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John Nigel Wells

@johnnwells.bsky.social
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Ex-RAF Airframe Technician with keen interests across Ornithology, Cricket, WxmAFC. I support national surveys as a volunteer. Interested in science supporting BTO 🐦‍⬛, the CEH @PoMS a national scheme 🐝 to research pollinators in crops and wild places.

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UK Environmental Observation Framework @ukeof.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Our Management Group meets today. As well as hearing updates from UKEOF partners on a wide range of environmental observation activities, they will also discuss plans for our 2027 annual conference. Watch this space for more on that soon.
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John Nigel Wells @johnnwells.bsky.social · 15h
www.instagram.com/reel/DbfK2pU... for my mate Nadine and conservation buddies at @pomscheme.bsky.social
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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) @ukceh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🐝 🪰 How can we track change across the UK's insect pollinators? A new paper from @pomscheme.bsky.social outlines how we're generating robust metrics to monitor pollinator trends at a national scale. Another key milestone for PoMS! besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... 🧪 1/
Collage of images featuring bee on flower, UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme logo, a person carrying out a FIT Count on flowers, and a landscape of moorland with a pan trap monitoring system in place.
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UK Seabird Monitoring Programme @smp-seabirds.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
More good news for terns, with a record number of Little Tern chicks fledging at Beacon Lagoons, Spurn! Read @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social post here: www.facebook.com/share/p/18JA... #Seabirds @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social
An image of a Little Tern in flight.
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John Nigel Wells @johnnwells.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Final @CEH @pomscheme.bsky.social 2km survey today at TL3266 Conington Cambs. Here’s how dead the vegetation looked, unable to find flowers!! For my 2 flower insect timed count (FiT). Insect (🦟 in traps), numbers looked low in the pan traps @kitenet.bsky.social
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John Nigel Wells @johnnwells.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Today’s offering a selection of butterflies 🦋 seen on #WiderCountrysideButterflySurvey for @savebutterflies.bsky.social with @pomscheme.bsky.social and info @kitenet.bsky.social @clairecarvell.bsky.social at ex RAF WWII Aurfield of RAF Upwood, Bury, Cambs this am at 23deg #Imbushed
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John Nigel Wells @johnnwells.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Good afternoon here’s my #BestFootForward offering taken by my friend SMJ Heather of a Great Egret for #BirdOfTheDay Credit to Steve; it’s his digi scope picture i’ve borrowed to add his valued picture to this group of great photographers
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John Nigel Wells @johnnwells.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Can anybody please help me I/D this small (species) possibly a ‘Blue’ on @savebutterflies.bsky.social today in 24deg on disused WWII Runway -airfield in Cambs TL2684
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John Nigel Wells @johnnwells.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The July @Centre for Ecology and Hydrology @pomscheme.bsky.social walk at Conington went well but the #BeeWalk for @savebutterflies.bsky.social may wait until tomorrow too hot 🥵 too busy on my cricket ⏹️ getting water just now but great Day in ‘TheField’ on 🦟🪰🐛🦋s
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John Nigel Wells @johnnwells.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
My first @_BTO @_BreedingbirdSurvey and @savebutterflies.bsky.social count of the summer a week ago today: 12/7 found high totals of species on a very warm day! @DawnBalmer and @ukceh.bsky.social
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John Nigel Wells @johnnwells.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
First: survey using Flower 🌷 insect 🐞 timed (FIT), Count for The Centre for Ecology and Hydrology @CEH in June today on my Olive 🫒 Tree in flower just now info @kitenet.bsky.social and Nadine at the Centre
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John Nigel Wells @johnnwells.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Second @btobirds.bsky.social Breeding Bird Survey for 2026 completed massive highlight, was 2 Grey Partridge (P.) a first for some time; a good 12+? years on the ⏹️. Three migrant Painted Ladies, also a good early sighting for them(?) Excellent counts of Greenfinch (GR), Linnet (LI) + a singing CB
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John Nigel Wells @johnnwells.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Second @btobirds.bsky.social Breeding Bird Survey for 2026 completed massuve highlight was 2 Grey Partridge (P.), a firstcrevird fir a good 12+? year on the ⏹️. Three migrant Painted Ladies was alsi a good early sighting for them(?) Excellent counts of Greenfinch (GR), Linnet + a singing CB
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John Nigel Wells @johnnwells.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Page 2/2 on the Whooper Sean Darvic ring
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John Nigel Wells @johnnwells.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Here is my latest sighting @birdergirl.bsky.social and @jonheath.bsky.social
White Darvic FHJ: metal ring left leg. Bird ringed as Adult 2023 Iceland
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John Nigel Wells @johnnwells.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Here’s a few memories from last weeks @btobirds.bsky.social #WeBS #WetlandBirdSurvey with #RAFOS on The Wash southern sites in Dawsmere, Holbeach, Gedney, Welland and Terrington sites (Lincs and Norfolk). @royalairforce.bsky.social NOTE: RAF Holbeach (Mil) Ranges have controlled access.
