30. Bird nerd and nature lover. 🐦🦋🦊🐬🦭 Passionate about sharing my love for wildlife and the natural world. 🌍❤️ Former Skomer island LTV🌊 Seabird's ❤️
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Love being a @biosecurityLIFE volunteer! Work party back in January, helping to build the units for the essential incursion hub equipment. It's vital we have this in place so we can act quickly to signs of invasive species on islands. Helping to protect seabirds.❤️
#Seabirdsunday Digi-scoped Kittiwakes with lil fluffballs on Skomer Island. 🥰❤️🌊
Birdwatching and being in nature = Happy place. Managed to see this Beautiful Drake Smew. Birdwatching captures the senses. Hearing sounds of Lapwing, Wigeon, Curlew and a shouty Wren. Feeling the bracing cold bite of wind and fresh sea air cleansing my lungs #Naturetherapy
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Duck spotting at a very still and atmospheric Llyn Cefni. Plenty of wildfowl on the water, including this smart drake Goldeneye displaying to a female in the late morning sun.
My first Waxwings! What a sound! I was absolutely made up to catch up with the local flock that have been hanging around. Such a special moment we had to ourselves. Felt very lucky ❤️
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Worried about declines in insects like bees and butterflies? Ways to help in your garden next year:
🐝 Don't over-tidy
🐝 Let grass grow long
🐝 Let dandelions grow
🐝 Plant lavender & sedums
🐝 Have an undisturbed wood pile
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Made the most of the sunshine today and took part in the #BigButterflyCount. Some lovely views of common and holly blues, gate keepers, small copper, brown argus and more! Southern hawker dragonflies entertained us with amazing ariel displays riding up and down the glades.
A really enjoyable day helping out with this important work! It's vital to have these materials and plans in place in order to act fast to any potential threats to protect our precious seabirds! Great work team! 💪
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Very poignant to hear a recording of the #Curlew’s beautiful call during a talk @RSPBConwy about the decline in their breeding population in Wales.
Seeing a nest brought home how vulnerable they are to predators.
Incredible work by @CurlewLIFE to protect these lovely waders.
ALT A curlew nest, a simple dip in the ground, surrounded by sparse grasses and shrubs.
ALT A leaflet shows a picture of a tiny curlew chick with mottled yellow and beige colouring sat amidst a clump of grasses.
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This evening's walk in search of these beautiful Green- winged orchids. Lots of them bursting into life adding flecks of purple in amongst the masses of yellow cowslips. 🪻🌅
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Welcome Desk highlights @RSPBConwy today:
✅ the friendly Robin who took his meet and greet duties seriously
✅ the visitors’ joy watching the Blue Tit nesting
✅ the Cubs attending a pond-dipping session who were thrilled to see a Water Scorpion (saw photo & it was fab💯)🤗
ALT A Robin stands on gravel, with a slightly quizzical expression.
ALT A TV screen high on a wooden panelled wall shows the interior of a wooden bird box with a Blue Tit nesting on eggs surrounded by miss and feathers.
ALT Another view of the bird box interior with the Blue Tit all fluffed up.
We had beautiful weather for our rook survey the other day. No rooks sadly but lots of lovely butterflies out enjoying the sunshine. Species seen- orange tip, speckled wood, peacock, comma, small tortoiseshell, green veined white. 🌷🦋
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Going in to work on my day off definitely paid off this afternoon! My first UK Alpine Swift, and great to see everyone. On the #PWC2023 list too!
