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Dr Adrian Colston

@dartmoorac.bsky.social

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Self-employed ecologist and a rural social scientist worrying about Dartmoor: wildlife, hill-farmers, archaeology, peat & wilding. Also Associate Research Fellow Centre for Rural Policy Research at the University of Exeter And Scilly!

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Dr Adrian Colston @dartmoorac.bsky.social · 7h

Some birds feeding on the flies in the seaweed, Porth Killier, St Agnes: Grey Wagtail, Dunnock, Meadow Pipit and Rock Pipit

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Mourning Dove yesterday evening before it went off to roost #islesofscilly

Dr Adrian Colston @dartmoorac.bsky.social · 1d

There are two other American vagrants on St Agnes in additional to the Mourning Dove: Spotted Sandpiper and Buff-bellied American Pipit #islesofscilly

Dr Adrian Colston @dartmoorac.bsky.social · 1d

Hoopoe on Periglis beach St Agnes #islesofscilly

Dr Adrian Colston @dartmoorac.bsky.social · 2d

Turtle Dove - Lower Town Farm, St Agnes #islesofscilly

Dr Adrian Colston @dartmoorac.bsky.social · 2d

Mourning Dove - Lower Town Farm, St Agnes #islesofscilly

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Dr Adrian Colston @dartmoorac.bsky.social · 3d

Female Stonechat on St Mary's today #islesofscilly

Dr Adrian Colston @dartmoorac.bsky.social · 4d

Tresco Abbey Gardens today

Dr Adrian Colston @dartmoorac.bsky.social · 4d

Always love a trip to the Tresco Abbey Gardens for the squirrels! They appear to be spreading beyond the gardens now - one seen today at Borough Farm! #islesofscilly

Dr Adrian Colston @dartmoorac.bsky.social · 6d

Incredibly close views of the Wilson's Phalarope today at Porth Hillock #islesofscilly

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Dr Adrian Colston @dartmoorac.bsky.social · 6d

Great White Egret, Grey Heron, Ruff and a Water Rail - St Mary's today #islesofscilly

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Dr Adrian Colston @dartmoorac.bsky.social · 6d

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Dr Adrian Colston @dartmoorac.bsky.social · 8d

Rain stopped play

Dr Adrian Colston @dartmoorac.bsky.social · 8d

A day on St Martins #islesofscilly A nice Knot, some Sanderling, a Raven and a Crimson Speckled

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Dr Adrian Colston @dartmoorac.bsky.social · 9d

Prickly Stick Insect (Acanthoxyla geisovii), Common Darter dragonfly, Western Seed Conifer Bug (US species naturalist in UK 2007) and a migrant Painted Lady butterfly St Mary's #islesofscilly

Dr Adrian Colston @dartmoorac.bsky.social · 9d

Revisited the Wilson's Phalarope and also saw a Rose-coloured Starling and a lovely Greenshank and a Brown Rat (who saw me too!) St Mary's #islesofscilly

Dr Adrian Colston @dartmoorac.bsky.social · 10d

9 Cattle Egret flying into St Mary's today at noon

Dr Adrian Colston @dartmoorac.bsky.social · 10d

Early start to see a Wilson's Phalarope (American wader) at Higher Moors which arrived late last evening

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Dr Adrian Colston @dartmoorac.bsky.social · 11d

Cory's, Great, (shearwaters), Gannet and Atlantic Grey Seal

Dr Adrian Colston @dartmoorac.bsky.social · 11d

Ocean Sun Fish, Dolphin, Bishop Rock weather station and a seal 10km from the shore

Dr Adrian Colston @dartmoorac.bsky.social · 11d

Purple Sandpipers, Gannet, the Bishop Rock Lighthouse and Shags

Dr Adrian Colston @dartmoorac.bsky.social · 11d

Been out on a pelagic seabird trip way out past the Bishop Rock - 150 Cory's Shearwater and 800 Great Shearwaters (they breed in the southern hemisphere and spend their winter up here in northern waters- many around Scilly)

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Dr Adrian Colston @dartmoorac.bsky.social · 12d

Curlew Sandpiper on Porthloo beach - second picture with Sanderling

Dr Adrian Colston @dartmoorac.bsky.social · 13d

Ivy Bee on ivy (!) on St Mary's

Dr Adrian Colston @dartmoorac.bsky.social · 13d

St Agnes today - pale / albino / leucistic Rock Pipit on Periglis and and a cracking Wheatear on Wingletang

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