Loch Seaforth coming in to dock at Ullapool #calmac

Fantastic review of this Tesco supermarket in Edinburgh!

Rescued a few plants from a friend’s late father’s conservatory recently. Amongst them was this Crinum lily, sown from seed 31 years ago!

A video of a badger having a good old scratch!

Lovely walk around Norfolk Wildlife Trust’s Royston Common reserve this morning. Incredible to think that 20 years ago this view didn’t exist due to the dense conifer plantation that had been planted on the heathland.

Nice of the lesser white-fronted geese at Stiffkey to hang around for today’s WeBS count. @btobirds.bsky.social #WeBS

This is the sort of ill-informed and sloppy reporting that drives me (and probably other ecologists) mad. Three common pipistrelles were recorded roosting in the building. Low level of use, easy mitigation outlined in the EIA. Will it sink the pool plan? No. Does it give bats a bad rap? Yes.

Fantastic views of barn owl and short-eared owl whilst out doing bird surveys today. Pretty cool rainbow as well!

Well, I found it amusing

Quite a satisfying morning’s work reducing a client’s beech hedge to a more manageable height.

A bizarre find yesterday. Presumed muntjac remains with a flexible blue plastic stake through the skull and down the spine.

Length of exposed chain on Salthouse beach yesterday. Local legend has it that it leads to a massive plug which, if removed, drains the entire North Sea.

The USAF spent most of this afternoon buzzing my house with ospreys!

A nice glossy ibis on this morning’s WeBS count

A lovely Norfolk sunrise on the way to work this morning.

All being well, two months later the nest hatches and baby turtles run the gauntlet of predatory crabs and birds to make their way back to the ocean. Twenty years later they might return to Aride to nest themselves.

Female turtles are very susceptible to disturbance as they emerge but once they’ve excavated their nest and started to lay they go into a trance and can be measured, tagged and the number of eggs laid are counted.

It’s the start of the turtle nesting season on Aride Island, Seychelles. This is one of two females emerging last Friday to lay their eggs. Seychelles is one of the few places in the world where hawksbills emerge during the day. www.arideisland.com

In the process of moving from Twitter/X across to Bluesky. In the meantime, here is a picture of a sandy dog