Gareth Jones @jonesgareth.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Great rock pooling at Mousehole - St Piran's hermit crabs (first discovered in Britain there in 1960), and giant goby. 011
Gareth Jones @jonesgareth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Tresco 2 September: female citrine wagtail and solitary sandpiper. 0123
Gareth Jones @jonesgareth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Wilson's storm petrel, Scilly pelagic 30 August. 060
Gareth Jones @jonesgareth.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Pelagic trip in a Force 8, veering 9 gale on 29 August 11 km NE of St Martin's, Scilly. 030
Gareth Jones @jonesgareth.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Composite with about 15 mins between each image of the 93% partial eclipse of the blood moon, Scilly, August 28th 04.05-05.18h. 000
Gareth Jones @jonesgareth.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Partial (96%) solar eclipse, St Ives, 12 August. 031
Gareth Jones @jonesgareth.bsky.social · 22/04/2026The Nanquidno chiffchaff may be an intergrade Iberian x common. Although some of the song notes are classic Iberian, it has been heard to call like a common. Photo of bird in thread. 1102
Gareth Jones @jonesgareth.bsky.social · 13/04/2026There is now a Pallas's warbler with the yellow-browed warbler in Trewyn Gardens! 0291
Gareth Jones @jonesgareth.bsky.social · 11/04/2026The dusky warbler at Boscathnoe Reservoir looks as if it is trying to sing, though I couldn't hear anything. It looks great in the lichens and flowering sallows. 050
Gareth Jones @jonesgareth.bsky.social · 11/04/2026@liamlangley1.bsky.social found a yellow-browed warbler singing in Trewyn Gardens this morning. It was also a good excuse to visit the Hepworth Sculpture Gardens at their most beautiful. 041
Gareth Jones @jonesgareth.bsky.social · 10/03/2026The dusky warbler at Boscathnoe is tricky, though I managed some decent views yesterday. 0101
Gareth Jones @jonesgareth.bsky.social · 08/03/2026One of my favourite signs of Spring is seeing the adders basking in the Cornish hedges. There's a rove beetle Paederus (presumed littoralis) in the second image. 000
Gareth Jones @jonesgareth.bsky.social · 06/03/2026We managed to catch up with the eastern black redstart at Sheringham and watch it singing, a week before its departure. 020
Gareth Jones @jonesgareth.bsky.social · 26/01/2026More interesting Newlyn gulls - Bonaparte's and little. 090
Gareth Jones @jonesgareth.bsky.social · 20/01/2026A stunning show of the Aurora Borealis in St Ives last night. 020
Gareth Jones @jonesgareth.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Some good birds in Cornwall this month already: lesser scaup, ring-necked duck, lesser yellowlegs and Pallas's warbler . 010
Gareth Jones @jonesgareth.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Some interesting gulls at Newlyn yesterday: juvenile Iceland, adult yellow-legged and a herring gull (second-winter?) with a. well defined streaked head. 010
Gareth Jones @jonesgareth.bsky.social · 12/01/2026One of the two Pacific divers at Roskilly near Mousehole today. 060
Gareth Jones @jonesgareth.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Our new paper in PNAS, led by Megan Power: a large-scale study of telomere shortening in relation to reproductive costs in bats. Photo of one of the greater horseshoe bats we studied at Woodchester mansion by Hetty Metcalfe. 0157
Gareth Jones @jonesgareth.bsky.social · 25/11/2025The female blue-winged teal on the Hayle Estuary showed well today. 0231
Gareth Jones @jonesgareth.bsky.social · 15/11/2025A dream send off organised by my former PhD students, with people travelling from as far as Boston MA and Poland, and videos from Australia and NZ. I am so proud of them. 030
Gareth Jones @jonesgareth.bsky.social · 15/11/2025At least 2 snow bunting on the Island at St Ives recently, and the drake lesser scaup at Helston Boating Pond. 020
Gareth Jones @jonesgareth.bsky.social · 05/11/2025A privilege to receive a Distinguished Service Award for 40 years of continuous service at the University of Bristol. 040
Gareth Jones @jonesgareth.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Photoshop's AI did a decent job of removing a barbed wire fence above the bird's head and a fencepost close to its tail. 110
