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Hannah
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PhD student as of February 2026 studying Tree Sparrow ecology.
MSc Applied Ecology 🐦‍⬛ 🌱 🐞Also Photographer / Videographer 📷 Mostly likely found outside
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It was a chilly morning volunteering. We reduced the height of some Elder so the butterfly glade gains more light next summer, adding the woody material to the dead hedge.
Four images: Top left: a leaf covered in frost held up to the light Top right: the butterfly glade Bottom left: stumps of Elder trees covered in moss Bottom right: the dead hedge
November 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Volunteering at the local wildlife area yesterday involved raking up cuttings from the wildflower area. Lovely people and a little bit of sunshine.
Landscape photograph of a cut wildflower area bordered by trees. Blue skies and puffy clouds. Photograph of pile of raked up grass.
September 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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The fence is now complete and after the recent rain the pond is starting to fill up 😊
A fenced local wildlife pond which has benefited from the recent rainfall.
September 7, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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This morning I volunteered at the pond again. We still don’t have a lot of water in it but the fencing is nearly complete.
A photograph of wooden fencing surrounding a pond.
August 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Yesterday I was back volunteering at the pond. Unfortunately the recent rain hasn’t done much for the water levels but we made a start at digging post holes and putting up a proper fence around it.
Landscape photograph of a new pond which shows the pond liner and a small amount of water in it. A fence post is stood on the right hand side of the image. A photograph of a spade led on the floor next to hole that has been dig by hand for a fence post to be stood in.
June 28, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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After a day of reading scientific articals and writing a first draft of a job application, I’m relaxing with the final book in the All Souls trilogy 😊
A photograph of ‘A Discovery of Witches: The book of life’ sits on a wooden table.
June 20, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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This morning I volunteered with the local councils biodiversity projects team to finish installing a wildlife pond. Now all we need is some more rain 🤞
A landscape photograph of a wildlife pond. The pond liner is still visible as not enough rain has fallen to fill it. There is a foot of bare ground around the pond where wildflower seeds have been sown. A Toad sitting in a small amount of water on a pond liner.
June 6, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Gardening means constantly moving insects to a safer location if the plant they are resting on needs some attention. It also means stopping to take photos! Lacewing larva on Common Fleabane leaves at the weekend.

#ShareMondays2025 #MacroPhotography #Insect #Invertebrate
Lacewing larva on Common Fleabane leaves. The green leaves with a downy texture fill the frame. The larva is resting on a vertical leave.
June 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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A few of this weeks finds for #WildFlowerHour Hoary Plantain, Bird’s-foot-trefoil, Great Burnet, Cat’s-ear, Green-winged Orchid and Common Spotted-orchid.
A collage of images of Hoary Plantain, Bird’s-foot-trefoil, Great Burnet, Cat’s-ear, Green-winged Orchid and Common Spotted-orchid
May 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Tonight I’m starting the next book in the All Souls trilogy, Shadow of Night. I really liked the first book.
A paperback book of A Discovery of Witches: Shadow of Night sits on a wooden tabletop.
May 14, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Another lovely evening out collecting field data. Very thankful the thunderstorm missed us, just angrily grumbling as it moved by.
A landscape photograph of the sun setting over an arable field with Cow Parsley filling the front of the frame.
May 13, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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I spent a lovely day in a private ancient woodland brushing up on my grass, sedge and rush identification skills.
A landscape photograph of an ancient woodland. The floor is covered in grasses with multiple trees filling the frame. The white blossom of Hawthorn is on the left of the image.
May 12, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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I love when the smallest of insects stop by to say hello. Graphopsocus cruciatus in the garden today.

#Insect #Invertebrate #Barkfly
Graphopsocus cruciatus (a barkfly) sat on a finger with the edge of a thumb nail below for scale.
May 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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I had a lovely day out with the Glorious Cotswold Grasslands at their volunteer training day at wonderful highly species rich site in Gloucestershire. Thanks to the team I learnt how to use their recording app and familiarised myself with some more species.
A landscape photograph of a species rich grassland bordered by a hedgerow.
May 9, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Yesterday morning I was out collecting more field data and today I’m doing all the data entry in Excel and adding the information into QGIS.
A landscape photograph of a Barley field with blue sky and light fluffy clouds.
May 8, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Another evening out in the countryside collecting field data. So lucky to be out in these locations.
A landscape photograph of trees in a small copse with the ground layer covered in Cow Parsley.
May 6, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Last week before it turned cooler and blustery I saw what I believe to be a Cloeon dipterum resting in the garden. It’s often the little things in life that catch my eye.

#ShareMondays2025 #MacroPhotography #Insects #Invertebrate #Mayfly
A landscape photograph of a Cloeon dipterum (Mayfly) resting on a Thistle leaf. The photograph is predominantly shades of Green apart from the brown, slightly orangy Mayfly. The Mayfly is side on so its shape can be seen.
May 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Yesterday I spent the afternoon out with other volunteers collecting field data, filling up feeders and creating drinking puddles for farmland birds. Today I’ve been catching up on the data entry.
Landscape photograph of a field of yellow Oilseed rape with a clear blue sky above. A landscape photograph of an agricultural track running off into the distance. A puddle of water is in one of tyre tracks in the foreground. A green field is behind.
May 4, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Today I have spent time in the garden getting to know plants a little better ready for my FISC assessment later this month.
Photograph shows a wooden garden table with 6 plant identification books spread out across it.
May 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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It was a lovely evening to be out collecting field data 😊
A landscape photograph of green rolling hills framed by the branches of tree in the foreground.
April 30, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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I went out yesterday with my camera for the first time in ages! I felt a little rusty but my favourite image of the day was this macro of Greater Stitchwort #ShareMondays2025
Three white Greater Stitchwort flowers against a background of green and purple created by Bluebells in the distance.
April 21, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Today I visited a small copse who’s floor was carpeted with Bluebells #WildFlowerHour
A landscape photograph of a woodland. The floor is carpeted in Bluebells. The trees have light green leaves in the morning sunshine. A close up photograph of bluebells
April 20, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Last week I headed back to a private ancient woodland I completed a biodiversity audit at last year. This year I am carrying out a vascular plant survey to create an updated species list for them. It’s a lovely peaceful woodland to walk around.
A landscape photograph of an ancient woodland in spring. There is a Hawthorn tree in the foreground with taller trees behind. The ground is covered with a short vegetation layer.
April 14, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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A few of my finds from various walks this week for #WildFlowerHour, Woodruff, Ivy-leaved Speedwell, Bluebell, Ground-ivy, Cowslip and Colt’s-foot.
A collage of photographs of wildflowers including Woodruff, Ivy-leaved Speedwell, Bluebell, Ground-ivy, Cowslip and Colt’s-foot.
April 13, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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I’ve decided to take a break from reading Wheel of Time and instead I’m delving into a world of witches, vampires and daemons in A Discovery of Witches.
A photograph of a paperback copy of Deborah Harkness’ book A Discovery of Witches on a wooden table.
April 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM