Big Butterfly Count starts today for the 2026 season. Yesterdays recce ! 🦋@Butterfly Conservation.
Ron Lawie
@rlaquila.bsky.social
A life of ‘B’s: Birds, Bikes, Books, Bee’s Botany & Binoculars, accompanied by good friends and coffee. Uplands and Raptor monitoring, BTO Regional Rep, BBS coordinator, WeBS counter. Icelandic Goose Census. Cycle touring, Bikeability Instructor. 🏴
Birds love Cemeteries, they offer ideal breeding and foraging habitat in mature shrubs and trees. @btoscotland.bsky.social @bbs-birds.bsky.social Greenspaces@BTO is a simple relaxed platform for recording bird sightings until end of June breeding season.
Upland Rover’s bird surveys @btoscotland.bsky.social @bbs-birds.bsky.social doesn’t get much better !
Early bloom of Winter Aconite yesterday Angus Scotland and a bright common Orange Lichen on my stranding today. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Interesting find on another WinBS survey with a colleague today Join the fun at BTO BBS WinBS Birds, wildlife exercise and health benefits @bbs-birds.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social @btoscotland.bsky.social
Winter bird Survey generates interesting comparisons of species and abundance using Spring Breeding bird habitat. @bbs-birds.bsky.social @btoscotland.bsky.social fewer birds differing species. Join in the fun at BTO WinBS.
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Sadly found this dead Mole however look at those front feet. Large and powerful particularly compared the the rear set. @britishnatureguide.bsky.social @foragingecology.bsky.social
What I think is a Speckled Wood (Pararge aegeria) on my cycling cap near Steenwijk Netherlands. ?
Can someone please advise ID if these damsel fly. Observed today at Steenwijk Netherlands. Thank you. @maryvanderes.bsky.social ?
Circa 300 Sandwich tern on yesterdays WeBS count. Walkers are a constant disturbance causing the birds to move around. @webs-gsmp.bsky.social @btoscotland.bsky.social
We set up an experimental ‘lure’ producing a pheromone hoping to attract Six Spot Burnet moth in a grassland habitat hosting a few Ragwort (Senecio Jacobaea) plants. Pleased that within ten minutes it had two. 😃 @savebutterflies.bsky.social @europebutterfly.bsky.social @bsbiscotland.bsky.social
Tormentil (Potentilla fruticosa) and Sneezewort (Achilles ptarmigan) from a grassland habitat and Bog Asphodel (Narthecium ossifragum) and Bog Cotton (Eriophorum angustifolium) from an upland habitat. @bsbiscotland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Searching for Northern Brown Argus eggs on their food plant Rockrose with reasonable success in east Perthshire. A good day for several species, Meadow Brown, Common Blue, Grayling, Small Heath, Red Admiral, Ringlet and several damselflies. @savebutterflies.bsky.social @bsbiscotland.bsky.social
Nice clump of St John’s Wort as Ringlet flutter in the adjacent grasses on this fine morning. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Healthy looking Red-tailed bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius) spotted in its search for nectar.
Gorse Shieldbug (Piezodorus lituratus) located on a coastal path yesterday. Interestingly adults change colour later in the season.
Rewards for effort. Female Ptarmigan incubating in a boulderfield. RSPB Montane Survey. @rspbscotland.bsky.social @bbs-birds.bsky.social @btoscotland.bsky.social
A few plants from East Cairngorms. Thyme, Cranesbill and Bistort. Several Red tailed Bumblebees around on the Bell heather. @bsbiscotland.bsky.social
Life doesn’t get much better, bird surveying in tranquility @bbs-birds.bsky.social @btoscotland.bsky.social
First of the second visits undertaken on an arable coastal square for @btoscotland.bsky.social @bbs-birds.bsky.social great to see several whitethroat and numerous Skylark together with Dunnock, Linnet, corn bunting and several others.
Happy birthday Sir David Attenborough If only governments around the world would listen to you and take notice …. as man continues to destroy our planet. Financial gain over life forms ! @wwf.eu @ukparliament.parliament.uk @raptorpersuk.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
A few distractions while raptor monitoring for Merlin. @btoscotland.bsky.social @bbs-birds.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
I’ve been surveying this square for @bbs-birds.bsky.social @btoscotland.bsky.social For several years now. This is undoubtedly the lowest count ever. Only three species, Red Grouse, Meadow Pipit and Two Raven. Water table very low T least the burn is running.
