New Paper!🦈🚨

I’m so excited to share this! We used underwater cameras to study sharks, skates and rays in Scotland. From 682 hours of footage we recorded 6 species, including the Critically Endangered flapper skate. Check out the paper below!

🔗: lnkd.in/emFKz5PP

#sharks #elasmobranchs #MarineLife

Can anyone ID these fish for me please? I’m thinking goby, blenny, goby, but I’m not sure! Found in rockpools at Berwick-upon-Tweed, UK 🐟🌊

#MarineLife 🦑 #fishidentification

Recently I’ve been volunteering with the Hull International Fisheries Institute for their tagging and electrofishing river surveys, and I’m really enjoying learning about the wildlife in our rivers and seeing some amazing fish species up close 🐟

I had an amazing time at the MBA’s @thembauk.bsky.social 21st Postgraduate Conference at Hull last month! 🫧🐟🌿

The presentations were fantastic and it was so nice to connect with fellow PGRs and to learn about their incredible research. Well done to the amazing team who organised this event! 🦈🪸🌊

Unfortunately the great tits stopped returning to the nest a couple of weeks ago. I can only hope that they’re okay and built another nest elsewhere🤞🏻 I’ve missed seeing the chicks hatch and grow (like last year - below!) and just hope they’ll be back (or others) next year 😔🪹

Nest update! 😊

We put up a bird house with a camera in our garden in 2021 and every year since we’ve had great tits come and nest in it, and it looks like they’re going to nest again this year! Looking forward to watching them raise their chicks and seeing (hopefully) all of them fledge 🤞🏻🐣 #birds #spring

Nice to see the little egret and marsh harrier again as well as some yellowhammers around the Humber today! 🐥🦅

Saw a little egret on today’s walk 😊

Spotted 2 buzzards soaring and 1 perched in a tree (?), a red kite flying over a farmer’s field, and a kestrel sat in a bush while on a drive to/from Beverley on Wednesday. Then saw a flock of common teal on the Humber (Brantingham Drain area) on Thursday which I’ve never ‘seen’ (or ID’d) before!🦅🦆🌅

Despite the weather we still saw 7 starlings, 3 wood pigeons, 3 house sparrows, 2 blue tits, 2 collared doves, and 1 crow for the #BigGardenBirdwatch🐦 More than I expected as the garden was mostly empty all day with the wind! This strange-looking bird was the most ‘exciting’ thing I saw all day…

We live close to the Humber and occasionally see marsh harriers flying over the river, and sometimes we get sparrowhawks in our garden! And I often spot buzzards and kestrels and sometimes red kites when in the car. Always feels magical seeing them! 🦅
(These pictures do *not* do them justice😆)

It was amazing to finally visit the grey seal colony at Donna Nook Nature Reserve back in December! Many of the seals had left by that point but there were still a few dotted about to see, and plenty of birds too! 🦭🦆