Bonelli's warbler on St Mary's, Scillies, from a day trip in mid August

Two new sightings for me in Mweya, QENP; glossy ibis and a lovely pair of white-faced whistling ducks.

Out in the field again with all the highs and lows that brings, from having to cook 22 tiny omelettes every other night to elephants sparring with a lion.

Great to have had the opportunity to present my research into individual variation in interspecific cooperative behaviour at #ASAB2025 in Liverpool today. Very lucky to be in the company of so many fantastic talks!
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Lots of butterflies out despite the overcast skies! Orange-tip, green hairstreak, green-veined white, southern festoon, small heath, grizzled skipper, wall brown, baton blue and >15 painted ladies. Plus yellow and woodcock orchids.

Some nice birds from the train through Occitanie, on my way to visit my family for Easter – egrets and grey herons, black kite and black-winged stilt. Looking forward to seeing what insects are about.

Super exciting to stumble across 4 early adders basking on Tregonning Hill in the weekend's lovely weather

Back in Cornwall and good to get out birding quickly! Lifer in the form of a ring-billed gull, and nice to see the glaucous gull and goosanders.

A couple of days in Samburu to round off the EBE field trip, with white-rumped shrike, secretary bird, white-headed buffalo weaver, and red-and-yellow barbet. @uniexecec.bsky.social

From Nakuru NP – great white pelicans and grey hooded gulls, ruff, little stint, and augur buzzard.

Continuing with the @uniexecec.bsky.social MSc EBE field course sightings, here are some from Ol Pejeta: crowned hornbill, red-cheeked cordon bleu, golden-breasted bunting, and black-headed oriole. The bunting is my favourite of the trip, one I've wanted to see for ages and which didn't disappoint!

Some of the bird species on the @uniexecec.bsky.social
MSc EBE Kenya field course. White eye, purple grenadier, Eastern grey woodpecker and African paradise flycatcher.

A first for the year! Found this silly hummingbird hawk-moth awake and flying around the house last night. Released it once the temperature had warmed up today, hopefully it finds somewhere more suitable to overwinter.

Didn't expect to spot a hawfinch from the kitchen window!

Cirl and reed buntings on our Boxing Day walk, on the edge of the garrigue

A great turn-out for our Science Storytelling for Change event! Lovely to see so many engaged people in the audience. Thanks so much to everyone at @another-way.bsky.social who helped organise, and to our fantastic panelists, @radapandeva.bsky.social, Anna Roberts and Gillian Burke.

Some fascinating talks at Exbase yesterday, from termite conflict to dolphin communication via squirrel caching! Nerves aside, I was also happy to present some background to my own research on terrestrial cleaning symbioses.

Hello! A quick intro as I begin on this new platform. I'm Leela, interests include behavioural and sensory ecology, conservation and environmental change. Keen on insects and herps, cat person, photographer, currently researching mongoose behaviour.