Immigrant. Field site manager for the Wytham tit project. Bird ringer. Sports fan. Sometimes gets annoyed by politicians. He/Him
Keith McMahon
Apart from anything else, it's the unionists rioting, the last thing they want is to be Irish.
Scarcely into June, and already more or less completed this year's tit field season in Wytham, marked with the now traditional group photo. Great teamwork once again led by @mcmahok.bsky.social with excellent support from @ellafcole.bsky.social & Sam Croft. Will update with some data summaries soon!
“The truth is that the global far right have spent the past few years using a billionaire-owned social media platform to deliberately whip up racist violence on Britain’s streets and now they are finally starting to succeed.”
@adambienkov.bsky.social
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Happy 100th Birthday Sir David! Short clip from a film with Sir David Attenborough featuring @ellafcole.bsky.social explaining research in @wythamwoods.bsky.social into how Great Tits adjust behaviour during incubation to fine-tune hatching date: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGjL...
Not much in the moth trap last night. First outing this year. Did get my first Lime hawk moth and the invasive Australian orange tip (also a first for the garden).
Also to hell with audible and Spotify for audiobooks, get the British library app, Libby. Loads of stuff there to listen to
Reform won 2 seats in my district 😭. Shocking turnout 40%. Yes everyone moaning about the state of town on local Facebook groups.
Happy 100th Birthday to David Attenborough. They say never meet your heroes. He was as awesome as you'd imagine. Made everyone feel special the day he came to Wytham Woods to film the birds and their eggs.
Lesser white throat singing in my back garden this morning. A first. Lots of them about so far.
This week has been one of the warmest on record in Oxford. This heatwave has also been recorded by the thermologgers we have in @wythamwoods.bsky.social. The period between 23rd and 28th May has been ~8°C (+2.6 SDs) warmer in 2026 than the same period between 2023 and 2025.
Mainstream politicians have stood by as the global far-right campaigns for anti-migrant violence on our streets. Now we're suffering the consequences, argues Adam Bienkov
