February twilight over Cardigan Bay, seen from Aberystwyth...

Marsh Tit at Brandon Marsh in Warwickshire. #birds #MarshTit #PoecilePalustris #BrandonMarsh #WarwickshireWildlifeTrust #UKBirds #BritishBirds #birding #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography 🪶

A Mute Swan drinking from blazing sunset water on the River Avon at Stratford, for Rob Crank's (@robcrank68.bsky.social) alternative #birdoftheday theme of #drinkers. #birds #swan #MuteSwan #CygnusOlor #UKBirds #BritishBirds #EastCoastKin #BirdLife #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography 🪶

Tension: www.blipfoto.com/entry/344514... #birds #goose #CanadaGoose #BrantaCanadensis #flight #StratfordUponAvon #UKBirds #BritishBirds #birding #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography #NatureWriting 🪶

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Things used in everyday life are the real archaeological treasures! These sewing #needles were made from animal bone some 15,000 years ago. Some designs simply don't need to be improved, because form and functions were perfectly matched from the start. Form follows function! 🧵1/2 🏺

It's the satirists I feel sorriest for.

Rob and Alan’s #Birdoftheday is #Gannet which I’ve not yet seen as we have none on the west coast of North America. But we do have Tufted Puffins, so I’m hoping a substitution will be allowed in this case.

I love the absolute abandon with which Mute Swans take a bath. River Avon, Stratford, 23/11/25. #birds #UKBirds #BritishBirds #swan #MuteSwan #CygnusOlor #StratfordUpnAvon #birding #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography #NatureWriting 🪶

I haven't seen a Kent Shore Lark since Jan 2022 but found one today at Sandwich Bay

A cheery alpaca, drawn in Brazil by Dutch artist Frans Post. He was born in Haarlem on this day in 1612.

Beach fly-by captured from balcony #BirdOfTheDay #shadesofgrey #NaturePhotography #BirdWatching #Wildlife #NatureIsBeautiful #WildlifePhotography #ExploreNature #Birds #Photography #Nature #Canon #photography #photos #photoart #EastCoastKin

Ah why not? Here's another Barn Owl picture I have taken. This beauty was flying right towards me. #birds #birdphotography #photography #wildlifephotography #wildlife

SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten. "I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

The signs from Australia (their worst flu season on record), Japan (where they’ve had to close schools) and India indicate that this could be a long, drawn out flu season here with hospitals at capacity If you haven’t had your flu vax get it Covid as well if possible inews.co.uk/news/doctors...

Catastrophic nature loss is at least as serious a problem as climate breakdown, but only gets a fraction of the (woefully inadequate) attention. THE most critical tasks of our time are: • Protect what remains of wild ecosystems • Mass rewilding where damaged or lost www.earth.com/news/africas...

If you're out doing your @webs-gsmp.bsky.social counts this weekend, remember to record & report any dead or sick birds you find (info in the link). Bird flu cases are rising. www.bto.org/our-work/new... 📷 Dead Whooper Swan, by Kane Brides #UKbirding

Even 2,500 years ago, people loved a novelty cup! 🦞 🍷 😄 It’s suggested this Ancient Greek terracotta vessel in the shape of a lobster claw was used as a drinking horn at parties! The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... 📷 by me #Archaeology

It's that moment again for National Trust members to vote to keep the entryists out. Quick and easy to vote and please do so by 31st of October Quick Vote link keeps the AstroTurfers out. Then share. Thank you. secure.cesvotes.com/V3-3-0/nt25/...

A Little Egret in flight at NT Charlecote. #birds #flight #heron #LittleEgret #EgrettaGarzetta #Charlecote #NationalTrust #NTCharlecote #UKBirds #BritishBirds #birding #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography 🪶

Cryptic: www.blipfoto.com/entry/342779... #birds #bittern #BotaurusStellaris #heron #Slimbridge #WildfowlAndWetlandsTrust #UKBirds #BritishBirds #birding #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography #NatureWriting 🪶

Being descended from a Waterloo heavy cavalry veteran, I find this fascinating. You can get a lot of logistical information from the old regimental muster rolls, and there are some really good books about Waterloo, but none of them give you much of a feel of what life in the army was really like.

