Simon Pinder

Jimmy Cliff - Vietnam YouTube video by RastaChaka

What a loss. From that beautiful opening line of ‘Many rivers to cross’ to ‘Vietnam’. Soulful intelligent perfect. m.youtube.com/watch?v=X9Q4...

Outstanding. Well done Fraser.

Detections of Rare Species Lead Citizen Scientists to Initiate Data Recording Aim Citizen science data are increasingly used to monitor biodiversity but come with several challenges that can impair accurate ecological conclusions. We explore how observers' preferences for cer...

Very pleased to share my first PhD paper, out now in @consbiog.bsky.social:

Backstrom, L. J., Drake, R. L., Worthington, H., & Johnston, A. (2025). Detections of Rare Species Lead Citizen Scientists to Initiate Data Recording. Diversity and Distributions, 31(10), e70103. doi.org/10.1111/ddi.... ⤵️

Quite pleased to find this 1 cy Caspian Gull at Angle Park this evening. Not many records for Fife. Fewer than 5 I think accepted.

Wow what a brilliant video.

Male and female gang-gang cockatoos from Victoria, Australia earlier in the year.

This is terrible. Discarded by-catch resulting from near shore bottom trawling in Scotland. Destructive, wasteful, and should be banned outright...

Purple hairstreak egg on a wind thrown oak crown at Lindores, Fife this afternoon. Easy to find when the top of the tree is eye level.

Otter hunting at Wilderness this afternoon.

Freshly dead and partially predated little auk this afternoon at Ruddon’s Point. Turns out they do a bit of a neck.

Caught the last of the light at Angle Park after work. Smew, two great white egrets, merlin and whooper swan, but the sunset over the Lomond hills the best.