Peter Brash
@peterbrash.bsky.social
Ecologist, birder, entomologist, botanist and bat botherer. Born in Liverpool and returned via circuitous route. I block dickheads on sight.
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Holy hell, what an obituary
Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Holy hell, what an obituary
Looking at rhe disparity of skill sets here. We need an invertebrate equivalent of FISC!
Can you identify UK bumblebees and/or butterflies to a species level in the field?
Or do you have strong botanical survey skills (equivalent to FISC Level 4 or higher) with the ability to recognise broad and priority habitats?
See great opportunity below & please share!
Or do you have strong botanical survey skills (equivalent to FISC Level 4 or higher) with the ability to recognise broad and priority habitats?
See great opportunity below & please share!
🦋🌿Hiring 12 x Botanists or Entomologists for 2026 field surveys in England!
4-month, full-time roles from late April to early September.
Field sites in Yorkshire, Devon, Warwickshire, Kent/Sussex, Lincolnshire/Cambridge, Essex/Suffolk.
Apply now: ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CEH_Ca... 🧪
4-month, full-time roles from late April to early September.
Field sites in Yorkshire, Devon, Warwickshire, Kent/Sussex, Lincolnshire/Cambridge, Essex/Suffolk.
Apply now: ceh.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CEH_Ca... 🧪
January 13, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Looking at rhe disparity of skill sets here. We need an invertebrate equivalent of FISC!
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✂️ Yesterday I finally responded to @agakowalska.bsky.social’s challenge to make a collage from a single piece of packaging. I present to you a green (tea) woodpecker, made from a big Yorkshire Tea box. It was fun and I’ll be rooting through our recycling bin for more materials later on ♻️
January 12, 2026 at 8:13 PM
✂️ Yesterday I finally responded to @agakowalska.bsky.social’s challenge to make a collage from a single piece of packaging. I present to you a green (tea) woodpecker, made from a big Yorkshire Tea box. It was fun and I’ll be rooting through our recycling bin for more materials later on ♻️
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From Radio and Other Poems (Rockingham Press, 1999)
January 8, 2026 at 8:22 AM
From Radio and Other Poems (Rockingham Press, 1999)
Anybody confused about what to call full moons in any of the months. Here's a list.
January-Full Moon
February-Full Moon
March-Full Moon
April-Full Moon
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June-Full Moon
July-Full Moon
August-Full Moon
September-Full Moon
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November-Full Moon
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January-Full Moon
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October-Full Moon
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December-Full Moon
January 6, 2026 at 9:50 AM
Anybody confused about what to call full moons in any of the months. Here's a list.
January-Full Moon
February-Full Moon
March-Full Moon
April-Full Moon
May-Full Moon
June-Full Moon
July-Full Moon
August-Full Moon
September-Full Moon
October-Full Moon
November-Full Moon
December-Full Moon
January-Full Moon
February-Full Moon
March-Full Moon
April-Full Moon
May-Full Moon
June-Full Moon
July-Full Moon
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December-Full Moon
Labour need to get rid of Starmer right now. Install a leader with backbone and work from there. Whether there's anything worth saving is arguable, a handful of MPs maybe?
January 3, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Labour need to get rid of Starmer right now. Install a leader with backbone and work from there. Whether there's anything worth saving is arguable, a handful of MPs maybe?
Parasitism
Jim Ratcliffe’s company Ineos gets £120m govt subsidy to help save the UK’s last ethylene plant at Grangemouth.
Ratcliffe is worth $14.7bn (£11bn). Can he not invest? Will he be back for more?
Govt is not taking any equity stake. £120m is not repayable.
Ratcliffe is worth $14.7bn (£11bn). Can he not invest? Will he be back for more?
Govt is not taking any equity stake. £120m is not repayable.
Government invests £120m to save UK’s last ethylene plant
Funding for billionaire Jim Ratcliffe’s Ineos plant in Scotland will help safeguard 500 jobs
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Parasitism
It really hasn't felt much like December over the last two days. Gloves abandoned, hat ( and nearly coat) at times too. Common Wasp, Mayflies and Buff-tailed Bumblebee on the wing, seven species of birds singing.
December 12, 2025 at 5:31 PM
It really hasn't felt much like December over the last two days. Gloves abandoned, hat ( and nearly coat) at times too. Common Wasp, Mayflies and Buff-tailed Bumblebee on the wing, seven species of birds singing.
Great views of this Common Pipistrelle this afternoon. Feeding just overhead for half an hour.
December 8, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Great views of this Common Pipistrelle this afternoon. Feeding just overhead for half an hour.
