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Shane

@sharkeee.bsky.social
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Observer of the natural world, mostly in UK. Mammals, insects, birds, plants, fungi it, they all catch my eye and via photographs and video, I like to share them with you.

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Wildlife Tours East Devon and Mid Somerset 🦡🦊🦦🦎🐍🐛🦟🦋🕷️🐦🇪🇺 @wildlifetoursed.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New video of our night and day safari in Khao Sok NP in Thailand. #Wildlife, #Invertebrates, #Birds , #Reptiles , #Amphibians , #Arachnophiles , #Mammals, #Thailand , #KhaoSok , #Bees , #Flowers , #Birdwatching , #Nature , #Bugs youtu.be/-C4EfAM0Ojg
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Two Wildlife Enthusiasts On Tour Through Thailand , Part Three : Night and Day Safari in Khao Sok NP
YouTube video by Sylvia Meller
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Shane @sharkeee.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
All pretty quiet from the Moth trap recently, even the move into an orchard didn't coax anything mildly exciting. Well apart from this fresh looking Antigastra catalaunalis. #Teammoth #migrantmoths #insects #ukmoths
A photo of a small cream coloured moth, that has subtle peach markings on it's wings. The insect is resting on white fabric.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Nice to see the audience top a quarter of a million If you are at a loose end....... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee9f...
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Natural Disaster Expert: Elites Have NO PLAN for Climate Collapse | Aaron Bastani meets Bill McGuire
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Shane @sharkeee.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It became rather attached to me.. #moths
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Shane @sharkeee.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Traps out. #Teammoth On this day last year this happened, what will tonight bring us….
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Shane @sharkeee.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Photography challenges yesterday included. - Composition and framing failure whilst sat on the ridge photographing Hirundines. - Neck ache whilst laying at ground level with waders.
A photo of three barn swallows gathering prior to migration. Two adults posturing with gapes open either side of an incoming juvenile. A common sandpiper walking along a foreshore, the background is wader beyond with green with reflected vegetation. A metallic bronze sheen glows upon the birds closed wings and it's pristine white belly offers a crisp contrast.Green sandpiper. Larger than the common sandpiper, this bird is standing in the water, its green legs knee deep. It has our white belly and dark upper parts, this one appears dark brown in the setting sun. the feathers are speckled in starlike spots.
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Shane @sharkeee.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Usually flighty, this common sandpiper came over to me and foraged nearby. I was far from being camouflaged, as I was sat against a wall in the glow of the setting sun.
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Wildlife Tours East Devon and Mid Somerset 🦡🦊🦦🦎🐍🐛🦟🦋🕷️🐦🇪🇺 @wildlifetoursed.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
It took a while, but the first video of our Thailand wildlife spotting holiday is finally uploaded: youtu.be/fScpd6Rnaag #Thailand, #KhaoSok , #Wildlife , #Nature, #Birding , #Herping, #Insects
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Two Wildlife Enthusiasts On Tour Through Thailand , Part One: From Bangkok to Surat Thani
YouTube video by Sylvia Meller
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Wildlife Tours East Devon and Mid Somerset 🦡🦊🦦🦎🐍🐛🦟🦋🕷️🐦🇪🇺 @wildlifetoursed.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Our 2nd and 3rd wildlife exploring day in Khao Sok/Thailand youtu.be/Xu3aLrJhvaI #Thailand, #KhaoSok, #Jungle, #Wildlife, #Birding, #Herping, #Insects, #Invertebrates, #Dragonflies, #Butterflies, #Reptiles , #Amphibians,
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Two Wildlife Enthusiasts On Tour Through Thailand , Part Two: Day 2 & 3 in Khao Sok
YouTube video by Sylvia Meller
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Shane @sharkeee.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Recently fledged kingfishers used a local water level gauge where I could lay in wait. At times it sat less than a metre from me. 😍
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Shane @sharkeee.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
She’s a beauty. Female Sparrowhawk from yesterday.
