@eshilland.bsky.social
London NERC DTP PhD student @NHM/QMUL/UCL. Aquatic botany. Biological recorder. Live on a farm. He/him.
Water sampling and thermistor change at #UKUWMN site Old Lodge in Ashdown Forest today. Added value iNat records including what is probably Craterellus undulatus/Pseudocraterellus undulatus depending on who you ask. Rarely recorded apparently and kind ID from @ljantos
November 5, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Water sampling and thermistor change at #UKUWMN site Old Lodge in Ashdown Forest today. Added value iNat records including what is probably Craterellus undulatus/Pseudocraterellus undulatus depending on who you ask. Rarely recorded apparently and kind ID from @ljantos
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Major revision of #GBRedList of plants published today shows 25% of our native & archaeophyte flora threatened with extinction. Many iconic widespread species classified as threatened for first time including Betony, Marsh Marigold, Devil’s-bit Scabious and Harebell. Another wake-up call for action!
November 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Major revision of #GBRedList of plants published today shows 25% of our native & archaeophyte flora threatened with extinction. Many iconic widespread species classified as threatened for first time including Betony, Marsh Marigold, Devil’s-bit Scabious and Harebell. Another wake-up call for action!
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We've known for a long time fireworks are a major source of sudden disturbance for birds, and published earlier work in Behavioral Ecology documenting this for the first time using the Dutch weather radars operated by @knmi.bsky.social.
Read the earlier study here: doi.org/10.1093/behe...
Read the earlier study here: doi.org/10.1093/behe...
Birds flee en mass from New Year’s Eve fireworks
Abstract. Anthropogenic disturbances of wildlife, such as noise, human presence, hunting activity, and motor vehicles, are becoming an increasing concern i
doi.org
December 30, 2024 at 10:57 AM
We've known for a long time fireworks are a major source of sudden disturbance for birds, and published earlier work in Behavioral Ecology documenting this for the first time using the Dutch weather radars operated by @knmi.bsky.social.
Read the earlier study here: doi.org/10.1093/behe...
Read the earlier study here: doi.org/10.1093/behe...
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Another NYE, another night of terror for millions of birds across the Netherlands (and around the world).
Last year we published in @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Frontiers 🧪 about the massive impact of fireworks on birds 🦅.
Paper: doi.org/10.1002/fee....
Thread below 🧵👇
Last year we published in @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Frontiers 🧪 about the massive impact of fireworks on birds 🦅.
Paper: doi.org/10.1002/fee....
Thread below 🧵👇
December 30, 2024 at 10:55 AM
Another NYE, another night of terror for millions of birds across the Netherlands (and around the world).
Last year we published in @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Frontiers 🧪 about the massive impact of fireworks on birds 🦅.
Paper: doi.org/10.1002/fee....
Thread below 🧵👇
Last year we published in @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Frontiers 🧪 about the massive impact of fireworks on birds 🦅.
Paper: doi.org/10.1002/fee....
Thread below 🧵👇
horizon.science.uva.nl/fireworks/in...
“On average, as a result of fireworks, 1000 times more birds take flight than on usual winter nights.” New year in the Netherlands. Knew I’d seen this somewhere so ta to @amiesphilip.bsky.social for finding it. Redwings peeping all over here just now.
“On average, as a result of fireworks, 1000 times more birds take flight than on usual winter nights.” New year in the Netherlands. Knew I’d seen this somewhere so ta to @amiesphilip.bsky.social for finding it. Redwings peeping all over here just now.
November 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
horizon.science.uva.nl/fireworks/in...
“On average, as a result of fireworks, 1000 times more birds take flight than on usual winter nights.” New year in the Netherlands. Knew I’d seen this somewhere so ta to @amiesphilip.bsky.social for finding it. Redwings peeping all over here just now.
“On average, as a result of fireworks, 1000 times more birds take flight than on usual winter nights.” New year in the Netherlands. Knew I’d seen this somewhere so ta to @amiesphilip.bsky.social for finding it. Redwings peeping all over here just now.
