@brianecambs.bsky.social
Wildlife enthusiast, photographer, elms/lichens/beetles/molluscs/protozoa and much else. CEO of Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, occasional leader for Wildlife Travel, visiting prof., Cranfield Uni. Views my own. He/him
@bishopnorwich.bsky.socialReposted by @brianecambs.bsky.socialMuch enjoyed @dioceseofnorwich.bsky.social “Sacred Spaces: churchyards for nature” event at St Andrew’s Holt compèred by @themarshtit.bsky.social with Norfolk Wildlife Trust & Norfolk Churches Trust. Congrats to All Saints’ Hemblington, winners of the inaugural NCT Churchyard Conservation Award.
@wildlifebcn.orgReposted by @brianecambs.bsky.social🥳We are very excited to see work starting on one of our biggest ever wetland restoration sites.
Now, after lots of planning and preparation, the diggers have arrived to turn an area almost the size of Hyde Park into a thriving wetland.
Read more here www.wildlifebcn.org/news/work-st...
@brianecambs.bsky.socialMy first freshwater dinoflagellate (a swimming alga) from a ditch at Woodwalton Fen: quite spectacular - www.flickr.com/photos/clado...
@bogtrotter2024.bsky.socialReposted by @brianecambs.bsky.socialGood to see Volume 13 of the Thorne & Hatfield Moors Papers in print 12 Papers incl. @ecology-digest.bsky.social Humberhead Levels spider survey: final report (1st part in Vol.12) more details on other papers in ALT. @brianecambs.bsky.social @bcyorkshire.bsky.social @lincswildlife.bsky.social
@brianecambs.bsky.socialI stumbled across your web app through a search, and it's brilliant, and great fun. I wanted to see distribution of 'elm' placenames and it's wonderfully thorough. Thanks for sharing - it needs to be more widely known!
@canopyrobin.comReposted by @brianecambs.bsky.socialWe're publishing new guidance to support trans people who do fieldwork (any work outside the office)!
Now we need your help to get them seen so please share! inclusivefieldwork.leeds.ac.uk/trans/
@scottzona.bsky.socialReposted by @brianecambs.bsky.socialStrelitzia nicolai is bird-pollinated in an unusual way. Perching birds, like this Cape weaver (Ploceus capensis), pick up the pollen on their feet! 📷: Andrew Core CCBYNC4. #Strelitziaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Want more #ornithophily? Prof. Jeff Ollerton wrote an excellent book about it.
@patrickbarkham.bsky.socialReposted by @brianecambs.bsky.socialI've written Joe Harkness's obituary for the Guardian. I hope it pays good tribute to a wonderful man who was brave, honest and made the world a better place. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
@andysymes.bsky.socialReposted by @brianecambs.bsky.socialBeautiful Plume pursued by small shadow dragons - dramatic scenes on my kitchen wall last night #TeamMoth
@vc40ladybirds.bsky.socialReposted by @brianecambs.bsky.socialUploading the Dot Ladybird (Stethorus pusillus) with 7-spot Ladybird (Coccinella septempunctata) again, just because I like it!! 😆 From August in Shropshire #VC40Ladybirds #MicroLadybird
@sheldonbirds.bsky.socialReposted by @brianecambs.bsky.socialI remember seeing Margaret Attwood at the IOC in Vancouver in 2018 - the closest thing to Canadian royalty?! Excellent to see a chair in Ornithology being endowed - see quoted tweet for direct details & more background in this @theguardian.com article
@osteoconnor.bsky.socialReposted by @brianecambs.bsky.socialI nearly didn't post this one from Private Eye. Then thought 'Go on. @justrena.bsky.social would have loved it'. I hope so.
@xkcd.comReposted by @brianecambs.bsky.socialTyrannosaurus
![Comic. [Person with long hair pointing to diagram with Tyrannosaurus Rex standing next to a person.] PERSON: We now believe the primary prey of Tyrannosaurus Rex was these humans who kept standing next to it for scale.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreih526pxolmi4pgqdcdu435uhkrrldhpwq6rrsnk4hfs6dskbe5r7e@jpeg)
@brianecambs.bsky.socialI'm not good enough at fungi to run courses, but I lead quite a lot of guided walks, and that's just the sort of explanation that people will remember :-)
@brianecambs.bsky.socialLovely way to describe it - I might use that in future if that's ok!
@richardkbroughton.bsky.socialReposted by @brianecambs.bsky.socialQuite emotional to report that we've just found our amazing survivor Marsh Tit, still here in his ancient woodland kingdom. He's now 11 yrs 4 months old, survived the 2026 heatwaves/drought and smelt the wildfires of nearby Holme Fen. I ringed him in my 30s and I'm now in my 50s.
@markavery.bsky.socialReposted by @brianecambs.bsky.socialAn account of a book scam markavery.info/2026/09/20/b...
@brianecambs.bsky.socialI had my first, in Bucks, at Rushmere, near Beds border, in August 2011: www.flickr.com/photos/clado... and it turned up in a light trap in Histon, Cambridge, this July.
@nuiipointer.bsky.socialReposted by @brianecambs.bsky.socialInteresting fungal find:
This parasitic plant fungus (Exobasidium karstenii) lives exclusively on bog-rosemary (Andromeda polifolia) and makes some of the leaves much broader, and purple.
The green and the purple leaves here are the same plant!
#naturephotography #fungifriends
@arepublic86.bsky.socialReposted by @brianecambs.bsky.socialCharlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books.
