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6 years

Here in #Shetland we only shoot Mountain Hares with cameras, not guns. That's because, despite having thousands of acres of upland hills, we don't have any driven grouse shooting. No grouse moors means no blameless hares being persecuted. Happy Easter, #GrouseMoorEasterBunny 🐇

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The 47 million to 1 shot. Today marks the opening of the pheasant shooting season in the UK. On average, 47 million pheasants are released into the British countryside *every year*, with incalculable harm done to native wildlife, just so people can shoot them for fun. 🙄 (1/2)

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Today's the Inglorious Twelfth. The day bloodsport enthusiasts begin shooting Red Grouse for fun. It's not a thing here in #Shetland . We have no managed grouse moors. Our hills abound with life. You'll be told managed grouse moors are better for wildlife. It's not true.

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Blinded and grounded by a disease it can't possibly understand, a Gannet today in #Shetland responding to what it can hear, the sound of the sea. If only @DefraGovUK cared to listen too. The scale and extent of wild bird deaths from avian flu in the UK is colossal this year.

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Goodbye, Freya. A blameless Walrus killed this morning by #Norway 's @fiskeridir simply for being inconvenient. Apparently the decision to shoot her was for her 'well-being'. An astonishing and repugnant act. What the hell is wrong with people?

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4 years

An absolutely humbling afternoon today watching this magnificent Minke Whale feeding in a sheltered bay on the edges of Lerwick. Other British towns have urban foxes - here in #Shetland we have urban whales.

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1 year

Hugely toxic neonicotinoid pesticides to be sprayed again in the UK. @DaveGoulson excellent on this on @BBCr4today , while @NFUSugar declined to engage. I wonder if DDT would have been banned in 80s were @NFUtweets as powerful a lobbyist as it is nowadays.

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5 years

And when I say they were right in the centre of town, I’m not exaggerating. If they were urban foxes* they’d have been knocking over our dustbins... *you can keep your urban foxes, #London . We have urban orca here in #Shetland ... 😉 @PromoteShetland

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4 years

Bit of a sunset presently from my kitchen window in #Shetland . This is taken as seen. No filters, no processing. The landscape is glowing. #sunset

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6 years

It's finally here! Today's publication day for my #OrchidSummer ! It's been years in the dreaming, the planning and the writing and now, at last, it's real. I really hope you enjoy it.

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4 years

Some high botanical drama last night when I heard that Harebells had been seen yesterday in #Shetland . Presumed to be extinct, they've not been seen (as far as I know) here since the 1980s. But here, today, was a small wind-tossed patch of them. A joy.

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An intense, albeit fleeting aurora earlier this evening in the sky over my #Shetland home. All this with a soundtrack of Whooper Swans bugling on the loch behind me, and Common Snipe dropping down from the sky into the damp field all around me. A slice of heaven.

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4 years

A bit of bouldering involved today to get myself down the cliffs to the water's edge behind my #Shetland croft, where this summer-plumaged Great Northern Diver was pure two tone ska at Skaw.

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3 years

That moment you're watching a pair of Whooper Swans and you're photobombed by an Otter... A snowy, fine morning here in #Shetland today. #Winterwatch

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3 years

Today took a turn for the dramatic, with the discovery of a Monarch butterfly here in #Shetland . They're long distance migrants, annually crossing the USA to winter in Mexico - but this one's been blown off course, and crossed an entire ocean. A dream butterfly to see in Britain.

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1 year

A Small Elephant Hawkmoth roosting yesterday on a Greater Butterfly Orchid in the French Pyrenees. These compact moths are attracted at night to the powerful scent of butterfly orchids - the latter rather misnamed on the basis of the identity of their pollinators.

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6 years

Just found a French roadside field containing - and this really is no exaggeration - what must be tens of thousands of Serapias orchids. Astonishing. #OrchidSummer #orchid

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4 years

There's currently a little bit of an aurora borealis over #Shetland - and a break in the constant cloud cover of recent days in which to catch a glimpse of it.

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3 years

Oh hello, you...* I've been looking for a Ghost Orchid for the best part of 35 years now. I've never so much as seen a glimpse of the phantom... until today, when I found one. Needless to say, am pretty happy about that. *was NOT what I said the moment I saw the wraith.

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3 years

Beyond delighted this week to find a couple of early-flowering Edmonston's Chickweed here in #Shetland on their home island of Unst. Found there and nowhere else in the world, it's one of the jewels in Shetland's crown, and something I love sharing with visitors to the islands.

