Freelance entomologist / invertebrate ecologist looking for work this year. Please share and spread the word. Contact [email protected]

Imagine, Twitter like it was back in the day. Growing our communities. Friendly.

Well, imagine no longer cos that’s what it’s like over on @Bluesky as our #ukbirding #ornithology and #LowCarbonBirding communities grow. And … no adverts! Come join us.

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This was a lovely surprise, thanks @BTO and British Birds
I just did the pictures (and I hope they helped a little), Norbert's comprehensive and authoritative text is the real achievement.

🚨So thrilled that the #RiverOtter catchment is one of the 40 projects selected for natural flood management. I was pleased to support this bid by the local EA team and partners back in Nov. More than 100 properties flooded on 9/5/23. NFM is key!
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Check out our Events page for a fantastic opportunity to improve your Gull identification with expert guidance from Martin Elliott. Four dates available. Max group size 6. Book now to secure a place. cbwps.org.uk/cbwps-events/w…

Guillemot found on Topsham beach/Goatwalk this morning. No obvious signs of injury: reported. @devonbirds BTO BirdTrack

If you don't find this concerning, you really don't understand how bad things are getting. Yes, there's an El Niño at the moment, but the sea surface temperature anomaly has never been so extreme during previous El Niños.
From The Guardian article - link in following post.

'A group of Exeter residents will become 'human bollards' to protest against those flouting the rules of the LTN trial in Heavitree and Whipton. ...'

#SafeStreetsNow

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A leading British climate scientist - Kevin Anderson - tells us calmly and honestly where we are heading. We need a mass awareness campaign and then a mass uprising.
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Making excuses for our continuing high emissions is self-serving vanity.
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This should be a very interesting talk by Nik Ward and Mark Owen on Challacombe Farm, Dartmoor on Monday 19th February at the Courtney Centre Newton Abbot..

Can anyone out there identify this scale bug for me please? Found on a Wych Elm at Phear Park, Exmouth recently Sally Luker

Two of three adult Med Gulls at Topsham Rec this am. Not an easy sp. to find on the Exe in January; peak counts rarely more than five in recent years as most seem to move through to winter in Cornwall and Wales Devon Birds

Ceratopogonidae? Anybody?

Martin Elliott pic of the Pembrokeshire Magnolia Warbler. Original will go to highest email bidder (over £250) by end of Jan '24 . Prints will be available from Martin or London House Studio, £60 if orders before Christmas or £75 thereafter, prices include p&p

Freelance entomologist / invertebrate ecologist looking for work next year. Please share and spread the word. Contact [email protected]

Not a good look for ecologists - I suspect even an amateur entomologist would have gone for well over 1000 species.