Ellie Mayhew (she/her)
@ecologyellie.bsky.social
🌿🏴🏔 Ecologist, bird ringer, wildlife gardener, beachcomber, life-long lover of natural history. Working in landscape-scale nature restoration 🌍🏳️🌈🌻 Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️⚧️ Views my own.
July 14, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Thrilled to see several rare white-letter hairstreaks hanging around the Brighthelm butterfly bank in central Brighton today. Excuse terrible pic. Well worth a visit if you are local.
June 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Thrilled to see several rare white-letter hairstreaks hanging around the Brighthelm butterfly bank in central Brighton today. Excuse terrible pic. Well worth a visit if you are local.
Nice to spot an Osprey flying overhead in Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park today #WildStrathfillan
June 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Nice to spot an Osprey flying overhead in Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park today #WildStrathfillan
It’s always a pleasure to get out into the field. #WildStrathfillan
June 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
It’s always a pleasure to get out into the field. #WildStrathfillan
Elders seem to be flowering well this year, along with Hawthorn (seems like another bumper year for the latter).
May 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Elders seem to be flowering well this year, along with Hawthorn (seems like another bumper year for the latter).
First Grasshopper Warbler of the year for me yesterday. Lovely to hear so close to home, too.
May 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
First Grasshopper Warbler of the year for me yesterday. Lovely to hear so close to home, too.
Love where you live 🌳🌱
May 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Love where you live 🌳🌱
Heard my first Willow Warbler of the year today whilst exploring The Great Trossachs Forest 🌳
April 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Heard my first Willow Warbler of the year today whilst exploring The Great Trossachs Forest 🌳
Absolutely delighted to have had a Dark-edged Bee-fly in the garden today, feeding on some Red Campion I grew from seed a couple of years ago. It is such a privilege to be transforming a plain lawn into a wildlife haven!
April 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Absolutely delighted to have had a Dark-edged Bee-fly in the garden today, feeding on some Red Campion I grew from seed a couple of years ago. It is such a privilege to be transforming a plain lawn into a wildlife haven!
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Hare's-tail Cotton-grass coming into flower at @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social nursery. This is being grown for an upland habitat creation project in Nidderdale; it once grew in a handful of lowland raised mires in central North Yorkshire but all have long since been destroyed.
March 11, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Hare's-tail Cotton-grass coming into flower at @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social nursery. This is being grown for an upland habitat creation project in Nidderdale; it once grew in a handful of lowland raised mires in central North Yorkshire but all have long since been destroyed.
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Another rare breeding bird species to look for in the early spring is the Long-eared Owl - here’s RBBP member Ian Francis with some advice on where, what and how to find them youtu.be/Wopsx7WxpVQ?...
Recording Long-eared Owls
YouTube video by Rare Breeding Birds Panel
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March 10, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Another rare breeding bird species to look for in the early spring is the Long-eared Owl - here’s RBBP member Ian Francis with some advice on where, what and how to find them youtu.be/Wopsx7WxpVQ?...
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As seen in the latest issue of our newsletter - if you've got any good photos of Gulls Eating Stuff, then send them along! (details in the post below ⬇️)
We're getting some cracking photo submissions to the Gulls Eating Stuff project! Here are a few showing gulls predating a coot chick, a vole, a mole (!) and a GBBG that has just killed an adult moorhen. Keep 'em coming! Submit your photos of gulls eating stuff to citsci.org/projects/gul....
March 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
As seen in the latest issue of our newsletter - if you've got any good photos of Gulls Eating Stuff, then send them along! (details in the post below ⬇️)
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In March, Sand Martins begin to arrive back in Scotland after overwintering south of the Sahara Desert.
These nimble little birds are social nesters, which means as many as several hundred pairs can nest close together in a single colony.
Have you spotted any yet?
📸: Ben Hall
These nimble little birds are social nesters, which means as many as several hundred pairs can nest close together in a single colony.
Have you spotted any yet?
📸: Ben Hall
March 5, 2025 at 8:02 AM
In March, Sand Martins begin to arrive back in Scotland after overwintering south of the Sahara Desert.