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5 years

An unexpected distraction... a Bee-eater has arrived, just down the road. The joys of trying to work here in #Shetland during the autumn.

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2 years

Distracted from work today by the arrival of a Wood Warbler in my #Shetland garden. Autumn migration is under way!

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2 years

Small Adder's-tongue (Ophioglossum azoricum) is a tiny fern found in #Shetland with a big genetic secret - an enormous genome, comprising some 480 chromosomes. What's it doing with all of those? We humans make do with 46 chromosomes. Small Adder's-tongue is up to something.

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3 years

English Bluebells are just beginning to come into flower now. Always a beautiful sight, we've loved them for centuries - their bulbs have been used to provide glue to fletch arrows, starch to stiffen Elizabethan ruffs, and toxic adhesive to bind books (and deter insect pests).

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4 years

An extraordinary sunset here in #Shetland last night and, with it, one of the most moving and intimate wildlife encounters I've ever had - an Otter fishing just offshore, bringing catches to the rocks beside me to eat before returning to the flaming water. (1/2)

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3 years

There's rarely a dull moment in #Shetland at this time of year. Sometimes the excitement is almost on the doorstep - today a Hoopoe, found a mile from home, happily tootling around on a garden lawn, hunting earwigs. 🪳

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4 years

Absolute chaos in my #Shetland garden when a Merlin gatecrashed the migrant bird party, taking a Blackcap. Birds erupted in all directions, including into a window in the case of this stunned Goldcrest. Pleased to report it’s recovered and is now hunting insects in the dogwood.

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2 years

A tremendously exciting new British butterfly for me today in Kent - one of the newly discovered small colony of Queen of Spain Fritillaries near Deal. Took a bit of finding as it roosted in cool, overcast conditions, but the old butterfly-hunting eyes aren't failing me yet...

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4 years

A gorgeous Mountain Hare relaxed and at ease in its upland environment. Here in #Shetland we only shoot them with cameras. It's a shame the same can't be said for mainland Scotland where, on grouse moors, they face relentless and determined persecution.

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4 years

The Heather this year in #Shetland really is extraordinary. Some years we barely get a dusting of purple on the hills, but this warm summer has served us well, with a rolling carpet of rich colour.

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3 years

If you’d told me, 25 years ago, that I’d live somewhere where Pied Flycatchers were regular, annual visitors to my garden, I’d never have believed you. But here I am in #Shetland , after a couple of decades of these beauties visiting me. This one, yesterday.

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3 years

Sadly, driftwood isn't all recent heavy seas are depositing on my #Shetland beach. A Gannet, newly returned to breed here after wintering off West Africa, has drowned, entangled in ghost gear - lost fishing nets. This must happen so often, out of sight and out of mind.

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3 years

Woken this morning to the silvery threads of Wren song outside the window. My #Shetland croft has a lattice of drystone walls laid across it - these are the wrens' kingdoms, sheltered places to feed and breed. A fencepost, however, is an irresistible vantage point to sing from.

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3 years

Formerly an unthinkably rare British bird, but forever a joy to see on these shores - a Red-flanked Bluetail this dark afternoon here in #Shetland , just a few hundred yards from home. My fourth here since one I found in the garden 15 years ago, this was a bright individual.

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5 years

Many Goldcrests have arrived in #Shetland during the past couple of days. Their silvery calls are the sound of present #migration - amazing to think a bird that weighs less than a 2 pence coin can readily cross the North Sea.

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3 years

An astonishing winter scene at Voe here in #Shetland today, with sea ice creaking as the tide changes, and another heavy snow shower blows by further to the north.

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4 years

Massive congratulations to local birder Dougie Preston for finding this uber-rare Tennessee Warbler on his local patch on Yell this morning. The 3rd record for #Shetland , and only the 5th for Britain - the last, in 1995, was on St Kilda. (1/2)

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3 years

A Puffin yesterday enjoying a contemplative moment in a bed of Thrift. While some birds are busily bringing fish ashore, others are taking some time out to rest, do some feather maintenance, have a little snooze. This bird did all of that, eventually falling asleep before us.

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4 years

Before I bombard you with subtle (i.e. brown) Cuban birds, and before I maybe go offline for another week, have a Cuban Tody. Was there ever a more improbable bird? A body that seems to be mostly a head, that stubby joke of a tail. Throw in some neon floof and it’s otherworldly.

