I'm finally more or less up to date with entering my records for 2025. Lots of nice places visited this year (blue squares), and lots more places to explore in 2026! #BiologicalRecording
Not sure where January went! Alongside recharging/hibernation, January was spent recording bryophyes, catching up on identification/ recording (including my 5000th species in Britain) and amazing music 😊
Will be lovely to have you on there. Even if it does mean we all go down a place 😅
Thanks so much Brigit! I'm very glad you enjoyed it 😁
Interested in getting started with identifying mosses? I'm running an online talk tomorrow evening. If you can't make it live, then purchasing a ticket allows you to get access to the recording 😀
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Really interesting, thanks! 🙂
Hi Pete. Where can I find the list of URI species please? I can't seem to find it online so probably searching for the wrong thing. Just got back from Scotland so interested to learn more. I more or less ignored crustose species though 🙈
Liotryphon ascaniae 🙂
No luck, unfortunately. Will try again next year!
Today will be my 6th and final day surveying Bog Myrtle on the south Cumbrian mosses, but didn't know about the aphid! I'll have to look closer! 😆
It's impossible not to love the Merveille du Jour. Just incredible moths! #MothsMatter @savebutterflies.bsky.social
Less than 2 weeks until I'll be running the Great North Run to raise money for the Florence Nightingale Hospice Charity. If anyone would like to donate to this wonderful charity, then I'd be very grateful. www.justgiving.com/page/ryan-cl...
Drosera x obovata, the hybrid between Great Sundew and Round-leaved Sundew. On a beautiful bog in Wales today with Sphagnum austinii and Sphagnum beothuk nearby.
Interns and Young People's Forum members sit with Wildlife Trust staff on the steps of Rothschild Bungalow at Woodwalton Fen
Our brand new traineeships are open for applications!! On this paid, 6-month programme, we are looking for two people, age 18-25, to join the Communities and Education Team at the Great Fen as part of our National Lottery-funded project, #PeatlandProgress. www.wildlifebcn.org/jobs/peatlan...
Last week I came across some Small Scabious Mining Bees (Andrena marginata) in County Durham. This lovely species is Nationally Scarce and, I believe, has only been recorded twice before in Northern England. I managed to find them in 3 1km squares in the end. #NorthEastBeeHunt @nenature.bsky.social
Some tiny plants from the dune slacks at Holy Island. Small Adder's Tongue, Small-fruited Yellow-sedge and Shoreweed #WildflowerHour
Amazing! Muckle Moss is quite a place too! I've tried a couple of times to find the S. balticum there.
Have a lovely wildlife/ ID filled week! 🙂
The Gold-tailed Melitta aka Bellflower Blunthorn Bee, Melitta haemorrhoidalis, is one of my favourite bees. The females (picture 1) collect pollen from Campanula species but also visit Geraniums for nectar. The males (picture 2) are super cute too and sleep in flowers, often in little groups.
Hi Kim, welcome to Bluesky! You're spot on, it is a Wool Carder! They love purple toadflax 😃
Ah yes, very much so! Can be found by dusking too, as well as at light. 🙂
A nice area! Netted Carpet is in Cunsey but slightly too early!
Very pleased to find a Transparent Burnet today on Mull. Lovely little moths 😍
North-bumble-land Walk complete! 🐝
🐝 1,070 bumblebees counted
🔎 15 species recorded
🥾 84 miles walked
A huge thank you for your support & donations for @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social!
Notebook is full of sightings for @nenature.bsky.social's #NorthEastBeeHunt!
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@movingslowly.bsky.social was one of the first people I met when I moved to Cumbria. A lover of life, nature, people, and books, he always had a cheeky smile on his face and a Diet Coke to hand. He loved these verges near Orton, and it felt like a fitting place to sit and remember him today.
Just over three weeks to go! 🐝
Thanks! Still trying to figure out Bluesky 😄
Thanks Jamie! 😊
I am open, however, to discuss any future opportunities for contract work delivering research, surveys, monitoring, and training. My website is a work in progress, but it can be found here and details the sort of work I carry out (3/3)
Recently, I started my first piece of work as a full-time freelance ecologist, specialising mainly in pollinating insects across northern England and beyond. Reassuringly, I am more or less booked up for the summer now. (2/3)
