Trip to Holkham with Leela Channer and my grandparents turned up the goods this afternoon when a ringtail harrier flew past us on the walk back to the car. Looking at my photos of the bird when I got home confirmed a Montys.

Grateful for the opportunity to be involved with the beginning of the South West and Wales Africa Research Network! Go and give their page a follow🌍 University of Exeter Internships

Message from Falmouth is clear - NO MORE SEWAGE IN OUR SEAS ❌💩 Hundreds paddled at Gylly beach to tell poo-lluters it's time to cut the crap. Proud to be part of such an epic community of #OceanActivists 🤙✊🌊 📷 1,3: PA media 2,4: Elliott Glynn

Join us at the inaugural South West and Wales Africa Research Network workshop on 6th June at Fairfield House, Bath! Activities will include discussion of ethical research, a tour of the House, postgrad talks & thematic research networking. Info & sign up: bit.ly/3yylNZA

Thank you to everyone who came to our #SWWARN launch last week, and to Fairfield House_Bath for their hospitality and amazing tour! We had many engaging discussions and some great talks, not least by our PGR students who wrapped up the day. Stay tuned as we plan our next events! 💛

So good to get out filming again earlier this week with NatureWatch. My shoes are still recovering from the bog, but so worth it to see my first marsh fritillaries, heath orchids and round-leaved sundew! Many thanks to Cornwall Butterfly Conservation for allowing us to come and film their event.

Mothing at Devichoys Wood, nr Penryn produced this Trachypepla contritella last night. A rare adventive from NZ with just a few records from nr Hayle & nr London. ⁦Jason Chapman⁩ ⁦Matthew Broadbent⁩ ⁦Leela Channer⁩ ⁦Migrant Lepidoptera⁩ ⁦⁦

Well that was fun! A joyous and uplifting day in London for #RestoreNatureNow. Great to bump into a few other Penryn folks there too!

Joe Stokes-Neustadt and I took time out of our incredibly busy birding schedule to go on a little walk in London earlier... #RestoreNatureNow Was great to see so many familiar faces out in support of our natural world!

Great to participate in the #RestoreNatureNow march this weekend and very grateful to have had the experience of being a runner on the day, for part of Al Jazeera PR's earthrise programme!

Delighted to have two photographs specially commended in Royal Entomological Society's 2023 Insect Week photo competition! Some spectacular shots in there, go and have a look – insectweek.org/art-and-photog…

The first of many visits today to the Vallée de Mai nature reserve on Praslin as we begin Humphrey Keeper's grad film project on the endemic coco de mer. No sightings yet of the giant bronze gecko, but the two day geckos and and a bronze-eyed were really nice to see!

What could be better than a yellow, spotty chameleon? Archaius tigris, endemic to the Seychelles.

Lovely work retreat with Another Way this week, with the bonus of being able to get some mothing in and to show some new nature lovers that not all creepy-crawlies are creepy! Featuring a sallow kitten, pine hawk-moth and wasp spider.

Lovely Comma sunning itself and imbibing blackberry juices. Buckinghamshire

Initially I didn't want to move to an empty platform, but if we don't individually take action then the shift won't happen. And enough people have taken the first step! So come and find me at leelachanner.bsky.social 🦋