Simon Pinder

What a loss. From that beautiful opening line of ‘Many rivers to cross’ to ‘Vietnam’. Soulful intelligent perfect. m.youtube.com/watch?v=X9Q4...

24.11.2025 21:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Outstanding. Well done Fraser.

13.10.2025 19:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Detections of Rare Species Lead Citizen Scientists to Initiate Data Recording Aim Citizen science data are increasingly used to monitor biodiversity but come with several challenges that can impair accurate ecological conclusions. We explore how observers' preferences for cer...

Very pleased to share my first PhD paper, out now in @consbiog.bsky.social:

Backstrom, L. J., Drake, R. L., Worthington, H., & Johnston, A. (2025). Detections of Rare Species Lead Citizen Scientists to Initiate Data Recording. Diversity and Distributions, 31(10), e70103. doi.org/10.1111/ddi.... ⤵️

13.10.2025 08:33 — 👍 21    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

Quite pleased to find this 1 cy Caspian Gull at Angle Park this evening. Not many records for Fife. Fewer than 5 I think accepted.

24.09.2025 20:40 — 👍 27    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 2

Wow what a brilliant video.

11.09.2025 04:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Male and female gang-gang cockatoos from Victoria, Australia earlier in the year.

21.05.2025 16:17 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is terrible. Discarded by-catch resulting from near shore bottom trawling in Scotland. Destructive, wasteful, and should be banned outright...

09.03.2025 07:02 — 👍 274    🔁 134    💬 13    📌 4

Purple hairstreak egg on a wind thrown oak crown at Lindores, Fife this afternoon. Easy to find when the top of the tree is eye level.

09.02.2025 17:07 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Otter hunting at Wilderness this afternoon.

19.12.2024 19:24 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Freshly dead and partially predated little auk this afternoon at Ruddon’s Point. Turns out they do a bit of a neck.

13.12.2024 14:58 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Caught the last of the light at Angle Park after work. Smew, two great white egrets, merlin and whooper swan, but the sunset over the Lomond hills the best.

11.11.2024 16:44 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0