Makes affordable wildlife behaviour-monitoring, camera-equipped habitats for birds and other critters🐦 Occasionally blog about said creations 🏡. Likes #bees
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explosions&fire is not science communication. science is a vehicle for the video to make statements that will not resonate and perhaps not even be perceived. i am desperate to not communicate with the viewer.
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Ruby-tailed Wasp in the garden today. The spines at the tip of the abdomen show that it's a male. #WaspLove
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Trying to get ruby-tailed wasp in flight is a huge challenge as they never stop long enough to get focus. But a day spent at the nature reserve that is the wall of our home was worth it! @BBCSpringwatch @OMSYSTEMcameras @CUPOTYawards
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All 10 blue tit babies are doing amazing! 🐣 Mr & Mrs Blue tit have found the live mealworm feeder and are taken full advantage of it! Well fed chicks! 🐦
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This is the most extraordinary capture using a #Solarcan by the incredibly talented @nicspenceryork - but what exactly are we seeing?
It's called an "Analemma" and is the result of a year's hard work by Nic. Every few days at exactly the same time Nic uncovered the Solarcan pinhole and let sunlight pass through. Over the course of 12 months these little exposures create a figure of 8 pattern, showing the Sun's changing position in our sky.
We promised that anyone able to create an analemma with a Solarcan would be sent a bag of goodies - and Nic, we can assure you that one is on its way to you!
Thank you and congratulations on the magnificent result!
©️ Nic Spencer, UK 🇬🇧 2024
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The iodine clock reaction is a classical chemical clock demonstration experiment to display chemical kinetics in action; it was discovered by Hans Heinrich Landolt in 1886
[📹 Mr A Shepherd]
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For a brief moment, everyone stopped arguing and started talking about how beautiful the sky was.
Damn I love that
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A very topical fly. Lots of these about now. Interesting as they are, a good reason to clean out/replace your bee hotels periodically so you're not just farming nest parasites.
The tiny fly Cacoxenus indagator waits around bee hotels for a Red Mason Bee to provision a brood cell with pollen, the fly then enters & lays eggs on the pollen before the cell is sealed. Fly larvae hatch & feed on the pollen #FliesofBritainandIreland @Ecoentogeek @StevenFalk1
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I have never seen anything like this in my life, a miracle above our garden! @OMSYSTEMcameras
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Quite literally, a biblical Aurora Borealis display tonight. I really hope you all got to see/photograph this once in a lifetime event.
[Church Hill - Alnmouth, Northumberland]
@bbcweather
@guardian
@N_landCouncil
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Eider drakes and reflections, North Berwick, Watercolour, 560 x 380mm.
Really enjoying this spell of settled weather and the fabulous, Drake Eider as they tussle for the attention of females.
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We found this queen European hornet (Vespa crabro) in the garden at the weekend!
These beautiful animals, despite their reputation, actually have a very docile and relaxed personality. As well as being great pollinators, decomposers and pest controllers!
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It's #worldrobberflyday today!
Here is one of the most fearsome apex predators of the Bornean jungle. An Ommatidius species of robberfly. Very fierce, very brave, very tiny.
My finger for scale.
@flygirlNHM
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Ruby-tailed or Cuckoo wasp thanks to @pickeletto OM1 90mm macro and 1.4x, flash and Cygnustech diffuser @cygnustechmacro could be a cover shot for my garden book? @OMSYSTEMcameras @BBCSpringwatch @CUPOTYawards @BBCCountryfile @Buzz_dont_tweet @insectweek
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First one home this evening at 20.33 10 minutes before sunset
4 days earlier than 2023 and 15 days early going by my average. It is colour ringed but it's too dark to see it. I'll get it tomorrow
#apusapus #commonswift #actionforswifts #swiftconservation