Erwain
@erwain.bsky.social
Ecologist, Welsh (a dysgu Cymraeg), serial hobbyist, intermittent ultra runner, druid-ish, parent to human offspring, collector of bones, feathers and odd bits. Averagely weird in an AuDHD way while mostly surviving off carbs, coffee, and cuddles.
The swallows are busy nest building in the toilet block at Martin's Haven. They return every year - I remember them nesting there in the early 90s when I used to go to Skokholm as a teen. #Wales #Pembrokeshire #Birding #Spring #Wildlife #Nature #PembrokeshireCoast
May 18, 2025 at 7:43 PM
The swallows are busy nest building in the toilet block at Martin's Haven. They return every year - I remember them nesting there in the early 90s when I used to go to Skokholm as a teen. #Wales #Pembrokeshire #Birding #Spring #Wildlife #Nature #PembrokeshireCoast
Today's chough looking for lunch. Bit of a hard call as to whether choughs or ravens are my favourite corvid #birding #nature #Wales #PembrokeshireCoast
May 16, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Today's chough looking for lunch. Bit of a hard call as to whether choughs or ravens are my favourite corvid #birding #nature #Wales #PembrokeshireCoast
Perfect weather for Skomer today (and I'm back over on Sunday) and as always the puffins were very obliging. However, before I got on the boat I had an even more obliging chough feeding right next to me on the mainland. Usually I just get them calling overhead when on a run. #birding #Wales #nature
May 16, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Accurate representation of my morning today, during my BTO breeding bird survey. 😉😆 #birdwatching #nature #wildlife #ecologist
May 9, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Accurate representation of my morning today, during my BTO breeding bird survey. 😉😆 #birdwatching #nature #wildlife #ecologist
Mental health hasn't been great for a while but often a run gives me a brief boost. Today was not one of those days though and it was a grey tinged slog. Sun shone though, & I was serenaded by willow warblers & skylarks, & was shouted at by a chough, the campest of corvids. #trailrun #mentalhealth
April 20, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Mental health hasn't been great for a while but often a run gives me a brief boost. Today was not one of those days though and it was a grey tinged slog. Sun shone though, & I was serenaded by willow warblers & skylarks, & was shouted at by a chough, the campest of corvids. #trailrun #mentalhealth
A selection of today's #ADHD ( #AuDHD) moments... superglued myself to the glue tube, forgot to eat til 4pm, started task A then got distracted by Task B & forgot Task A existed, sent MIL texts meant for husband, removed Pyrex dish from cupboard but forgot I was meant to hold it so...photo. #tired
April 18, 2025 at 8:41 PM
As an ecologist who's spent my entire life by the coast my knowledge makes an embarrassingly rapid halt well before the high tide mark. Fortunately my nudibranch loving 16yo makes up for it & we recently shared a fab training day run by the Pembrokeshire Coastal Forum. #MarineBiology #Rockpooling
April 16, 2025 at 9:42 PM
As an ecologist who's spent my entire life by the coast my knowledge makes an embarrassingly rapid halt well before the high tide mark. Fortunately my nudibranch loving 16yo makes up for it & we recently shared a fab training day run by the Pembrokeshire Coastal Forum. #MarineBiology #Rockpooling
Inland for today's #trailrun. The cattle haven't been let out after winter yet so safe for now. Lots of signs of badger activity & birdsong include chaffinch, bullfinch, greenfinch, blackbird, songthursh, robin & goldcrest. Buzzard (Buteo buteo) overhead too #ecologist #nature #birds #outdoors
March 16, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Inland for today's #trailrun. The cattle haven't been let out after winter yet so safe for now. Lots of signs of badger activity & birdsong include chaffinch, bullfinch, greenfinch, blackbird, songthursh, robin & goldcrest. Buzzard (Buteo buteo) overhead too #ecologist #nature #birds #outdoors
A short coastpath run today. Skylarks singing, a pair of choughs calling, the fulmurs are gathering in their cliff-ledge colonies - and I'm making the most of my favourite places before the tourists arrive in a couple of months and I retreat. #Nature #TrailRunning #PembrokeshireCoast #Home
March 13, 2025 at 8:27 PM
A short coastpath run today. Skylarks singing, a pair of choughs calling, the fulmurs are gathering in their cliff-ledge colonies - and I'm making the most of my favourite places before the tourists arrive in a couple of months and I retreat. #Nature #TrailRunning #PembrokeshireCoast #Home
It's my youngest's birthday today & she requested a nature themed/cottage core cake with owls. I've always made my kids' birthday cakes with varying levels of decorating "success", but this one I'm proud of. Much like an excited 5yo with a painting they did - Look! Look at it! 😂 #nature #cake
February 9, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Coastpath run this morning accompanied by all the usual - chough, wheatear, skylark, linnet, stonechat...There's a lot of redwing about at the moment as well. Also managed not to fall down any remnants of Pembrokeshire's C19th coal mining past, which is always nice 😉 #trailrunning #nature #history