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Shane @sharkeee.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I first saw this small 'swarm' of Honey bees on this headstone a week ago whilst looking for a Badger sett. Last night whilst releasing a rescue Badger cub at the site we noticed that the 'swarm' now had settled status.
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Shane @sharkeee.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Now to work through and share some of the amazing things we saw during a trip of a lifetime. Our first nights wildlife wander was down by a stream where we had an amazing snake encounter. youtu.be/EW8tHPskIUo #Khaosok #Thailand #snakes
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Puff- faced water snake predates a spiny eel in a Khao sok stream.
YouTube video by sharki1971
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Shane @sharkeee.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Crazy canids! A fox has bitten into my cars fuel tank breather pipe. @mammalsocietyyouth.bsky.social #foxes #mammals
A photo of a punctured plastic pipe showing two small round holes The same pipe now with nails in each of the four holes. This is to highlight their location. A measuring tape is under the pipe to show the distance the holes are apart. The widest holes are around 32mm apart.Now the pipe below the skull of a young adult red fox. The two pointed upper incisors line up perfectly at 32mm apart.And the pipe by the lower mandibles of the fox. The narrower spaced holes aline with the lower teeth too.
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Shane @sharkeee.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I've finally sorted through the thousands of images and videos, of hundreds of species taken during a 3 week adventure in SE Asia. One stand out image for me so far, is of a couple of Fiery gem males during their non contact contest over territory. Not a sharp image by any means i know.
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Shane @sharkeee.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Any #Somerset based #moth ers out there who’d like to take over the care of our puss moths. They might be emerging from their cocoons in the coming few weeks and as will be away, we may not see them in their adult form. #Teammoth #nature
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Shane @sharkeee.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
#UKwildlife #UKnature #Somersetcoast #marine #tidepools #Nature #naturalworld
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Shane @sharkeee.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
A couple of super cool finds by a member of our monthly #rockpoolproject #bioblitz today. Kilve beach on the #Quantockhills was the location and way out on the low water mark, a nudibranch named, Fuzzy Onchidoris - Onchidoris muricata and a stunning Rose sun star - Crossaster papposus wowed us.
A photo of a tiny white nudibranch (type of sea slug) on a the silty floor of a rockpool. It's main features are the many short blunt blobs covering it.A photo of an orange coloured starfish laying on a rock. The angle of the photo makes this creature appear as a hand with two thumbs and four fingers wearing a prickly textured glove. This starfish has twelve arms in total, the other six arms are just about showing in the background.
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Shane @sharkeee.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
A day at @nationaltrust.org.uk Tyntesfield, today and came across this little Helvella #fungi, who was unlike the elfins i've met before. The stipe was short, pale, and neither smooth or ribbed. It's dark brown cap wasn't as wrinkled as the uks white or elfin saddles. Thoughts please? #mycology
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Shane @sharkeee.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
We meet this fine looking fella a couple of times yesterday and i did for a moment wonder whether @natureartvic.bsky.social had needle felted its plush head wear. @mammalsociety.bsky.social #ukmammals #ukwildlife #nature #Deer
A pretty close photo of a Roe buck looking over it's own back.
This deer has almost fully developed antlers which are still covered in what known as velvet. This furry skin will fall off once the antlers have fully developed and during this process, they can look rather tatty.
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Shane @sharkeee.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Searching for Beaver activity on the Somerset levels this pm in the glorious sunshine. Heading back to the car along a road as the sun began to set and found this stunner just a coupe metres from us. #Somersetbirds
Photo of one of two smallest UK birds species, the Firecrest. Weighing the same as a 20p piece, it's a tiny bird, with a dark band through it's eye dark cap with a yellow/orange crest which it raises when alarmed. It's back is olive with hues of yellow. Throat chest and belly is a dull buff to grey.
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Shane @sharkeee.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
If anyone is in need of something to make them smile or laugh, please watch and more importantly listen to this little clip my trail camera captured. Yes, that is a genuine Badger #fart #Badgers #Nature #trailcam #Ukwildlife #BBCspringwatch
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Shane @sharkeee.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
DYK European Badgers sometimes sleep above ground in what are sometimes called day beds or couches. Watch here 8 nights worth of what these Badgers do in theres. #Badgers #UKwildlife #BBCspringwatch #UKnature #mammals @mammalsociety.bsky.social @badgertrust.bsky.social youtu.be/WBodlKMg0zs
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What happens at an above ground Badger Nest.
