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Brian Christian
@bcriverside28.bsky.social
Proud Manxman 🇮🇲 now living in the Yorkshire Dales
Avid reader 📚 Keen conservationist 🌱
RSPB volunteer 🪺
Just an amazing spectacle! 100+ turtles (3 different species) mating in warm shallow waters off the coast of Exmouth WA. 🇦🇺 #Nature
November 13, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Not long now… Can’t wait!
#Ashes2025 #Perth 🇦🇺
November 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Not a bad morning to be out & about… #YorkshireDales
October 30, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Seems appropriate…
#YorkshireDales
October 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Taking it easy… busy times ahead!
#YorkshireDales 🐑
October 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Remembering a stunning autumn trip to Hakone Open Air Art Museum a few years back. A great day out if you’re based in #Tokyo (and even better if you have time for an overnight stay in the area).
#Japan 🇯🇵
October 26, 2025 at 12:47 PM
The village looking at its best at sunset this evening…
#YorkshireDales
October 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Time to head home…
#YorkshireDales
October 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Not a bad evening out here on the moor… #YorkshireDales
October 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Reflections…
Mooragh Park, Ramsey.
#IsleOfMan 🇮🇲
October 16, 2025 at 9:36 PM
…and a better sunset than any we’ve had recently!
October 6, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Some interesting skies up at Bowland Knotts today…
#Nature
October 6, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Sad news. Manx Birdlife reports that the number of choughs breeding on the IOM 🇮🇲 has fallen by 24% since the 2014/15 census.

manxbirdlife.im/manx-birdlif...

For me, no trip back to the Island is ever complete without a trip to Langness or Scarlett to see these stunning birds.

@rspb.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Two very different books: one fiction, one non-fiction; one firmly rooted in a single, closely defined location, the other celebrating different cultures across the globe.

And yet the common themes and shared passions are striking. I can’t recommend them highly enough. 📚

#Helm #IsARiverAlive
October 2, 2025 at 9:20 AM
‘… the new data show an accelerating pattern of decline in our bird populations, whether on our farmland, wetlands, uplands or seas…’

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

@rspb.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Amazing to see two dolphins hunting so close to the shore on Ramsey’s North Prom this morning!
@manxwildlifetrust.bsky.social
#Nature #IsleOfMan 🇮🇲 🐬
September 23, 2025 at 1:27 PM
So much going on in Ramsey Harbour this weekend!
#Birds #Nature #IsleOfMan 🇮🇲
@manxwildlifetrust.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 7:44 AM
September 22, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Good to see the Eiders back in Ramsey harbour. Always a treat!
#IsleOfMan 🇮🇲
@rspb.bsky.social
@manxwildlifetrust.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Stepping out and looking good!
#IsleOfMan 🇮🇲
@rspb.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Lots of Ringed Plovers foraging among the pebbles on the incoming tide at Ramsey - and one interloper. A visiting winter plumage Sanderling, I think.
#IsleOfMan 🇮🇲
@rspb.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Quite a few of these out on the moor this afternoon. Fox Moth caterpillars, perhaps?
#YorkshireDales
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September 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
A lot of good news here - but sadly, the persecution continues…
@rspb.bsky.social
#HenHarriers

www.rspb.org.uk/england/engl...
September 5, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Might need my wetsuit to retrieve this pot of gold!
#YorkshireDales
September 3, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Ruby-tailed wasp (Chrysis Ruddii) on our porch windowsill. Beautiful insect. A first for our #YorkshireDales garden, I think. Are there any experts out there who can offer a more detailed ID?
#NatureUK #Insects
August 27, 2025 at 9:22 AM