Heather Buttivant

So excited and proud! 🥳🦀Beach Explorer is available to pre-order - out on 1 April with the fabulous @septemberbooks. 50 hands-on activities plus facts, quizzes and tips to make every day at the beach an #outdoorleaning adventure.

Day Six since @networkrail said they’d unblock the mortar in nest holes at #ChapelMilton. It’s not happened. #swifts spotted 21 miles away today. #saveourswifts #unblocktheholes @WriterHannahBT

@WriterHannahBT First swift of the year spotted this morning in Looe, Cornwall. 🥳

Anyone welcomed any swifts today? I keep thinking of my village swifts and whether they were in the thousands passing through France yesterday and today….

Did you know? Many of the creatures you see on the seashore when rock pooling started out as larvae in the plankton, like this shrimp larva. @zeiss_micro @natgeo

@B_Strawbridge Hi Brigit! It's great to see you're enjoying nature studies with A. Give me a shout if you want to explore the shore together again - especially if this sunshine lasts! 😊☀️

@CornishRockPool Hello Heather!

For home school Nature Studies this month we've moved on from mosses... to native #wildflowers. Here's my 10 yr old granddaughter Arrietty's latest nature journal entry. Did you know that Lesser Celandine was Wordsworth's favourite flower?! 💛

Please help stop the 'Guga hunt' a needless slaughter of Gannet chicks on a remote Scottish island - petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE22…

@PaulClack76 Lovely finds! Glad you got out there before the weather clapped out. I'm hiding indoors this afternoon!

First dip back into the rockpools in SE Cornwall today, nice to see some old friends. Blue-rayed limpet, cushion starfish, gem anemone and shore rockling. @CornishRockPool

@chilledasad100 He does sound pretty awesome! Great to read.

Don’t know who he is - but he sounds like my kind of person 😊Asad Rehman’s journey from antiracism campaigner in Burnley to head of Friends of the Earth theguardian.com/environment/20…

All I need in life... nudibranch slugs and rainbows! More in my blog this week over on Cornish Rock Pools: cornishrockpools.com/2025/09/19/wer…. Babakina anadoni, Looe, #Cornwall

@NaturalistDara Congratulations Dara! What a wonderful journey it has been and no doubt there will be many more wild and beautiful paths ahead for you. 🦇🦉🌟🌟🌟

@jurassicg1rl @LittleBrownUK How wonderful! Congratulations to you (and to your proud parents). 🥳 I'll look forward to reading it.

A wonderful moment unboxing my book with my parents! The Whispers of Rock is released tomorrow in the UK, I am so excited & nervous to see what you all think! #naturewriting #geology #earthscience @LittleBrownUK

My reading manifesto launched today for #MichaelRosenDay

Saw 2 starfish on my swim this morning. Here's Asterias Rubens from Battery Rocks @SerenBooks

The 2024 Rockstars Young Geologists’ Competition Film Showcase is now live! Watch the incredible work of young geologists exploring volcanoes, fossils and more on the Rockwatch website rockwatch.org.uk/celebrating-20… #Rockstars2024 @AngloAmericanUK @GeolAssoc

🌊 The Big Rock Pool Challenge is HERE! 🌊 Join the fun and compete in Bioblitz Battles🐚 No experience needed, just your curiosity and love for the sea! 🌊 In partnership with @thembauk Made possible by @HeritageFundUK . 👉 Learn more: therockpoolproject.co.uk/big-rock-pool-…

@thorogoodchris1 Fabulous! One of my favourite sea slugs (I have a lot). Please tell me you're going to go into slug illustrations? 🙏Junior & I are huge fans of your books. He's carnivorous plant-mad... and now also jumps out the car in excitement at the sight of a broomrape: your doing!😄

Today I joined a team of marine biologists to find this rare and beautiful sea slug (Elysia) which has the most extraordinary biology: it steals chloroplasts, sequesters them, and photosynthesizes like a plant. It is a solar powered sea slug.

@graemelyons Fabulous! 😍

Just back from a holiday to Jersey. Quite frankly, the most amazing rock-pooling I have ever done. Check it all out here!!! …venaturalhistoryofsussex.blogspot.com/2024/09/the-co…

📢 I’m hiring a 3yr postdoc Interested in evolutionary origins of miRNA/RNAi in animals? Keen on working with early branching metazoans and unicellular relatives? Please join my lab 🧬 @thembauk ⏳Deadline 25th October 2024 ℹ️ Details: jobs.ac.uk/job/DJW823/pos… Please RT!

@helenscales Yes, thank you! Your new book is next in line on my bedside reading pile and is eagerly anticipated. 😊 Otherwise my life is, of course, mainly dedicated to trying to find a rainbow slug!

@CornishRockPool Thank you Heather 💙 I hope you’re keeping well x

I am thunderstruck and over the moon in equal measures 💙🌊