The counts are in! We're very pleased to announce that this year's Puffin number on Skomer Island is 41,605.

We're very pleased that the island remains a stronghold for this seabird species.

Photo © Huia Wesling Macgregor, Skomer Long-Term Volunteer

Lord grant us the confidence of a lapwing chick that hatched literally hours ago

Blue tit singing on a cold early morning.

You can even see its song in the air.

[📷 Mikhail Kalinin]

A westerly wind gusting at up to 50 knots has encouraged the Squacco Heron into the relatively sheltered Crab Bay Puffin colony. It is still wild enough to give it a plume comb over. BirdGuides

Emma Hayes quotes Robert Frost's 'Choose Something Like a Star' theguardian.com/football/2024/…

There are tiny Rabbits all over the place

I took out a subscription to Butcher's Dog Publishing today. Its amazing editor, the poet Jo Clement Dr Jo Clement, deserves the respect of all writers and readers. The magazine is magnificent and deserves our support.

Incredible mimicry from a Blackbird on display here ! #springwatch

I will have to charge for this vandalism .... some potential tenants of this furnished apartment have taken a dislike to some of the decorations. Instead of letting me know, they decided to remove it themselves! 😱😯
#GwylltHollow

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Happy International Romani Day - come to the British Library tomorrow to hear me chair Dr Jo Clement Jake Bowers and Damian Le Bas in discussion and listen to the wonderful Romany Diamonds.

Happy International Romani Day 💙❤️💚

April 8th is a day to celebrate #Romani culture, remember our Romani ancestors and raise awareness of the issues facing Romani communities. Opre Romani!

Kushti divus! Today is International Romani Day. Here are three new poems from the excellent Travellers Times Travellers' Times Carcanet Press travellerstimes.org.uk/features/come-…

'An opportunist with stunning eyes' theguardian.com/environment/20…

Hummingbird having a bath in Banana petal

George Herbert, “Easter Wings”

Then shall the fall further the flight in me

'Jenkins was an angry idealist, and at heart an optimist, despite the great unravelling of ecologies and civilisations of which he was a prescient early chronicler.' — Steven Lovatt reviews 'Wild Cherry' by Nigel Jenkins buff.ly/3TDf0F1 #TheFridayPoem Parthian Books

An article by Hilary Mantel on writers’ retreats and the process of writing, first published on June 1, 1990 the-tls.co.uk/articles/patie…

At 16.14hrs on 21st March 2024, in the Scottish Parliament, the licensing of grouse moors in Scotland happened. A great day for raptor conservation!

This is the most detailed model of a human cell to date, obtained using x-ray, NMR and cryoelectron microscopy datasets.

‘Cellular landscape cross-section through a eukaryotic cell.’ - by Evan Ingersoll and Gael McGill.