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Bec Jones @jbfarthing.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Another reason not to scalp all grassy areas during the summer 🦋

Bec Jones @jbfarthing.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

From drought to this. If only we could rely on the water companies to capture and store it properly ahead of the next drought.

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Bec Jones @jbfarthing.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Surrounded by Razorbills on the Shiant Isles this summer #SuperSeabirdSunday

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Bec Jones @jbfarthing.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

MOTUS towers have multiple uses 🙂

Photo of a MOTUS receiver tower at RSPB Bempton, with multiple Swallows perched on it

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Bec Jones @jbfarthing.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

An urban Lesser Black-backed Gull reflected in the window of a flat in a Glasgow housing estate, for #SuperSeabirdSunday

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Bec Jones @jbfarthing.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This is either ridiculously uninformed journalism or outright pandering to fossil fuel lobbyists. Either way @telegraph.co.uk should be ashamed. Large parts of Europe are literally on fire. People are dying. Renewables are cheaper. Significant action on #ClimateChange is necessary and inevitable.

Picture of a headline from The Telegraph for an opinion piece by Allister Heath, which says “We’ve lost the war against climate change. Time to scrap net zero”.
“Net Zero” is a term used to describe the aim of ensuring we do not cause more greenhouse gas emissions than we can remove from the atmosphere, with the aim of limiting future climate change. The term has become widely politicised, particularly by those with vested interests in the fossil fuel industries. Without significant action to reduce emissions, scientific predictions of future climate change impacts range from the scary to the apocalyptic (see https://www.ipcc.ch/). Many people are sadly uninformed or misinformed about these predictions and the science behind them. Others deliberately propagate misinformation for their own personal and political interests.

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Bec Jones @jbfarthing.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Clouds of insects above the wildflower meadows at RSPB Bempton last night. Lots of Seven-spot Ladybirds and other wee beetles that seemed newly arrived from the continent, as well as flying ants. Happy Swallows.

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Bec Jones @jbfarthing.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Fires in the fields down the road here this evening. Still so many local commenters insisting there’s no link with the weather or climate change. We’re really approaching the reality of this meme.

Cartoon of a dog smiling and saying “this is fine” while the house around him burns. A meme commonly used to represent complacency and inaction around climate change.

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Bec Jones @jbfarthing.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Razorbills on the Shiant Isles this summer #SuperSeabirdSunday

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Bec Jones @jbfarthing.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Gannet hovering in the wind this week at Bempton #SuperSeabirdSunday

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Bec Jones @jbfarthing.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

No sight of the Brown Booby, but hovering Gannets were quite the consolation prize at Bempton this evening #Seabirds

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Bec Jones @jbfarthing.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Grass cut ridiculously short for no reason now baked dry by the heatwave. Could have been an easy win: an oasis of food and habitat for declining insects, retaining water in heat and floods. Instead representative of widespread failure to adapt to the climate and biodiversity crises.

An area of grass cut ridiculously short in the name of tidiness, baked dry and brown by the heatwave. If it had been left long, it would have retained water and stayed green as well as providing food and habitat for our declining insect populations. Not cutting it so short so regularly would also save money and emissions. Missed opportunity.

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Bec Jones @jbfarthing.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Beautiful Mullein Moth on my mullein

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Bec Jones @jbfarthing.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

They are very good brain-fryers! But worth it 🙂Highly recommend this book if you’ve not seen it

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Bec Jones @jbfarthing.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Ungenerous bird exclusion devices enterprisingly ignored by Swallows

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Bec Jones @jbfarthing.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Fabulous day at Yorkshire Wildlife Trust’s annual Puffin festival enjoying seabirds and seals and learning about whelks and sea caves. And a lovely wee boat trip to cap it all off 🙂 Great way to spend a #SuperSeabirdSunday @yorkswildlife.bsky.social #Seabirds

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Bec Jones @jbfarthing.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

A short Razorbill love story for #SuperSeabirdSunday: “Oh no, where did you go?…Hurray you’re back!”

