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A @procreate.com painting of a 24-spot Ladybird. #digitalart #ladybirds

Hi David - are you able to say where you found it? I've been searching a few locations in Devon for 13-spot but no success so far.

What did we do to deserve that!

Another fantastic #globalbirdfair. Great to catch up with so many lovely people and pleased to have picked up a signed Ladybird print from the extremely talented Richard Lewington.

Over the moon to find an Adonis Ladybird with @dhelliar.bsky.social nr Chard in Somerset this morning. Such beautiful little ladybirds.

Bryony Ladybird from a few weeks back in Oxfordshire.

Teneral Meadow, 14-spot, 16-spot and 24-spot ladybirds. From a site near Chard yesterday.

Cream-streaked and Adonis Ladybirds in Bristol yesterday.

Remarkable few hours spent in Bristol yesterday yielded 16 species of Ladybird! A few highlights included Red Marsh, Water, Spotted Marsh, Dot, Cream-streaked, Pointed-keeled and Adonis.

22-spot and Harlequin Ladybirds. Two of our most colourful beetles 😍

Cheers Dave - no, I hadn't seen that! Thanks mate 👍

Yes, that's a puff adder.

Masked Finfoot, Sunderbans, Bangladesh. Critically endangered with an estimate of up to 300 individuals left in the wild.

We managed to find the only two recorded Spoon-billed Sandpipers wintering in Bangladesh this year. Fewer than 500 birds left in the wild.

Nordmann's Greenshank, Sonadia Island, Bangladesh. Less than 2000 left on this planet.

Red Ghost Crab, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh

Pallas's Fish Eagle, Bangladesh

Brown-headed and Pallas's gulls, Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh

Brown-winged Kingfisher, Chestnut-headed and Asian Green Bee Eaters. Bangladesh

New Zealand Fur Seals, Enderby Island, New Zealand

Yellow-eyed Penguin, Enderby Island, New Zealand

Emperor Penguins, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica

Lesser snow petrel from my recent filming trip to Antarctica.

Floating around in the sea ice off the Drygalski glacier, Ross Sea, Antarctica

Lenticular clouds forming over Mount Erebus, the most southerly active volcano on earth.

The Heritage Adventurer sitting off shore at Cape Evans, Antarctica.

Shackleton's hut at Cape Royds, Antarctica.

The dog kennels outside of Shackleton's hut on Cape Royds, Antarctica.

Artifacts from Sir Ernest Shackleton's hut at Cape Royd, Antarctica