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Larissa @crankycorvidae.bsky.social · Jul 13

Saved from a skip - now what to do with them?

Larissa @crankycorvidae.bsky.social · Jul 11

IRecord has (rightly) flagged it. And now I’m wondering whether I saw it or not 😅 but at the time I couldn’t have been anything else. Habitat wise there’s a CWS woodland with mostly oaks 500m away and the woods here is relatively young (1950s).

Larissa @crankycorvidae.bsky.social · Jul 11

How rare are these - or is it also a case of under recording? I saw one fly low in the canopy here - black with white stripe, very clear. There were red admirals and small whites flying too, but very different and flight behaviour was very different. Flew into canopy before I could get a pic.

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Larissa @crankycorvidae.bsky.social · Jul 11

Thanks! Will try and check for males, saw another today and again, just too busy to stop so I could take a proper look.

Larissa @crankycorvidae.bsky.social · Jul 8

Any tips on IDing skippers when they just won’t sit still? 😂

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Larissa @crankycorvidae.bsky.social · Jun 24

Farm equipment or dinosaur?

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Larissa @crankycorvidae.bsky.social · Jun 19

Fen nettle spotted on a farm today. Always enjoy finding this, and convincing people to give it a rub. (It doesn’t sting). Definitely glad it was fen nettle given the amount we walked through!

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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · Jun 18

Thank you to everyone who is helping get the word out about Normally Weird - seems the media has grown bored of this sort of stuff - Gina Rippon’s excellent Lost Girls of Autism has seen similar silence - thank you to The Psychologist

www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

What it means to be weird | BPS

Professor Catherine Loveday (University of Westminster) reviews ‘Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal – My adventures in Neurodiversity’, by Robin Ince.

www.bps.org.uk

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Larissa @crankycorvidae.bsky.social · Jun 18

What a beauty!

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Larissa @crankycorvidae.bsky.social · Jun 18

#bats 🦇 #ecology #britishecologist

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Larissa @crankycorvidae.bsky.social · Jun 18

Just a brown long eared bat & a barbastelle hanging out together

(Photo taken under licence)

Whilst Barbastelles are rare in the UK we are very lucky that they seem to like it here in the east. All the more reason to ensure their protection here and the Western Link Road must stay off the table

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Larissa @crankycorvidae.bsky.social · Jun 17

The girls had their coats off on Sunday. Their fleeces had lifted nicely and this year I’ve got more than one suitable for a felt rug, so if there’s a window between surveys I may give this a go! Also - how brilliant is bailer twine?! #sheep #wool #shetlandsheep