The waxwings have been calling on the treetops in my neighbourhood for a few days already, but only today I had the time to go see if I could get a photo 🧡 This is perhaps not technically perfect in terms of sharpness of the birds, but I love how the background repeats the colours on the waxwings.

Nature, birds and music! 🪶🎶 If you are in the UK and enjoy music on and with nature go see Merlyn Driver’s ’It Was Also Sometimes Daylight’ UK nature tour which takes place through the country and mainly in nature reserves: www.merlyndriver.com/events Recommended!

I defended my PhD dissertation last Friday, with opponent Prof Zoe Davies and some tricky questions and good points about the work! Thank you so much everyone who was there and at the post defence party at the Natural History Museum! The thesis is available here: helda.helsinki.fi/items/7ca243...

Quite a beauty! No wonder it scored high in our questionnaire derived data set on the most attractive birds of the world! www.nature.com/articles/s41...