@eshilland.bsky.social
London NERC DTP PhD student @NHM/QMUL/UCL. Aquatic botany. Biological recorder. Live on a farm. He/him.
Lol. Straight to FR24 to check.
November 7, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Lol. Straight to FR24 to check.
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
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.
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
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.
The Woundwort Shieldbugs are largely ignoring their nominate host plant here and concentrating on the Aquilega seed heads instead.
June 12, 2025 at 10:36 PM
The Woundwort Shieldbugs are largely ignoring their nominate host plant here and concentrating on the Aquilega seed heads instead.
WFH today. Miris striatus on the doorstep, 62! Large Red Damselfly exuviae from the Hippurus pond out front so far. The magpie checked into the lab meeting and mass Badger mastication proceeded as normal.
May 15, 2025 at 10:40 PM
WFH today. Miris striatus on the doorstep, 62! Large Red Damselfly exuviae from the Hippurus pond out front so far. The magpie checked into the lab meeting and mass Badger mastication proceeded as normal.
Hoopoe from the doorstep in Bromley this morning. 😳. Terrible phone footage. Have given it enough time to skeddaddle before sharing. On BirdTrack. @btobirds.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social
May 9, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Hoopoe from the doorstep in Bromley this morning. 😳. Terrible phone footage. Have given it enough time to skeddaddle before sharing. On BirdTrack. @btobirds.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social
#UKUWMN water, diatom and aquatic invertebrate sampling at Old Lodge, Ashdown Forest today. Dartford Warbler, Cuckoo, Stonechats and best of all these @bsbibotany.bsky.social
May 2, 2025 at 11:46 PM
#UKUWMN water, diatom and aquatic invertebrate sampling at Old Lodge, Ashdown Forest today. Dartford Warbler, Cuckoo, Stonechats and best of all these @bsbibotany.bsky.social
The anti-bird infrastructure at Charles Darwin’s church in Downe, Bromley today. No wonder there are no Swifts screaming over the village any more. @btobirds.bsky.social @godsacre.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social
April 29, 2025 at 11:37 PM
The anti-bird infrastructure at Charles Darwin’s church in Downe, Bromley today. No wonder there are no Swifts screaming over the village any more. @btobirds.bsky.social @godsacre.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social
Possibly Ichneumon stramentor in the garden today. Not quite right though, and there are plenty to choose from.
April 21, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Possibly Ichneumon stramentor in the garden today. Not quite right though, and there are plenty to choose from.
Found a freshly emerged and very fecund female Emperor Moth here last Saturday. Completely still at the top of the vegetation, but evidently firing out pheromones so it wasn’t long before a male arrived. First breeding record in Bromley for a long time I’m told.
April 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Found a freshly emerged and very fecund female Emperor Moth here last Saturday. Completely still at the top of the vegetation, but evidently firing out pheromones so it wasn’t long before a male arrived. First breeding record in Bromley for a long time I’m told.
Just took the new INat Next app for a walk in the garden to test the live camera real-time species ID feature. Not perfect, but rather remarkable nonetheless. Great that the app now has most of the features available in the web version. #iNaturalist #iNatNext
April 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Just took the new INat Next app for a walk in the garden to test the live camera real-time species ID feature. Not perfect, but rather remarkable nonetheless. Great that the app now has most of the features available in the web version. #iNaturalist #iNatNext