Tristan ap Rheinallt🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Birder and all-round naturalist living in Scotland and France. Outer Hebs recorder for bryophytes. Also interested in languages, history, writing. #Cymro

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@angnatur Coed y Berllan???

[ACHUB PENRHOS / SAVE PENRHOS NATURE RESERVE 🍃💚🍃 @PenrhosSave]

🧵Today our #LadiesofPenrhos will make their way down the #A470 to #Cardiff to fight for our forest. Pob lwc @twittyhilster @Lisabla82973016 @SharonJ12520980 Please RT to send a wave of luck with them. We must #SavePenrhos for the future generations (photos Nigel Barry)

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@Alexander_Lees Ironic that the last sentence is happening anyway without AI intervention.

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@andrewstoddart Hi Andy, can't DM but I have these taken on the Isle of Lewis (full res available).

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@WiWildlife Lovely weekend ahead, but the forecast for next week is dire. Might have to escape to the Camargue.

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Today was the 1st fine day following a fortnight of rain here in central France, so off we went to a nearby reserve at Étang des Landes. A young Little Gull was our most exciting find, but this Pochard - one of many breeding here - was far more photogenic.

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Our search yesterday for Grey-headed Woodpecker in the Forêt de Tronçais (France) drew a blank, but any disappointment evaporated in the face of this Short-toed Eagle that circled at close range for a long time.

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@SPTomos Roedd fy nhad yn athro yno yn nechrau'r chwedegau - pan oedd modd teithio o Amlwch i Langefni ar y trên

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@hernanriverol Kumlien's

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@chrisvanswaay Gloomy but certainly interesting. In 2023 I noticed an almost complete absence of skippers from my garden in central France. Up to and including 2022, Large Skipper in particular was a regular visitor. What will this year bring, I wonder.

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@jayshrike Brings back happy memories of a couple of months ago

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@JohnSNadin54 Lovely video, John. Can't believe it's 33 years since the last (and first) time I saw this species.

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I've #justsponsored Stephen Duffield, who's fundraising for Alzheimer Scotland on @JustGiving. Donate now https://t.co/GkIUouCgv7

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@sim_nature @Trichocolea @AverisBen @BBSbryology I agree with Ben. Although some of the leaves might potentially be C. bicuspidata, others have the wrong shape, with the sinus too shallow.

[New Scientist @newscientist]

Newborns aged just 1 to 3 days old appear to have distinct brainwaves in response to speech if they have a bilingual mother, compared with those born to monolingual mothers, adding further weight to the idea that language acquisition starts in the uterus. https://t.co/n0zZDwJfww

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Hiding by imitating a plant stem, 9/10 for effort. Yellow Bittern, Chiang Dao, Thailand recently.

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@cff2505 Lucky you!

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This is one of two Jackdaws on 14th at Loch Stiapabhat LNR in the Ness district of Lewis. Jackdaws breed in small numbers in Stornoway but rarely turn up elsewhere on the island - in almost 20 years, I've only ever seen one bird (in May).

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Under the radar, Tory MPs & landowning lobbyists are trying to undermine nature protections in England.

Yesterday, Tory MP Derek Thomas tabled a Bill in Parliament to strip Natural England of its power to create nature reserves (SSSIs) & instead give that power to Ministers. 1/

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That's to say, only ever seen one bird before these two on 14th.