These nimble little birds are social nesters, which means as many as several hundred pairs can nest close together in a single colony.
Have you spotted any yet?
📸: Ben Hall
These nimble little birds are social nesters, which means as many as several hundred pairs can nest close together in a single colony.
Have you spotted any yet?
📸: Ben Hall
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Invitation to tender: Saving Scotland’s Rainforest impact reporting. We are looking for an experienced communications specialist to help us tell the story of the impact of the Saving Scotland’s Rainforest project. Apply now! savingscotlandsrainforest.org.uk/jobs/communi...
Communications Specialist — Alliance for Scotland’s Rainforest
Invitation to tender for an exciting project helping us show the impact of our work with Scotland's rainforest.
savingscotlandsrainforest.org.uk
March 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Invitation to tender: Saving Scotland’s Rainforest impact reporting. We are looking for an experienced communications specialist to help us tell the story of the impact of the Saving Scotland’s Rainforest project. Apply now! savingscotlandsrainforest.org.uk/jobs/communi...
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Are you a community group in #ScotlandsRainforest (see map below)? Are you interested in networking, training, community enterprise &/or £ to restore rainforest? Please complete this short @communitywoods.bsky.social survey before 15 Mar ➡️ buff.ly/TvZF3pd. Big thanks
@asrainforest.bsky.social
@asrainforest.bsky.social
March 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Are you a community group in #ScotlandsRainforest (see map below)? Are you interested in networking, training, community enterprise &/or £ to restore rainforest? Please complete this short @communitywoods.bsky.social survey before 15 Mar ➡️ buff.ly/TvZF3pd. Big thanks
@asrainforest.bsky.social
@asrainforest.bsky.social
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Another day and another tagged seabird… this time a Brown Skua at Saunders Island, Falkland. Ring ABU and with a geolocator (?). Anyone know anything about it? Also great to see it with a recently fledged chick. Survivors of the HPAI wave across the isles.
@scottishseabird.bsky.social? #Seabirds
@scottishseabird.bsky.social? #Seabirds
March 3, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Another day and another tagged seabird… this time a Brown Skua at Saunders Island, Falkland. Ring ABU and with a geolocator (?). Anyone know anything about it? Also great to see it with a recently fledged chick. Survivors of the HPAI wave across the isles.
@scottishseabird.bsky.social? #Seabirds
@scottishseabird.bsky.social? #Seabirds
A lovely walk through oak woodland at @wtscotsocial.bsky.social Glen Finglas reserve today. Highlights Great Spotted Woodpecker, singing Chaffinch & Great Tit, Nuthatch, Juniper & an incredible array of bryophytes (which I really need to start learning!) 🌿🐦⬛
March 2, 2025 at 7:46 PM
A lovely walk through oak woodland at @wtscotsocial.bsky.social Glen Finglas reserve today. Highlights Great Spotted Woodpecker, singing Chaffinch & Great Tit, Nuthatch, Juniper & an incredible array of bryophytes (which I really need to start learning!) 🌿🐦⬛
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Phew, what a day! Massive thank you to everyone who came out yesterday to help plant the first of 300,000 trees this spring at #GleannShildeag 🌱
Over 1,300 trees between us - not bad eh!
📆 See you all again on the 29th? buff.ly/iTSEbKN
📸 Caz, Assistant Site Manager
Over 1,300 trees between us - not bad eh!
📆 See you all again on the 29th? buff.ly/iTSEbKN
📸 Caz, Assistant Site Manager
March 2, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Phew, what a day! Massive thank you to everyone who came out yesterday to help plant the first of 300,000 trees this spring at #GleannShildeag 🌱
Over 1,300 trees between us - not bad eh!
📆 See you all again on the 29th? buff.ly/iTSEbKN
📸 Caz, Assistant Site Manager
Over 1,300 trees between us - not bad eh!
📆 See you all again on the 29th? buff.ly/iTSEbKN
📸 Caz, Assistant Site Manager
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If you're interested in native plant conservation and habitat creation, @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social are looking for a part-time trainee nursery manager (2 days/week, £10.4K pa). Based at Nosterfield NR nr Bedale in North Yorkshire.
www.luct.org.uk/blog/2024/4/...
www.luct.org.uk/blog/2024/4/...
