Ryan Clark

@BrianE_Cambs @wildlifebcn Many thanks Brian! It was wonderful to work there and I still enjoy reading the magazine and socials to see what the next exciting project is!

10 years ago, I started my first paid job in Ecology and have very much enjoyed my time working for various charities to understand and conserve our often overlooked invertebrates and plants. (1/4)

Do also come find me on Bluesky, as I very rarely check on here anymore! 🙂 (4/4)

I am open, however, to discuss any future opportunities for contract work delivering research, surveys, monitoring, and training. My website is a work in progress, but it can be found here and details the sort of work I carry out (3/4)  euceraecology.co.uk

Lovely to see the moss Grimmia crinita yesterday in Buckinghamshire. In Britain, this species is only known from 2 sites. Beautiful!

Tonight's #NewYearPlantHunt Day Two round-up, summarising who found what & where across Britain & Ireland today, comes to you courtesy of the fabulous Mr James Common @CommonByNature: bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2024/12/new-ye… We hope you enjoy it!

@onLoughrigg Thanks Pete!

@RyanClarkNature @savebutterflies I've really enjoyed your mothing tweets...

Today was my last day at @savebutterflies after a wonderful two years filled with great moths, amazing habitats and lovely plants. I made over 200 site visits and was lucky enough to work on some of northern England's rarest moths, a real privilege!

@vc30moths Thanks Andy. Currently on the lookout for freelance opportunities 🙂

@RyanClarkNature @savebutterflies Excellent work Ryan. Where next ?

The lovely Eagle’s Claw lichen (Anaptychia ciliaris subsp. ciliaris) seen at its only Cumbrian site this afternoon. A Nationally Scarce and S41 species. Also sampled the delicious cake at the nearby cafe!

@wildlifebcn What a great selection of workshops!

🥳Our 2025 Wildlife Training Workshops are now LIVE on our website! 🌟NEW for 2025; Introductions to amphibians, reptiles, hoverflies, bumblebees and more! 📣Book quick as these events are always incredibly popular. More info & how to book here wildlifebcn.org

Three lovely limestone loving mosses and liverworts which brightened up a dull weekend. Scapania aspera (Rough Earwort), Rhytidium rugosum (Wrinkle-leaved Feather-moss) and Metzgeria pubescens (Downy Veilwort)

Argyll's atlantic woodlands were bursting with life recently, including the wonderfully named; Hazel Gloves, Frilly-fruited Jelly Lichen (Leptogium burgessii), Yellow Specklebelly (Pseudocyphellaria citrina) and Deceptive Featherwort (Pseudomarsupidium decipiens)

The wonderful and Nationally Scarce Octopus Suckers lichen (Collema fasciculare) from Argyll today.

@sibilatrix We managed a whole 1.5 miles 😆

@RyanClarkNature Did you get out of the car park?

Lots of lovely lichens adorning trees in Argyll this afternoon 😍

@BBSbryology I'm yet to purchase the first volume but looks like I should wait until mid December when they bring out an updated one. They do look good!

My family are always asking what I want for Christmas. This year I know. Should be published later this month. I have found Volume 1 very useful. leclub-biotope.com/en/naturalist-…

@specanatura @BLSlichens That's a lovely looking lichen. I'm off to that area later this week. Looking forward to seeing some nice lichens and bryophytes! 😀

@BLSlichens S dactylophyllum looks distinctive: slender, tufty, branching pseudopodetia; peg-like phyllocladia becoming coralloid or ‘fingery’; occasional wrinkly, brown-grey cephalodia (containing cyanobacteria: see top right); abundant, small, cap-like apothecia at lateral branch tips. 2/3

Stereocaulon dactylophyllum var dactylophyllum from siliceous boulder at Lussa Dam, NR78/VC101 Kintyre, Scotland. Tripartite #lichen symbiosis involving fungus and not one but two photobionts: chlorococcoid alga (primary) and Stigonema cyanobacterium (secondary). Thread. 1/3

@Jamiewa50042387 Only 20 mins from where I grew up and you found some fantastic things. I'll have to take a look when I'm next back there!

Chinnor's old kiln Chalk pit yesterday,lovely habitat to search 🙂🐾