Jeremy Lindsell

Still going strong this evening doing circuits by the sluice

Loose dog incidents force temporary closure of historic nature reserve to the public | Wildlife Trust for Beds Cambs & Northants Conservationists have taken the difficult decision to temporarily close a nature reserve in Cambridgeshire to the public after repeated instances of dogs off leads.

Well done @wildlifebcn.org for taking this stance. At Hayley Wood.
Rights of access do not mean right to ignore the owners requests.
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Letter to the editor concerning the paper “Attraction points: A new sampling design method to quantify common finches' populations” published by Marazuela Pinela et al. in Ecological Indicators, 171, ...

New 'letter to the editor' criticising a previous paper published in Ecological Indicators is well worth a read: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Includes this quote 'At least two of them (Marazuela Pinela and López Espí) are self-proclaimed silvestristas—the Spanish term for songbird trappers'

A beautiful barn owl in the headlights as I driving home this evening

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Two upcoming book launch events...
The stories we tell about human origins quietly shape our assumptions and intuitions about fundamental values like freedom and equality, and about how we relate to each other and to the natural world.

I wonder whether anyone else spotted this

Little Tern flying over colony, Beacon Ponds, Spurn, by Thomas Willoughby

In this month’s News & Comment: A new study examines how breeding Little Terns respond behaviourally to different types of human disturbance.

Read more: britishbirds.co.uk/journal/arti...

📸Thomas Willoughby

If you're looking for a practice to take on for Lent this year, check out Climate Stewards Carbon Fast.
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Successful campaign proves Ghana’s forests are worth more than gold (commentary) On Dec. 10, 2025, Ghana’s government revoked one of the worst pieces of environmental legislation in our country’s history. The Environmental Protection (Mining in Forest Reserves) Regulations passed ...

Macroeconomics affect conservation on the ground. The surge in gold prices drove unregulated mining in Ghana's forest reserves. @mongabay.com report on the fightback led by local NGOs.

Sorry to hear Nick. In dozens of visits I made to Beddington in the late 1980s I rarely failed to bump into Gary there. He was the first patch devotee I knew.

Variation in Tree Growth Increases With Global Warming In recent decades, considerable research has focused on the long-term trend of tree growth rates under global warming, yet little attention has been paid to trends in high-frequency tree growth varia...

Climate warming is generally making trees grow faster, but the greater effect is that tree growth is becoming more unpredictable, creating a threat to the stability of forests. New paper by Li & He (2026). 🧪🌏🌐🌲🌳

Interesring! I'm sure I just didn't understand this well enough but I'm unclear whether they found a correlation of growth rate variance with temp itself or with changing temp. Is it the temp itself or is it the fact the temp is changing that would drive the increased variance

AI generated image posing as a photo of a Double-banded Courser

The swan pic looks like an innocent mistake, but important lesson to understand when a once basic function like lighten or sharpen is now done with "generative" methods.

Facebook on the other hand... 🤮

I loved that place

Tears of joy! SCOTLAND HAS JUST PASSED SWIFT BRICKS INTO LAW unanimously!
4 years of asking England & Scotland sorts it in a month led by ACE ⁦‪ MARK RUSKELL MSP‬⁩ ♥️The RELIEF is unreal! Tell England to follow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿by emailing PlanningPolicyConsultation@communities.gov.uk now!WOOP!

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 ♻️

Legs seemed OK just moved rather slowly

This Otter by River Ouse in Over was very confiding today making me suspect it was not entirely healthy. Can anyone comment on its back rubbing behaviour?

That one's a White-browed Crombec Mark. Nice photo.

A screenshot of the "Creators for Creation" program webpage.

Do you know anyone who'd be interested? Pls share!

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Tiny forests, huge claims: The evidence gap behind the Miyawaki method for forest restoration To scale up restoration effectively, practitioners and policymakers should prioritize methods supported by robust empirical evidence rather than relying on untested claims. Our findings highlight the...

I often get asked about the Miyawaki method of forest restoration, usually by people who have heard extraordinary claims for it. Morales et al. (2025) have reviewed the evidence and found it to be weak or absent. 🌏🧪🌳🌲 besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Can anyone help me find a slightly obscure reference from Revue de zoologie et de botanique africaines, Volume 80. It is de Roo-de Ridder, A. & de Roo-de Ridder, F. 1969. The first records of Cinnyris “ogilvie-granti” (Bannerman) from the Congo Republic. Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr. 80: 391–396. #birds

Important work! I was doing this very thing as well last week. Will you be moving on to insisting that data are plural? 🤣

Wow good effort!

Ancylosis oblitella

Evergestis obviella

Oak Processionary

Uncinus obductella

Amazing moth catch on Friday night with 6 nfg including some rare and adventive species in VC29. 7 Ancylosis oblitella, Uncinus obductella, Jersey Tiger, 4 Gypsy Moths, Evergestis limbata, 3 Oak Processsionary, Oncocera semirubella, and Orthotelia sparganella. Incredible catch 877 of 114!

The garden moth list notches up another one with Pammene aurita in the orange. Plus Apotomis lineana, Scorched Carpet and Recurvaria nanella.

Now they parked their tanks on our lawn have we got another handy term for the Bebbington sort of evangelical to use?

Kids Summer Day Camps in Winnipeg -- A Rocha Manitoba A Rocha’s summer day camps help kids experience the wonder of creation through games, stories, crafts, and singing in the great outdoors.

Parents in Winnipeg! Do you need something for your kids to do this summer?
A Rocha's nature exploration day camps have some spaces left and they're super affordable (we've got a pay what you can model if needed).

arocha.ca/mbdaycamps

screen grab of the event Misinformation and the Threat to Conservation from https://members.linnean.org/events/67fd2addd5f1de00084dd431/description

I'll be in London next week discussing misinformation and the #biodiversity crisis with @amydickman.bsky.social and @clarecarlile.bsky.social at an event organised by the ‪@linneansociety.bsky.social ‬https://members.linnean.org/events/67fd2addd5f1de00084dd431/description 🌍

We saw all but one of Palawan's 27 endemic birds in just three days. In fact we saw 24 of them on our first day thanks to able guiding by John Stephen Tuboc ("Step"). Far easier birding than on Luzon.