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Bec Jones @jbfarthing.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I’m a gardener who delights in having my plants eaten by ‘bugs’: here are 2 Large Rose Sawflies (Arge pagana) sawing a rose to lay eggs and a Mullein moth (Cucullia verbasci) caterpillar on a mullein plant. All are welcome! 🙂 #ifyouplantittheywillcome

Two female Large Rose Sawflies (Arge pagana) sawing a rose stem to lay their eggs. They saw, but they not flies (Sawflies are Hymenopterans)

A Mullein Moth (Cucullia verbasci) eating the leaf of a mullein plant

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Bec Jones @jbfarthing.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Oh no! I didn’t actually know it was still active - I haven’t used it since last autumn I don’t think, so how I can have behaved inauthentically I’m not sure, but I also don’t care 🙂

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Bec Jones @jbfarthing.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

There’s nothing like seeing the cliffs at Bempton from the sea - the scale is impossible to capture on camera, but here’s just a tiny snapshot… #SuperSeabirdSunday #FlamboroughandFileyCoastSPA

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Bec Jones @jbfarthing.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

A pair of displaying Gannets at Bempton Cliffs this week, for #SuperSeabirdSunday. Male on the left, female on the right, as became clear a short time later.

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Bec Jones @jbfarthing.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I was lucky enough to witness these Pardosa wolf spiders yesterday, engaged in a very cautious and lengthy courtship dance. They both ultimately disappeared into the grass, so I’ll never know the outcome. But I’m told the females very rarely eat the males, so🤞🕷️

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Bec Jones @jbfarthing.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I’ve been seeing a lot of ‘wtf is this?’ posts about Bee Flies on social media the last week, so I was delighted to finally see at least 3 in the garden today. Bombylius major. Amazing picture, I know 🙂

Two Dark-edged Bee Flies (Bombylius major) basking on a fence.

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Bec Jones @jbfarthing.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I was really feeling the rocks today

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Bec Jones @jbfarthing.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Hurray! Insects! 😀🌤️

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Bec Jones @jbfarthing.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Please think twice about encouraging this kind of thing if you see it. Birds of prey do not like to be handled by strangers. They do not like to be stroked, and this is actually bad for their feathers. Owls should not be tethered. Note the obvious stress caused by the presence of dogs. 1/

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Bec Jones @jbfarthing.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Silver linings to winter weather

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Bec Jones @jbfarthing.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Picked a cicada exuvia off a persimmon tree

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Bec Jones @jbfarthing.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Gorgeous female Hornet-mimic Hoverfly (Volucella zonaria) enjoying my buddleia this afternoon 😍

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Bec Jones @jbfarthing.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

I was given an unsolicited front row seat to these Woodpigeon shenanigans the other day. First he feeds her with crop milk and obtains permission - like yours. They both seemed pretty pleased with themselves afterwards.

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Bec Jones @jbfarthing.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Front row seat for a Woodpigeon courtship ritual (“sans gêne”, as they say): he feeds her with crop milk at her request , before proceeding with full consent. Both are very pleased with themselves afterwards.

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Bec Jones @jbfarthing.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Plenty of Puffins to be seen at the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust @yorkswildlife.bsky.social Puffin Festival at Flamborough today, including this friendly character 🙂 #Flamborough #SuperSeabirdSunday #Seabirds

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Bec Jones @jbfarthing.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Finally got to see the Flamborough Head seabird cliffs from the sea, on a very #SuperSeabirdSunday, thanks to #RSPB and #YorkshireBelle. Pure magic. #Seabirds #FlamboroughandFileyCoastSPA #BemptonCliffs

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Bec Jones @jbfarthing.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Really quite taken with this Sow Thistle seed head

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Bec Jones @jbfarthing.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Whiter than white - true feather treasure from the garden today: Woodcock tail feathers. The white tips on the underside are the brightest white ever recorded in a feather. I suspect the poor Woodcock came to a sad end though.

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Bec Jones @jbfarthing.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

A couple of hours in a very cold southerly wind, just for every gull I counted to head off to roost elsewhere. Reminding myself that zero counts count! #WinGS #WinterGullSurvey #SuperSeabirdSunday

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Bec Jones @jbfarthing.bsky.social · 11/10/2024

Particularly enjoyed the bonus shooting stars and the fact that it was preceded by a magnificent evening rainbow. Photos don’t do it justice, but hey 🙂

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Bec Jones @jbfarthing.bsky.social · 01/10/2024

You know when it’s raining, and you’re bored, and there’s nothing for it but to gild a Gannet skull?

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Bec Jones @jbfarthing.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

Ground Elder shadow on a Lime leaf

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