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Jon Dunn 🇺🇦
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Nature writer, photographer, tour leader. FLS. @BSBIbotany Shetland county recorder Author for @BasicBooks @BloomsburyBooks @PrincetonUPress c/o @PFDagents
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    Jon Dunn 🇺🇦
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    Nov 17, 2024
    Along with a great many folk, I've made myself at home over in The Other Place, where the skies are blue. I've been there a while now, and can affirm it's a lovely place to hang out and share wildlife stuff. Hope to see you there. This is me: tinyurl.com/Jon-Dunn-Blues…
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    Jon Dunn 🇺🇦
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    Apr 1, 2018
    Here in #Shetland we only shoot Mountain Hares with cameras, not guns. That's because, despite having thousands of acres of upland hills, we don't have any driven grouse shooting. No grouse moors means no blameless hares being persecuted. Happy Easter, #GrouseMoorEasterBunny 🐇
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    Jon Dunn 🇺🇦
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    Oct 1, 2022
    The 47 million to 1 shot. Today marks the opening of the pheasant shooting season in the UK. On average, 47 million pheasants are released into the British countryside *every year*, with incalculable harm done to native wildlife, just so people can shoot them for fun. 🙄 (1/2)
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    Jon Dunn 🇺🇦
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    Aug 12, 2022
    Blinded and grounded by a disease it can't possibly understand, a Gannet today in #Shetland responding to what it can hear, the sound of the sea. If only @DefraGovUK cared to listen too. The scale and extent of wild bird deaths from avian flu in the UK is colossal this year.
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    Jon Dunn 🇺🇦
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    Aug 12, 2023
    Today's the Inglorious Twelfth. The day bloodsport enthusiasts begin shooting Red Grouse for fun. It's not a thing here in #Shetland. We have no managed grouse moors. Our hills abound with life. You'll be told managed grouse moors are better for wildlife. It's not true.
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    Jon Dunn 🇺🇦
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    Aug 14, 2022
    Goodbye, Freya. A blameless Walrus killed this morning by #Norway's @fiskeridir simply for being inconvenient. Apparently the decision to shoot her was for her 'well-being'. An astonishing and repugnant act. What the hell is wrong with people?
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    Jon Dunn 🇺🇦
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    Jun 27, 2020
    An absolutely humbling afternoon today watching this magnificent Minke Whale feeding in a sheltered bay on the edges of Lerwick. Other British towns have urban foxes - here in #Shetland we have urban whales.
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    Jon Dunn 🇺🇦
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    Jan 27, 2023
    Hugely toxic neonicotinoid pesticides to be sprayed again in the UK. @DaveGoulson excellent on this on @BBCr4today, while @NFUSugar declined to engage. I wonder if DDT would have been banned in 80s were @NFUtweets as powerful a lobbyist as it is nowadays. inews.co.uk/news/environme…
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    Jon Dunn 🇺🇦
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    Dec 6, 2018
    And when I say they were right in the centre of town, I’m not exaggerating. If they were urban foxes* they’d have been knocking over our dustbins... *you can keep your urban foxes, #London. We have urban orca here in #Shetland... 😉 @PromoteShetland
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    Jon Dunn 🇺🇦
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    Jun 5, 2020
    Bit of a sunset presently from my kitchen window in #Shetland. This is taken as seen. No filters, no processing. The landscape is glowing. #sunset
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    Jon Dunn 🇺🇦
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    Mar 8, 2018
    It's finally here! Today's publication day for my #OrchidSummer! It's been years in the dreaming, the planning and the writing and now, at last, it's real. I really hope you enjoy it.
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    Jon Dunn 🇺🇦
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    Jun 27, 2024
    The roadside verges in #Shetland are currently ablaze with wildflowers. It’s a distracting joy to travel around the islands at the moment - there’s plenty to see.
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    Jon Dunn 🇺🇦
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    Aug 13, 2020
    Some high botanical drama last night when I heard that Harebells had been seen yesterday in #Shetland. Presumed to be extinct, they've not been seen (as far as I know) here since the 1980s. But here, today, was a small wind-tossed patch of them. A joy.
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    Jon Dunn 🇺🇦
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    May 15, 2020
    A bit of bouldering involved today to get myself down the cliffs to the water's edge behind my #Shetland croft, where this summer-plumaged Great Northern Diver was pure two tone ska at Skaw.