#BBCSpringwatch

2025-06-17

Garden snails 🐌 try to stab each other with 'love darts' prior to mating. We finally got it on video!

With sound on you can hear the 'ding' as the dart pierces through the body and hits the glass on the other side. Ouch!

#snails #lovedarts #bbcspringwatch #UoN

2025-06-13

Our snails 🐌 featured on #BBCSpringwatch last night, links below. It was a lot of work for five minutes of film - but quite pleased overall. Of course, we did not quite get the highly desired #lovedart shooting (despite what the video says) but have subsequently managed (to follow 😉).

Mostly shot in studio in Life Sciences, rest on UoN campus. No lefties either, at least not obviously.

bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002 (14 minutes into program, UK only or VPN)
instagram.com/reel/DK0DmMntmMZ #BBC #snails #UoN

Shot shows baby snail silhouetted against the "moon"
2025-06-03

This week, the songs Chris Packham is getting into the #Springwatch programmes are by #Blur.

I'm already wondering what next week's band will be. #Pulp, perhaps? If he can get 'Sorted for E's and Wizz' into a wildlife programme he should get a medal!

#BBCSpringWatch

2025-05-29

Hmmmm, Not heard Messing around with Poodles by Oasis yet. #springwatch #bbcspringwatch

Nature with SteveNatureWithSteve
2025-05-28

“Get off my water!!!” A male Mute Swan puts on a ‘look how big and scary I am’ display of power to tell the two other Swans he is barrelling toward that they are absolutely not welcome on *his* part of East Marsh Pool. Brandon Marsh, near Coventry, earlier this month.

Photo of a male Mute Swan swimming towards the camera (actually, towards two other Swans who are not in the picture) in full threat display mode. His neck is angled back so that his head is held low, and his wings are held up with the wingtips arched over his body, making him look bigger than he really is – kind of angelic, but in a scary way! A 'bow wave' gives an impression of the speed at which he is moving across the water; ahead of him, his reflection is broken up in the rippling green-blue water. Like others of his species, this one has white plumage, which is a little brownish on parts of the head and neck; the tip and the base of his beak are black (a colour extending to the eyes) and the rest of the beak is orange.
2025-05-27

Chris Packham is definitely trying to mention as many Oasis songs as he can during the #SpringWatch programmes.

#BBCSpringWatch

2025-05-22

I've just heard that #BBCSpringwatch will be broadcasting from Longshaw Estate in the Peak District next week! Being a proud #PeakDistrictTextileArtist lots of my work fratures this area including these scenes from very close to Longshaw. I will have all three of these original artworks on display and for sale this coming weekend at #DerbyshireOpenArts in Carsington.
derbyshireopenarts.co.uk/artis
#SpringWatch #MotherCap #climbing #climbers #DerbyshireGritstone

Collage of three framed stitched artworks depicting moorland with gritstone rocks, heather and silver birch treesImage taken from BBC News. Photo of peak district rocks and a millstone. Inset photo is of three Springwatch presentersPromotional image with a photo of Carsington Church and text:
DERBYSHIRE OPEN ARTS 2025 A wide range of art and crafts Saturday 24th, Sunday 25th & Monday 26th May 2025 FREE entry to artists' venues across Derbyshire. Venue 18 with Pop-up Cafe 
- PEAK DISTRICT ARTISANS 
Visit 5 artists in Carsington at Venue 18. Alison Wake 18a - Ruth Matthews 18b - Kathryn Watson 18c Bel Holland 18d - Liz Wellby 18e St Margaret's Church, Main Street, Carsington, Matlock, DE4 4DE with Pop-up Cafe 
Please park in the centre of village and follow signs to venue
2025-05-20

It's happening, snails on BBC Springwatch! In the end, four days work x 2 BBC staff plus myself as animal wrangler. For 5 minutes of film. #bbcspringwatch #snails #Cornu #UoN bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapac

Selfish Snails

Amorous molluscs are on the move in the search of mates. When they find a suitor their courtship can last for hours but all is not as tender as it seems. Each participant is in a biological battle to pass on their genes and force the other to take a maternal role with a secret weapon to ensure success.
Nature with SteveNatureWithSteve
2024-06-30

A Robin at The Dingle, Llangefni, Anglesey, checking to see whether I'm using the right settings on my camera and judging me for not using a smaller aperture for better depth of field. Everyone's a critic... 😉

A Eurasian Robin standing on top of a wooden fence, leaning slightly to one side and looking intently at something - probably not my camera settings actually, but you never know. The front of the bird's head and the chest are an orangey red colour, fringed with grey above and to the sides; the belly is whitish; and the rest of the head, the back, the wings, and the tail are brown. The beak is black, with yellow towards the base, and the legs and feet and pink.
Vicky Outen Photo DPAGBVickyOuten@mastodon.world
2024-05-29
2023-12-17

The weekend before Christmas and I really should start with some seasonal photos. But I had the chance to photograph some waxwings recently and I am really happy with the results. So this weekend's photo is of a Waxwing. I hope you like it.

#waxwing #birdphotography #ukwildlife #britishwildlife #wildlifephotography #naturelovers #lincolnshirewildlife #NaturesWindow #naturephotography #NatureWatch #ukwildlifeimages #nikonwildlifephotography #bbcspringwatch #winterwatch #rspb

Waxwing on frosty tree
2023-10-26

More micro-fungi, growing among the moss. Gedgrave, near Orford, Suffolk.

#mushroom #fungus #fungi #nature #NaturePhotography #OutdoorPhotography #macro #CloseUp #bbcspringwatch #SuffolkWildlifeTrust #swt

micro-fungi
2023-10-25

Another one of those tiny fungi, only a couple of millimetres high. Gedgrave, near Orford, Suffolk.

#mushroom #fungus #fungi #nature #NaturePhotography #OutdoorPhotography #macro #CloseUp #bbcspringwatch #SuffolkWildlifeTrust #swt

tiny fungus
2023-10-24

Tiny fungus, only a couple of millimetres high. Gedgrave, near Orford, Suffolk.

#mushroom #fungus #fungi #nature #NaturePhotography #OutdoorPhotography #macro #CloseUp #bbcspringwatch #SuffolkWildlifeTrust #swt

tiny fungus
Vicky Outen Photo DPAGBVickyOuten@mastodon.world
2023-09-11

As it's my birthday today, I thought I'd post some photos which were taken this year & were the first time I've photographed them. They have been posted on my feed previously.

www.vickyoutenphotography.com

#wildlife #TwitterNatureCommunity #jessopsmoment #bbccountryfilemagpotd #photooftheday #BBCWildlifePOTD #BBCSpringwatch @ThePhotoHour #cuckoo #kentishplover #tawnyowl

As it's my birthday today, I thought I'd post some photos which were taken this year & were the first time I've photographed them. They have been posted on my feed previously. 

www.vickyoutenphotography.com
2023-09-08

We've been really lucky to watch the leverets growing up in our garden this summer. Gedgrave, near Orford, Suffolk.

#hare #hares #brownhare #mammals #mammal #bbcspringwatch #SuffolkWildlifeTrust #swt #nature #NaturePhotography #OutdoorPhotography #orford

almost fully grown leveret

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