#WinterTen for #Wildflowerhour Oxeye Daisy, Musk Mallow, Common Flax, Common Knapweed, Common Vetch, Cow Parsley, Cock's-foot, Sticky Mouse-ear, Spear Thistle and False Oat-grass.
November 23, 2025 at 8:55 PM
#WinterTen for #Wildflowerhour Oxeye Daisy, Musk Mallow, Common Flax, Common Knapweed, Common Vetch, Cow Parsley, Cock's-foot, Sticky Mouse-ear, Spear Thistle and False Oat-grass.
Anyone with a phone plan managed to leave O2 after recent price rises? Phone bought through Samsung but with O2 contract. O2 say that there's no way of telling me how much the phone costs vs Airtime (data, calls etc). I don't believe them.
November 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Anyone with a phone plan managed to leave O2 after recent price rises? Phone bought through Samsung but with O2 contract. O2 say that there's no way of telling me how much the phone costs vs Airtime (data, calls etc). I don't believe them.
Second part of my dozen #winterten for #wildflowerhour White Campion, Ribbed Melilot, Hogweed, Pansy, Crimson Clover a d Wild Angelica.
November 16, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Second part of my dozen #winterten for #wildflowerhour White Campion, Ribbed Melilot, Hogweed, Pansy, Crimson Clover a d Wild Angelica.
First six of my #winterten for #wildflowerhour Buckwheat, Chicory, Red Dead-nettle, Redshank, Meadowsweet and Holly.
November 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
First six of my #winterten for #wildflowerhour Buckwheat, Chicory, Red Dead-nettle, Redshank, Meadowsweet and Holly.
Contacting Liverpool Council about paying a motoring fine. Will it take 5 attempts? Will I be ignored every single time? Like the time that they told me they'd be taking away the defunct disabled parking bay and associated street junk from outside my house? Wish me luck.
November 16, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Contacting Liverpool Council about paying a motoring fine. Will it take 5 attempts? Will I be ignored every single time? Like the time that they told me they'd be taking away the defunct disabled parking bay and associated street junk from outside my house? Wish me luck.
I've never seen a fasciated banana before.
November 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I've never seen a fasciated banana before.
Five more makes 11 for my #winterten #wildflowerhour
November 9, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Five more makes 11 for my #winterten #wildflowerhour
The first 6 of a #Winterten for #wildflowerhour
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 PM
The first 6 of a #Winterten for #wildflowerhour
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Nothing new under the sun. St Methodius giving St Cyril the 'bunny ears' treatment on Charles Bridge Prague.
October 30, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Nothing new under the sun. St Methodius giving St Cyril the 'bunny ears' treatment on Charles Bridge Prague.
I knew she reminded me of somebody.
October 29, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I knew she reminded me of somebody.
A time of joy and happiness for everybody. Apart from these two obviously.
October 28, 2025 at 5:38 PM
A time of joy and happiness for everybody. Apart from these two obviously.
Thinking back to the summer when I was watching birds passing over really high over Arnside. I noticed something unidentified that seemed to be falling from a height (perhaps 1000 metres). Started off as a speck but as it fell I still couldn't identify it.
October 26, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Thinking back to the summer when I was watching birds passing over really high over Arnside. I noticed something unidentified that seemed to be falling from a height (perhaps 1000 metres). Started off as a speck but as it fell I still couldn't identify it.
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A great way to fight back against AI taking away work from creatives is to buy art by actual humans.
(Reply to this post with your own art/website etc. But only if you’re an organic life-form).
www.worldofmoose.com
(Reply to this post with your own art/website etc. But only if you’re an organic life-form).
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Website of artist, cartoonist & tweeter Moose Allain
Welcome to the website of artist, cartoonist and prolific tweeter Moose Allain. Please fell free to have a poke about.
www.worldofmoose.com
March 28, 2025 at 7:50 AM
A great way to fight back against AI taking away work from creatives is to buy art by actual humans.
(Reply to this post with your own art/website etc. But only if you’re an organic life-form).
www.worldofmoose.com
(Reply to this post with your own art/website etc. But only if you’re an organic life-form).
www.worldofmoose.com
Thanks to @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social for the news on this Great White Egret along Estuary Boulevard in Speke. Photographed with my phone from the car. Incredibly tame. This was the first bird that I twitched, back in 1981 at Penmaenpool when I think there were less than 10 post 1954 records!
October 23, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Thanks to @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social for the news on this Great White Egret along Estuary Boulevard in Speke. Photographed with my phone from the car. Incredibly tame. This was the first bird that I twitched, back in 1981 at Penmaenpool when I think there were less than 10 post 1954 records!