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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Genetic diversity of founder population ?

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I cannot bring myself to treat Small Scabious and lavender as weeds, no matter if they make the steps hazardous

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

A couple of colourful and obliging Sicilian Wall Lizard (Podarcis waglerianus) - endemic to Sicily. Many thanks @paulhoskisson.bsky.social for identification, via @matthutchings.bsky.social

A colourful, slender-bodied lizard with chequered lime and black upper parts and grey belly and tail. The lizard is standing in dense dry grass between two limestone rocks.

A Sicilian Wall Lizard seen from above, on fine grey and black gravel at a road-margin. Showing a pattern of lime / black markings on upper parts and forelimbs, and grey-black patterning on hind legs and upper tail.

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

View from the bottom of a ‘Wildlife Pond’ Biodiversity Net Gain #BNG

A rough grassland then a grassy bank behind, with an orange life ring at the top

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

White Stork ‘reintroduction’ to UK is instead the introduction of a non-native generalist predator, official Natural England position. Finally.

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

UK #Deer populations still increasing rapidly, Fallow trebled, Muntjac >doubled in last 10 years! BBS Report here: www.bto.org/sites/defaul...

Table of mammal population trends from BBS monitoring, across 29 years , 10 years and 1 year

Front cover of BTO JNCC RSPB Breeding Bird Survey 2025 report

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Moorland association stating conclusions not from the paper. Study found Water Extractable Organic Material concentrations consistent across wildfires of different intensity and prescribed burns. Where is the evidence that regular controlled burns produce less ash overall than occasional wildfires?

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

This willow grove, arose from a single tree toppled by the October 1987 storm - 38 yrs on 13 trunks from distal branches form a grove c20 m across. The 2-3 m high stump we sat on then, to watch the sunset, has disappeared. Ecology is dynamic, life is change.

The decayed remains of a fallen willow behind large upright stems

An old curving branch arcing from the fallen decayed tree, making contact with the ground, and then growing up as a large trunk

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Leaving ‘habitat piles’ condemns that patch of fen to become nettle bed. Biomass removal from fen hay, litter, fuel was key to these habitats for millennia.

A ‘habitat pile’ cut branches stacked at the base of a willow in a degraded fen

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Could this be Fuller’s Teasel Dipsacus sativus rather than Wild Teasel? Spines not greatly recurved. Growing in flushed gravel. #WildFlowerID

A teasel seed head backlit showing gently recurved bracts

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Poor show from Norfolk Wildlife Trust. Accepting advertising revenue from bird feeding despite massive evidence of negative impacts. Like a climate ngo taking money from big oil @alexanderlees.bsky.social @themarshtit.bsky.social

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

In Norwich they arrested Santa under the terrorism act. And an elf. For showing solidarity with the oppressed and upholding the right to nonviolent political action.

A group of brightly dressed activists, sitting on the public benches of the Haymarket in Norwich. Many holding signs opposing genocide and in support of a nonviolent direct action group who, after successfully opposed Israeli arms manufacturing company, Elbit Systems, where proscribed as a Terrorist group by the UK Government for hypothetical future thought crime. Central in this picture is Sanata Claus holding a sign with the crucial 5 words. And an elf.

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Great to see this cutting and scrub removal from a local fen. But habitat piles and burn sites destined to become nettle bed (already abundant), reducing the fen extent. Where possible, biomass removal is preferable.

Piles of cut sedge around a patch is Sallow scrub with a cut fen in the foreground

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

I had no words to say to the owner of an off-lead dog, that attacked our Labrador, unprovoked, while on a close-lead, at Froggatt Edge, Derbyshire #PeakDistrict late October. She recovered after two courses of antibiotics but was extremely unwell from the infection. Keep dogs under control.

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

But beware generalising from a single study site. In a meta-analysis of wader nest camera studies in UK (Yellow in graph, 356 predation events) badger were the predominant predator of clutches. Same true for passerines. #ornithology

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Local, wild (not farmed) venison for sale in Lochalsh, supporting deer management. Would be great to see this local venison distribution widespread in England for muntjac.

