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Ellie Mayhew (she/her)

@ecologyellie.bsky.social

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🌿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏔 Ecologist, bird ringer, wildlife gardener, beachcomber, life-long lover of natural history. Working in landscape-scale nature restoration 🌍🏳️‍🌈🌻 Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️‍⚧️ Views my own.

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Ellie Mayhew (she/her) @ecologyellie.bsky.social · Jul 14

#WildStrathfillan

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Dave Goulson @davegoulson.bsky.social · Jun 19

Thrilled to see several rare white-letter hairstreaks hanging around the Brighthelm butterfly bank in central Brighton today. Excuse terrible pic. Well worth a visit if you are local.

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Ellie Mayhew (she/her) @ecologyellie.bsky.social · Jun 19

Nice to spot an Osprey flying overhead in Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park today #WildStrathfillan

Ellie Mayhew (she/her) @ecologyellie.bsky.social · Jun 19

It’s always a pleasure to get out into the field. #WildStrathfillan

Ellie Mayhew (she/her) @ecologyellie.bsky.social · May 22

Elders seem to be flowering well this year, along with Hawthorn (seems like another bumper year for the latter).

Ellie Mayhew (she/her) @ecologyellie.bsky.social · May 21

First Grasshopper Warbler of the year for me yesterday. Lovely to hear so close to home, too.

Ellie Mayhew (she/her) @ecologyellie.bsky.social · May 21

Love where you live 🌳🌱

Ellie Mayhew (she/her) @ecologyellie.bsky.social · Apr 23

Heard my first Willow Warbler of the year today whilst exploring The Great Trossachs Forest 🌳

Ellie Mayhew (she/her) @ecologyellie.bsky.social · Apr 22

Absolutely delighted to have had a Dark-edged Bee-fly in the garden today, feeding on some Red Campion I grew from seed a couple of years ago. It is such a privilege to be transforming a plain lawn into a wildlife haven!

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · Mar 11

Hare's-tail Cotton-grass coming into flower at @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social nursery. This is being grown for an upland habitat creation project in Nidderdale; it once grew in a handful of lowland raised mires in central North Yorkshire but all have long since been destroyed.

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The Rare Breeding Birds Panel @ukrbbp.bsky.social · Mar 10

Another rare breeding bird species to look for in the early spring is the Long-eared Owl - here’s RBBP member Ian Francis with some advice on where, what and how to find them youtu.be/Wopsx7WxpVQ?...

Recording Long-eared Owls

YouTube video by Rare Breeding Birds Panel

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The Seabird Group @theseabirdgroup.bsky.social · Mar 6

As seen in the latest issue of our newsletter - if you've got any good photos of Gulls Eating Stuff, then send them along! (details in the post below ⬇️)

Alice Risely @alice-risely.bsky.social · Mar 4

We're getting some cracking photo submissions to the Gulls Eating Stuff project! Here are a few showing gulls predating a coot chick, a vole, a mole (!) and a GBBG that has just killed an adult moorhen. Keep 'em coming! Submit your photos of gulls eating stuff to citsci.org/projects/gul....

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Ellie Mayhew (she/her) @ecologyellie.bsky.social · Mar 5

Yes I did actually! Too much of a nature nerd 🌳🌿🪵🐦‍⬛

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RSPB Scotland @rspbscotland.bsky.social · Mar 5

In March, Sand Martins begin to arrive back in Scotland after overwintering south of the Sahara Desert.

These nimble little birds are social nesters, which means as many as several hundred pairs can nest close together in a single colony.

Have you spotted any yet?

📸: Ben Hall

A Sand Martin perches at the entrance of its nest

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Alliance for Scotland's Rainforest @asrainforest.bsky.social · Mar 5

Invitation to tender: Saving Scotland’s Rainforest impact reporting. We are looking for an experienced communications specialist to help us tell the story of the impact of the Saving Scotland’s Rainforest project. Apply now! savingscotlandsrainforest.org.uk/jobs/communi...

Communications Specialist — Alliance for Scotland’s Rainforest

Invitation to tender for an exciting project helping us show the impact of our work with Scotland's rainforest.

savingscotlandsrainforest.org.uk

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Woodland Trust Scotland @wtscotsocial.bsky.social · Mar 5

Are you a community group in #ScotlandsRainforest (see map below)? Are you interested in networking, training, community enterprise &/or £ to restore rainforest? Please complete this short @communitywoods.bsky.social survey before 15 Mar ➡️ buff.ly/TvZF3pd. Big thanks
@asrainforest.bsky.social

Map of Scotland with a large area of the west coast highlighted in blue.

woman with a mobile phone photographing up close mosses on a fallen log. Credit John MacPherson - WTML

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Ellie Mayhew (she/her) @ecologyellie.bsky.social · Mar 4

Amazing. I used to spot them frequently when I was living down in Cornwall.

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Dan Brown @danbrownnature.bsky.social · Mar 3

Another day and another tagged seabird… this time a Brown Skua at Saunders Island, Falkland. Ring ABU and with a geolocator (?). Anyone know anything about it? Also great to see it with a recently fledged chick. Survivors of the HPAI wave across the isles.
@scottishseabird.bsky.social? #Seabirds

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Ellie Mayhew (she/her) @ecologyellie.bsky.social · Mar 2

A lovely walk through oak woodland at @wtscotsocial.bsky.social Glen Finglas reserve today. Highlights Great Spotted Woodpecker, singing Chaffinch & Great Tit, Nuthatch, Juniper & an incredible array of bryophytes (which I really need to start learning!) 🌿🐦‍⬛

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Woodland Trust Scotland @wtscotsocial.bsky.social · Mar 2

Phew, what a day! Massive thank you to everyone who came out yesterday to help plant the first of 300,000 trees this spring at #GleannShildeag 🌱

Over 1,300 trees between us - not bad eh!

📆 See you all again on the 29th? buff.ly/iTSEbKN

📸 Caz, Assistant Site Manager

Photo of two women on a hillside. One is holding a small sapling and the other is digging a hole. There is a bright yellow bucket by them and some other volunteers dotted behind them.

Two volunteers dig into the ground. They have a bucket of young scot's pine and are wearing bright coloured jackets and coats.

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Ellie Mayhew (she/her) @ecologyellie.bsky.social · Feb 21

100% 🎵

Ellie Mayhew (she/her) @ecologyellie.bsky.social · Feb 21

Me too!

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · Feb 21

If you're interested in native plant conservation and habitat creation, @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social are looking for a part-time trainee nursery manager (2 days/week, £10.4K pa). Based at Nosterfield NR nr Bedale in North Yorkshire.
www.luct.org.uk/blog/2024/4/...

Applications open for new Trainee Conservation Plant Nursery Manager role — The Lower Ure Conservation Trust

We are looking for an enthusiastic candidate to assist and support work in our conservation plant nursery and be trained to manage the running of the nursery into the future.

www.luct.org.uk

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The John Muir Trust @johnmuirtrust.bsky.social · Feb 21

It's International #LanguageDay today!

Dr Ross Crawford, Cultural Heritage Adviser for 'Callander's Landscape' project, shares what Gaelic place names can tell us about the natural and cultural heritage of an area: eu1.hubs.ly/H0gYKzs0

Image: Schiehallion photographed by Dave Tarvit ⛰️

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