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@eshilland.bsky.social
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Ecological consultant and London NERC DTP PhD student @NHM/QMUL/UCL. Aquatic botany. Biological recorder. Live on a farm. He/him.

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Andy Farke @andyfarke.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Your big data is only a big data set because a whole bunch of people did the insignificant, unworthy of your time, not important enough to publish, effort to build & maintain collections over the years, which you then scooped up into your dataset for a proper "big picture" study. <6/n>
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Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 12/04/2026
A messy garden is a glorious garden. We need to stop tidying, titivating and paving them over | Emma Beddington
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A messy garden is a glorious garden. We need to stop tidying, titivating and paving them over | Emma Beddington
I’ve just watched another of my neighbours rip up everything green and growing around their home, writes Emma Beddington. It’s enough to make David Attenborough weep
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eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
A lifer, the non-native but interesting Arcitalitrus dorrieni - Landhopper or Lawn Shrimp, found under damp wood in the NE corner of Liberton Cemetery Edinburgh 18/02/26. Verified on iNat. Dark, pingy and difficult to photograph! @persmiseth.bsky.social @edinburghnats.bsky.social
Arcitalitrus dorrieniArcitalitrus dorrieniArcitalitrus dorrieni
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eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
#wildflowerhour Some from a Spring walk around the farm today🙂
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eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
And #HWM2026
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eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
2026 Herp Workers Meeting in Glasgow. #HWM26. Lovely to be back and catch up with many herpy folk after an absence of a few years. Meeting strangely absent from #Bluesky. Correctly georeferenced incidental Birdtrack and iNat records a bonus.
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eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
@btobirds.bsky.social Will you be doing a Birdtrack 2025 summary for users this year? A highlight of my annual recording efforts historically and always gratefully received🙂
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BirdTrack @birdtrack.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
The International Swan Census takes place this weekend, 17-18 January. If you record any Bewick's or Whooper Swans in BirdTrack, we would greatly appreciate if you could add details on the number of adults and juveniles, habitat and location pinpoint #ukbirding Whooper Swans by Sarah Kelman / BTO
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NFBR @nfbr.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
forum.inaturalist.org/t/guidelines...
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Guidelines: - Best Practice for Using iNaturalist in the UK:
Best Practice for Using iNaturalist in the UK A practical, optional guide to help your observations integrate smoothly with the UK biological recording system This guidance is entirely optional. You...
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Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Sunday book review: Pan-species Listing by @graemelyons.bsky.social Publisher: @pelagic.bsky.social Review: markavery.info/2026/01/04/s... "Hardly anyone has the knowledge to write this book & even fewer could write it so well!"
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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Rare plants often turn up in restored Norfolk farm #ponds: Translucent Stonewort (Nitella translucens), Tassel Stonewort (Tolypella intricata), Bladder Sedge (Carex vesicaria) & Marsh Speedwell (Veronica scutellata). Very special species usually confined to nature reserves
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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
🦋🌿Hiring 12 x Botanists or Entomologists for 2026 field surveys in England! 4-month, full-time roles from late April to early September. Field sites in Yorkshire, Devon, Warwickshire, Kent/Sussex, Lincolnshire/Cambridge, Essex/Suffolk. Apply now: ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CEH_Ca... 🧪
Recruitment poster for 12 botanical or entomological field surveyors, April-September 2026. Closing date: January 30, 2026.
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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Want to build your own environmental sensors? Join FDRI’s free Environmental Sensing Workshop 16 - 17 Feb 2026 at Chess Catchment. Build & test hydrological sensors w/ @imperialcollege & us! Travel & accommodation funded. Apply: f.mtr.cool/fajftaotue
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eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Water sampling and thermistor change at #UKUWMN site Old Lodge in Ashdown Forest today. Added value iNat records including what is probably Craterellus undulatus/Pseudocraterellus undulatus depending on who you ask. Rarely recorded apparently and kind ID from @ljantos
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TrevorTheBotanist @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Major revision of #GBRedList of plants published today shows 25% of our native & archaeophyte flora threatened with extinction. Many iconic widespread species classified as threatened for first time including Betony, Marsh Marigold, Devil’s-bit Scabious and Harebell. Another wake-up call for action!
