NaturNaomi

I was right!! Not for me, but they're back in the county so I'm taking that as a win 😊

I'm saying it, today feels like a first-for-the-year wheatear day...

A photograph of a woodcock sitting in grass. The lighting is harsh torchlight.

I get married in t-minus 27 days and I am starting to panic a little bit so here's a picture of a woodcock to take my mind off it 🫠

A Peacock butterfly sits on straw-coloured dry grasses.

First butterfly of the year! A beautiful Peacock 🦋

They love that colour blue.

A rather large european toad sits on the outstretched palm of a white hand. The toad is a mixture of burnt/toasted colours of brown, yellow, and orange. It's clearly night-time and some of the hand is in shadow.

There's just something so reassuring about a toad.

Toads are so sturdy and strong.
They move with purpose and deliberation, seeming never to be in a rush.
Unbothered and unwavering.

I need to be more toad.

"Ow, my socks have run out of battery."
Is a sentence I never thought I'd say.

This is a thing of beauty 🥲

The image features an illustration of an unfolded map showing greenspaces and birds. Above this wording reads: Add your local greenspace to the Birds in Greenspaces Map.

1/ We need you to make sure your local Greenspace is included on our map ready for the Birds in Greenspaces survey! ➡️ app.bto.org/birds-in...

You can use the map to search for mapped greenspaces near you, suggest new sites and changes to existing ones if there's something we've missed!

Mackenzie Crook needs to be making more TV shows because I LOVE them!! Only one ep in to #SmallProphets and I'm here for it! The wildlife, the nature, the folklore 🥰🌳🍄

An ornithologist looks longingly at a woodcock in their hand.

Catch 'em with a bit of the ol' razzle dazzle ✨️ (and a BTO licence, obv)

Green woodpecker collage, made from a Yorkshire Tea cardboard box.

Collage assembly in progress - scissors used to dismantle box and cut pieces to form woodpecker shapes, and Pritt-stick used to fix pieces to paper

✂️ Yesterday I finally responded to @agakowalska.bsky.social’s challenge to make a collage from a single piece of packaging. I present to you a green (tea) woodpecker, made from a big Yorkshire Tea box. It was fun and I’ll be rooting through our recycling bin for more materials later on ♻️

Such a lovely weekend with the Nature Nerds at a snowy Nant yr Arian ❄️

Thank you 😊 Gratitude is definitely going to be my word of 2026.

Autism is wild cuz tell me why it's taken me OVER THREE HOURS to realise that I've been in tears all evening because I'm actually really happy 🙃

Ooof. Writing out your wedding guest list is a brilliant way of finding out you don't actually know the surnames of most friends 🤣🤣

A baby bat in my Christmas card 🎄🦇

I illustrated a whole bunch of garden birds for this project. Sign up now for a free resource pack !

Thank you 😊

If really awesome people could stop dying this year that would be great, thanks 😔

The only spotteds I have on my BBS are always right next to the stream!

Arm showing fresh tattoo of an elephant hawk moth near the upper forearm. The pinks of the ink are popping.

MOFF!! Awesome new addition to the nocturnal sleeve.

Shouting at seagulls could stop them stealing your food Shouting at seagulls makes them more likely to leave your food alone, research shows. University of Exeter researchers put a closed Tupperware box of chips on the ground to pique herring gulls’ intere...

"Shouting at seagulls makes them more likely to leave your food alone, research shows."

#Gulls

news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...

Been at @rspb.bsky.social Minsmere less than 20 minutes and already had one of the best birding experiences of my life - FIVE bearded tits feasting together on the reeds. Absolutely phenomenal.

I just got ID'd buying tipex. Happy 33rd Birthday to me 🥳

If not supposed to eat raw elder berries, why so delicious???

I suppose it would be weird if I was hearing them with someone else's ears 😬

Bats! Being able to hear them with my own ears (sans detector) is such a privilege and something I frequently forget about when around traffic and other urban noise 🦇

A few #recordshot photos of very fluffy fulmar chicks on @skokholmisland.bsky.social 🥰

I absolutely cannot wait to read this book!!