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Very pleased that @bobelliot.bsky.social will be the first Wild Justice CEO. He’s a great guy and a good fit. Onwards and upwards!

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A small gall-wasp, possibly Andricus quercuscalicsis, sitting on a gate near my garden today

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Wall chart of tree buds The hi-res file is a free download, or you can buy a print. Also a poster of tree leaves, and tree bark and check out the rest of my shop - canvases , prints, t-shirts, mugs, cards microcosmic.shop

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Collared Earthstar (Geastrum triplex) I think, one of several in a patch at the base of an old tree stump

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Curlews, hen harriers, black grouse, GPS collars for cattle and no moorland burning: excellent to hear that the RSPB’s Geltsdale reserve will be expanding in size www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

That's now 55,000 people calling for a ban on driven grouse shooting. Thanks to all of you who signed, please keep spreading the word. Sign here: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... #SayNoMoor

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Fancy joining a fantastic team that punches way above its weight for plant science and conservation across Britain and Ireland, supporting an amazing group of #BSBImembers and volunteers? Of course you do! Head to bsbi.org/vacancies/ad... to find out more, and please spread the word 😁

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

51,000 signatures on our petition and the latest constituency to reach 200 signatures is Angus and Perthshire Glens where they know a thing or two about the impacts of driven grouse shooting. Plz sign petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... & then share widely. Thank you!

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

49,000 signatures for banning driven grouse shooting - thank you for your strong support. Plz sign & share petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... Looking forward to 50,000 soon.

submitted 36 days ago • 4 comments

Just part of the incredible scene on the fields planted with mixed seed crops either side of Marston Rd in Oxford. Up to 1000 Linnet, 200 Chaffinch, 30-40 Yellowhammer & Reed Buntings here, within the city boundary.

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Wow, the whole Ireland (and parts of the UK) are under red warning. We are talking about truly historically powerful storm with wind gusts over land areas (!) exceeding 36 m/s. Stay safe! Minimum pressure could reach all-time record lows (~940 hPa) in the Scotland area.

submitted 37 days ago • 6 comments

This is George Monbiot's "X" leaving speech, and wow ❤️ @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

submitted 40 days ago • 34 comments

A deeply disappointing government response to @wildjustice.bsky.social’s petition on banning driven grouse shooting, that even cites bullshit stats from the shooting industry Please sign the petition, let’s get it to 100k and force a proper debate: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

submitted 43 days ago • 16 comments

Lots of these around on the snow today, one of the winter craneflies I think

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There's still time to apply to be BTO's Director of Finance and Governance. Apply online ➡️ bit.ly/BTODirectorF... 📝 Closing date: Sunday 12th January 2025

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Job Alert. 📢 Join BTO as Senior Programme Lead for Bird Atlas ➡️ www.bto.org/jobs ⏱️ Closing date: Sunday 19 January 📋 Post: Full time, fixed term (3 years) 📝 Salary: £45,435 🐦 Skills: Strong leadership, project management and experience managing volunteer-driven projects. #Ornithology #UKBirding

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Interesting to see this ‘iron flush’ being a warm spot along our local burn today

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Today, one month after our petition launched, we've reached 33,000 signatures calling for a ban on driven grouse shooting. That's a third of the number we need, in one sixth of the time we've got - pretty good! Please keep it up - sign and share: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... #SayNoMoor

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

It’s funny that we call it “dead” wood, when it can support so much life! 🪵🪲🐜🍄 Here’s a video I made earlier in the year, to spread some love for this vital habitat. #Invertebrates #Fungi #Deadwood #Ecology 🧪

submitted 81 days ago • 15 comments

1/ Great news! 🎉BTO, JNCC and RSPB are making decades of Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) data freely available for everyone in the conservation and research community. This includes over 7 million records! 📝 Find out more ⬇️ or read the paper➡️ bit.ly/_BBSData #Ornithology #UKBirding

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

Job alerts! 📢 We’re looking for a BirdTrack Organiser and a Birds in Greenspaces Engagement Officer to join our team. 🐦 Find out more and apply ➡️ www.bto.org/jobs #Ornithology #UKbirding

submitted 74 days ago • 1 comment

No alternative to flattening our green spaces for unaffordable new build homes ? But there is ! Read the briefing and send it to your MP . We need HomesForEveryone.org

submitted 79 days ago • 32 comments

28,000 signatures - thank you! It’s a joint effort. @chrisgpackham.bsky.social tells me not to fret but, still, I do, so please have a look at petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... and sign if you can. And share widely please.

