@birderbee.bsky.social
Personal account • Mostly bees, local birding & my experience of breast cancer in my 30s • Environmental Science mature student with the OU • Views & photos my own • Enthusiast, not expert! • Leeds, West Yorkshire 📷 instagram.com/birder_bee #WomenInSTEM
Check out the news from this season in our latest Leeds Swifts newsletter, including some incredible rehabbing stories with 96 Swifts being flown after rescues across the region:
www.leedsswifts.com/post/leeds-s...
#swifts #ukbirds #birds #swiftconservation #yorkshirebirds #leeds
Lovely morning at RSPB St Aidan's with @leedsbirder.bsky.social. This Hobby (Falco subbuteo) hawking for dragonflies and hirundines over our heads was certainly a highlight 🤩
21.09.2025 18:26 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hedgehogs are nocturnal. If you see one out during the day, it's likely to be very unwell, so please get in touch with your local hog rescue for advice. Visit
www.britishhedgehogs.org.uk
for more information 🦔 (2/2)
I have a HEDGEHOG living in my garden and I'm absolutely smitten 💖🦔
Please note: These photos was taken at nighttime in near darkness. It just appears quite bright because the security light on my patio had briefly come on... (1/2)
💯 "I can show you where the Peregrine Falcons are"
25.06.2025 22:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Juvenile Peregrine Falcon tiercel, 'ZA6' (Falco peregrinus) photographed just after he fledged earlier this month on University of Leeds campus.
#peregrinefalcon #falcoperegrinus #BirdsSeenIn2025 #birds @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social 🪶
My constant source of hair inspo is '90s Leonardo DiCaprio and I make no apologies for it.
25.06.2025 21:08 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Oh hi! Just had a pair of Osmia leaiana bees bangin' on my finger. How's your day been?
19.06.2025 17:44 — 👍 37 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Juvenile Peregrine Falcon tiercel, 'ZA6' (Falco peregrinus) photographed just after he fledged earlier this month on University of Leeds campus.
#peregrinefalcon #falcoperegrinus #BirdsSeenIn2025 #birds @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social 🪶
Featuring: Emperor Dragonfly (Anax imperator) | Six-spot Burnet moth (Zygaena filipendulae) | Marbled White butterfly (Melanargia galathea) | Golden-bloomed Grey Longhorn beetle (Agapanthia villosoviridescens)
19.06.2025 18:11 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I just love holding them 🥹
19.06.2025 18:06 — 👍 27 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Oh hi! Just had a pair of Osmia leaiana bees bangin' on my finger. How's your day been?
19.06.2025 17:44 — 👍 37 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
It landed on me!
17.06.2025 23:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Emperor Dragonfly (Anax imperator), @yorkswildlife.bsky.social Brockadale Nature Reserve 💚
@britishdragonflies.bsky.social
Melanargia galathea serena
On Saturday @unsociable-lapwing.bsky.social and I had a great day out with @birderbee.bsky.social at @yorkswildlife.bsky.social Brockadale Nature Reserve looking at Marbled Whites.
Always a thrill seeing them!
@savebutterflies.bsky.social @bcyorkshire.bsky.social
#UKButterflies #YorkshireWildlife
Red Kite (Milvus milvus) at Brockadale Nature Reserve ❤️
#redkite #milvusmilvus #birds #birdphotography #birdsseenin2025
Golden-bloomed Grey Longhorn beetle (Agapanthia villosoviridescens).
A beauty! 💙
#goldenbloomedgreylonghornbeetle #agapanthiavillosoviridescens #longhornbeetle #beetles
When you're stuck in standstill traffic on your way to the nature reserve with @unsociable-lapwing.bsky.social so you may as well go look for mini-beasts in the motorway verge... 🔍😆
📷 by @wildfozzy.bsky.social
Thanks for a lovely day, you two! 💚
Peonies envy, anyone? 😆
12.06.2025 20:48 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Ruby-tailed Cuckoo Wasp (Chrysis ignita I think?) in the garden today.
Still trying to capture my ideal shot of one of these beautiful solitary wasps! They are tricky, but I am enjoying the challenge nonetheless. There are two currently overnighting in one my bee hotels.
Garden Spider (Araneus diadematus) in the (you guessed it!) garden, Leeds UK. June 2025.
Another 'macro' shot taken on my iPhone 7 Plus.
#gardenspider #europeangardenspider #crossspider #araneusdiadematus #ukspiders
Peregrine Falcon (Falco peregrinus, adult female) on campus @universityofleeds.bsky.social.
This is '7.H', queen of the Leeds skies, current resident female of the Parkinson building and mother to this year's 4 fledglings 🥰
#peregrinefalcon #falcoperegrinus #birdphotography #birdsseenin2025
It was a pleasure to get these shots of 'ZA6', only a few hours after his maiden flight from the nest tray high up on the Parkinson building 😍 We watched him hatching only 5 weeks ago!
#peregrinefalcon #falcoperegrinus #birds 🪶
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08.06.2025 21:26 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Outside looking in, inside looking out. Adventures with fledging urban Peregrines #ornithology #ukbirds #peregrinefalcon
06.06.2025 22:34 — 👍 52 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
Thick-legged Flower Beetle (Oedemera nobilis, female) in the garden, Leeds UK. May 2025.
Only the fellas have 'thick legs', in case you were wondering.
#thickleggedflowerbeetle #Oedemeranobilis
This made me smile 😆
Artist: www.amiiillustrates.com
#birds
Love this! 🤩
06.06.2025 16:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Portrait of 'ZA6', one of the young Peregrine Falcon tiercels (males) who fledged from Parkinson Tower on @universityofleeds.bsky.social campus yesterday 😍
#peregrinefalcon #falcoperegrinus #nikonphotography #ukbirdwatching #birdphotography #birdsseenin2025 #birds 🪶
Orange-vented Mason Bee (Osmia leaiana, female) in the garden, Leeds UK. May 2025.
#orangeventedmasonbee #osmialeaiana #solitarybees #ukbees #macrophotograph