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Wildlife Tours East Devon and Mid Somerset 🦡🦊🦦🦎🐍🐛🦟🦋🕷️🐦🇪🇺 @wildlifetoursed.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
If you liked the #BBCWinterwatch report about the Scarlet caterpillar club , Cordyceps militaris, yesterday , feel free to check out a video we did a year ago about this weird parasitic fungus. #Cordyceps , #Winterwatch , #Fungus , #Parasite youtu.be/2c-0QEtQKwI
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Scarlet caterpillarclub , Cordyceps militaris
YouTube video by Sylvia Meller
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Wildlife Tours East Devon and Mid Somerset 🦡🦊🦦🦎🐍🐛🦟🦋🕷️🐦🇪🇺 @wildlifetoursed.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Another 'traitor' which #Winterwatch didn't mention but is even creepier than the #Cordyceps , is this parasitic wasp that zombiefies ladybirds #BBCWinterwatch , #Parasite youtu.be/50dpMIt_Kck
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Braconid wasp, Dinocampus coccinellae, emerging from Ladybird
YouTube video by Sylvia Meller
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Shane @sharkeee.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
A closer view of the Ciliophora that was found in a water filled ditch here. Possibly Carchesium due to the colony growing from a single stalk attached to the leaf. #supermacro #micro-organisms #nature #pondlife #winterwatch
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Shane @sharkeee.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
1/2 @wildlifetoursed.bsky.social grabbed a 300ml sample of water twigs and leaf litter from a temporary pool here. Amazing life forms were found and these really pushed the limits of the @omsystem.bsky.social #TG-7 #biology #freshwater @withpondlife.bsky.social
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Wildlife Tours East Devon and Mid Somerset 🦡🦊🦦🦎🐍🐛🦟🦋🕷️🐦🇪🇺 @wildlifetoursed.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Some amazing creatures found at Wembury Beach #UKWildlife, #Wildlife , #UKNature, #Nature , #MarineLife , #Fishes , #Rockpooling, #Tidepools youtu.be/qLHPARvceHI?...
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Rockpooling at Wembury Beach , June 25
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Shane @sharkeee.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
A little session in a temporary pool by the stream early tonight looking at very small things. #freshwater #habitats #cyclops #UKwildlife #nature
A photo of the tiny freshwater crustacean called 'Cyclops'. The pear shaped body is transparent and reveals its white body organs. On the tail end are tow large masses of round white eggs sacs, this indicates that it's a female. At the front and centre is a single eye, in the light of flash it looked red.  They have a pair of antennae and  5 pairs of legs.A photo of a tiny freshwater bivalve. I'm not sure of the species. There were many of these all were around 5mm across. They are typically clam shaped, rounded, smooth with radiating growth lines across its shells. In the photo its sitting on a rotting leaf which is covered in silty detritus. 
This one is pale cream in colour. The mouth of this mollusc is partially open and to the left of it, the tailend of of it's foot extends out.A photo of a tiny pale green freshwater crustacean on brown detritus. It's appearance is that of a shiny split seed. Extending from the lower opened end and numerous clear filaments.
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Shane @sharkeee.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Yesterday whilst take a chilly mooch through an ancient woodland, we happened across some little green gems lurking in the sparse dry moss loosely covering a historic earth boundary bank, under some big old holly bushes so well shaded. Late season Parrot #waxcaps in a rather odd location? #fungi
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Wildlife Tours East Devon and Mid Somerset 🦡🦊🦦🦎🐍🐛🦟🦋🕷️🐦🇪🇺 @wildlifetoursed.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The weirdest mating ritual you have ever seen - The Ash Black Slug youtu.be/rRy5tk1HV3o?...
