I'm in that sweet spot in my life, where a UK-India journey regardless of the direction of travel, always makes me "homeward" bound! #traveltales #ecologistlife #grateful 🌏🌿🐝

A bit more #biodiversity encountered over the last week. From abandoned wasp nests to buzzing wild bee hives to butterflies & dragonflies, our road trip across Tamilnadu & Pondicherry was an entomologist's dream & an ecologist's paradise 🌏🐝🌿
#ecologistlife #allinadayswork @uniofreading.bsky.social

Biodiversity highlights of the week include getting good shots of the white-cheeked barbet and the swift moving carpenter bee on my phone camera
#whitecheekedbarbet #carpenterbee #ecologistlife #workperks 🌏🌿🐦🐝 @uniofreading.bsky.social

Mike & the Moringas!!!
Field visits this week have been a veritable feast of fruit & veg harvested directly from the plants & trees in the fields & orchards. This is just an example of a happy colleague in a Moringa orchard with his own personal harvest!
#ecologistlife #workperks #traveltales 🌏🐝🌿

A week of non-stop work travel incl cancellations & delays, meant an exhausted arrival in India this morning. All it took to find my second wind was this baby squirrel that needed some TLC. Hoping to foster for a few days until it can learn to manage on its own #ecologistlife #indianpalmsquirrel

A lovely weekend with @piedflynet.bsky.social on Dartmoor. Walks in nature & talks with friends. Food for the soul❣️
#timewithfriends #ecologistlife #naturetrails 🌿🌏🐦😊

Lovely spring day in Wiltshire helping my PhD student calibrate her radio tracking equipment whilst listening to skylarks, watching corn buntings, meadow pipits & yellow wagtails & soaking up the sunshine. 🌍🐤🌞 It was a day that was very good for the soul! #ecologistlife #dayout #fieldwork 😊

If you #ActiveTravel to work by bike, it’s okay to eat the biggest burrito in the world for lunch, right?! 😋 🌯 🚲 #LoveYourJob #EcologistLife

How long after boarding the #Eurostar do you think this photo was taken? Less than 5 minutes!!! Classic shot of a bunch of academics on a work trip #ecologistlife 🌍 #academiclife From @valor-project.eu to @agri4pol.eu

Image of a tree with baler twine coming out of the middle of the stem. The tree has grown around the twine

A bottle top is seen appearing from the moss. The bottle is embedded into the root system as the tree has grown around it.

A birch tree has grown around a concrete slab. The slab is leaning against the stem and the stem has grown to include part of the slab.

When nature takes over -tree growing around baler twine, a bottle embedded into tree roots, and tree growing around concrete slab.

#woodland #trees #nature #ecologistlife

Image of a wetland habitat with water, rushes and reeds

Wetland edge habitat with marginal vegetation and grasses next to open water

Typical fenland ditch with reeds adjacent to grassland with open water in the distance

Bit of a soggy day to be out surveying in the fens!

#ecologistlife