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4 years

Today seems like a good day for a ghost story... The first Ghost Orchid to be recorded in Britain was found in July 1854 by Mrs Anderton Smith in Herefordshire. Not recognising it, she picked it, and it was sent away to be identified. (1/12) (This image, from 1978, c/o A.Wake)

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3 years

First thing I saw when I opened the curtains this morning at dawn - yesterday's pair of Humpback Whales just 100m offshore below the house. Followed them for half an hour as they slowly headed east along the shore. Hopeful now they'll keep hanging around in days to come.

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5 years

Who wants to hug a hoodie? Hooded Crows don't get favourable press - perhaps because, like all the crow family, they're traditionally vilified by the farming and shooting communities - but they're handsome and intelligent birds, bursting with character.

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2 years

Walrus! Third time lucky for me after missing two previous British records. Walking on air now after an incredible encounter here in #Shetland with one of the world's great mammals.

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3 years

When I lived in England, I looked out for hagstones, or adder-stones - pebbles with a naturally formed hole in them. I've never found one in Shetland, but pick up their shell counterparts - limpets worn into rings. There's magic in them, I'm sure. What are your natural talismans?

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6 years

Heading back towards Annapolis after a long, brilliant day in the field orchid-hunting in Maryland. Some great plants, but this roosting Luna Moth stole the show...

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4 years

I've been spending a lot of time with the local #Shetland wrens recently. Their lives and loves are better than any soap opera one cares to name. Speaking of names... here they're sisti moose, (roughly, mouse kin). In Faroe, músabróður, or mouse brother.

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11 months

Just another photo of a Lizard Orchid. Nothing to see here...

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5 years

Finding a Jay feather always feels like a blessing - I’m sure there’s no better omen the natural world can give. This, yesterday, the second time the fates have smiled this way on me this year.

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4 years

No filters, just the #Shetland simmer dim doing golden this evening as a fishing boat puts out to sea just before midnight.

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6 years

Life is good when a Wood Warbler drops in, unexpectedly, into your #Shetland garden. This, yesterday.

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2 years

BOOM! Bittern a few hundred metres from home this morning - a very rare sight here in #Shetland , and a great find yesterday by @SeawatchJones . Whoever said December was quiet for wildlife in Shetland? First a Walrus, and now this beauty. @BBCSpringwatch

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3 years

Extraordinary views this morning of #Shetland 's second-ever Black-winged Pratincole. It's not often a rare bird actually runs up to where one's standing - at times too close to focus upon! Shetland's first was shot on Fair Isle way back in 1927... (1/2)

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Well, this is VERY exciting. I've only just gone and found Shetland's second ever record of Common Twayblade! First was found in 2021 - this is at a site some 40 miles further north. A scattered colony of flowering & non-flowering plants. A common orchid elsewhere, but rare here.

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5 years

The wonderful sound of a singing Storm Petrel deep inside a lichen-clad #Shetland drystone wall today. “Like a fairy being sick”, in the words of the late local naturalist Bobby Tulloch.

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4 years

Sat writing this week's Rarity Round Up for @RareBirdAlertUK and this little beauty has just popped up in my #Shetland garden - Greenish Warbler, 184th species for the garden list. Living the dream.😊

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2 years

A picture of utter bliss - with a full belly, and seemingly not a care in the world, a sleepy dog Otter at ease on a bed of Bladderwrack at low tide here in #Shetland . I don't think I've ever met a bigger Otter than this hefty fellow.

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5 years

Shetland is renowned for records of extraordinarily rare birds - it's one of the reasons I moved here many years ago. This morning I caught up with Britain's sixth ever Great Knot - 30 years after Britain's first was found, also in #Shetland .

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7 months

We've got a first for Britain on our hands! A superb find by John Lowrie Irvine here on Whalsay, Britain's first ever Western Olivaceous Warbler. Huge thanks to Phil Harris, Paul Harvey & Roger Riddington for trapping and establishing ID in hand. What a bird!

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5 years

I don’t know what the collective noun for many hundreds of Pintails is. A haberdashery? These, today, outside Aizu, #Japan .

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2 years

Vagrant sea mammals are always a welcome sight in #Shetland . We don't bother them, and they don't bother us. Bearded Seals are slightly more regular Arctic visitors than the tragically ill-fated 🇳🇴 #Freya the Walrus, sometimes seen in harbours, always a delight.

