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Charlotte Cumming

@charlottecumming.bsky.social

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Wife, mother of three adults & mostly landlocked thalassophile. Happiest on the shore searching for the little things. Volunteer intertidal marine verifier for ORKS 2023 Marsh Volunteer Award for Marine Conservation 🦑🦉🧪

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Charlotte Cumming @charlottecumming.bsky.social · 18h

#FirstBirdOfMyDay: is the same as yesterday: Gulls cruising on the breeze against a cloudy sky - with added rain for variety!

Charlotte Cumming @charlottecumming.bsky.social · 1d

Miserable weather this morning but that didn’t bother this tiny sea slug.
Doto coronata <10mm
Newquay, Cornwall
So much incredible #marinelife on our UK shores 🦑

Charlotte Cumming @charlottecumming.bsky.social · 1d

#FirstBirdOfMyDay: Gulls cruising on the breeze against a cloudy sky

Charlotte Cumming @charlottecumming.bsky.social · 3d

#FirstBirdOfMyDay: a Blue Tit & friends feasting on aphids in the climbing rose

Charlotte Cumming @charlottecumming.bsky.social · 4d

I think this may be the theme, at least for a couple of days: #FirstBirdOfMyDay in semi-darkness, the Robin sings his morning welcome. Spot him silhouetted in the tree.

Charlotte Cumming @charlottecumming.bsky.social · 5d

#FirstBirdOfMyDay : in semi-darkness, the Robin sings his morning welcome. Spot him silhouetted in the tree.

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Charlotte Cumming @charlottecumming.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you

Charlotte Cumming @charlottecumming.bsky.social · 6d

Another grey & damp morning is brightened by
#FirstBirdOfMyDay : a Robin on the top of the fence; against a background of reddening Acer & a foreground of brilliant yellow/orange dahlia flowers. All bringing morning joy.

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Charlotte Cumming @charlottecumming.bsky.social · 7d

Another grey & damp morning
#FirstBirdOfMyDay : a skein of Canada Geese honking their way low across the field & then off over the houses.

Charlotte Cumming @charlottecumming.bsky.social · 8d

A generally grey & damp morning
#FirstBirdOfMyDay : restless Wood Pigeons in the field; some flying out, some flying in.

Charlotte Cumming @charlottecumming.bsky.social · 9d

#FirstBirdOfMyDay : Robins are still first in the garden. Singing morning till night. Chasing posses of Blue Tits & generally throwing their weight around.

Charlotte Cumming @charlottecumming.bsky.social · 10d

A ‘red’ themed morning #FirstBirdOfMyDay : Robin (snap!) in full voice from the, now crimson, Amelanchier. Adding in the majestic Red Kite, cruising so low over our heads, on its morning survey of the neighbourhood.

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Charlotte Cumming @charlottecumming.bsky.social · 11d

#FirstBirdOfMyDay : a pair of quarrelsome young Goldfinches on the feeder. Clearly the seeds are always better on the side your sibling is on!

Charlotte Cumming @charlottecumming.bsky.social · 12d

#FirstBirdOfMyDay : a Rook heading out across the field on this damp, grey, Hertfordshire morning

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Charlotte Cumming @charlottecumming.bsky.social · 13d

#FirstBirdOfMyDay : a very soggy Wood Pigeon - clearly having had a morning bath - now preening under its wing, in full sun, whilst balancing on the top of a neighbour’s tree.

Charlotte Cumming @charlottecumming.bsky.social · 16d

So lovely. Always a point of connection - lovely to share

Charlotte Cumming @charlottecumming.bsky.social · 16d

#FirstBirdOfMyDay : a Blue Tit braving the feeders as the leaves that have turned are ripped from the trees

Charlotte Cumming @charlottecumming.bsky.social · 17d

The garden is damp, raindrops dripping from branches. I can hear more birds than I can see. There are Goldcrests but #FirstBirdOfMyDay : are three (Mediterranean?) Gulls, wheeling high above, calling to one another.

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The Marine Biological Association @thembauk.bsky.social · 20d

Must reads for Future Marine Biologists…

Spring Tides — Fiona Gell
Into the Great Wide Ocean — Sönke Johnsen
How Life Works — Philip Ball

The Marine Biologist includes book reviews and recommendation's — one of the many benefits of joining - www.mba.ac.uk/our-membersh...

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Charlotte Cumming @charlottecumming.bsky.social · 20d

#FirstBirdOfMyDay : a delight of Chaffinch visitors. Three alighted in the deeply reddening Amelanchier which is glowing in the morning sunlight

Charlotte Cumming @charlottecumming.bsky.social · 22d

My Spurilla neapolitana find getting some traction… #marinelife #citizenscience in the New Scientist
www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

See the alien-looking sea slug spotted in UK waters for the first time

Spurilla neapolitana – known as the hair curler slug – is usually found in the Caribbean and Mediterranean, but is now moving northwards, perhaps due to warming oceans

www.newscientist.com

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Charlotte Cumming @charlottecumming.bsky.social · 22d

#FirstBirdOfMyDay : a Dunnock twitching away in the hedge. The must use up a lot of energy, always on the move.

Charlotte Cumming @charlottecumming.bsky.social · 23d

#FirstBirdOfMyDay : a happy group of Goldfinches & Blue Tits feasting at the seed feeder this bright autumn morning

Charlotte Cumming @charlottecumming.bsky.social · 25d

#FirstBirdOfMyDay : on opening the curtains, I was greeted by the fluffy feathered underside of a Wood Pigeons leaving the roof above at speed. Up in the clear blue sky its kin go about their early morning adventures.

Charlotte Cumming @charlottecumming.bsky.social · 26d

#FirstBirdOfMyDay : quiet in the garden but the ever present Wood Pigeons are up above in the sunny sky. Just the occasional one going about its mission purposefully.