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Postdoctoral position in Aquatic Ecology (m/f/d) 80-100%
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October 31, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Our Department of Aquatic Ecology (Eco) is offering a
Postdoctoral position in Aquatic Ecology (m/f/d) 80-100%
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Postdoctoral position in Aquatic Ecology (m/f/d) 80-100%
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Wasn’t expecting to find _this_ in the local station book exchange.Had a wait long enough to look properly rather than casually glance at the usual biographies & novels.Wonder how long it had been sitting there all unloved.Rest assured it has now found its forever home🙂.Now need to find a swap.
October 30, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Wasn’t expecting to find _this_ in the local station book exchange.Had a wait long enough to look properly rather than casually glance at the usual biographies & novels.Wonder how long it had been sitting there all unloved.Rest assured it has now found its forever home🙂.Now need to find a swap.
On the same chalk bank as the flowering plants that haven’t read the rules in my last #wildflowerhour post, the Man Orchids are now out. Just. They were all baked off in the hot, dry spring of 2025 and none of ~30 plants flowered successfully. Fingers crossed for 2026.
October 26, 2025 at 8:20 PM
On the same chalk bank as the flowering plants that haven’t read the rules in my last #wildflowerhour post, the Man Orchids are now out. Just. They were all baked off in the hot, dry spring of 2025 and none of ~30 plants flowered successfully. Fingers crossed for 2026.
It has been dark for hours. Can I go to bed yet #wildflowerhour ? Here are some flowering things found today near home that were mostly not supposed to be flowering today near home. Oxeye daisy, Field Scabious, Black Knapweed and Selfheal.
October 26, 2025 at 7:58 PM
It has been dark for hours. Can I go to bed yet #wildflowerhour ? Here are some flowering things found today near home that were mostly not supposed to be flowering today near home. Oxeye daisy, Field Scabious, Black Knapweed and Selfheal.
Spiny Shield Bug, Picromerus bidens. 21/10/25. New for the garden.
October 22, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Spiny Shield Bug, Picromerus bidens. 21/10/25. New for the garden.
Better late than never. First Brown Hairstreak of the year in the garden today.
September 30, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Better late than never. First Brown Hairstreak of the year in the garden today.
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Our work resurrecting ice age #ghostponds in the Guardian today @timholtwilson.bsky.social @hburningham.bsky.social @uclgeography.bsky.social ‘Just add water’: how to bring back ancient plants in a Norfolk ghost pond | Wildlife | The Guardian share.google/kO6HQaC4PAUJ...
‘Just add water’: how to bring back ancient plants in a Norfolk ghost pond
An expert team are resurrecting ice age ponds and finding rare species returning from a ‘perfect time capsule’
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September 20, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Our work resurrecting ice age #ghostponds in the Guardian today @timholtwilson.bsky.social @hburningham.bsky.social @uclgeography.bsky.social ‘Just add water’: how to bring back ancient plants in a Norfolk ghost pond | Wildlife | The Guardian share.google/kO6HQaC4PAUJ...
Talk in Ambleside this Wed, 10/09/25. 17:00. The culmination of the 2 week NERC meiofauna short course. Details of course and staff here:
www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/...
@nhm-london.bsky.social
www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/...
@nhm-london.bsky.social
September 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Talk in Ambleside this Wed, 10/09/25. 17:00. The culmination of the 2 week NERC meiofauna short course. Details of course and staff here:
www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/...
@nhm-london.bsky.social
www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/...
@nhm-london.bsky.social
Oh hello. In the garden this evening.
August 24, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Oh hello. In the garden this evening.
Another of the treats from the last two weeks of aquatic plant surveys in Donegal. Sparganium natans. Aquatic, in ~1m water depth and emersed at a different site. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
August 20, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Another of the treats from the last two weeks of aquatic plant surveys in Donegal. Sparganium natans. Aquatic, in ~1m water depth and emersed at a different site. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
10 days in Donegal assisting Nick Stewart on EPA lake monitoring fieldwork.Lifer Eriocaulon aquaticum this morning.Great company,long days,terrible food,some truly amazing sites & a new species for Ireland,pending review of the material by Chris Preston.