A hand written Venison Price list for Diced, Mince (13/kg), Rump steak (£24k/kg) and Loin (£30/kg)

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Common Calamint newly appeared in this eutrophic verge after ground disturbance (building new wall). Seedbank echo of a softer semi-natural past history.

The soft lilac flowers and opposite pairs of rounded leaves of Common Calamint

Close up showing sparse lilac dotting on the petals

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Biodiversity Net Gain or plastic pollution?

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

In woodland, 117 nest predation events were identified on camera, but with rather (very) few different passerine species monitored. More nest camera studies would really improve our evidence base.

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Spoonbills now breeding at @wildkenhill.bsky.social Fantastic result thanks to their vision, fantastic support from NE, and the successful colony at Holkham

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Wall Germander Teucrium chamaedrys

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Thank you, I’d not checked that feature before 😊

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

A fresh Pyramidal Orchid in the evening light

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Some nice Bee Orchids brightened up an otherwise anxious day at the hospital.

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Lucerne, Medicago sativa in grassland on former cultivated site for the #WildflowerHour #PeaFamily challenge. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Man Orchid for tonight’s #Wildflowerhour #OrchidChallenge. In contrast all the local Bee Orchids rosettes that had over-wintered were burnt off in the drought.

A subtle green Man Orchid against ivy and brambles

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Early Marsh-orchid brightened up the day

Pale pink Dactylorhiza orchid with unspotted leaves and narrow lip

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

At landscape scale, an open habitat network for scarce and threatened invertebrates and rare specialist plants as well as Woodlark & Nightar. ‘Invertebrate super-highways’ connecting clear-fells trackways and heaths.

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Quality conservation habitat creation. Starts with the mineral soil and maximum nutrient removal; slows succession, many more generations ea. niche/ micro habitat available, allows colonisation & peak populations. Fab.

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

The collection of mini-ponds and swamps in the various troughs, awaiting completion of the garden pond.

Pictures of aquatic pond plants and marsh plants growing in a collection of small troughs

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Release of captive bred Asian Houbara to reinforce population in the Kyzlkum

An Asian Houbara bustard walking in the semi-arid shrub desert

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

I’m torn. Before seeing this article I was realising that expecting catastrophic tree die back from extreme events, perhaps there is a need for translocation of tree species. Some Maquis-Garique with Pistacia Arbutus Olive and a Cistus Rosemary Thyme understorey?

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Muntjac, subtle habitat engineers

White blossom of a Blackthorn hedge. The lower third is bare and skeletal

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Still no progress on voluntary transition from toxic Lead Shot. Still no safe game meat available for consumption either. www.conservationevidence.com/individual-s... www.conservationevidence.com/individual-s...

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I love the stag-head senescing Alders in the valley. This one a favourite Buzzard perch.

A dramatic branching winter tree, with no leaves, backlight by sun, in a wet-meadow with a backdrop of other contrasting trees and a foreboding cloudy showery sky

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

iNaturalist also doesn’t think it’s a Water Vole 🤔

Picture of a small vole on a Bramble stem above water. Caption identifies it as a Great Grey Shrike!

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Does anyone else think this looks more like a Bank Vole than a Water Vole? From @theguardian.com Week in WildLife.

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Certainly looks like some trees were cut as shreds. All pastures look tight grazed, little tall herb habitat.

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Daily scat! Otter spraint locally.

Fresh dark otter spraint overlaying bleached older spraint on a limestone slab at river edge

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Presumably a Harvest Mouse nest? Dislodged, not in situ. Muddy tennis ball for scale.

Small woven spherical nest of fine grass

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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Great to see cutting and raking in this relict overgrown fen. Shame job was left unfinished, with ashes ready to wash Phosphorus back through at the next floodplain winter overtopping.

Bonfire ashes on corrugated metal sheets with piles of cut sedge behind

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