Also at Inchgarth today - my first Comma #Butterfly of the year, and quite an early one, presumably having overwintered locally, plus about 18 Peacocks.
@inchgarthbirding.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social
Did you say Clark's Mining #Bee @inchgarthbirding.bsky.social ? This one at Inchgarth today, along with quite a few others. Did it just pee and turn round to drink it or rub it on its legs/body??
#buglife
Monday 7:30: Dr Mark Bolton talking about the changing fortunes of Scotland's 2 small breeding petrels. @scottishbirding.bsky.social MR1 in University Library, Bedford Road, Aberdeen AB24 3AA. All welcome.
#petrelheads
Added Bonus: (brief) branch AGM!!
Oooh! Just arrived! Brilliant *new* edition of the best introduction & handbook on bird sounds. Thanks, Mark, Magnus & Arnoud!
#bioacoustics #ornithology #nocmig @scottishbirding.bsky.social @fatpaulscholes.bsky.social #birdingscotland
Just outside the window, eating peanuts like there's no tomorrow.
@nesmammals.bsky.social @scotsquirrels.bsky.social
A new bird-tracking project using the Motus Wildlife Tracking System has been launched through a partnership between the Scottish Ornithologists’ Club (SOC) and Tay Ringing Group.
Read more: britishbirds.co.uk/journal/arti...
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📸 Rock Pipit by SOC
Really looking forward to the #NESBReC Recorders' Forum next weekend - a great opportunity to meet folk with other interests and hear a super programme of interesting (ahem ...) speakers. One of the highlights of the year.
nesbrec.org.uk/nesbrec-reco...
Please keep your cat in. Full stop.
Especially at the time, but most of the principles of the exercise have since been absorbed into our current lists including the new AviList.
It's explained in British Birds 85: 285
www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/207951#... (note 48)
As part of the controversial exercise to make English Names unique (& simpler) if it had stayed as Great B-headed Gull, then L. ridibundus would have had to become something like 'Common Black-headed Gull'.
First Daubenton's #Bat in the garden in Aberdeen this year on 10 March.
@nesmammals.bsky.social @batconservation.bsky.social
A new report from wildlife charity Buglife reveals that pesticides from common flea and tick treatments are now widespread in rivers across Britain and may be contributing to major declines in freshwater invertebrates bit.ly/4b1Pu50
Does not bring much credit to the journal or their refereeing of the original paper.
It will be useful to see how widespread they are on the hills there and how numerous.
Good to see this review. Domestic pets are sadly an increasing problem for wildlife including off-lead dogs in the countryside. No mention here of pollution of waterbodies by the indiscriminate use of neonicotinoid flea treatments washing off outdoors. This is seriously underestimated. Highly toxic.
Thanks Mark. Yes- I’m signed up.
Hi Mark - are these recorded (& where)? Missed last night. Heard it was very good.
We had a Larch Ladybird here in the house this morning.
You need to get a poo sample… 💩🙄
Field #Mouse doing what mice do.
@nesmammals.bsky.social
Or, rather, not distinguishing the subspecies!
tidsskrift.dk/Wildfowl/art...
Hi Dylan - did you take it to the museum?
Excellent advice here. It is much harder to get a good audio recording than a good photograph, although Alan makes it seem easy.
#bioacoustics #ornithology
Good grief! Awful!
As if anyone in #Aberdeen needed confirmation that it's been wet recently. Grim if you wanted to go birding, and no sign of it letting up.
#climatechange #birdingscotland
*Brilliant* talk on Monday by @leahgray.bsky.social If you weren't there, you missed a masterpiece.
Field #Mouse and Bank #Voles in the garden in Aberdeen today. First voles seen here for many years. Dull day, and photographed through the window ...
@nesmammals.bsky.social @mammalsociety.bsky.social
Orkney waders! Leah Gray talking about her work to help understand & conserve waders on the islands.
Tonight @ 7:30 in University Library (top floor), Bedford Road
All welcome.
@scottishbirding.bsky.social
And I should add that #farmers and any other landowners who try to prevent this happening should also be liable for consequential problems. They have no grounds to moan when #Beavers disagree with their actions.
A useful reminder to #PropertyDevelopers that this is what #floodplains are actually for. River Dee at #Cults this afternoon. You should be held liable in perpetuity for consequential problems.