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Bart Hoekstra @barthoekstra.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
We've known for a long time fireworks are a major source of sudden disturbance for birds, and published earlier work in Behavioral Ecology documenting this for the first time using the Dutch weather radars operated by @knmi.bsky.social. Read the earlier study here: doi.org/10.1093/behe...
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Birds flee en mass from New Year’s Eve fireworks
Abstract. Anthropogenic disturbances of wildlife, such as noise, human presence, hunting activity, and motor vehicles, are becoming an increasing concern i
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Bart Hoekstra @barthoekstra.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Another NYE, another night of terror for millions of birds across the Netherlands (and around the world). Last year we published in @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social Frontiers 🧪 about the massive impact of fireworks on birds 🦅. Paper: doi.org/10.1002/fee.... Thread below 🧵👇
A composite image of birds flying in front of fireworks, meant to depict fleeing birds.
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eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
horizon.science.uva.nl/fireworks/in... “On average, as a result of fireworks, 1000 times more birds take flight than on usual winter nights.” New year in the Netherlands. Knew I’d seen this somewhere so ta to @amiesphilip.bsky.social for finding it. Redwings peeping all over here just now.
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Eawag Aquatic Research @eawag.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Our Department of Aquatic Ecology (Eco) is offering a Postdoctoral position in Aquatic Ecology (m/f/d) 80-100% 👉 More about the position: apply.refline.ch/673277/1300/...
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eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Wasn’t expecting to find _this_ in the local station book exchange.Had a wait long enough to look properly rather than casually glance at the usual biographies & novels.Wonder how long it had been sitting there all unloved.Rest assured it has now found its forever home🙂.Now need to find a swap.
Station bookswap bookstand from afarBookstand book close up with Carabidae of the uk book centre stageClose up of plate from Carabidae book
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eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
On the same chalk bank as the flowering plants that haven’t read the rules in my last #wildflowerhour post, the Man Orchids are now out. Just. They were all baked off in the hot, dry spring of 2025 and none of ~30 plants flowered successfully. Fingers crossed for 2026.
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eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
It has been dark for hours. Can I go to bed yet #wildflowerhour ? Here are some flowering things found today near home that were mostly not supposed to be flowering today near home. Oxeye daisy, Field Scabious, Black Knapweed and Selfheal.
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eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Spiny Shield Bug, Picromerus bidens. 21/10/25. New for the garden.
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eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Better late than never. First Brown Hairstreak of the year in the garden today.
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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Are you involved in freshwater biodiversity or water quality monitoring and research in the UK? We're inviting individuals and organisations to complete a survey to help us understand community needs and priorities around monitoring & research. app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/ceh-online... 🧵🧪 1/
Scientist sampling for invertebrates on the shore of Loch Leven using a kick-net.
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Norfolk Ponds Project @norfolkponds.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Our work resurrecting ice age #ghostponds in the Guardian today @timholtwilson.bsky.social @hburningham.bsky.social @uclgeography.bsky.social ‘Just add water’: how to bring back ancient plants in a Norfolk ghost pond | Wildlife | The Guardian share.google/kO6HQaC4PAUJ...
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‘Just add water’: how to bring back ancient plants in a Norfolk ghost pond
An expert team are resurrecting ice age ponds and finding rare species returning from a ‘perfect time capsule’
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eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Talk in Ambleside this Wed, 10/09/25. 17:00. The culmination of the 2 week NERC meiofauna short course. Details of course and staff here: www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/... @nhm-london.bsky.social
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eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Oh hello. In the garden this evening.
