Steven Oliver

A year on Bluesky in emojis - I’m happy with that! 😀

Being mobbed by terns on the Farne Islands

Very few invertebrates to see today in the 🌧️ @northcavewet.bsky.social. So this Common Wasp was a welcome splash of colour. Elsewhere: murmurating starlings.

A glimpse into dragonfly lifecycle today @northcavewet.bsky.social 🐉Scars on willow bark, sites where Willow Emerald Damselfly eggs were laid and overwintered. Larvae then hatched and dropped into the water below. Elsewhere: Bittern & Bullfinches @yorkswildlife.bsky.social

This Bittern, one of two birds currently on the reserve, gave excellent views as it fished in the cut channel on Village Lake below the Turret Hide at North Cave Wetlands this morning.
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Surely there can only be one scientific response…. Shun the frumious Bandersnatch!

👇👇👇👇👇👇 #vaccineswork

and in other news….

Bishop Wilton Wold – better after it's highest point Garrowby Hill – is situated in the Yorkshire Wolds, a broad sweep of farmland rising north of Pocklington, with the A166 skimming its crest. But its quiet fields hold a sombre memory. On the morning of

Little egret about Black dyke by the North hedge. This spot is always the last resort of any Little egrets should there be a deep frost as the dyke does not freeze over.
For some reason the number of roosting birds has been only 2 or 3, so they are no longer a guaranteed sighting on a morning's walk

Valerie Singleton is holding a brick with a knitted cover. It will keep doors open (or closed)

That’s this year’s presents sorted (postage might be a bit steep though)

Lamium album, the White Dead-Nettle, one of the few plants still in flower @northcavewet.bsky.social. Elsewhere: mixed flocks of mood-raising goldfinches, siskins, blue- great- and long tailed tits worked their way down west path.

‘…the UK’s biggest prostate cancer screening trial in a generation gets underway’ Great that scientific evaluation of the outcomes of early detection is continuing - also helpful to know when your generation’s time is passed 😂 Helping start the last one does feel an age away!

www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/
Looks interesting, suggests …’societies that coped best with epidemics were those with a diverse and interdependent institutional framework’ with a powerful but ‘temperate’ state, an adaptable market, and a strong civil society.

A Dusting Of Snow. 1°C on the Yorkshire Wolds. Rooks

A Dusting Of Snow. 1°C on the Yorkshire Wolds. Rooks.

Great days birding at North cave wetlands yesterday was finished with a starling extravaganza
The final throes are below.
#yorkshirebirding
#yorksbirding
#ukbirding
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I assume it’s recent 🌧️🌧️🌧️ which has triggered vivipary on teasels @northcavewet.bsky.social - water levels are definitely rising. Elsewhere: great spotted woodpecker, marsh harrier, siskins

Who were the Wolds Wagoners? - The Long, Long Trail Background The primary driver of the establishment of what became the Wagoners Special Reserve was Colonel Sir Mark Sykes (1879-1919), a grandee […]

Well, as I finally got to see their memorial a few days ago, I thought it was timely to add a piece to the Long, Long Trail about the Wagoners Special Reserve. See "Who were the Wolds Wagoners?" at www.longlongtrail.co.uk/wolds-wagone...

Print featuring with images looking down on a basket full of different shaped and sized gourds in yellows greens and orange colours

Myrtle Pizzey, a contemporary artist and printmaker from Somerset, UK #WomensArt

The UK media is overstating the benefits of prostate specific antigen tests, which can result in risk without benefit.

Men need fair information about screening for prostate cancer, writes @mgtmccartney.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/391/...

It’s the season to blend our single (-celled) bodies into the communal slime while we reproduce. If that’s not weird enough, let’s look like Dog Sick too! 🤣 Didymium spongiosum (Dog Sick Slime Mould) doing its amazing stuff @northcavewet.bsky.social. Elsewhere: Bittern @yorkswildlife.bsky.social

Male migrant hawker, amongst the last of the class of 2025 @northcavewet.bsky.social today. Elsewhere: redwings, stonechat. @yorkswildlife.bsky.social

Excellent session @openuniversity.bsky.social Arts & Humanities day, assessing primary sources for a 22nd Century history of ‘the fall of the House of Windsor’ (don’t worry - other futures are available 😂)

❤️ Royal Soc Portrait Painters Drawing Prize exhibition @uniofhull.bsky.social - delivering excellent headspace!

American Medical Association Introduces New Highly Effective Placebo Doctors

American Medical Association Introduces New Highly Effective Placebo Doctors https://theonion.com/american-medical-association-introduces-new-highly-effe-1819576542/

Paths through North Cliffe Wood @yorkswildlife.bsky.social

Common darters still hanging out on the fences @northcavewet.bsky.social today. Elsewhere: Bittern and Whooper Swans.

The Scarborough rowed lifeboat Queensbury showing the kind of conditions it faced during the Rohilla rescue.

I ordered this image of the Scarborough rowed lifeboat Queensbury to show the kind of conditions it faced during the Rohilla rescue. Sadly it arrived a day late — taken a few years earlier, but it speaks for itself. Image North Yorkshire Archives

A male Long Hoverfly (Sphaerophoria scripta) @northcavewet.bsky.social today. Elsewhere: treecreeper, bullfinch, curlew, whooper swans

Autumn light + reeds @northcavewet.bsky.social today 🙂