peterbrash.bsky.social
Ecologist, birder, entomologist, botanist and bat botherer. Born in Liverpool and returned via circuitous route. I block dickheads on sight.
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Me too! Might have passed it off as Pantilius tunicatus if it was later in the year.
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Was really common on a survey on the Wirral recently.
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I wonder how much of that imaginary £600 would go on health insurance?
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Had one in Liverpool like that a few years ago. Sound of thunder was constant for 45 minutes.
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Of course! That was the insect that started my entomological journey.
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Ounty
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I hope it's recognised that one of the major failures was not listening to ecologists at the outset.
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Field Pansy Viola arvensis. Always great to find a new plant, especially something pretty like this.
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Ditto! Might be my most sought after species. Swept loads of White Deadnettle in areas where it's supposed to be.
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Think that last one is Dock Squash Bug Coreus marginatus.
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Cows love it! I was assistant warden at Radipole and had the job of looking after the cows. First night on the Reserve and I phoned the grazier in a panic. The cows had eaten all of the HWD. Grazier was unconcerned, 'as long as they haven't eaten the roots'.
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Bill Oddie showed me (and @beachyheadbirder.bsky.social ) our first Orange-crowned Warbler in Cape May in 1998.
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I bumped in to Dudley Sutton* in a small grocery store in St Just, Cornwall in about 1990. *possibly most famous for plating Tinker Dill, sidekick of bemulleted antique dealer Lovejoy in the TV series of the same name.
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I can state with firm conviction that Julia Donaldson is one.
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Surely it should be called an arson debate?
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If you'd called it boomerang like I suggested...
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The sepals!
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I wonder if the rose is Sweet Briar? Looks like rhe seals are covered in glandular hairs, if so, the hairs have a delicious apple scent
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I spent weeks trying to improve this Bill during Committee, tabling amendments to support the building of social and affordable housing and protecting environmental protections. The govt voted against them every time. 4/5
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They've been doing g it for years. How many series of Mrs Brown's Boys has there been?
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The fact that Kermit and Fozzie are (twin) brothers suggests the former.
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Terrorist state.
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I would like my porch tiled in that pattern.
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I think it could be a lot better though. Same in the Peak District. Past overgrazing has destroyed large parts of it. Even with less sheep the amount of mat grass means it's not likely to get better. Although cows have made a difference here and there.
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What's the heritage though? Bags of fertiliser, silage bales, rolls of barbed wire and atv's? The methods and landscape would be alien to those from a couple of generations back. There are some nice bits of the Lake District but also vast swathes of it are absolutely awful.
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Probably the pinnacle of my twitching career. The contrast between feeding leisurely with the House Martins and warp speed when escaping the Peregrine was something else.
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Never heard of it and now I really want to see one!
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Try Platycheirus (Pyrophaena) rosarum. I had one the other week and was struck by the purple thorax.
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Daresbury.
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Both the same species, Volucella bombylans. But male (top) is var. plumata while red-tailed female is var. bombylans.