Andrew Jones

Cuckoo spit, fart juice and miniature jumping robots Wheal Charlotte, Porthtowan, Cornwall

I know you all know what cuckoo spit ACTUALLY is, but here I am telling you anyway … #naturewriting
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They arrived a few days early in my part of Cornwall. Their dangly legs when they fly make me laugh - like a giraffe in a ski lift.

Tufty bobbins Wheal Charlotte, Porthtowan, Cornwall

“Rusty Willow sounds more like the name of a children’s TV presenter than a plant I’d find out here.” #naturewriting
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⭐️COVER REVEAL⭐️

My second book TO HAVE OR TO HOLD is now available for💥PRE-ORDER💥

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It’s an honour to soon be your narrator and introduce you to nature’s hidden relationships which are wilder, weirder, darker, more essential than you can imagine 🌍
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A joyful discovery in Vondelpark Amsterdam 😃

A photograph of a deserted pub car park surrounded by bare trees on a murky day: wet asphalt, grey sky. In the centre, next to a flumpy yellow cypress tree, are a litter bin and an ornamental lamppost who appear to be sharing a joke together. The head of the lamp is bent at an angle so it appears to be looking down at the bin whose lid has broken given it the appearance of a laughing face.

In January 2021, during the third national lockdown, I pulled into this deserted pub car park to turn the van round and found a lamppost and a bin engaged in lively conversation while they thought no one was looking. Incredible.

A reminder that, by adding googly eyes to the tap of a wine box, you can make your very own Shaun the Sheep.

The Year of 100 Birds – Week 2 On The Ice | Blue Tit | Little Egret | Slow Wren | Parakeets

I wrote about birds again.
On the ice, blue tits, little egrets.

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A preserved butterfly specimen (Morpho cypris) with magnificent, iridescent blue wings.

Entomologists, assemble! 💙

As has become a bit of a tradition for the last 8 years, on Blue Monday I like to share a beautiful blue bug or two and encourage others to join me.

Why?… 🧵👇

301 EXT. BISHOP'S FARM 'HOME FIELD' - DAY Distant bird song: GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER Andy and Lance are detecting some distance apart. the edge of the field, picks up a strong signal. Lance looks over and calls out. LANCE

01 EXT. BISHOP'S FARM 'HOME FIELD' - DAY Distant bird song: YELLOWHAMMER. Andy and Lance are detecting a few me Andy gets a signal and digs a plug of ground. TAITAT

101 EXT. FIELD 'OLD PATCH' - EARLY MORNING Distant bird song: SKYLARK A bleak field of stubble. We hear faint electronic whines and beeps. Through the mist two stooped figures, LANCE and ANDY appear some distance apart, wearing headphones and swinging metal detectors in front of them.

A conversation on here earlier reminded me of a thing that I’ve always loved and occasionally bang on about.

It’s the care taken by Mackenzie Crook to specify which bird species we can hear in the background for many scenes in Detectorists.

Close up photograph of the fur and wing venation of a bumblebee that died naturally, which has been encapsulated in epoxy resin.

Close up photograph of the wing venation of a bee that died naturally, which has been encapsulated in epoxy resin.

Close up photograph of the scopa and scutellum of a hoverfly that died naturally, which has been encapsulated in epoxy resin.

Close up photograph of the wing venation of an insect that died naturally, which has been encapsulated in epoxy resin.

Here are some images from my new photographic project, ‘Entomoscapes’. It is art of my MA in Photography at @falmouthuniversity.bsky.social, which aims to explore the human-insect relationship.

View the full project here: www.gailashton.co.uk/entomoscapes

#Masters #Photography #Insects

A little press release for my upcoming book! 😍♥️

The book contains elements of parenting, grief, mental wellbeing and much more! If you'd like to chat about it then please get in touch 📚

#Book #Author #Nature #MagicOfBirds #Birds

The cheow of a chough.

Country diary: Delights and decline in the river’s depths | Derek Niemann Frome, Somerset: Otters and beavers call this stretch of water home, unfortunately it is also a paradise for pollution

In today's @theguardian.com country diary, @derekniemann.bsky.social seeks the beavers that swim in the polluted waters of his local river.
#countrydiary #naturewriting

In our house this is known as a doggy splat.

The Year of 100 Birds – Week 1 Lists | Robin | Greylag | Fireworks | Jimmy

I wrote about birds.

Lists, robins, greylag geese, fireworks and Jimmy Carter.

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A puffin just visible in the dark of its burrow.

I’ll pick this puffin, tucked away in their burrow, out of hundreds and hundreds of puffins on Skomer Island.
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A murmuration of starlings Moments of beauty, wonder and awe in 2024. What were yours?

This is a nice Substack from Janelle Hardacre about fulfilling her wish to see a murmuration. #naturewriting

“Shoulder to shoulder with my love, I was witnessing my wish. Starlings cascading, whirling, forming, moving across the light grey sky.”

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Six Things, Volume 91 Moon | Woodswimmer | Christmas Cracker | Map Store Guy | Ambiguity | Mingle

I’m on my nonsense again.
This weeks Six Things include:
– moon
– wood
– cracker
– map
– ambiguity
– mingle
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A bedraggled wood pigeon hunkering down out of the wind #FirstBirdOfMyDay

A short walk after the storm Porthtowan to Chapel Porth, Cornwall

“Like a good coastal visitor, Darragh has left only footprints here. The sole firm evidence that he passed through is the pattern of the grass, flattened in ripples like the waves reached land and decided to keep going.” #naturewriting
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The Challenge Anneka bridge Wadebridge to Polbrock, Cornwall

Leaky boots, Anneka Rice and a bridge …
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YES! I’ve bored people enough about how good I think Forget Me Not is, so I’m looking forward to boring them all over again.

📣 ✍🏼 the cat is out of the bag…
… or is the parasite out of the host?

✨TO HAVE OR TO HOLD✨a wild, unruly, essential ride through nature’s hidden relationships, coming to you May 2025 @chiffchat.bsky.social

consider this press release a tease…

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Hampshire caught up in ‘sportswashing’ T20 row despite green claims Hampshire have been accused of taking part in a ‘sportswashing vehicle’ before their participation in this month’s Global Super League in Guyana

Fossil Fuel sponsorship in cricket? 🏏💀 No thanks.

“All cricketers, cricket fans, clubs, cricket organisations... There’s a great opportunity here to put your hand up and say: ‘Look, we’re not OK with this."

Our take on Exxon sponsorship of Global Super League:

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Come join us as business development lead on Encounter Nature! www.encounter-nature.com/news/were-hi... honestly, we are not all early '90s jokes and nonsense, we are also excited about reconnecting people with nature and gathering data about what they see around them.

Houdini the hedgehog The adventures of a little gangster hog, plus how to help hedgehogs in the garden

ICYMI: New Substack on Houdini the hedgehog: open.substack.com/pub/katebrad...

With #BlackFriday looming, we're asking how to make it greener on today's ep of For What It's Earth #podcast.

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🚨 But the most vital question: 👋 @andrewrjones.bsky.social, which room are we helping you clean today?

Well, this is awkward. I feel like I’ve let you down … I didn’t do any cleaning 😔. BUT … I did sort the laundry (no laundry poster required) and knock up a pasta bake while listening. Thanks for the shout-out!

the wild has no clean lines of orcas, seals and human hearts

I always look forward to Rebecca Hooper’s Sunday Substacks. Today’s is a thrilling account of humans chasing orcas chasing seals #naturewriting

“This hunt is thrilling and wondrous and heartbreaking all at once.”

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