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Sophie Cooper @sophiecooper.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Today was sadly my only Hurlstone Point cetacean survey this year. Met a walking group of teachers from the town (and school) where I grew up (NE Hampshire). After a VERY quiet survey, 2 harbour porpoises turned up 3 mins before the survey end! Hooray! 💚💙 #Somerset #wildlife #nature

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Sophie Cooper @sophiecooper.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Very exciting find whilst doing reptile surveys this week... a glow-worm larva!!! Such a modest looking but magical little creature. Glow-worm in action picture from a few years ago 💚 #Somerset #nature #wildlife #insects

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Sophie Cooper @sophiecooper.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy U2 Day! 50 years of my favourite band! 1993, Wembley Stadium, I was down-in-front (B stage) and was given Larry's drumstick! I am waving Larry's drum stick about, drinking Guinness and having a little #U2 party tonight!

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Sophie Cooper @sophiecooper.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Happy Autumn Equinox!!🍄🌰💚🍂🍁

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Sophie Cooper @sophiecooper.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Happy Autumn Equinox!!🍄🌰💚🍂🍁

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Sophie Cooper @sophiecooper.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ezra Collective's Femi and Joe brought utter joy to Rough Trade Bristol last night with their DJ set! So lucky to have had a chance to meet them both. Doing amazing things for music and empowering young people. Heroes💖

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Sophie Cooper @sophiecooper.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My last Quantock Hills butterfly transect survey of the season and treated to a few emerging fly agarics! Woohoo!! Autumn fungi spotting season has arrived!!🍄💚 #fungi #butterflies #autumn #nature #wildlife #somerset

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Sophie Cooper @sophiecooper.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My 3rd 24hr Plymouth-Roscoff-Plymouth trip onboard Brittany Ferries' Amorique, surveying #cetaceans at sea with the amazing wildlife charity Orca: Lots of common dolphins, fin (blow) and minke whales spotted (no pics as surveying); and a lovely morning spent in beautiful Roscoff💚💙 #nature #wildlife

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Sophie Cooper @sophiecooper.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Clouded yellow nectaring on Devil's-bit scabious during my Quantock Hills butterfly transect today💚 #wildlife #nature #butterflies #wildflowers #wildflowerhour

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Sophie Cooper @sophiecooper.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A good number of very sweet soprano pipistrelles during our Somerset Levels bat box checks (under licence) yesterday💚🦇 #bats #nature #wildlife

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Sophie Cooper @sophiecooper.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Spent a wonderful night in a little hut in #Dorset on Friday, right on the edge of the heathland. Amazingly bold fallow deer popped over to try and eat our dinner. Next morning, woke up to the churring of nightjars! That certainly gave me a warmed cockles feeling! 💚 #nature #wildlife

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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I cannot see a dead fish as a "conservation success". Bluefin tuna are still rare - they only avoid being technically endangered cos they stabilised at a tiny number. That's not a healthy population, just a stable one. Let them breed and really do well before you fish for them if you have to.

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First bluefin tunas caught off Yorkshire since 1960s ‘success story’ for marine conservation

Researchers laud return of giant tuna to North Sea after being fished almost to point of extinction

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

The Haywain 2026

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Sophie Cooper @sophiecooper.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

An awesome eclipse: I had 50 eclipse glasses from #GoStargazing, gave some to family/friends, offered the rest on the village FB page & said I'd be up the beacon field if anyone wanted to join me. 50+ people turned up! I met, chatted and shared it with so many lovely people I didn't know before!

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Dr Lucy Rogers @drlucyrogers.com · 12/08/2026

If you don't have proper eclipse glasses / filters, try a pinhole camera ... When the sun is whole, images will be circles. When partially eclipsed they will be crescents. You can use a colander or even a Ritz Biscuit. Find out more in my book "Up - a scientist's guide to the magic above us"

Ritz biscuit held above a red book. Crescents can be seen in the shadow as the holes work as a pinhole camera.

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David Steel @steelyseabirder.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The last of our Pufflings on the Isle of May are leaving although it was still a surprise to find this little fella in the moth trap! I soon released it successfully into the North Sea

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Sophie Cooper @sophiecooper.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Some perfect training examples of evidence of water voles at Steart Marshes yesterday: 45 degree nibbles and tic tac droppings! If only they were always so numerous and easy to find when out and about💚 #nature #wildlife

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Sophie Cooper @sophiecooper.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

A few beauties from my Somerset garden moth trap last night: Elephant hawk-moth, brimstone, four spotted footman and Jersey tiger 🦋💚 #moths #insects #butterflies #nature #wildlife

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Sophie Cooper @sophiecooper.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

My heart has just skipped a beat! One of my favourite insects has turned up in my #Somerset garden, a rose chafer #beetle! A walking jewel!💚 #insects #nature #wildlife

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Sophie Cooper @sophiecooper.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Happy World Snake Day!! And to celebrate, here's a couple of stunning grass snakes from my Somerset garden and local patch from a few years ago. Always worth popping out a basking mat to see who turns up!💚🐍 #snakes #nature #wildlife #gardening

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Sophie Cooper @sophiecooper.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Hello @lush.com! Just wanted to say that someone very close to me visited your Bristol store today having had a rather poopy & bewildering week, they got chatting to your lovely team & left having had the most brilliant experience they could have wanted (or needed). Thank you for the joy you bring!

