Sophie Cooper
@sophiecooper
Ex teacher now working in ecology & wildlife conservation. Space, dinosaurs, fossils, volcanoes enthusiast with a generous splodge of culture to boot! ❤:🌌🔭🔬🔎🦇🍄🦖🌋🖼📚🎭🎶🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️, politics & people. Be More Jill. Black Lives Matter.
A few beauties from my Somerset garden moth trap last night: Elephant hawk-moth, brimstone, four spotted footman and Jersey tiger 🦋💚 #moths #insects #butterflies #nature #wildlife
Happy World Snake Day!! And to celebrate, here's a couple of stunning grass snakes from my Somerset garden and local patch from a few years ago. Always worth popping out a basking mat to see who turns up!💚🐍 #snakes #nature #wildlife #gardening
A beautiful gatekeeper #butterfly on the veronica whilst I ate my ice cream in my #Somerset garden just now! 💚 #butterflies #nature #wildlife #summer
Painted lady and comma #butterflies from my #Somerset garden today💚 #nature #wildlife
A stunning golden-ringed dragonfly popped in my #Somerset garden for a visit today! 💚 #dragonflies #nature #wildlife #insects
I think green hairstreak butterflies are the closest thing to fairies. You see them tiny, shimmering and fluttering out of the corner of your eye. Magical! Here's 1 of 6 I saw on my Quantock Hills pootle yesterday💚 #butterflies #nature #Somerset
A few common spotted orchids from my Quantock Hills pootle yesterday💚
Hot but nicely breezy butterfly survey on the Quantock Hills today. A few highlights: green hairstreak (one of my favourite butterflies), mating large skippers, green tiger beetle, stonechat and... the all important Styles ice cream van for a well-earned end-of-survey treat!💚
Down in front for a beautiful celebration of a world full of music, humanity and unity! Absolutely awesome!! #Gorillaz #TottenhamHotspurStadium #London #music #livemusic
Dormouse box checks (under licence) on Blackdown Hills, Somerset. No dormice, but woodmice and some very angry tree bumblebees!
Hooray for Greta Thunberg! A perfect birthday message for Trump's 80th!
What a trip! Part of a team of ORCA volunteers onboard the Saga cruise ship Spirit of Discovery exploring Ireland's coast! Recorded: common dolphins, bottlenose dolphins, Risso's dolphins (I missed these), minke whale, common & grey seals. Brilliant guest engagement & some very irish weather! 💚💙
FWIW: Sitting under my damson tree, getting showered with aphid poo... and it's very refreshing in the heat!💚 #Springwatch #wildlife #nature
Think I interupted something in my moth trap this morning, over 20 rather busy cockchafers!🤭
Bat box checks (under licence and before the downpour) near Ham Wall, Somerset Levels yesterday. Soprano pipistrelles about and waded though a good number of dragonflies and damselflies in the long grass, here's a hairy dragonfly and a four-spotted chaser 💚 #bats #dragonflies #nature #wildlife
Male early bumblebee resting on an iris in my Somerset garden this morning💚
A perfect Sunday of bat box checks (under licence) on the Somerset Levels today. A few soprano pipistrelles and the call of a cuckoo💚
There was only one place for me to be tonight! Happy 100th birthday Sir David Attenborough!!🥳💚
I thought I'd kick off the celebration of Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday, by getting up for the dawn chorus! A blackcap very kindly treated me to his beautiful song!💚
Happy 100th Birthday Sir David Attenborough!! There's a party going on in my study!🥳
Building up to the big day on Friday, thought I'd share 2 brilliant book covers from Sir David Attenborough's ( better than Bond) action adventurer's Zoo Quest years. The greatest teacher I ever had & proof you can learn so much from telly! 💚 #Attenborough100 #nature #wildlife