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eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Another of the treats from the last two weeks of aquatic plant surveys in Donegal. Sparganium natans. Aquatic, in ~1m water depth and emersed at a different site. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
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eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
10 days in Donegal assisting Nick Stewart on EPA lake monitoring fieldwork.Lifer Eriocaulon aquaticum this morning.Great company,long days,terrible food,some truly amazing sites & a new species for Ireland,pending review of the material by Chris Preston. Potamogeton rutilus @bsbibotany.bsky.social
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eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
EA lake survey fieldwork for the last 2 weeks. Didn’t anticipate finding Potamogeton lucens at all, never mind 2 days in a row, at Sywell Reservoir nr Northampton on Thurs and Crown Lakes N nr Peterborough yesterday. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @astridbiddle.bsky.social
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eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Huge numbers of Riccia cavernosa(?) at w end of Clattercote Reservoir, Oxon, today. 3m drawdown providing lots of habitat. @astridbiddle.bsky.social @bramblebotanist.bsky.social
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eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Ermine or Water Ermine? Been here for ~10 days or so, eating Littorella uniflora. New food plant record for either? @mothyblackburn.bsky.social @norfolkmoths.bsky.social @ @savebutterflies.bsky.social
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Alex Prendergast @bramblebotanist.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Set a dozen batologists free in Broadland & rightly anticipate a few interesting bramble records.. not a new-to-GB waterlily. Nymphaea candida has small flowers with erect petals, filaments wider than anthers & concave stigmatic disc. Leaves with anastomosing veins at edges. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
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eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Glastonbury Glow-worm grabs glamping gong. Not that I’m biased, but best thing of the festival so far is this lady Glow-worm shining by the hedge right next to the caravan. Onto iNat, if you want to trace the caravan. #GlastonburyFestival #Glow-worm
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eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Today at home. Welsh Chafer by the pond,female Gasteruption jaculator scouting the bricks, baby Shieldbugs on Iris and an Elephant Hawk Moth that found its way into the house.
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eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Today’s finds. My first ever Clearwing and it didn’t involve a lure. 6-belted at the Green Street Green butterfly bank, Bromley.Adonis Ladybird rescued from the neighbours’ paddling pool and the porch Woodpigeon babies coming on apace. iRecorded or Birdtracked as appropriate.
A picture of Six-belted ClearwingA picture of Aaron oh s Ladybird on my fingerTwo baby Woodpigeons
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Dave Goulson @davegoulson.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Why would you want a neat stripy boring lifeless lawn when you can have a shaggy, flower-filled paradise for pollinators? Maybe this short video will provide some inspiration! youtu.be/2SJFg3NbrFY
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Turn your lawn into a wildflower meadow!
YouTube video by Dave Goulson
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eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
The Woundwort Shieldbugs are largely ignoring their nominate host plant here and concentrating on the Aquilega seed heads instead.
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Jake Dalzell @bitheolaidhe.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
I am starting a PhD and am looking for grassland restoration/rewilding sites in Northern Ireland! Please forward this flier to anyone who might be interested in having their land surveyed for fungi!
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eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
WFH today. Miris striatus on the doorstep, 62! Large Red Damselfly exuviae from the Hippurus pond out front so far. The magpie checked into the lab meeting and mass Badger mastication proceeded as normal.
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Lin Hawthorne @haggewoods.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Anthriscus sylvestris, Cow Parsley, invert associates At least 39 spp use the Cow Parsley that fringes verges & woodland margins, as a larval host. One of the earliest of the Apiaceae to flower in spring, an early pollen source for bees & hoverflies. 📷 CAM Lindman, Bilder ur Nordens Flora 🌱
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Martin Harvey @kitenet.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
The @ukceh.bsky.social Biological Records Centre isn't yet on Bsky, so I'm passing on the message that there are problems with iRecord, with pages failing to load properly. It's being investigated and updates are being applied, but there is still work to do. Apologies for the inconvenience.
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eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Hoopoe from the doorstep in Bromley this morning. 😳. Terrible phone footage. Have given it enough time to skeddaddle before sharing. On BirdTrack. @btobirds.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social
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eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
#UKUWMN water, diatom and aquatic invertebrate sampling at Old Lodge, Ashdown Forest today. Dartford Warbler, Cuckoo, Stonechats and best of all these @bsbibotany.bsky.social
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eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
The anti-bird infrastructure at Charles Darwin’s church in Downe, Bromley today. No wonder there are no Swifts screaming over the village any more. @btobirds.bsky.social @godsacre.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social @chrisgpackham.bsky.social
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eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Possibly Ichneumon stramentor in the garden today. Not quite right though, and there are plenty to choose from.
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Dave Goulson @davegoulson.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Support Sian Berry’s #GoPesticideFree bill, scheduled for debate 25th April, which would ban local councils in England from using pesticides in public spaces. No more poison in our streets and parks! Contact your MP using the link below: pan-uk.eaction.org.uk/edm-urban-pe... @sianberry.bsky.social
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eshilland.bsky.social @eshilland.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Found a freshly emerged and very fecund female Emperor Moth here last Saturday. Completely still at the top of the vegetation, but evidently firing out pheromones so it wasn’t long before a male arrived. First breeding record in Bromley for a long time I’m told.
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