Ellen Wilson

Sika Deer 🦌 enjoying Sakura 🌸 Cherry Blossom Season in Nara Park Japan 🇯🇵

New on the blog! Graeme Lyons talks to us about Pan-Species Listing 📖

Read the full interview ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/33mssywn

#panspecies #identification #species #taxonomy #authorinterview

Synoptic map of the sun

- low solar flare activity
- 5 rather simple sunspot groups on the visible disk; 4384 is showing development
- negatively polarised coronal hole CH29- will cross the central meridian soon and could bring fast solar wind in 3-5 days

Perched upright on a weathered stump, a small brown Wren tilts its head back mid-call against a soft golden backdrop, alert and vocal.

Many MPs claim to care about nature.

Tomorrow afternoon will be the test.

On Tuesday 3rd March there will be a debate in Parliament on red lines for nature.

We’ll be watching to see who shows up. Empty seats will say a lot.

Tell us who you expect to see there tomorrow. 👇

Butterflies and moths
Butterfly Monitoring Camp Bukovcevo
Long - Term Spring moth counts
16th anniversary of the first moth flights count
A moth Orange Underwing (Archiearis parthenias) first flight ...
www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/phpBB/viewto...

A white female plumber, a Jewish gay man and a Muslim wan walked into a hall....and united a community.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Increasing solar flare activity, partly caused by a new sunspot group behind the northeastern limb.

White-bellied Storm-petrel- seen occasionally in the air above Phillip Is Norfolk but its breeding location remains unknown-Friday nights recovery within a petrel colony was a first. Known breeding 900 km Sth or 1400 km Est. What an exquisite fellow! #SuperSeabirdSunday

This just arrived, by @graemelyons.bsky.social. 400 pages packed with guidance on how to identify almost any taxonomic group you can think of. An absolute 'must have' for any naturalist.

YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts The Lawton Principles: more, bigger, better and more joined up.

Really enjoyed discussing The Lawton Principles (more, bigger, better and more joined up) with the ever enthusiastic John Lawton. youtu.be/GMlzvNxM2N0?...

Entomology technician post in my lab in London (position is for 11 months starting August 2026). The work is about sentience and cognition in a variety of insect species. Thank you for sharing (and applying)! qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...

My book is out there in the wild Although I have had copies of the book for about a month now (and I had a great day at Adastra a couple of weeks ago by way of a 'soft launc...

As it's publication day, I have put a few words down about what I have tried to do with the book, it's a lot more than just pan-species listing. Please have a read. I am now an author!

I never knew Wallcreeper ate Reptiles! Today I watched this Bird take a small Lizard from the Rockface and devour it. #birding #wallcreeper

📢 Job Alert: Monitoring officer

I am looking for an experienced ornithological fieldworker to join the team this spring to lead on the monitoring of Black tailed godwits at WWT Welney.

Closing date: 6 March 2026

Apply ➡️

vacancies.wwt.org.uk/vacancies/77...

It's publication day!

Hey Hannah - not sure if you're up to much today?

@lesserspotnet.bsky.social action hotting up on Dartmoor. Lots of drumming by a pair this morning. Lots of calling too and the best views of the courtship butterfly flight Ive ever had (not on video). Excited for the weeks ahead @angusrobin.bsky.social

The life's work of anyone who gives a damn about humanity is to resist the economic elite, demand the taxes that reduce their power and defend the space in which the rest of us can thrive. If your "elected representatives" aren't helping with that, they are not your representatives, but theirs.

Wow! 37.9” (96 cm) of snow has fallen in Providence, Rhode Island, pulverizing the previous all-time single-storm snowfall record by over 9”.

📣 Calling all curious classrooms: Could your school or home education group become bumblebee-friendly in 2026?

Join our growing UK network of Bumblebee-friendly Schools. Suitable for all ages, all you need is a small outdoor space and love of nature!

Start your journey: https://ow.ly/YRlF50YfaZ8

Jupiter and its 4 Galilean Moons this evening. Left to right: Callisto, Ganymede, Io, Europa. A perfect night for #astrophotography #astronomy @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social

NEW JOB in #ornithology helping with data management and analysis to understand the dispersal patterns of juvenile little owls: buff.ly/bzwui1c

Do you see what I see?

Fidra

Lamb

Craigleith

Bass Rock

Four amazing #seabird islands which will be becoming busier as spring progresses - #Fidra #Lamb #Craigleith #BassRock - lovely afternoon in the sunshine.

#NorthBerwick #EastLothian #seabirds

Me, Q, Kayleigh & Lorna: your gorgeous top four Green MSP candidates for Edinburgh & Lothians East.

We're currently polling to elect our biggest ever group of MSPs to Scottish Parliament - we've (green) energy, movement & hope on our side. Join us, and #VoteGreen

@edinburghgreens.bsky.social

This is Elton the Echidna, from Chris Humfrey's 'Wild Action' Zoo in Macedon, Australia.

What you may notice about Elton's distinctive swagger: his hind legs don't face the same direction as his forelegs.

Let's talk about the utter weirdness of echidna pelvises.

The cover of The new ‘Photographic guide to flies of Britain and Ireland’

An open page from the new ‘Photographic guide to flies of Britain and Ireland’. Text for each species on the left with beautiful macro photos on the right.

Oh hello… it’s here! The new ‘Photographic guide to flies of Britain and Ireland’.

Steven Falk (not sure if he’s on BS?)
@gailashton.bsky.social
@rdimond.bsky.social
Peter Creed
Forward by @flygirlnhm.bsky.social

It is an astonishing piece of work for such a diverse taxonomic group.
#diptera

@lesserspotnet.bsky.social My sites at The Blean are slow to start this year - very quiet again today, but here’s one of two birds seen this morning

Warden - Smaull Farm Reserves Are you enthusiastic about wildlife, adaptable, and ready to help deliver conservation goals on one of Scotland’s most diverse and wildlife-rich islands? RSPB Islay Reserves are looking for a warden ....

Warden - Smaull Farm Reserves - RSPB - environmentjob.co.uk/jobs/109298-... #ScottishBirding

New poll. Scottish Greens forecast to overtake Labour and Tories in Scotland. Greens: 14 MSPs. Labour: 13 MSPs. Tory: 10 MSPs. Vote Scottish Greens on 7 May.

🚨 NEW POLL!

A new poll out today has the Scottish Greens doubling our MSPs and overtaking both Labour and the Tories in the Scottish Parliament.

This May we can bring about the green change that Scotland badly needs.