Jake Brendish

Ecologist and (very) amateur wildlife photographer.

[Jake Brendish @Jake_Brendish]

Kicking off the year with a tawny owl sleeping in my local park
#birds #MScSISS #2020NewYear

[Jake Brendish @Jake_Brendish]

@Jo_the_botanist @drmgoeswild @UniofReading @ReadingBioSci @BSBIbotany Can I persuade you to adopt "slightly insane" as the NFG's slogan? 😂

[Lydia Cox @Lydoptera]

Young Wheatear from Porthgwarra coastline a few weeks ago, a treat for someone from central england #ornithology

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Spoonbill feeding earlier this afternoon, Suffolk
#birds @NatureUK @Britnatureguide @RareBirdAlertUK

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@hatbirder @drmgoeswild Seeing that Santa cork only worried me more!

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@hatbirder @drmgoeswild I badly misread this and it horrified me

[Jake Brendish @Jake_Brendish]

@durr_zoe @JMBagniewska @ReadingBioSci @BotanyRNG @MGS_tweets @RobWJackson @mpgreenwell @hatbirder @faustina_hwang @rachelmccrindle @NasutoSlawek @ZoologistZoe I'm not offended because you have a solid point 😂

[Joanna Bagniewska @JMBagniewska]

I've stolen your students, @drmgoeswild - sorry! But now they know what a quince is... #MScSISS

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Red and sika #deer are usually easy to tell apart, though hybridisation between the two is a major threat to red deer populations in Scotland
#MScSISS @NatureUK @iNatureUK

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Visit to the British #Wildlife Centre featuring a very photogenic fox and a shocked otter
#MScSISS @NatureUK

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@botanicalmartin @BSBIbotany @wildflower_hour Ah brilliant, thanks for clarifying! 🙂

[Jake Brendish @Jake_Brendish]

Open snowdrops, winter aconite and what could be Siberian iris(?)
#MScSISS @wildflower_hour #wildflowerhour @BSBIbotany

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@AdabelDickson @WWTSlimbridge @WWT @NatureUK @Britnatureguide Thank you! 🙂

[Jake Brendish @Jake_Brendish]

Water rail strutting around in the open at @WWTSlimbridge
#MScSISS @WWT @NatureUK @Britnatureguide #birds

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@JulzGiblin @Britnatureguide @NatureUK @BBOWT Thanks!

[Jake Brendish @Jake_Brendish]

Red #deer stag having a scratch somewhere in deepest, darkest Berkshire
#MScSISS @Britnatureguide @NatureUK @BBOWT

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@ecologymadders @NatureUK @Britnatureguide Thanks! A wintering bird survey - the nuthatch was just a bonus 😊

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A horizontal nuthatch spotted during a survey
#MScSISS @NatureUK @Britnatureguide #birds

[Jake Brendish @Jake_Brendish]

@21stEcologist I think I'm close to having allergic reactions just to the word "map" 😂

[Jake Brendish @Jake_Brendish]

After an intensive #GIS course, I'm happy to say that I'm mildly less inept and significantly more tired than I was this time last week
#MScSISS #ecology

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@BaldNeanderthal #MScSISS