Daniel Ash Wildlife Photography

Yorkshire Wildlife photographer with a passion for conservation and all things nature! #dannyinthewild Currently in 🇵🇪!

[Joe Fryer @Joebirding]

Absolutely blown away with how close this barn owl let me get today lovely end to a days work at NT brimham rocks. @nybirdnews @nationaltrust @fountainsabbey @BirdGuides @Hawkandowluk @nidderdalenl

[Leo @leo_qbn]

Golden Bosun at Christmas Island recently.
This golden form of White-tailed Tropicbird is only found on Christmas Island. #seabirds #WildOz

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

If you are worried about

Benefit Fraud £0.5bn, but not Government Corruption £58bn.

Or immigration £2bn, but not Tax Havens £150bn.

Or NHS maximum potential pay rises of £3bn, but not Bankers tax cuts of £7.3bn.

You are buying their lies.

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

A reminder, if you need it, that the word ‘swullocking’ means swelteringly and meltingly hot.

[Saving Wildcats (#SWAforLIFE) @SaveOurWildcats]

This summer we began the first trial releases of wildcats in Britain. Based on similar projects across the world, further releases and many more years of conservation action will likely be needed to save the wildcat in Scotland.

Support this work today ➡ https://t.co/QkNwZXdQjt

[Tim Scott @TimScot78560883]

Two Hobby’s on Ripon City Wetlands today.Also Marsh Harrier over, six Red Kite, one Great White Egret,one Ruff.@YWT_North @HarrogateNats @nybirdnews @NosterfieldLNR

[Tim Scott @TimScot78560883]

A pair of Marsh Harriers at Flask this morning.@NosterfieldLNR @HarrogateNats @HanbyAndrew @nybirdnews

[Anon Opin. @anon_opin]

Why are all these horrible new build estates not required by law to have all the houses fitted with solar panels and heat pumps as standard? Seems a pretty easy and basic 'green' option if the government was serious about tackling climate change etc.

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

You should, in science, believe logic and arguments, carefully drawn, and not authorities.

[VAL NORMINGTON @V_R_BirdSpot]

More from Scar House Res, What a Blissful sight just like a choir 😇 @Joebirding @nybirdnews @HarrogateNats

[Daniel Ash Wildlife Photography @WildlifeDaniel]

@Bru_Mog Sorry for your loss x

[Sam Knowlton @samdknowlton]

This video shows real-time carbon flows inside a mycorrhizal network.

Mycorrhizal fungi form a symbiotic relationship with ~ 90% of terrestrial plants and have done so for 400 million years.

These specialized fungi provide plants with nutrients and water in exchange for carbon-based exudates the plant produces through photosynthesis.

Current estimates say that between 4 and 20 percent of all CO2 pulled in by plants ends up stored in mycorrhizal tissues.

Considering plants need to build an entire above-ground structure, a root system, and produce flowers, fruits, and seeds, this is an astounding amount of carbon to allocate to mycorrhizal biomass.

A recent review study estimates that global plant communities transfer 13.1 gigatons of CO2 to the underground mycelium of mycorrhizal fungi each year – equivalent to roughly 1/3 of annual CO2 emissions from fossil fuels.

The amount of time the carbon is locked up in fungi’s mycelium remains unknown. Nonetheless, the influx of such a massive amount of carbon into the soil is a boon for soil ecology, nutrient cycling, and the health of water cycles.

It is no wonder the formation of terrestrial ecosystems largely started with the mycorrhizal fungi/plant partnership.

Video credit: @rachaelcargill

[Stephen Message @BenendenKent]

Whilst recording the remaining Lesser spotted Woodpecker to fledge this happened.
How amazing !
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[Daniel Ash Wildlife Photography @WildlifeDaniel]

@Kyfaa1 Thank you for your kind words!

[Daniel Ash Wildlife Photography @WildlifeDaniel]

The hoatzin or “shansho”. Striking little dinosaur #hoatzin #dinosaur #birdsofperu #BBCWildlifePOTD #BirdsSeenIn2022

[Saving Wildcats (#SWAforLIFE) @SaveOurWildcats]

We are conducting behaviour monitoring of the wildcats in our pre-release enclosures via CCTV at @HighlandWPark before their release 📷

This is because we want to see that they're developing natural behaviours that could help them survive a challenging life in the wild 🐾

[Saving Wildcats (#SWAforLIFE) @SaveOurWildcats]

Talla has given birth to FIVE feisty kittens! These wildcats can be viewed by the public at @HighlandWPark 😻

Although they're still small, these cats are making a HUGE contribution to the UK's conservation breeding programme, managed by @rzss ➡ https://t.co/yEA7nSq17s

[Daniel Ash Wildlife Photography @WildlifeDaniel]

@YWT_North @YorksWildlife @nybirdnews @RobNormington55 @V_R_BirdSpot

[Yorkshire Wildlife Trust - North Yorkshire @YWT_North]

Build it and they will come! Osprey on the platform at Ripon City Wetlands this lunchtime! Incredibly excited about this. Anybody recognise that blue darvic? 💥💥💥💥💥

[Nature Is Beautiful 🐾 🦋🌏🌸 @AMAZ1NG_NATURE]

.@RickyGervais gives his thoughts on trophy hunter Rebecca Francis.

"What must've happened to you in your life to make you want to kill a beautiful animal and then lie next to it smiling?"

"You don't use a bow & arrow and then take a smiling selfie in a mercy killing. She wanted to murder a giraffe & she did. Fuck the bullshit".

END #TrophyHunting NOW!!!

[BMcCloskey @BMcCloskey_98]

Day 3 in Morocco: ANDALUSIAN HEMIPODE!!! One of the most difficult species to see in the Western Palearctic. @BirdGuides @dutchbirding