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The weirdest mating ritual you have ever seen - The Ash Black Slug
YouTube video by Sylvia Meller
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Shane @sharkeee.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Cyanosporus subcaesius up behind the woodstore/field shelter here. It really is this blue. #fungi #nature #blue
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Shane @sharkeee.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
A few recent and particulary lovely finds of the #slimemould kind. #UKnature #Nature #decay
A close up photograph showing a bunch of bright red slime moulds growing from a damp piece of dead wood. Tiny red stems support a large rounded head, these are densely clustered together. They are probably a species of Arcyria. A photograph of some black slime moulds growing from a piece of damp dead wood. Much more sparsely grouped together, these glistening black fruiting bodies are growing on long black slender stalk. These are possibly in the genus Comatricha.A very close photograph of some tiny globular slime moulds that i found in the damaged crutch of an apple tree. The stalks are short and grey. The heads are almost kidney shaped. They are white to the eye, but close up they are dark with a paler speckling.
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Shane @sharkeee.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
A little unsure on this species, only young forms of the fungi were present. Am I correct in thinking they are young Orange peels? #Fungi #fungiID #mycology #nature
A photo of four cups shaped fungi. Orange in colour with downy or hairy outside and rims.
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Shane @sharkeee.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
This is not the cheeky cherub it appears to be. This is a ground beetle species infected by the pathogenic #fungus Entomophthora nebriae. Found today on the #Quantockhills with @wildlifetoursed.bsky.social Like the cordycep yesterday, this is not a commonly seen species. #uknature #mycology
What appears to be a fuzzy white coloured face with a funny hat is in fact a fungus infected beetle body. The hat is its wings.The infected beetle in entirety. The spore releasing fruiting body to the left, wings and dark brown wing cases to the right. The whole thing is on rotting wood and was laying fungus facing down.
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Shane @sharkeee.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Well hello there you chubby little matchsticks, we didn't expect to see you lot hanging out in beech woodland in Somerset today. These are I suspect, Drumstick truffle club fungus - Cordyceps capitate. Hidden in the ground will be it's host, a false truffle, #fungi #Truffle #cordyceps #UKnature
A photo showing three brown fungi, growing from a mossy ground. The caps are brown and covered in small dots, the stem is light olive coloured with dark streaks. IMO they resemble lighting matches rather than the drumsticks that they are named after.A photo showing a single brown fungi, growing from a mossy ground. The cap is brown and covered in small dots, the stem is light olive coloured with dark streaks. IMO the species resembles a lighting matches rather than the drumsticks that they are named after. These fungus are parasitic and need a host species, specifically that of the false truffle - Elaphomyces granulatus
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Shane @sharkeee.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
A touch dry, but tonight we'll be searching the mossy trees for aboreal Opiliones like these 'amorous', Ramosus sp. If you find these creatures fascinating, consider joining @megabunus.bsky.social et al, in a webinar on the 30th dec and learn more. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/arboreal-h...
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Shane @sharkeee.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Crop failures due to rapidly changing climate aren’t the only reasons for food shortages, here in #Somerset, I’ve found evidence during a #litterpick, of unfertilised veg.
A photo of litter in a plastic bag, various vegetables, some lube and a black towel.
Some of the veg are suspiciously wrapped..I’ve tried to describe this image without using the word condom, well that’s failed, as this image shows clearly a carrot and cucumber wearing condoms..
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Wildlife Tours East Devon and Mid Somerset 🦡🦊🦦🦎🐍🐛🦟🦋🕷️🐦🇪🇺 @wildlifetoursed.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Mrs Bob+her legacy,# 4 Mr Bob,the green tagged male,is now the only ear tagged beaver of the family.This+the unique marks on his tail make him easy to identify.When I 1st saw him 12 yrs ago he was already an adult beaver,so I would think that he is about 14-15 yrs old at least. youtu.be/klDnr1uEWto
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Mrs Bob and her legacy , part 4
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Shane @sharkeee.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Returning from a short walk to see some fantastic beaver activity, I was drawn to a strip of woodland. My reward came in the shape of #fungi Two new to me species, Favolaschia claudopus aka orange pore fungus and a solitary Typhula fistulosa known as a Pipe Club. + lavulina cinerea - Grey Coral
The underside of some bright orange fungus.Eight bright orange fungi on a dead stick.A slender and pale coloured pipe fungus growing  in leaf litter on a woodland floor.A grey coloured coral fungus on a woodland floor.
