Nigel Owen
@ntowen.bsky.social
Mandola player, butterfly surveyor, natural history writer. New Forest, Hampshire, UK.
Here's today's found dinosaur, bigging it up at #NationalTrust Kingston Lacy.
September 30, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Here's today's found dinosaur, bigging it up at #NationalTrust Kingston Lacy.
Summer special concert, at the wonderful Earthhouse (Ancient Technology Centre, Cranborne, Dorest). A fundraiser for Salisbury Hospice.
July 17, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Summer special concert, at the wonderful Earthhouse (Ancient Technology Centre, Cranborne, Dorest). A fundraiser for Salisbury Hospice.
My holiday soundtrack is a melodious warbler.
June 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM
My holiday soundtrack is a melodious warbler.
Hummingbird hawkmoth, on salvia, Loubressac, Lot, France.
June 8, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Hummingbird hawkmoth, on salvia, Loubressac, Lot, France.
Mainly, I write about birds and beasts I cannot comprehend.
June 7, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Mainly, I write about birds and beasts I cannot comprehend.
Silver-studded Blue butterfly (female), emerging earlier than usual this year in the New Forest.
May 29, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Silver-studded Blue butterfly (female), emerging earlier than usual this year in the New Forest.
Heath Spotted Orchid, New Forest, 20th May 25
May 20, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Heath Spotted Orchid, New Forest, 20th May 25
Green-veined White, on Cow Parsley, in the garden.
May 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Green-veined White, on Cow Parsley, in the garden.
The Emperor deigned to put in an appearance this afternoon.
May 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
The Emperor deigned to put in an appearance this afternoon.
The fifth season of the year, "Not Summer", took place this year on Wednesday, 2nd April, between 11:19am and 12:51pm. This moveable season is defined by my first and second sightings of a swallow each year.
April 2, 2025 at 12:19 PM
The fifth season of the year, "Not Summer", took place this year on Wednesday, 2nd April, between 11:19am and 12:51pm. This moveable season is defined by my first and second sightings of a swallow each year.
Treecreeper, Ridley Wood, New Forest.
March 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Treecreeper, Ridley Wood, New Forest.
Wych hazel flowers providing colour in the garden on a dull January day.
January 26, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Wych hazel flowers providing colour in the garden on a dull January day.
Reposted by Nigel Owen
Happy New Year!
We want to see an end to the illegal killing of Hen Harriers, Golden Eagles, Buzzards, Short-eared Owls, Red Kites, White-tailed Eagles, Peregrines etc. If you do too, pls sign & share our petition to ban driven grouse shooting
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
#ornithology
We want to see an end to the illegal killing of Hen Harriers, Golden Eagles, Buzzards, Short-eared Owls, Red Kites, White-tailed Eagles, Peregrines etc. If you do too, pls sign & share our petition to ban driven grouse shooting
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
#ornithology
January 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Happy New Year!
We want to see an end to the illegal killing of Hen Harriers, Golden Eagles, Buzzards, Short-eared Owls, Red Kites, White-tailed Eagles, Peregrines etc. If you do too, pls sign & share our petition to ban driven grouse shooting
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
#ornithology
We want to see an end to the illegal killing of Hen Harriers, Golden Eagles, Buzzards, Short-eared Owls, Red Kites, White-tailed Eagles, Peregrines etc. If you do too, pls sign & share our petition to ban driven grouse shooting
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
#ornithology
Christmas Eve sunset over the New Forest.
December 24, 2024 at 5:07 PM
Christmas Eve sunset over the New Forest.
Excellent concert from Green Matthews at Turner Sims this afternoon, with Gaudette. What says Christmas better than pipes and curtal?
December 15, 2024 at 6:46 PM
Excellent concert from Green Matthews at Turner Sims this afternoon, with Gaudette. What says Christmas better than pipes and curtal?
Sunset over the New Forest heath tonight.
December 3, 2024 at 5:18 PM
Sunset over the New Forest heath tonight.
Here are a couple of goldfinches on the teasel outside our living room window.
December 2, 2024 at 11:58 AM
Here are a couple of goldfinches on the teasel outside our living room window.
Its snowing, so the chickens get the leftover breakfast porridge. In chicken folklore, the great thunderchicken (who laid this egg we all live on) summons up porridge from the sky to bring good chickens safely through the winter.
November 21, 2024 at 9:42 AM
Its snowing, so the chickens get the leftover breakfast porridge. In chicken folklore, the great thunderchicken (who laid this egg we all live on) summons up porridge from the sky to bring good chickens safely through the winter.
Snow! In the New Forest! Make the most of it, it will be gone by lunchtime.
November 21, 2024 at 9:31 AM
Snow! In the New Forest! Make the most of it, it will be gone by lunchtime.
Saw my first Hen Harrier of the winter this afternoon, a grey male on a hunting pass low along the valley floor.
November 18, 2024 at 5:15 PM
Saw my first Hen Harrier of the winter this afternoon, a grey male on a hunting pass low along the valley floor.
Just finished writing up the summaries for the Annual Reports on the six butterfly transects I look after. Average decline over 30% on last year's numbers.
November 14, 2024 at 10:19 PM
Just finished writing up the summaries for the Annual Reports on the six butterfly transects I look after. Average decline over 30% on last year's numbers.