Potamogeton rutilus @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Potamogeton rutilus @bsbibotany.bsky.social
August 20, 2025 at 1:52 AM
10 days in Donegal assisting Nick Stewart on EPA lake monitoring fieldwork.Lifer Eriocaulon aquaticum this morning.Great company,long days,terrible food,some truly amazing sites & a new species for Ireland,pending review of the material by Chris Preston.
Potamogeton rutilus @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Potamogeton rutilus @bsbibotany.bsky.social
EA lake survey fieldwork for the last 2 weeks. Didn’t anticipate finding Potamogeton lucens at all, never mind 2 days in a row, at Sywell Reservoir nr Northampton on Thurs and Crown Lakes N nr Peterborough yesterday. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @astridbiddle.bsky.social
August 9, 2025 at 9:41 PM
EA lake survey fieldwork for the last 2 weeks. Didn’t anticipate finding Potamogeton lucens at all, never mind 2 days in a row, at Sywell Reservoir nr Northampton on Thurs and Crown Lakes N nr Peterborough yesterday. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @astridbiddle.bsky.social
Huge numbers of Riccia cavernosa(?) at w end of Clattercote Reservoir, Oxon, today. 3m drawdown providing lots of habitat. @astridbiddle.bsky.social @bramblebotanist.bsky.social
August 5, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Huge numbers of Riccia cavernosa(?) at w end of Clattercote Reservoir, Oxon, today. 3m drawdown providing lots of habitat. @astridbiddle.bsky.social @bramblebotanist.bsky.social
Ermine or Water Ermine? Been here for ~10 days or so, eating Littorella uniflora. New food plant record for either? @mothyblackburn.bsky.social @norfolkmoths.bsky.social @ @savebutterflies.bsky.social
July 26, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Ermine or Water Ermine? Been here for ~10 days or so, eating Littorella uniflora. New food plant record for either? @mothyblackburn.bsky.social @norfolkmoths.bsky.social @ @savebutterflies.bsky.social
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Set a dozen batologists free in Broadland & rightly anticipate a few interesting bramble records.. not a new-to-GB waterlily. Nymphaea candida has small flowers with erect petals, filaments wider than anthers & concave stigmatic disc. Leaves with anastomosing veins at edges. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
July 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Set a dozen batologists free in Broadland & rightly anticipate a few interesting bramble records.. not a new-to-GB waterlily. Nymphaea candida has small flowers with erect petals, filaments wider than anthers & concave stigmatic disc. Leaves with anastomosing veins at edges. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Glastonbury Glow-worm grabs glamping gong. Not that I’m biased, but best thing of the festival so far is this lady Glow-worm shining by the hedge right next to the caravan. Onto iNat, if you want to trace the caravan. #GlastonburyFestival #Glow-worm
June 27, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Glastonbury Glow-worm grabs glamping gong. Not that I’m biased, but best thing of the festival so far is this lady Glow-worm shining by the hedge right next to the caravan. Onto iNat, if you want to trace the caravan. #GlastonburyFestival #Glow-worm
Today at home. Welsh Chafer by the pond,female Gasteruption jaculator scouting the bricks, baby Shieldbugs on Iris and an Elephant Hawk Moth that found its way into the house.
June 21, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Today at home. Welsh Chafer by the pond,female Gasteruption jaculator scouting the bricks, baby Shieldbugs on Iris and an Elephant Hawk Moth that found its way into the house.
Today’s finds. My first ever Clearwing and it didn’t involve a lure. 6-belted at the Green Street Green butterfly bank, Bromley.Adonis Ladybird rescued from the neighbours’ paddling pool and the porch Woodpigeon babies coming on apace. iRecorded or Birdtracked as appropriate.
June 19, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Today’s finds. My first ever Clearwing and it didn’t involve a lure. 6-belted at the Green Street Green butterfly bank, Bromley.Adonis Ladybird rescued from the neighbours’ paddling pool and the porch Woodpigeon babies coming on apace. iRecorded or Birdtracked as appropriate.