Adrian Pinchbeck
@adrianpinchbeck.bsky.social
Builder and landscaper with interests in boating, angling, tagging sharks, benthic mapping and aerial surveying, BRUVs, searching for shipwrecks, technical builds, conservation, climate change...
Reasonably well-behaved critters of Bridlington Bay No Take Zone, including velvet swimming crabs 🦀, dabs and plaice 🐟, and a lesser spotted dogfish 🦈 all making appearances for day 5 of #Crustmas and #25DaysOfFishmas. 🎄🎉🦑
December 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Reasonably well-behaved critters of Bridlington Bay No Take Zone, including velvet swimming crabs 🦀, dabs and plaice 🐟, and a lesser spotted dogfish 🦈 all making appearances for day 5 of #Crustmas and #25DaysOfFishmas. 🎄🎉🦑
Residents of an inshore Bridlington Bay shipwreck attend the BRUV for day 4 of #25DaysOfFishmas. A shoal of pouting investigate the bait cage, while tucked away in a triangular hole top left is a rarely filmed visitor in these waters - a shy conger eel awakes and surveys the melee outside! 🐟🧐🎅🦑
December 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Residents of an inshore Bridlington Bay shipwreck attend the BRUV for day 4 of #25DaysOfFishmas. A shoal of pouting investigate the bait cage, while tucked away in a triangular hole top left is a rarely filmed visitor in these waters - a shy conger eel awakes and surveys the melee outside! 🐟🧐🎅🦑
Brown crabs not exactly getting in to the sharing spirit of #Crustmas with their friends on day three. Somebody could be heading towards the naughty list! 🦀🐟🎄🦑
December 3, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Brown crabs not exactly getting in to the sharing spirit of #Crustmas with their friends on day three. Somebody could be heading towards the naughty list! 🦀🐟🎄🦑
Here's a smaller one with a similar approach, but one of the velvets here isn't intimidated and the lobster backs off - but I suppose you would think twice about confronting a velvet!
December 2, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Here's a smaller one with a similar approach, but one of the velvets here isn't intimidated and the lobster backs off - but I suppose you would think twice about confronting a velvet!
Less than subtle menu enquiry from a venerable Bridlington Bay lobster, a ponder and ultimate rejection in favour of alternative fare from possibly a less 'metallic' dispensary. 🦞 #crustmas
December 2, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Less than subtle menu enquiry from a venerable Bridlington Bay lobster, a ponder and ultimate rejection in favour of alternative fare from possibly a less 'metallic' dispensary. 🦞 #crustmas
Wondering whether this small UK spider I observed subduing a wasp can be identified? No obvious web could be seen on the rose, but it seemed quite adept at avoiding the sharp end!
July 13, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Wondering whether this small UK spider I observed subduing a wasp can be identified? No obvious web could be seen on the rose, but it seemed quite adept at avoiding the sharp end!
BREAKING NEWS: Garage blue tit cam reveals hatchlings this week! 🐣🐣🐣 😁
May 9, 2025 at 10:25 AM
BREAKING NEWS: Garage blue tit cam reveals hatchlings this week! 🐣🐣🐣 😁
Just thought I'd catch up with the Blue Tit box this morning, as there's been quite a bit of nest building activity recently. I was surprised to see what might be a couple of eggs below feathers in the centre, and if so it would be about a week and a half earlier than last year. 🐣🐣
April 17, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Just thought I'd catch up with the Blue Tit box this morning, as there's been quite a bit of nest building activity recently. I was surprised to see what might be a couple of eggs below feathers in the centre, and if so it would be about a week and a half earlier than last year. 🐣🐣
Ooo, think I got it there! 😁
March 29, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Ooo, think I got it there! 😁
Lovely to return the boat in some spring sunshine, ready for the new season. Hardly any breeze too, so sent a drone up for a few shots before heading home.
There's Yorkshire stripes from above the surf, the dark ones containing Jet on this tide.
#dronephotography
There's Yorkshire stripes from above the surf, the dark ones containing Jet on this tide.
#dronephotography
March 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Lovely to return the boat in some spring sunshine, ready for the new season. Hardly any breeze too, so sent a drone up for a few shots before heading home.
There's Yorkshire stripes from above the surf, the dark ones containing Jet on this tide.
#dronephotography
There's Yorkshire stripes from above the surf, the dark ones containing Jet on this tide.
#dronephotography
A three-faced four-eyed gargoyle perched on a 12th century church buttress, it was something the local clergy hadn't noticed from the ground!
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January 29, 2025 at 6:29 PM
A three-faced four-eyed gargoyle perched on a 12th century church buttress, it was something the local clergy hadn't noticed from the ground!
#dronephotography
#dronephotography
Church bellcot requiring prior to paint timber repairs, modelled with drone data captured just before the wind arrived.
#dronephotography #droneroofinspection #buildingsurvey
#dronephotography #droneroofinspection #buildingsurvey
January 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Church bellcot requiring prior to paint timber repairs, modelled with drone data captured just before the wind arrived.
