iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Steve Preddy

@stevepreddy.bsky.social

443 followers 574 following 66 posts

Pastry-loving, nature-bothering, dragonfly-record-vetting, travel-addicted, R3-riding, Supreme Court case-winning lefty social media echo chamber inhabitant. 🏳️‍🌈

Posts Replies Media

Steve Preddy @stevepreddy.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Updated accounts (with maps including all records to the end of 2025) for all 34 species of Odonata in Monmouthshire, including two new species (Willow Emerald & Scarce Chaser), are now online at the British Dragonfly Society’s website. british-dragonflies.org.uk/monmouthshir... All records map:

A map showing all records of Odonata contributed to the British Dragonfly Society’s recording scheme & Monmouthshire atlas project to the end of 225

0132 0

Steve Preddy @stevepreddy.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

110 0

Steve Preddy @stevepreddy.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

@andymears.bsky.social and @robertkelsh.bsky.social celebrating yesterday evening after seeing a much-wanted Amazon-dwelling heron species.

030 0

Steve Preddy @stevepreddy.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

After an 0030h arrival via Miami yesterday, I was a little shattered … but not too shattered to spend the day enjoying the old city of Quito. @andyfmears.bsky.social and @robertkelsh.bsky.social are en route, ready for a three-and-a-bit-week exploration of N Ecuador’s birding hotspots.

050 0

Steve Preddy @stevepreddy.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

The latest Monmouthshire dragonfly newsletter, a Willow Emerald special edition, is now in your inbox if you’re on the mailing list. If you’re not, and would like to be, please message me or drop a reply below. @britishdragonflies.bsky.social #gwentdragonflies

271 0

Steve Preddy @stevepreddy.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I’ve just found another absurd one: ´Wryneck head twisting’ gave me this:

010 0

Steve Preddy @stevepreddy.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Green Hellebores (Helleborus viridis) in flower in woodland near Lower Kilcott in the Cotswolds in South Gloucestershire yesterday.

0130 0

Steve Preddy @stevepreddy.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Congratulations Jonnie and Alex. To amuse you, this is how the job ad for two of your predecessors was written: from BB, as recently as Aug 1980.

020 0

Steve Preddy @stevepreddy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

The latest Monmouthshire dragonfly recording newsletter is now available, including updates on various species including… small red damselflies. If you’re not on the mailing list but would like to be, drop me a message. #gwentdragonflies

071 0

Steve Preddy @stevepreddy.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

I’m watching a male Southern Hawker & a male Common Hawker in territorial squabbles over a pond at Cleddon Bog. This is the only known site in the eastern half of Monmouthshire/Gwent for Common Hawker. Thanks to Barbara Heys for re-finding after an 8-year gap #gwentdragonflies

030 0