Jack Baddams
@JackBaddams
Birds & British natural history 🌳 | Co-host of 'How many geese?' nature podcast 🎙 | I'm a lot more fun on Instagram 👇
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1/3 Ragwort is a much maligned plant yet it is really important to a whole range of insects who benefit from its nectar and pollen and for other insects it provides food for their early stages. Butterfly Conservation 🦋
A friend sent this Avocet from Central Bristol on Queens Rd outside Bristol museum. The Peregrine’s have been busy! Bristol Museum & Art Gallery
⛔️ Gruesome content!
Circle of life at a very foggy Grafham Water this AM. Cormorant suffocated on a (big) trout that it couldn’t swallow. Greater BB Gull gets a fish and Phalarcrocorax breakfast!
Green-w Teal still 9am Cambs Bird Club The Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs & Northants BirdGuides RareBirdAlertUK
Another record breaker from 2022 - a colour ringed House Sparrow was seen again in Caerphilly after 13 years!
With a typical lifespan of 3 years, 13 is a ripe old age!
Explore more longevity records in the 2022 Ringing Report👉bit.ly/ringing-report…
#BirdRinging #GardenBirds
Female Field Digger Wasp Mellinus arvensis the 'tiger of the dung pile', hunting flies this afternoon, Bovey Heath Devon Wildlife Trust
An important point here is that many useful and rare observations are never formally reported or recorded, or even submitted to County Bird Reports. We need to encourage people to get their observations recorded and bridge these knowledge gaps, as highlighted by Jamie Dunning
🐸 'The Frogolologist' 🐸
Tune into the latest episode of comedy nature podcast How many geese? Podcast with Jack Baddams & Roddy Shaw to learn more about our amphibian collection with Living Collections Supervisor for Ectotherms, Kay.
Listen here: howmanygeese.podbean.com
Nipped down to our artificial Hobby nest this morning to check on progress, two lovely chicks soon ready to fly the nest. A brilliant result for Hobbies in garden hanging baskets. Who knew?! 🤷♂️👌🏼Big thanks to Jason Fathers for installing with EalingWildlifeGroup.
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This is probably the first ever #migration of a #swift Apus apus that is possible to follow on live view! Deployed by our team in NItaly some weeks ago. Thanks to Migration Dept., Max Planck Inst. Animal Behavior for having the opportunity of realizing this pilot with 5 #Icarus 1.3g tags.