January 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Coastpath run this morning accompanied by all the usual - chough, wheatear, skylark, linnet, stonechat...There's a lot of redwing about at the moment as well. Also managed not to fall down any remnants of Pembrokeshire's C19th coal mining past, which is always nice 😉 #trailrunning #nature #history
Had the Night Nobbler trail event tonight - the state of my shoes *after* I'd "run" through a stream near the finish 😂 always a bonkers event - woods, Estuary, calf deep mud, fallen trees, samba band, powder paint, mid-wood rave, fire poi, & prosecco half a mile from the finish. #TrailRunning
January 4, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Had the Night Nobbler trail event tonight - the state of my shoes *after* I'd "run" through a stream near the finish 😂 always a bonkers event - woods, Estuary, calf deep mud, fallen trees, samba band, powder paint, mid-wood rave, fire poi, & prosecco half a mile from the finish. #TrailRunning
@bsbibotany.bsky.social (and boranists of Bluesky). Just going through my photos - would this Briza media be too far over to count as in flower? Unfortunately don't have any other/better photos #NewYearPlantHunt
January 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM
@bsbibotany.bsky.social (and boranists of Bluesky). Just going through my photos - would this Briza media be too far over to count as in flower? Unfortunately don't have any other/better photos #NewYearPlantHunt
A little unexpected for New Year's Day @bsbibotany.bsky.social #NewYearPlantHunt
January 1, 2025 at 3:10 PM
A little unexpected for New Year's Day @bsbibotany.bsky.social #NewYearPlantHunt
Not been too perky this week (both me and the weather) but at least the gorse always has a cheerful golden greeting for me #WildflowerHour #GivePeasAChance
December 22, 2024 at 8:14 PM
Not been too perky this week (both me and the weather) but at least the gorse always has a cheerful golden greeting for me #WildflowerHour #GivePeasAChance
Love the feathery beauty of wild clematis/old man's beard/traveller's joy - take your pick of common names! (Clematis vitalba).
A Welsh winter can be grotty (currently, I'm in a red alert zone for wind - up to 80mph gusts), so I try and focus on the little things that spark joy. 😊 #nature #botany
A Welsh winter can be grotty (currently, I'm in a red alert zone for wind - up to 80mph gusts), so I try and focus on the little things that spark joy. 😊 #nature #botany
December 6, 2024 at 8:08 PM
Managed #TheWinter10 for #WildflowerHour before Storm Bert encouraged me to stay indoors.
Meadowsweet
Common gorse
Catsear
Common daisy
Red campion
Bramble
Yarrow
Common ragwort
Herb Robert
Red clover
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
Meadowsweet
Common gorse
Catsear
Common daisy
Red campion
Bramble
Yarrow
Common ragwort
Herb Robert
Red clover
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
November 24, 2024 at 8:41 PM
Managed #TheWinter10 for #WildflowerHour before Storm Bert encouraged me to stay indoors.
Meadowsweet
Common gorse
Catsear
Common daisy
Red campion
Bramble
Yarrow
Common ragwort
Herb Robert
Red clover
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
Meadowsweet
Common gorse
Catsear
Common daisy
Red campion
Bramble
Yarrow
Common ragwort
Herb Robert
Red clover
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
Enthused to discover so many UK based naturalists, ecologists & conservationists on here. Looking forward to lots of opportunities for learning. 😁
(In real life, social-interaction outside expected parameters is discomforting & "networking" is the horrors 😆)
Spiky remnants of Daucus carota for tax
(In real life, social-interaction outside expected parameters is discomforting & "networking" is the horrors 😆)
Spiky remnants of Daucus carota for tax
November 22, 2024 at 7:55 AM
Enthused to discover so many UK based naturalists, ecologists & conservationists on here. Looking forward to lots of opportunities for learning. 😁
(In real life, social-interaction outside expected parameters is discomforting & "networking" is the horrors 😆)
Spiky remnants of Daucus carota for tax
(In real life, social-interaction outside expected parameters is discomforting & "networking" is the horrors 😆)
Spiky remnants of Daucus carota for tax
Meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria), my favourite wildflower, is still hanging on in a smattering of places. The latest I've seen it flowering was a single plant on 1st Jan a few years back. Great flavouring for wine & mead (hence the name), makes a marvellous honey-flavoured cordial, has been
November 21, 2024 at 1:08 PM
Meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria), my favourite wildflower, is still hanging on in a smattering of places. The latest I've seen it flowering was a single plant on 1st Jan a few years back. Great flavouring for wine & mead (hence the name), makes a marvellous honey-flavoured cordial, has been
This one was called Aubrey. His brother was Frank though.
November 20, 2024 at 6:07 PM
This one was called Aubrey. His brother was Frank though.
Puffins just want to make sure you leave enough room
November 20, 2024 at 6:03 PM
Puffins just want to make sure you leave enough room