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John Nigel Wells @johnnwells.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Does anybody?; being a keen ornithologist doing @_BTO Wetland Bird Survey #WeBS ever see Mute Swan revisit old nest site, and sit on the previous seasons nest? My (MS) a pair, were back at their 2025 nest site? ThePen; sitting! Info @DawnBalmer @TeresaFrost @neilcalbrade.bsky.social
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John Nigel Wells @johnnwells.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
This mornings chance encounter with Stephen Heather and wives, in my garden Ramsey, Huntingdonshire (VC)tbn. A #DewicksPlusia moth onto my shrub (not trapped) info: @lou-birds-bikes.bsky.social @mothiduk.bsky.social @pomscheme.bsky.social @ukbutterflies.bsky.social
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John Nigel Wells @johnnwells.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
It’s @savebutterflies.bsky.social and @ukbutterflies.bsky.social @ukbms.bsky.social count day 2/2 lots Large White Small White at TL2684 Upwood Airfield - Bury Lane farm only species outwith those two; Speckled Wood I’m at Sector 6. Gliders are airborne! Nice still day @pomscheme.bsky.social
Airfield perimeter cut crop of Wheat stubble distant Wind turbines at Ramsey from Ex World War 2 UK/USA Bomber (Stirling/Lancaster disused base)Protract of disused airbase with Wheat - cut stubble (left) 5’ tall Maize (crop right)Very tall nettles and grassland thistles and habitat good for birds and butterflies sadly low numbers this day.
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John Nigel Wells @johnnwells.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
PoMS day one learning day back in (2018), with @ceh @pomscheme.bsky.social staff, reminisced this week with @apnews.com interview by Danica
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JNCC @jncc.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
🚨Latest edition of our e-newsletter out now! bit.ly/JNCC-NN-July... In this issue: 💚 New partnership for climate & nature 🧪 The mobile lab helping rural communities 🐝 Pollinators & the power of plants Sign-up to hear about our work 👉 bit.ly/JNCC-NN-SignUp #TogetherForNature
A colour image of the Nature News heading with the JNCC logo and illustrations of a butterfly, bird, four people and a tree. Three images are below showing (left to right) a tree canopy, three people standing in front of the mobile laboratory and a Variable Nomad Bee (Nomada zonata) on a yellow flower
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John Nigel Wells @johnnwells.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Hi @waspwoman.bsky.social it was survey time in my garden this am for #wasphamversusjam and here’s the stats of my 10 minute count / Wasp 4 on Jam, Wasp 0 on Ham.
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John Nigel Wells @johnnwells.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Hi @pomscheme.bsky.social fiends please can anyone assist on identifying this water loving plant at Welney RSPB, Welney, Wisbech in fen water bank. As I need it correcting on the #F.I.T dataset.
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John Nigel Wells @johnnwells.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
It’s July @pomscheme.bsky.social pan trap survey day with 2 Flower insect timed counts completed for survey data at Conington, Cambs on Square #25 this morning. Overcast and 22deg is perfect for the task #lots of these workers 🪰🐞🪲and🐝s on Lavender
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John Nigel Wells @johnnwells.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Visit Ser 2/2025 on my @pomscheme.bsky.social square at Conington, Cambridgeshire was productive in x3 Flower Insect Timed (F.I.T) counts, and full day in the sun 23<27 deg C. Here’s a selection for scenery and pollinator enthusiasts that are growing in numbers volunteering is easy (honest).
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John Nigel Wells @johnnwells.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Rather pleased to read the Annual (2024(), @pomscheme.bsky.social Report. With recognition for the super work our citizen scientists achieved. Whilst undertaking pollinators counts in wild, remote and less so; agricultural habitats for insect 🦟 🐝🐞🪲groups with the data collected and studied in 🥼 s
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