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4 years

Lesser Twayblades are one of Britain's smallest orchids -some barely 2cm tall when in bloom. They're notoriously hard to see... but yesterday I found a new population of at least 300 plants a few minutes from home, probably Shetland's largest known colony.

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3 years

Breaking news as I headed north this morning out of Lerwick - a White-throated Sparrow found in Unst birder Robbie Brookes's #Shetland garden. With a bird this rare and this confiding, it would've been rude not to...

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2 years

In a #GoneFishing Christmas special, the newly arrived Bittern is still showing pretty well here on Whalsay this afternoon. Fuelled by a steady diet of sticklebacks*, it seems fairly settled and happy here in #Shetland for the time being. *it NEVER misses

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3 years

I am Puffin, hear me roar. A slightly unconventional Puffin image, but I like the way it shows the denticles, or tiny backward-facing spines, on the upper inside face of the bill. Puffins press their tongue up against these when carrying fish; the denticles keep the fish secure.

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6 years

I can't quite believe they're finally real, but... the first copies of #OrchidSummer have emerged from the post this morning! Huge thanks to everyone at @BloomsburyBooks who have made this dream come true. Am planning on spending the rest of the day grinning Cheshire cattishly...

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4 years

Last week it was wolves loping through Belgium. Today it’s wild boars in Italy. Nature is reclaiming the streets.

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4 years

On a positive note, at least nature is returning to our cities. This is from Bergamo, Italy...

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5 years

I #amwriting about Goldcrests today- they arrived in #Shetland in some numbers lately, the most unlikely birds to make open sea crossings. On #Madeira , the closely related Madeira Firecrest has abandoned migration, and haunts the deep forests and ribeiras of that lush island.

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3 years

Snowy Owl, showing well this morning at Collafirth, #Shetland . If only they were all this easy.

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6 years

One evening, two rare warblers within half a mile of one another in #Shetland . I couldn't resist a Booted & Pallas's Warbler double today. Particularly the Pallas's... they have chutzpah to spare.

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2 years

If there's one wildflower that loves a cool, damp #Shetland summer, it's Ragged Robin. This year's proving to be a superb one for it, with a profuse and prolonged flowering of this graceful plant.

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1 year

Female Holly Blue in southern England, one of just 4 species seen all day. The contrast between here and the Pyrenees is acute. Not simply the lack of butterflies - but the lack of insects of all kinds. Is this legacy of last year's scorching summer, or a more profound rubicon?

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3 years

Have been spending a lot of time lately looking at subtle Cladonia lichen species here near my #Shetland home. When I can’t make sense of what’s happening in the wider world, it’s calming to lose myself in a miniature world of moss meadows and forests of lichen.

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7 years

Am thrilled to announce that my new book, Orchid Summer, will be published by @BloomsburyBooks on 19th April 2018...

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4 years

I need to I need to make a decision in the next 24 hours, and select two images from the rich tapestry of a #Shetland wildflower summer. I'd like some help, please... Which of Ragged Robin, Bog Asphodel, Sea Pink, and Bog Cotton would *you* choose?

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4 years

Starting tomorrow morning on my Twitter feed, I'd like to invite you to join me for a week-long orchid hunt. Hopefully a little colourful escapism from the comfort of home...

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3 years

Today just got significantly better... Black-throated Thrush now on my house list, seen initially from the bedroom window thanks to a timely call from finder John Lowrie Irvine.

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2 years

If a Green Hairstreak and a Small Copper loved one another very much, and had babies*, they'd surely look like this - Provence Hairstreak is a lovely mix of hairstreak hues & copper colour. Allegedly the hairiest butterfly species in Europe, we found several y'day. *floofy ones

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3 years

A superpod of 1,428 White-sided Dolphins killed y’day in the Faroe Islands. These could, easily, be the same animals we’ve seen lately in Shetland. But that personal grief aside, this is utterly vile. ‘Tradition’ can’t absolve this. It’s beyond time for change, @Tinganes .

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In the face of depressing worldwide news from all quarters today, here's a Saw-billed Hermit keeping its chin up. I'm going to follow that positive example.

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2 years

I know, it's 'just' a Robin, but really, it's not. For starters, it's the first migrant bird to make landfall here on my #Shetland croft this spring, so it's a welcome sign of the changing seasons. But mainly, no bird is 'just' anything. They're all brilliant in their own right.