#dronephotography #droneroofinspection #buildingsurvey
#dronephotography #droneroofinspection #buildingsurvey
January 16, 2025 at 4:47 PM
At minus six celsius it was a tad nippy for mapping some woodland, so I sent the little one up for some overheads and grabbed an opportune silhouette on the way. 🥶
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#brassknobs
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#brassknobs
January 11, 2025 at 11:48 AM
At minus six celsius it was a tad nippy for mapping some woodland, so I sent the little one up for some overheads and grabbed an opportune silhouette on the way. 🥶
#dronephotography
#brassknobs
#dronephotography
#brassknobs
Secluded woodland grotto flown just below the canopy. 😬
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#dronephotography
December 31, 2024 at 9:19 AM
Secluded woodland grotto flown just below the canopy. 😬
#dronephotography
#dronephotography
Early morning tracks.
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Finally out to record some habitat restoration projects as the fog has lifted, but couldn't resist pressing the shutter button on my way up. 🌞
#dronephotography
Finally out to record some habitat restoration projects as the fog has lifted, but couldn't resist pressing the shutter button on my way up. 🌞
December 29, 2024 at 12:14 PM
Early morning tracks.
#dronephotography
Finally out to record some habitat restoration projects as the fog has lifted, but couldn't resist pressing the shutter button on my way up. 🌞
#dronephotography
Finally out to record some habitat restoration projects as the fog has lifted, but couldn't resist pressing the shutter button on my way up. 🌞
Conger eels are something of a rarity off East Yorkshire, with only a handful of official recordings between the Wash and Middlesbrough (about 200km of coastline). Luck would have it then, when one photo-bombed a BRUV recording over an inshore wreck earlier this year. 🦑🌍 #ukunderwater
December 20, 2024 at 2:55 PM
Conger eels are something of a rarity off East Yorkshire, with only a handful of official recordings between the Wash and Middlesbrough (about 200km of coastline). Luck would have it then, when one photo-bombed a BRUV recording over an inshore wreck earlier this year. 🦑🌍 #ukunderwater
I live surrounded by tidal freshwater, if water conditions are favourable I'm occasionally tempted to drop a camera and attempt to record anything lurking. This day a fearsome looking pike scattered small fry to inspect my equipment.
That ominous face shows little mercy! 👀 😬
That ominous face shows little mercy! 👀 😬
December 19, 2024 at 3:17 PM
I live surrounded by tidal freshwater, if water conditions are favourable I'm occasionally tempted to drop a camera and attempt to record anything lurking. This day a fearsome looking pike scattered small fry to inspect my equipment.
That ominous face shows little mercy! 👀 😬
That ominous face shows little mercy! 👀 😬
It has to be B!
Sat here nursing a cold, but you've inspired me to have a go. Having no stickers, I've decorated someone that came along a couple of years ago!
Sat here nursing a cold, but you've inspired me to have a go. Having no stickers, I've decorated someone that came along a couple of years ago!
December 16, 2024 at 3:28 PM
It has to be B!
Sat here nursing a cold, but you've inspired me to have a go. Having no stickers, I've decorated someone that came along a couple of years ago!
Sat here nursing a cold, but you've inspired me to have a go. Having no stickers, I've decorated someone that came along a couple of years ago!
Deep winter shadows on a glorious Yorkshire morning.
#dronephotography
#dronephotography
December 14, 2024 at 12:22 PM
Deep winter shadows on a glorious Yorkshire morning.
#dronephotography
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My first elasmobranch recorded on a towed camera this year - I almost missed it while searching for archaeology in Bridlington Bay! 🧐 Thornback Ray, a skate (Raja clavata) by the looks, resting on substrate but demonstrating excellent camouflage among the cobbles, shells and gravel. 🦑
#UKunderwater
#UKunderwater
December 11, 2024 at 1:58 PM
My first elasmobranch recorded on a towed camera this year - I almost missed it while searching for archaeology in Bridlington Bay! 🧐 Thornback Ray, a skate (Raja clavata) by the looks, resting on substrate but demonstrating excellent camouflage among the cobbles, shells and gravel. 🦑
#UKunderwater
#UKunderwater
Starting to push towards the limit of the Humminbird 1.1MHz down-scan over an inshore wreck here, as I'm flying the transducer at an altitude of up to 27 metres. However teaming the data with PINGMapper, it manages to illustrate a variety of shoaling fish over the area to full depth really well.
December 8, 2024 at 10:41 AM
Starting to push towards the limit of the Humminbird 1.1MHz down-scan over an inshore wreck here, as I'm flying the transducer at an altitude of up to 27 metres. However teaming the data with PINGMapper, it manages to illustrate a variety of shoaling fish over the area to full depth really well.
While mapping a small estate wood during 2023, I was very surprised to find captured and rendered an invasive Muntjac deer when post processing - and also a surprise to estate staff.
Apparently a secretive deer, this one seemed comfortable with me remaining on the opposite side!
#dronephotography
Apparently a secretive deer, this one seemed comfortable with me remaining on the opposite side!
#dronephotography
December 6, 2024 at 9:07 AM
While mapping a small estate wood during 2023, I was very surprised to find captured and rendered an invasive Muntjac deer when post processing - and also a surprise to estate staff.
Apparently a secretive deer, this one seemed comfortable with me remaining on the opposite side!
#dronephotography
Apparently a secretive deer, this one seemed comfortable with me remaining on the opposite side!
#dronephotography