A Nuthatch in the churchyard of Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon. #birds #nuthatch #SittaEuropaea #UKBirds #BritishBirds #birding #ChurchyardBirding #StratfordUponAvon #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography 🪶

Magpie, Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon, 10/10/25. As the invertebrate season draws towards its close, we're heading back into the season of churchyard birding. #birds #magpie #PicaPica #UKBirds #BritishBirds #birding #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography #ChurchyardBirding #StratfordUponAvon 🪶

Wren, Warwickshire, 08/10/25. #birds #wren #TroglodytesTroglodytes #UKBirds #BritishBirds #birding #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography 🪶

A Garden Spider with her packed lunch. #arachtober #invertebrates #arachnids #spider #GardenSpider #AraneusDiadematus #predation #CommonWasp #VespulaVulgaris #GardenWildlife #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography #StingsNWings #SmallWonders

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

would this go with my silk scarf, Y/N

A Grey Heron in flight at NT Croome. @midsandeastnt.bsky.social #birds #UKBirds #BritishBirds #birding #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography #Croome #NationalTrust 🪶

Beauty spot: www.blipfoto.com/entry/341654... #insects #invertebrates #odonata #dragonfly #SouthernHawker #AeshnaCyanea #GardenWildlife #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography #NatureWriting #MacroPhotography #StingsNWings #SmallWonders

Predation: www.blipfoto.com/entry/341602... #birds #UKBirds #BritishBirds #GreyHeron #ArdeaCinerea #birding #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography 🪶 #predation #StratfordUponAvon #insects #invertebrates #odonata #dragonfly #MigrantHawker #AeshnaMixta #UKWildlife #NatureWriting #StingsNWings #SmallWonders

Batesian mimickry: a European Hornet, heavily armed at both ends, and its doppelgänger, the entirely harmless Hornet Hoverfly. #insects #invertebrates #hornet #VespaCrabro #HornetHoverfly #VolucellaZonaria #ivy #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography #MacroPhotography #StingsNWings #SmallWonders

Spirit animal: www.blipfoto.com/entry/341438... #insects #invertebrates #odonata #dragonfly #MigrantHawker #AeshnaMixta #StratfordUponAvon #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography #MacroPhotography #StingsNWings #SmallWonders

Black Tern, Farmoor Reservoir, Oxon., 11/09/25. www.blipfoto.com/entry/341429... #birds #UKBirds #BritishBirds #birding #BlackTern #ChlidoniasNiger #Farmoor #FarmoorReservoir #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography #NatureWriting 🪶

A Hummingbird Hawkmoth on red valerian in my Worcestershire garden. #insects #invertebrates #moth #HummingbirdHawkmoth #MacroglossumStellatarum #GardenWildlife #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography #MacroPhotography #StingsNWings #SmallWonders

A male Migrant Hawker over a reed bed in the River Avon at Stratford. #insects #invertebrates #odonata #dragonfly #MigrantHawker #AeshnaMixta #StratfordUponAvon #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography #MacroPhotography #StingsNWings #SmallWonders

SO MANY WTF STORIES THESE DAYS...🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯👇👇🤯 Thousands of tonnes of toxic landfill liquid added to sewage and spread on English farms www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Larch Ladybird: www.blipfoto.com/entry/341107... #insects #invertebrates #beetle #ladybird #LarchLadybird #AphidectaObliterata #GardenWildlife #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography #NatureWriting #MacroPhotography #StingsNWings #SmallWonders

Red-legged Shieldbug in the rain. #insects #invertebrates #bug #shieldbug #RedLeggedShieldbug #PentatomaRufipes #GardenWildlife #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography #MacroPhotography #StingsNWings #SmallWonders

Model: www.blipfoto.com/entry/341070... #insects #invertebrates #odonata #dragonfly #SouthernHawker #AeshnaCyanea #GardenWildlife #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography #NatureWriting #MacroPhotography #StingsNWings #SmallWonders

Play time: www.blipfoto.com/entry/341037... #birds #gull #BlackHeadedGull #ChroicocephalusRidibundus #juvenile #UKBirds #BritishBirds #birding #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography #NatureWriting 🪶

Carnival last night here... 100th anniversary so very many in town waking to an even worse hangover than usual. Usual madness dialled up to 11 - it was excellent - was dancing in the square to an excellent live funk and soul band until midnight.

Four from Farmoor Reservoir on 26/08/25: a juvenile Little Ringed Plover, a juvenile Little Stint, a juvenile Common Tern, and Little Egrets fighting at Pinkhill Meadow. #birds #UKBirds #BritishBirds #birding #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography #Farmoor #FarmoorReservoir #Pinkhill 🪶

Love in the afternoon www.blipfoto.com/entry/340635... #insects #invertebrates #odonata #dragonfly #MigrantHawker #AeshnaMixta #copulation #MatingWheel #BugPorn #BugSex #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography #NatureWriting #MacroPhotography #StingsNWings #SmallWonders #MacroMonday

Tick: www.blipfoto.com/entry/340600... #insects #invertebrates #odonata #damselfly #WillowEmeraldDamselfly #ChalcolestesViridis #GardenWildlife #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography #NatureWriting #StingsNWings #SmallWonders #stunday

Wild Wednesday: www.blipfoto.com/entry/340569... #birds #hawk #raptor #sparrowhawk #AccipiterNisus #UKBirds #BritishBirds #birding #GardenBirding #UKWildlife #NaturePhotography #NatureWriting 🪶