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SAOCousins
@saocousins.bsky.social
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Plant community ecology, dispersal, landscape & climate change
Professor in Physical Geography
Passionate about teaching in the field
Ed-in-Chief/ecology @NordicJBotany
Splosh around with watercolour and watching 🪶 🐦🌿🦇
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SAOCousins @saocousins.bsky.social · Nov 28
Following a landscape through time. I study how biodiversity linked to grasslands and deciduous woods are affected by landscape changes. This set of change is so common in Sweden. There is no space left for species to inhabit or disperse #communityecology 🧪🌍
#biodiversity
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Three maps and four aerial photos of the same landscape. The first map is from 1783, green colours denotes meadows, dark pink arable fields, lighter pink with trees pasture. Map from 1901 where orange is crop fields, green (along the river) meadow and white with * grazed areas. 1953 is an aerial photo where yellow is crop fields (tiny bit at the top), green forest and pale green open land that isn't ploughed, black and white photos from 1960 and 1975 show that open land is planted with spruce. 2018 is so spruce plantation and 2023 a clear cut. What biodiversity that's left is along the small strip of the riverbank
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Sparrow bath
#ArtDD2025 #dailydrawing
A puddle and a House Sparrow
#watercolour on smooth paper
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November 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Been absent lately due to commitments..some good, some not so.. on the plus side. These bad boys just gone up in Shepton. Fingers crossed for a sale!
November 16, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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River Lune
#ArtDD2025 #dailydrawing
One of this summer's best walks with the boys. Dreamy and a perfect lunch spot.
#watercolour #Cumbria or #YorkshireDale
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November 15, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Back home after a couple of days off grid in Stensjö #StensjöHamlet
Questions we discussed during 2 1/2 days were: How did the 'forest' or rather outland look like? How many trees were there in the in-fields? And how do we get it back? #culturalheritage #restoration #learningbydoing
November 14, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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A cheerful Sissinghurst Robin on this far from cheerful evening in Stockholm
#ArtDD2025
#watercolour
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November 14, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Damascus street scene

Another sketch I've done from one of my father's slides from his travels.

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Ink and paint sketch of row of buildings with shop windows and open doors, against which a heap of terracotta urns are leaning. Over one doorway three ceramic jugs are hanging. Sitting on the pavement in the forground, is a figure with a black scarf around head and a red robe.
November 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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I've been ambushed.
Who's gong to make the tea?
Ester one of Stensjö hamlet's working cats #cat
November 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Sissinghurst
#ArtDD2025 #dailydrawing
Spent a wonderful November Saturday there with @rebeccawarren This was the messy result. #sissinghurst #watercolour
November 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Kingfisher and Stickleback
Catch, smack left, smack right, dead fish, eat fish, contemplate...
#kingfisher 🦉 @drrjwarren.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Sandwich Gull
#artDD2025 not #dailydrawing
The view outside my window in Sandwich 🥪
Don't try that fancy brickwork at home 🫣
#watercolour
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November 7, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Kestrel
#ArtDD2025 sometimes #dailydrawing
A little doodle with inspiration from @mayfieldbirder.bsky.social 📸
#Birds #watercolour
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November 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Hasty oystercatcher

From a ph by @alan658.bsky.social with thanks

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Black backed wader with black head and collar. Long orange beak, pointing to left, orange eye and pink legs. White belly. Black inksplatters across image.
November 4, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Little London Grey Heron
#ArtDD2025 #dailydrawing
A mini draw but the a Heron is too large for its frame
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#Heron #watercolour
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November 3, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Vi behöver två lektorer (vikariat)
Universitetslektor i naturgeografi med inriktning mot geomatik & miljövård (2 år)
Och ett med inriktning mot kvartärgeologi, #marklära & #GIS (1 år)
Temporary #lecturer #soil #geomatics #environmental ⚒️ #quaternary
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Lediga jobb vid Stockholms universitet
Jobb
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November 3, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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A weekend with lots of people in the house. It feels VERY quiet now
Son 1 birthday 🥳, son 2 back from the Azores (volcano🌋 course hense Olivine and GT🍸), daughter back for the first time since starting Uni plus partners, cousins, etc 🎂 🥳🥳
Lots of species for a birthday present
November 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Black-headed Gull
#ArtDD2025 #dailydrawing wishful thinking
#watercolour #bird
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November 2, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Still stilt

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Painting of tall wading bird, looking to left, black thin beak, black top of head and back and wings, rest is white. Standing on single, long pink leg.
November 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Avocet

Today I've been trying to see how little paint I can put on paper but still produce a bird😀. Here's one version.

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Black and white wader, black top of head, few black patches on top of wings and tail, and black beak. Rest is white but depicted only by a bit of shadow.
October 31, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Suddenly the house is full of noise 🥰
Daughter home from uni. Shoes and friends
October 30, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Down the hatch 2
#artDD2025 #dailydrawing
Yellow crowned night heron. Little doodle inspired from @balail.bsky.social that I can't do justice #heron
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October 30, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Avocet

Another quickie - I'm supposed to be cooking...🤭

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Ink and watercolour of wading bird facing viewer, on one long leg, with black stripe over top of head, and long slender up-turned bill, two black patches on it’s back just visible, otherwise white.
October 30, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Gull

I do love gulls. This sketch, however, had to be a very hasty 10 minutes only (dinner was nearly ready😄).

From a great 📷 by @kristina0221.bsky.social, with thanks.

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Ink and watercolour of gull facing viewer, standing on one angled leg, grey wing feathers just visible on shoulder, otherwise white, with slightly pink leg and beak.
October 29, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Down the hatch!
#ArtDD2025 #dailydrawing
Great Blue Heron with dinner. A little doodle inspired by the 📸 by
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#watercolour #heron
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October 28, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Stile and lighthouse
#ArtDD2025 #dailydrawing
Two favourite subjects 😁 (no heron)
From my little West Coast tour of Sweden
Morups Tånge #lighthouse #style #watercolour @lakesstiles.bsky.social
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October 27, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Spot the heron 😁
Lots of trout in the stream
#GreyHeron
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October 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM