Mel Orros

Ecologist by training. Interests include human-wildlife interactions, #birds, #mammals, #citizenscience. Love coffee, ale & red kites. She/her

[Somerset Wildlife Trust @SomersetWT]

Bitterns caught on camera (again)! 😯

We can't quite believe this incredible footage captured earlier this month — not one, not two, but THREE bitterns are all on camera together! 🙌

[Celia Richardson @CeliaRichards0n]

Today the National Trust launched a 10-year strategy with ambitious plans for nature & climate. Almost every paper reported positively - from the Mirror to the Express. Even the Mail. Only one outlet has used the word ‘woke’ and framed climate as a ‘culture wars’ issue. The BBC.

[The Good Grief Trust @goodgrieftrust]

A New Year thought from @Donna_ashworth 🧡

Why do we start a new year, with promises to improve?
Who began this tradition of never-ending pressure?
I say, the end of a year, should be filled with congratulation, for all we survived.
And I say a new year should start with promises to be kinder to ourselves, to understand better just how much we bear, as humans on this exhausting treadmill of life.

And if we are to promise more, let’s pledge to rest, before our bodies force us.
Let’s pledge to stop, and drink in life as it happens.
Let’s pledge to strip away a layer of perfection to reveal the flawed and wondrous humanity we truly are inside.

Why start another year, gifted to us on this earth, with demands on our already over-strained humanity.
When we could be learning to accept, that we were always supposed to be imperfect.
And that is where the beauty lives, actually.
And if we can only find that beauty, we would also find peace.

I wish you peace in 2025.
Everything else is all just a part of it.
Let it be so.

Donna Ashworth

[The UK Sepsis Trust @UKSepsisTrust]

🎄Winter infections can lead to sepsis – a condition that doesn’t take time off for the festive season.

Early recognition saves lives, so familiarise yourself with the signs in adults and children today.

Test your knowledge with our #SepsisSavvy game: https://t.co/6GXIA9UskH

[The Good Grief Trust @goodgrieftrust]

🧡🎄

[onjali rauf @OnjaliRauf]

This morning, Mum suddenly grabbed my hand as we watched the news on #GiselePelicot & said:

"We teach you girls to be so vigilant, to always stay alert, every minute of the day. But now what? How are we supposed to protect you while you're sleeping too?"

And it has broken me.

[Fiona Harvey @fionaharvey]

What kind of people burn wood when the Royal College of Paediatricians have asked them not to, for the sake of children’s health? Your middle class London neighbours, that’s who. They won’t stop until they’re made to. Story by ⁦@horton_official⁩ https://t.co/d7UNMgiYgP

[Max Barclay @Coleopterist]

This has not been reported much but is one of the most important and satisfying pieces of UK Science News for decades. This building houses the vouchers for much of Earth's biodiversity, and the room where Darwin and Wallace's world-changing theory was first announced.

[Siren Craft Brew @SirenCraftBrew]

🍫🍫 CARIBBEAN CHOCOLATE CAKE IS GO 🍫🍫

If these beers are new to you, the CCC story began in 2013 with a collab with none other than Florida's Cigar City. We were blown away with their experimentation with using wood in beer, and have taken that ball and run with it... 1/6

[Otto English @Otto_English]

According to the Daily Mail on 3rd May this year:

Jeremy Clarkson bought his 312-acre farm in 2012 for £4.25million so that:

"he would not be required pay death duties on the land"

#Budget2024

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

Before and after satellite images showing the scale of the catastrophic flooding disaster in Valencia...

[Volcaholic 🌋 @volcaholic1]

I'm blown away!!! Speechless in fact. The Valencian community are incredible. This is all the food, water and essentials that have been donated so far ❤️

📹 Banco de Alimentos de Valencia & Valencia Football Club

[BLS @BritishLymph]

The 12th National Lymphoedema Conference will take place on 13 February 2025 at the prestigious America Square Conference Centre, London.

Register Now!

https://t.co/e3AQEqbliP

[Matt Holland @HollandPie]

‘Clarkson, 64, who bought the 312-acre farm in 2012 for £4.25million, said that he chose to do so because he would not be required pay death duties on the land’.

Hmmmmm.

[National Trust for Scotland @N_T_S]

Halloween on South Uist in 1932... 😱 The island's children made homemade costumes from sheepskins, haystack wigs, sheep ears and even scraped-out skulls!

📸 Canna House Photographic Collection
#ForTheLoveOfScotland

[Emma Mitchell 💙 @silverpebble]

My botanical illustration zoom w'shop on 11 Jan 25 is now enrolling
I'll teach you how:
🌿to break down plants into simple shapes & add shading
🧠both contact with nature & time spent creatively improve mental health

Makes a💯🌲present.Earlybird price
https://t.co/XltYn7a35q

[Dorset Bird Club @DorsetBirdClub]

Have you seen unpleasant or discriminatory behaviour when out birding, or on birding social media? We're not going to tolerate it, and we encourage everyone to call out behaviour that makes others feel uncomfortable, unwelcome or discriminated against if they see it in the field.

[Tom Mallinson ⚕ WP-C @MallinsonT]

Middle managers seem to be trying to evict a cat
God forbid there’s any comforts at work

Animals are huge stress relievers

https://t.co/wtFF9vYOZX