
Amanda Tuke
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Enough with X - come find me on Insta @suburbanwilduk. Nature writer. #TheUrbanNaturalist #30MinuteBirder in @BirdWatchingMag. Lit rep: cullandco.com
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Golf courses - perhaps not the obvious places to go birding? But just think of the possibilities! July issue Bird Watching &๐for contribs fr/ Vanessa Wright Megan Shersby Ian Kendall Andrew Malone Sophie Marie England Golf the-urban-naturalist.com/2024/06/20/30-โฆ

& it was a lovely afternoon/evening at the newly primped SL.Botanic Institute in Lambeth. Great to have a chance to chat to new & old plant enthusiast friends about the 44 species of #pavementplants I found flowering in an hour of walking round the block. #TheUrbanNaturalist


Delighted to have this in the June 2024 issue of fab British Wildlife Mag alongside writers who've inspired me: Peter Marren, Dr Amy-Jane Beer (now posting on Bluesky) & Mark Avery. ๐ to PAN UK Mick Crawley Gehan de Silva W Dr Katherine Baldock ๐ #TheUrbanNaturalist #pavementplants BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland SL.Botanic Institute


Some news๐ For the next few months I have the honour of being urban-botanist in residence at the lovely SL.Botanic Institute to develop #urbanbotany courses for beginners, & share my passion for & deepen my understanding of #pavementplants.



Many thanks for these recommendations Megan. Aurora #LicencedBirdRinger & Bethan, I've DMed you both with a plea for a ringing anecdote this week... Amy Amy W Schwartz, it would be great to have one from you too if at all possible? Do please DM me๐๐

Thanks for this Stephen... Ed Drewitt it would be great to have a ringing anecdote from you I could quote in my next Bird Watching column. Please could you DM me if you're up for that? ๐๐

What's the best bird ever? The one you finally found on a roof just off Oxford Street of course. ๐Bird Watching #30MinuteBirder #TheUrbanNaturalist #BlackRedstart the-urban-naturalist.com/2024/07/16/30-โฆ


Looking forward to chatting to inspirational gardener & author Kate Bradbury ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ on 25 Jul about her lovely new book... & in a fab S London setting. Tickets still available. ๐ BrockwellGreenhouses #TheUrbanNaturalist Bloomsbury Books UK brockwellgreenhouses.org.uk/event/talk-katโฆ




Do you, like I do, shrink away from trying to write nature poetry? Then this could be just what we need. Poetry and Nature workshops with inspirational poet Jenny Mitchell on S London. bellhouse.co.uk/events/2024/9/โฆ

A lovely am last Sat sharing urban birdwatching tips w/ beginners in West Norwood Cemetery but what was the single most valuable birdwatching tip you were given when you started out? ๐for RTs Bird Watching Stephen Moss The Considerate Birders Dominic Couzens Aleator ๐บ๐ฆ๐๐ถ๐ฝโโ๏ธโ๏ธ๐ฆ๐ฟ๐ฆ โฐ dusty gedge Margaret Boyd


Hi twitter bee friends. Pls can you help one of my #naturewriting students? Is this insect he's snapped in West Norwood Cemetery an Asian Honeybee? Grateful thanks ๐Brigit Strawbridge Kate Bradbury ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ Richard Jones


Do enter this, Bath Spa University MA Nature & Travel Writing students! Jonathan Lorie Gail Simmons Amanda Tuke

September's issue of Bird Watching has articles by my old friends and BW regulars Dominic Couzens @ The Urban Birder - OFFICIAL - also no fewer than three features from former Bath Spa University MA students Vanessa Wright Gayle Wood and Amanda Tuke - well done all and thanks Matt Merritt

I'm visiting Aberdeen soon & hoping to squeeze in some birding while I'm there... Recs for sites within 30 mins walk/public transport of Aberdeen station v gratefully received & retweets ๐๐๐ Aberdeen Women Birders ๐ชถ Rebecca Gibson Bird Watching RSPB Scotland


Hey Transport for London, I used to see see mice on the London Underground every journey but I haven't seen any for a few years now... Has there been an eradication programme? #TubeMice