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Twitter, meet Odette. I'm assuming Odette is a girl, but she might well not be. We've not established that yet. A young Whooper Swan, she's taken up residence outside my #Shetland house, and has taken to bugling at me every morning when I walk out to feed the hens. #lovebirds

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On 11th May 1947, Britain's first ever Collared Flycatcher was found (and shot, as was the way back then) here on my #Shetland croft. Eight years ago today, this little beauty was in my garden. The coming week - indeed, today - feels like time for another somewhere in Shetland...

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4 years

Ragged Robin is presently at its best across Shetland - their colour a little more subtle than the intense tones of the Red Campion that's now going over, and found in damper places. Wet knees yesterday a small price to pay to take photos in a sea of these tatty, willowy plants.

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6 months

There’s an Otter in my greenhouse…

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6 years

Had a very special encounter on my French #orchid hunt today - I found a bee pseudocopulating with an Ophrys araneola, or small spider orchid. A rarely seen moment! (And one I've never photographed before... Time for a celebratory glass of red wine, I think!)

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You dancer! Only the second time I've seen a Rosy Starling in the pink here in the UK. The last time was decades ago while living in Kent. Today in #Shetland , a shopping trip to town was a good excuse to detour slightly onto Burra for this absolute gem. #TwitterNatureCommunity

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5 years

I couldn’t tell you how many Painted Lady butterflies I have seen here in Rhodes in the past 48 hours - countless thousands, many streaming north / northwest across the island. These were refuelling on the coast today before heading on out to sea. Next stop, mainland Europe...

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3 years

Twitter tells me it's 5 years since I joined @Twitter . I've written 2 books in that time - Orchid Summer, and imminent The Glitter in the Green - found some great stories, and met many hundreds of great folk on here. Nature Twitter is a fabulous online ecosystem. Thanks everyone.

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Sat down this evening to write the Rarity Round Up for @RareBirdAlertUK and who should appear at my window but this fine Barred Warbler. The joys of a #Shetland garden.

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Is this the rarest plant in the world? It just might be. Laxo Burn Hawkweed (Hieracium attenuatifolium) has only ever grown on the banks of a stream in #Shetland . Down to 12 plants in 1988, by 2010 just 2 tried to flower, but were grazed by sheep. This plant's one of a few left.

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Still grinning like an absolute idiot after finally seeing a wild Dragon Arum in full, fresh, foetid flower in the eastern Mediterranean. A lifetime ambition realised today. Aren't plants *brilliant*? #wildlifephotography #wildflowers #NaturePhotography @thorogoodchris1

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5 years

Here, now, in the white night of the #Shetland simmer dim, Arctic Terns are hunting moths over my fields this evening. @shetlandnature @JLowenWildlife @PromoteShetland @RSPBScotland @Natures_Voice

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4 years

No fireworks here to herald the breaking of New Year's Day, so here's an explosion of colourful shell debris on a #Shetland beach instead. How many species can you identify?

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3 years

They're not going to win any prizes for dramatic, colourful stage presence, but Lesser Twayblade orchids have a subtle charm all their own. They're currently in their prime here in #Shetland - a hidden prize for the keen-eyed searcher.

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1 year

The northern lights are KICKING OFF overhead here in #Shetland right now! @StormHour @BBCStargazing

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4 years

I've only found Common Goose Barnacle (Lepas anatifera) once before on the shore here in #Shetland , a small colony attached to a fishbox. Recently, a more traditional host for this pelagic species washed up - an immense log, some 8 feet long, densely packed with grasping life.

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1 year

We've seen some good butterflies today in the French Pyrenees, but my favourite moment was some time to savour a colony of Elder-flowered Orchids. They come in two colour forms, a rich purple and this gorgeous buttery yellow. The latter stole my heart.

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1 year

On a more positive note, a friend has been taking the lead with turning a community greenspace in Kent, formerly laid wholly to mown grass, to something a little more biodiverse. It's in the middle of a town. But this evening, a Common Blue had found it. @BBCSpringwatch

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2 years

David Dunn. 2.2.41 - 2.5.22. Proud Cornishman. Played rugby for Camborne and Redruth. Would never have called himself a birder, but took me to hear Nightingales late one night in Dorset. My dad.

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Some may wonder what’s become of one of Twitter’s gentlemen, the lovely @themarshtit . Here’s the news. He’s been locked out. And his crime? Posting a video of some calling Pink-footed Geese. C’mon @Twitter . I know you’ve got stuff on at the moment, but please #freethenorfolkone

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