Birder since birth, natural history obsessed, batty about bats. Ex-countryside ranger, current full time mum. Trainer in all things batty. Love music and books.
East Lothian
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Well Twitter, its been fun but I'm off to happier wide blue spaces. If anyone wants to keep in touch you can find me here - bsky.app/profile/battybirder…
Had a lovely walk at #RSPBArne a couple of days ago. Lots of fab wildlife spotted including marbled white, sika deer, Dartford Warblers & more 🦋🐛🐜🐝. Junior Ranger #1 was also inspired to do his take on a @BBCSpringwatch intro - @ChrisGPackham he might be after your job 😉
Very disappointed to see @Morrisons #HuntersTryst cutting back trees & shrubs today. No apparent consideration or checks for nesting birds. Suggest you update you and your contractor's awareness of the relevant #wildlife legislation.
@NatureScot @ukwildlifecrime @PoliceScotland
Devastating news from @LochoftheLowes.
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Had a wee trip down to Yetholm Loch today hoping to catch up with the drake smew. Not only was he showing nicely, but there was also a redhead smew, woodcock, whooper swans, & a bonus pair of pintails. Nice!
@Birding_Borders @EdinburghNats @CasualBirderPod
#rubbishphonescoping
Managed a couple of hours wandering at #Musselburgh yesterday, very pleased to catch up with the King Eider (rubbish phonescope-zoom-crop!) and the Snow Bunting (so confiding I couldn't go wrong!).
@birdinglothian @EdinburghNats @CasualBirderPod @ELCrangers
Looking forward to another great @_BCT_ #training event today as we #SpringIntoAction at @StirlingCampus. Lots of interesting #workshops coming up 🙂 Nice to see some @lothiansbats friends here too 🙂
Bats are awesome but aren't always the most welcome houseguests. Last year the @NatureScot #BatsInHouses team answered more than 450 enquiries and saved more than 50 roosts from exclusion. Gutted this amazing service is falling victim to the budget cuts axe.
#LivingWithWildlife
We love bats and their amazing midge-eating abilities! For more info on the bat species in Scotland, their declining numbers and protected status, as well as for advice if they're in your home (for example, roosting in your attic), see nature.scot/plants-animals-a… #EndWildlifeCrime
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Last few places left on our 'Bats in Winter' workshop. A closer look at the behaviour of bats during winter - physiological/behavioural adaptations, hibernacula sites, ID and surveying.
22nd Feb. 9.30am-1pm. £50.
20% of profit donated to @_BCT_
#lovebats #BatsinWinter
.@RoyalMailHelp I think our postie needs a new, waterproof, mailbag. I hope there was nothing important in this envelope!
Raptor persecution and illegal use of traps is still going strong no matter what certain organisations might like you to think...
#wildlifecrime #raptorpersecution
We are appealing after a peregrine falcon was found dead in an illegal baited pole trap near a public path south of Wester Bavelaw, Balerno, on Thurs 23 Nov. Call 101 if you saw anything suspicious in the area - Inc 1376 of 25/11/23
More: ow.ly/f3VL50QbXUI
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#Waxwings still present in Macmerry. Phonescoped from my front room!
@birdinglothian @EdinburghNats @RSPBEdinburghLG @WaxwingsUK
c.60 #waxwings at the Bankhead Roundabout on Calder Road, 13.00hrs. Very vocal Mistle Thrush apparently giving them a telling off and keeping them moving.
@birdinglothian @WaxwingsUK @EdinburghNats @ScottishBirding
#digibining
28 #waxwings still present in Macmerry this morning.
@birdinglothian @EdinburghNats @CasualBirderPod @RSPBEdinburghLG #phonetography
Highly mobile flock of a dozen or so #waxwings in Macmerry about 1300hrs. *Almost* a garden tick!
@birdinglothian @EdinburghNats @WaxwingsUK @RSPBEdinburghLG @CasualBirderPod
Tell me we need a widespread reintroduction of #beavers without telling me we need to reintroduce beavers...
#EcosystemEngineers #flooding #floodprevention #ClimateEmergency #rivers
BBC News - Leaky wooden dams installed to prevent flooding in Shropshire
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Lovely day with the junior ranger ystdy at @RSPBLochLeven. JR had fun doing dinosaur trail & mummy saw lots of 'modern dinosaurs' 😉 Highlights: great views of red squirrel & brown hare, nestling swallows being fed, osprey, cinnabar caterpillars, 7 butterfly spp, 45 bird spp 😊
Thrilled to hear the lovely @mrmichaelball say how much he likes #bats on his show this morning. How about getting one of the fab @_BCT_ folk on your show?! Trustee @SteveRoeBatMan has just won an award for his #BatChat #podcast!
Wee video of tonight's roost count for fun 🙂
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Can't believe what I'm hearing. Swift bricks aren't even controversial. They're a cheap, easy way to restore our dwindling bird population. Yet neither Tory Minister, nor Lab opposition, will commit to make them mandatory. What planet are they on?? @Natures_Voice @WriterHannahBT
Another 2 new #moths for the garden list - firstly narrow-bordered five-spot burnet, not just flying adults but cocoons too 😊 Secondly, well, I'm hoping @MOTHIDUK can help with that! (Rubbish pic I know but only managed a quick snap on my phone!).
@EdinburghNats @BCeastscotland