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Shane @sharkeee.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
1/2 A trip to Wembury beach in #Devon gave us the Gastropod, the transparent marsenia - Marsenia perspicua, a new species for us, plus a gorgeous mass of sea hare eggs. Yellow plumed slugs in good numbers and lots of Candelabrum cocksii hydroids (see 2/2) but no #Nudibranches such as the rainbow..
A photo of a very camouflaged marine creature which appears as a brown speckled blob.A close up of a tangle of pink strands containing thousands of sea slug eggs.
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Shane @sharkeee.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Last nights mothing during perfect conditions brought us good numbers. Merv hit double figures with large amounts of sallow and white point. At least 80/30. 2nd gen Swallow tail, gold spot and Kent black arches were mid October surprises. Nr Spaxton VC5 #MothsMatter #Teammoth
Swallow-tailed Moth Ourapteryx sambucaria

A lemon yellow moth that has dark streaks and two pointed tails Gold Spot Plusia festucae

A beautiful moth with a russet base colour and several metallic gold spots.
 Elachista maculicerusella

A pale micro moth with several dark blotches.
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Shane @sharkeee.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
12-14 degs C and cloudy. What will the MV lure in tonight I wonder…. #Teammoth #moths
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Shane @sharkeee.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Yesterday myself and @wildlifetoursed.bsky.social headed to Gore point near Porlock for some long overdue ride pooling session.. Several awesome new to us species were observed. First up was my Stalked jellyfish find, possibly Calvadosia campanulata. 1/3 #rockpool #coast #Somerset #marine
A photo of a tiny red marine creature.
A funnel shaped truck is attached by a sucker to some red algae.  Up top, seven short arms extend outwards.
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Shane @sharkeee.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
An early visitor to the orchard MV trap in the shape of Merveille du Jour. A first for me, it wasn’t alone, dark sword grass, yellow lined quaker, barred sallow and a white point were there by 20:00. Clear skies so not ideal, I wonder what species that lone bat has already taken… #Teammoth
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Shane @sharkeee.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
A closer and shorter slo-mo of today’s Clouded yellow #Butterfly #Invertebrates #insects #Nature
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Shane @sharkeee.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Found this beautiful traveler today. A female Clouded yellow #Butterfly who was visiting clover to deposit eggs in some Somerset grassland. Only had a compact camera, but as these are a very mobile species, I grabbed some slowmo footage. #UkWildlife #Invertebrates #Nature
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Shane @sharkeee.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
I think these fluffy furungi are Paxillus rubicundulus - Alder roll rim. Found here in a damp area with loads of alder. #Fridayfungi #Fungi #Mushrooms
Close up photo displaying the underside of a fungus. The cream coloured stem has patches of brown from bruising, where the stem meets the cap, small wrinkled veins are present. The cap at this young stage has a thick coating resembling yellow/brown  downy velvet, A side on view showing the cap of the same fungi.
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Shane @sharkeee.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
1/2 This Anystis sp mite, stopped during one of it's usual rapid zigzagging movement across an apple tree. It paused for a moment and then began a curious circular movement. Any #Acari experts out there care to tell me what's happening? #Arachnidae #Mites #Invertabrate #Wildlife #Nature
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Shane @sharkeee.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Ready for the rutt. #Deer #UkWildlife #Nature #Mammals
A photo of a mature Red deer stag roaring during this year rutt. The correct term is ‘bolving’ which is a very guttural noise.
This deer is stood belly deep in bracken, its red coat is wet from rolling in muddy water, its thick neck that is covered in course long hair. The huge antlers are black with dark wet mud and have at least nine points suggesting that it’s probably around ten years of age.Another of the same deer, its bottom is facing the camera and it is looking to the left. This time it’s stood in course grass,
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