Applications open for new Trainee Conservation Plant Nursery Manager role — The Lower Ure Conservation Trust
We are looking for an enthusiastic candidate to assist and support work in our conservation plant nursery and be trained to manage the running of the nursery into the future.
www.luct.org.uk
February 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
If you're interested in native plant conservation and habitat creation, @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social are looking for a part-time trainee nursery manager (2 days/week, £10.4K pa). Based at Nosterfield NR nr Bedale in North Yorkshire.
www.luct.org.uk/blog/2024/4/...
www.luct.org.uk/blog/2024/4/...
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It's International #LanguageDay today!
Dr Ross Crawford, Cultural Heritage Adviser for 'Callander's Landscape' project, shares what Gaelic place names can tell us about the natural and cultural heritage of an area: eu1.hubs.ly/H0gYKzs0
Image: Schiehallion photographed by Dave Tarvit ⛰️
Dr Ross Crawford, Cultural Heritage Adviser for 'Callander's Landscape' project, shares what Gaelic place names can tell us about the natural and cultural heritage of an area: eu1.hubs.ly/H0gYKzs0
Image: Schiehallion photographed by Dave Tarvit ⛰️
February 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
It's International #LanguageDay today!
Dr Ross Crawford, Cultural Heritage Adviser for 'Callander's Landscape' project, shares what Gaelic place names can tell us about the natural and cultural heritage of an area: eu1.hubs.ly/H0gYKzs0
Image: Schiehallion photographed by Dave Tarvit ⛰️
Dr Ross Crawford, Cultural Heritage Adviser for 'Callander's Landscape' project, shares what Gaelic place names can tell us about the natural and cultural heritage of an area: eu1.hubs.ly/H0gYKzs0
Image: Schiehallion photographed by Dave Tarvit ⛰️
Ahh just heard my first singing Blackbird of the year! 🐦⬛ Such a
flutey, comforting and evocative song.
flutey, comforting and evocative song.
February 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Ahh just heard my first singing Blackbird of the year! 🐦⬛ Such a
flutey, comforting and evocative song.
flutey, comforting and evocative song.
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Granny pine with ‘fir candle’ scars at Abernethy National Nature Reserve, Cairngorms 🏴
Fir candles were resinous strips of pinewood used as lighting by folk too poor to buy candles. Collected by travelling folk and sold at local markets. Continued in use into the early 20thC.
#ThickTrunkTuesday
Fir candles were resinous strips of pinewood used as lighting by folk too poor to buy candles. Collected by travelling folk and sold at local markets. Continued in use into the early 20thC.
#ThickTrunkTuesday
January 7, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Granny pine with ‘fir candle’ scars at Abernethy National Nature Reserve, Cairngorms 🏴
Fir candles were resinous strips of pinewood used as lighting by folk too poor to buy candles. Collected by travelling folk and sold at local markets. Continued in use into the early 20thC.
#ThickTrunkTuesday
Fir candles were resinous strips of pinewood used as lighting by folk too poor to buy candles. Collected by travelling folk and sold at local markets. Continued in use into the early 20thC.
#ThickTrunkTuesday
Nice to see my first wee female hazel flower of 2025 today, near the New Forest. Spring is on its way!
February 21, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Nice to see my first wee female hazel flower of 2025 today, near the New Forest. Spring is on its way!
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Starting to hear reports of Avian Influenza hitting Whooper Swans. Please report all sightings of dead birds for possible testing. In 🏴, 🏴 & 🏴 contact DefraGovUK, in N Ireland Daera & in Republic of Ireland Dept of agriculture. Please also report to @birdtrack.bsky.social for monitoring
February 18, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Starting to hear reports of Avian Influenza hitting Whooper Swans. Please report all sightings of dead birds for possible testing. In 🏴, 🏴 & 🏴 contact DefraGovUK, in N Ireland Daera & in Republic of Ireland Dept of agriculture. Please also report to @birdtrack.bsky.social for monitoring