@GhostlyVision

Mostly wildlife, environment and a few jokes stolen from elsewhere. Co-author of Britain's Orchids from Wildguides

 Worcestershire, 🌍
press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691177618/britains-orchids
Joined February 2009
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Good comparison between Jack Snipe and Common Snipe taken nearly in the same place on the Wader Lake a couple of days apart @WWTWashington
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illusions explained 📹rbj_magic xitter.cf/DamnThatsInter/status/…
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Old but gold! This is one of my all-time favourite images a single shot from a night shoot near home. Looks like a fisherman's haul, but it's actually seeds caught in a spiderweb on a canal bridge #Photography #Nightshoot #Nature #Glasgow #Hamiltonhill #Spiderweb #Canal #seeds
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So nice to hear such positive comments ☺️😘
Michelle Clarke@Michell278028766 Jan 2025
I love #wildflower orchids but don’t know much about them - after commenting here, was helpfully given a great book recommendation (thank you @StevePa46290725😊). Just look at this great field guide by @BSBIbotany - informative and beautiful!
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First day out birding this year started well with the Grey-headed Lapwing @ East Chevington NWT @teesbirds1 @DurhamBirdclub @teeswildlife @Natures_Voice @NatureUK @WildlifeMag @BBCSpringwatch #birdwatching #wildlifephotography #birds
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Almost 36 years & maybe a mile apart ~ the New Hythe Yellow Warbler is almost within shouting distance of the monster supermarket sweep of Larkfield in 1989: the Golden-winged Warbler famously & so memorably did the right thing for vast hordes of admirers 😎 (GWW pic D Cottridge)
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#AdventCalendar day 19 Emerald Isle images from our visit to Ireland this year. Irish Marsh Orchid & Lesser Twayblade courtesy of Ian & Cryptic Wood Whites courtesy of Jillian. We return in May 2025, with the tour led again by #orchid experts @GhostlyVision & @Mike_Waller_
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A stunning 'Blue' Fulmar wheeling around the cliffs at Scousburgh, Shetland today.
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Finally managed to grip back Grey-headed Lapwing this morning at East Chevington with @GhostlyVision after dipping last Saturday and missing the bird last year due to being abroad.
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Without doubt the smartest bird of the day has been Johnson's Today-tyrant, which must be one of South Americas smartest flycatchers.
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The four horsemen of leaving bastard crumbs everywhere.
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31st and final day of #Arachtober A real pumpkin of a spider, Araneus quadratus.
A large, round Araneus quadratus spider with orange colouration and white markings.

ALT A large, round Araneus quadratus spider with orange colouration and white markings.

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This may be contentious, but I think a decent sunset is better than an #Aurora, more frequent, and much easier to see. AND, you don't need a camera to appreciate one.
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Ever wondered how big a #Goshawk really is? Here's one with a Sparrowhawk... What a beast! #WorcsBirds
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..the Cape May was my fourth species of American Warbler for the autumn of 2023, one could argue autumn continued through to the following April, my sixth species being this stonking male Myrtle Warbler in a Scottish garden on 14th.
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October 2023, the wonderful Cape May Warbler on Achill Island, Co. Mayo.
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Potentially a very good find indeed by @dip1951 Gliophorus sciophanus "Toffee Apple Waxcap". @lukaslarge @BritishFungi what is needed to confirm this? Records not far away so seems possible.
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The Arctic ocean photographed in the same place, 107 years ago vs today.
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13th October - a memorable date in the birding calendar for the last 25 years. That day in 1999 saw saw me, Andy Wraithmell, @michaeldhodgkin and Mark Marshall looking for a Yellow-billed Cuckoo on Tresco, Isles of Scilly. This after seeing Short-toed Eagle and both Siberian &
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⏳Time of packaging materials to decompose: Glass - 1,000,000 years Plastic coffee pods - 500 years Plastic water bottles - 450 years Plastic straws - 200 years Aluminum cans - 100 years Takeaway coffee cup - 30 years Plastic bags - 20 years Cardboard - 2 months Paper - 6 weeks
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