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Sophie Cooper @sophiecooper.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

RIP Dr Grant. Star of some of the greatest films ever, my favourites: Jurassic Park to Hunt for the Wilderpeople (I also loved The Dish). His social media posts created little moments of chuckle during lockdown.

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Sophie Cooper @sophiecooper.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

A beautiful gatekeeper #butterfly on the veronica whilst I ate my ice cream in my #Somerset garden just now! 💚 #butterflies #nature #wildlife #summer

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Sophie Cooper @sophiecooper.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

A stunning golden-ringed dragonfly popped in my #Somerset garden for a visit today! 💚 #dragonflies #nature #wildlife #insects

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Sophie Cooper @sophiecooper.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

No fooling me, I see you little buff-tip moth! 💚 #moths #Somerset #wildlife #nature

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Sophie Cooper @sophiecooper.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Dormouse nest box checks (under licence) on Blackdown Hills, #Somerset today. No dormice but a lovely, inviting badger sett! I could happily live there💚 #nature #wildlife

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Sophie Cooper @sophiecooper.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

This time last year! The most magical few days at #Glastonbury💖

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Sophie Cooper @sophiecooper.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I think green hairstreak butterflies are the closest thing to fairies. You see them tiny, shimmering and fluttering out of the corner of your eye. Magical! Here's 1 of 6 I saw on my Quantock Hills pootle yesterday💚 #butterflies #nature #Somerset

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Sophie Cooper @sophiecooper.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

A few common spotted orchids from my Quantock Hills pootle yesterday💚

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Woodland Trust Scotland @wtscotsocial.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

🌺 Invasive Rhododendron ponticum is choking Scotland’s native woodlands & costing taxpayers millions. 🌱 But it’s still sold in garden centres & used as rootstock. ☣️ We want a ban. Send pics to scottishcampaigns@woodlandtrust.org.uk if you see it on sale. 🙏 #MairTreesPlease #INNSweek #BePlantWise

A table showing that R ponticum is highly damaging to the environment and still available to buy in the UK. It sits alongside an image of a R ponticum label in a garden centre. Credit WTML.

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Sophie Cooper @sophiecooper.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Hot but nicely breezy butterfly survey on the Quantock Hills today. A few highlights: green hairstreak (one of my favourite butterflies), mating large skippers, green tiger beetle, stonechat and... the all important Styles ice cream van for a well-earned end-of-survey treat!💚

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Sophie Cooper @sophiecooper.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Down in front for a beautiful celebration of a world full of music, humanity and unity! Absolutely awesome!! #Gorillaz #TottenhamHotspurStadium #London #music #livemusic

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Hannah @wilderhomestead.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Amazing encounter with a Purple Hairstreak this evening - they usually spend their time high up in oak trees! Brilley, North Herefordshire @savebutterflies.bsky.social @herefordshirewt.bsky.social

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Sophie Cooper @sophiecooper.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Dormouse box checks (under licence) on Blackdown Hills, Somerset. No dormice, but woodmice and some very angry tree bumblebees!

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Sophie Cooper @sophiecooper.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Hooray for Greta Thunberg! A perfect birthday message for Trump's 80th!

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Sophie Cooper @sophiecooper.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

What a trip! Part of a team of ORCA volunteers onboard the Saga cruise ship Spirit of Discovery exploring Ireland's coast! Recorded: common dolphins, bottlenose dolphins, Risso's dolphins (I missed these), minke whale, common & grey seals. Brilliant guest engagement & some very irish weather! 💚💙

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Sophie Cooper @sophiecooper.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

FWIW: Sitting under my damson tree, getting showered with aphid poo... and it's very refreshing in the heat!💚 #Springwatch #wildlife #nature

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Sophie Cooper @sophiecooper.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Bat box checks (under licence) with Somerset Bat Group, on the Polden Hills this weekend: soprano pipistrelles and Natterer's!💚 #wildlife #nature #bats

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Sophie Cooper @sophiecooper.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Think I interupted something in my moth trap this morning, over 20 rather busy cockchafers!🤭

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Not In Our Name (NION) Women @nionwomen.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

We want to take a moment to acknowledge all the trans+ people, their families and allies who are currently wading through 300+ pages of legal guidance to understand how it affects them and the people they love. #Love #Solidarity #TransInclusion 🩷

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Sophie Cooper @sophiecooper.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Happy World Bee Day!! Here's a few beauties to celebrate, from my Somerset garden over the years💚 #bees #nature #wildlife

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Sophie Cooper @sophiecooper.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Bat box checks (under licence and before the downpour) near Ham Wall, Somerset Levels yesterday. Soprano pipistrelles about and waded though a good number of dragonflies and damselflies in the long grass, here's a hairy dragonfly and a four-spotted chaser 💚 #bats #dragonflies #nature #wildlife

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