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

All welcome at Butterfly Conservation’s free online UK Moth Recorders' Meeting (Saturday 25 January 2025 on Zoom). Reserve your place now bit.ly/3Z2MOzc There’s a fab line-up of speakers: bit.ly/3Z2MxfE #TeamMoth please repost to spread the word!

submitted 85 days ago • 2 comments

That’s the plans for the A’ Mhòine spaceport in Sutherland up in flames, they going to Shetland instead! So what happens now to the half-baked development next to the wader SPA?!, before photo (right) and after (left) below 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 87 days ago • 2 comments

#Peregrine pair feeding on a Barnacle Goose, which the female took down, just below the house here at @rspb.bsky.social The Oa. A brief moment of absence allowed me a rapid opportunity to move a camera trap from a nearby wader scrape and onto the goose kill. @rspbscotland.bsky.social

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Here’s a short story about who wins and loses from the status quo of our inheritance tax rules - and about, what you might politely call ‘sub-optimal’ journalism🧵

submitted 95 days ago • 92 comments

Suillia affinis from local East Devon woods. Any ecologists out there with a backlog of Diptera needing determinations? I have space for sub-contracted work going into December/January and beyond. Please contact me if I can help! #dipteraidentification www.dipteraid.co.uk Please share, thanks!

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

And another 1000 signatures - thank you. 11,000! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

submitted 96 days ago • 1 comment

Huge congratulations to my friends @kattyponder.bsky.social & Mark Cubitt, on receiving NBN awards this week! Much deserved recognition for their devotion to moth recording in Scotland. 👏 nbn.org.uk/news-events-... #MothsMatter

submitted 98 days ago • 3 comments

Good morning! This @wildjustice.bsky.social petition on driven grouse shooting is 2nd most-signed petition in last hour. We approach 6k signatures. I'd love to reach 10k before 3:30pm (ie first 24hrs). It'll be tough but let's send a strong message to Defra. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

submitted 98 days ago • 8 comments

Woohoo! No more excuses, it's time to ROVE. Huge congrats to Andrew Duff for completing this monumental achievement

submitted 99 days ago • 7 comments

I would like you, please, to sign this petition to ban driven grouse shooting. The first under a Labour government. 10k signatures gets a government response, 100k a debate in Westminster parliament. UK residents & UK citizens living abroad can sign. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

submitted 98 days ago • 35 comments

UK supermarkets urged to stop using #neonics and other bee-toxic #pesticides. Call comes as @PAN_UK ranks supermarkets on efforts to protect consumers, farmworkers & wildlife from pesticides. Take action & see where your supermarket ranked: www.pan-uk.org/supermarkets/

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

Barnacle Geese resting on the beach at Eoligarry this morning, part of the 240-strong flock that winters in the Sound of Barra. Also 6 Snow Buntings on the beach and a handful of Slavonian Grebes offshore. #BirdingScotland #birds

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

The Soldierflies and Allies Recording Scheme is now on Bsky: @uk-soldierflies.bsky.social - please follow for soldierflies, robberflies, bee-flies and more! #ento #UKwildlife #soldierflies

submitted 103 days ago • 1 comment

I wish this counted as one of the nerdier things I've done, but it's probably not even top 10. I've tagged most of my flickr photos by county, country and various taxonomic terms - so if you want some Cornish hoverflies, you're in luck www.flickr.com/search/?user...

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

Need photos of invertebrates for education/conservation purposes? Check out www.flickr.com/photos/runne... for 9,000 or so free to use images. Mostly UK, but also a bit from further afield, and a bird/plant/mammal sneaks through occasionally.

submitted 194 days ago • 2 comments

We are currently seeking staff for 2025. If you are interested, you must possess exceptional birding skills, strong interpersonal abilities, and preferably a BTO ringing license, although latter is not essential.

submitted 117 days ago • 0 comments

We are now accepting applications for the positions of Head of Ornithology and Hospitality Manager with the aim of hiring new personnel to run the new Fair Isle Bird Observatory for the 2025 season onwards. For more information, visit our website www.fairislebirdobs.co.uk

submitted 117 days ago • 3 comments

The Oct 2024 update to Who Owns Scotland is now published adding 100 new landholdings covering 116,868 acres of land. In total 3600 landholdings cover 73.97% of rural Scotland. The project is financed solely by subscription income. Please subscribe at whoownsscotland.org.uk

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It’s that time of year when lots of cattle head indoors, with only ours and a small group of our neighbour’s kept out over winter in this valley. So from now on, dung dwellers start to struggle for habitat & food. Particularly where it’s still mild so they are still active 🪲

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Well that was unexpected. Walked out the front of the house at RSPB The Lodge today to be confronted with this stick insect sitting on a Yew. I think it's Bacillus rossius, but how it got there is anyone's guess. #Invertebrates #BugSky #UKWildlife

submitted 126 days ago • 2 comments

Woodcock migration happens in October & November. To reduce pressure on British-bred birds, many UK shoots delay shooting until 1 December. (Season opens on 1 Sep in Scotland and 1 October elsewhere). Blog about Woodcock conservation: wadertales.wordpress.com/2015/10/26/c... #ornithology

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