Gareth Jones @jonesgareth.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Interesting subspecies: steppe grey shrike and Greenland white-fronted goose in Cornwall. Only 15,000 geese remain after being hit by climate change. The shrike's taxonomy is debated, though is currently recognised as conspecific with the great grey shrike. 040
Gareth Jones @jonesgareth.bsky.social · 29/10/2025Some good birds in Cornwall at present including photogenic lesser yellowlegs and ring-necked duck. 020
Gareth Jones @jonesgareth.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Great sea watch from St Ives on Saturday with great views of at least 6 first-cycle long-tailed skuas. 1241
Gareth Jones @jonesgareth.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Chysauster Ancient Village was great to see and hosted a splendid wryneck. 020
Gareth Jones @jonesgareth.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Great to see two phalarope species close up on the same pool. 010
Gareth Jones @jonesgareth.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Ones to watch our for in the future: glossy ibis (29), osprey and white-tailed eagle at Chew Valley Lake. 010
Gareth Jones @jonesgareth.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Smart red-belted clearwing in the garden today. 041
Gareth Jones @jonesgareth.bsky.social · 23/05/2025New paper from the lab led by Raphael Reinegger: surveying macaques by using thermal cameras on drones. Raphael's work was covered by Science in March. www.science.org/content/arti... 000
Gareth Jones @jonesgareth.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Alpine accentor in beard lichen, Aire Point, West Cornwall. 020
Gareth Jones @jonesgareth.bsky.social · 11/03/2025My last practical class! A great one to finish with and a gift of coasters containing vole bones in resin from the tech team. A peregrine did a flyby as I left the building. I'm not going yet - a new research project on ageing started on the same day. 010
Gareth Jones @jonesgareth.bsky.social · 04/02/2025The Cornwall booted eagle showing its 'landing lights' when viewed front-on. 050
Gareth Jones @jonesgareth.bsky.social · 31/12/2024Congratulations to Roger Ransome! www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2024/de...bristol.ac.ukTireless bat conservationist celebrated in King’s New Years HonoursA University of Bristol alumnus and honorary research fellow has been awarded a British Empire Medal (BEM) in recognition of services to bat conservation spanning more than six decades. 020
Gareth Jones @jonesgareth.bsky.social · 27/12/2024How to deter bats from smooth surfaces (that might include solar panels) led by Hungarian colleagues Nor Amira Abdul Rahman and Sándor Zsebők, with the graph showing stronger echoes when strings are placed over a smooth surface making the surface more apparent to echolocating bats. 031
Gareth Jones @jonesgareth.bsky.social · 27/12/2024I was privileged to write an invited commentary on a 3-volume biography of the remarkable Donald Griffin by Carolyn Ristau. Photo is of Griffin at the Symposium Jurine in Geneva, 1994. 000
Gareth Jones @jonesgareth.bsky.social · 21/12/2024New paper led by Ana Margarida Augusto and involving collaborations with 3 former PhD students who are all now leading academics in the field. Describing the optimal landscape for suppression of pine processionary moths by bats. 010
Gareth Jones @jonesgareth.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Pipits at Marazion. First two are of a splendid water pipit, showing the white outer tail feathers nicely. Last photo is of a rock pipit for comparison. 030
Gareth Jones @jonesgareth.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Great to see choughs on The Island in St Ives. One seems to be swallowing a leatherjacket. Slavonian grebe off Marazion too. 110
Gareth Jones @jonesgareth.bsky.social · 28/11/2024The standout Azorean gull at Newlyn, the long-staying snow bunting at Longrock, and dolphin calves in St Ives bay. 000
Gareth Jones @jonesgareth.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Our new paper, part of Lizy Tinsley's PhD thesis, shows how solar farms are sited in England with regard to protected areas and priority habitats, emphasising the importance of careful planning regulations. So much still to do in making solar farms more friendly to biodiversity! 010
Gareth Jones @jonesgareth.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Azorean gull, Newlyn Harbour with reflections of fishing boats. 030
