it had 🌱 #YellowThurs

Brilliant - thanks!

A lot of what is said about Nature holding up development is simply not true. It’s wrong. False. At best misleading. If you’ve heard that newts are a cause of our national housing shortage, read this from @naturalengland.bsky.social naturalengland.blog.gov.uk/2026/01/14/b...

Turns out that having to wait an extra 20 mins after my first train was cancelled this morning wasn't such a bad thing as a poke around the station's plants produced my first larvae of the Rosemary beetle (Chrysolina americana). And now I know where to look for adults later in the year.

176 tiny maps (1850-2025) Maps of temperature anomalies for each year. The progression to warmer, redder colours is evident over virtually the entire planet. This 'small multiples' #dataviz approach is effective to show that nowhere is escaping from the warming due to us burning fossil fuels.

Large and complex sunspot region 4341 (ex4321) has approached the east limb of the sun.

Amazing visual. I'll only add that this species is holding on by a THREAD. 🧪

Join our Marine Team on an expedition to track the Leach's Petrel 🪶 These birds can travel over 2000km during a single foraging trip, but are only the size of a starling! Watch the full film here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrXB... All birds were caught and handled under licence by RSPB staff

Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average. climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...

This is one of my favorite ways to visualize #SeaLevelRise... With another year of verified water levels at Key West behind us now (as of today), here's the updated version of this chart I've been making for the past decade or so. 🧪🌊 [1/3]

🦋🌿Hiring 12 x Botanists or Entomologists for 2026 field surveys in England! 4-month, full-time roles from late April to early September. Field sites in Yorkshire, Devon, Warwickshire, Kent/Sussex, Lincolnshire/Cambridge, Essex/Suffolk. Apply now: ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CEH_Ca... 🧪

They will protect Greenland against the U.S.

Moderate long-duration M3.3 solar flare from active region ex4321 behind the southeast limb (rotated 90° clockwise) We see moving field lines, supra-arcade downflows, post-eruptive arcades, ejected magnetic field ☀️ SDO AIA 171Å (G), 211Å (R), 304Å (R), 131Å (B) + 195Å Base Diff (B)

Farmers are flocking to Oxford for two farming conferences, and we’re joining them! As we step into the new year, we’re sowing the seeds for a future where nature and farming go hand in hand. Keep an eye out here for live updates. #OFC26 #ORFC26

Fantastic farm #pond #fishes. 3-spine stickleback (Right) & 9-spine stickleback (Left). Both can go to sea! The 3-spine prefers open water & the 9-spine loves dense plant-filled water. The male 9-spine (Lower Left) goes entirely black when breeding. Crackers! @fishtwitcher.bsky.social

Eruption in 2 acts 1) A filament north of 4334 with a C2.1 flare peaking at 0026z 2) Likely higher in the corona mainly visible as dimming in 211 Å with a long duration C2.8 flare peaking at 0206z Two CMEs are visible in coronagraphs: 1 eastward, 1 southeastward

SE limb of the Sun – complex filament interaction with unipolar sunspot, another active region behind the limb, coronal hole in the foreground

There are people who say there's no such thing as the best seabird in the world. These are people who haven't seen Light-mantled Albatross. North of Elephant Island yesterday. #Birds #Albatross #SuperSeabirdSunday

Let’s galvanise more support to stop public money being used to support what’s described - based on the developers own models - as the World’s deadliest offshore windfarm for #seabirds. There’s far better projects in the pipeline for energy and nature 🔽 #campaign action.rspb.org.uk/page/183454/...

🐧🧊 Incredible underwater footage of penguin life, shot from the first person of one of them. 🇺🇦 This beauty was captured thanks to Ukrainian scientists from the Vernadsky Station in Antarctica, who put a GPS tracker and a tiny camera on the bird.

I am interested in working with an artist on a graphic novel on soil and/ or global environmental change. The lab would have money to fund this. Do you know of any graphic artists that would be interested?

Our fig tree is hosting more than just figs it seems 🦉🪶 Two beautiful Boobook Owls (Ninox boobook) have made their roost in the shady centre of the fig tree. The other local birds were very vocal in their displeasure at this arrangement! #ausbirds #wildoz #owls #birds #raptors

Shooting hares will finally be banned for most of the year, and a ban on trail hunting will be announced Monday as part of a package of animal welfare measures Will the govt also move to ban or license grouse & pheasant shooting…? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

We are failing our kids

Very large but mostly stable: the cluster of sunspot groups in the southern part of the sun. Meanwhile, an unexpected M-class flare associated CME ('solar storm') was released in the east and a flare-less CME in the southeast. Weak glancing blow possible Dec 08 (NASA M2M)

Very proud to be Colombian right now! 🇨🇴 I hope all neighboring countries follow suit soon! news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

If you haven't already been persuaded to sign the @nebriefing.bsky.social letter on the rapidly escalating climate and nature crises, this summary of the presentations at the National Emergency Briefing event in Westminster, by Dave Borlace, is really worth a watch: youtube.com/watch?v=8sa7...

A nice photo of Troy. I did a lot of #closelens #trailcamera work through the summer. #troypm

My latest blog piece on the new Scottish Languages Act granting official status to Gaelic and Scots and why these languages are national languages of Scotland. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/t...

Yellow, green and white stripes ‘bejewelled’ with a 7-spot Ladybird on an otherwise ordinary tree today