Joe Woodman
@joewoodman.bsky.social
Teacher based in London. Oxford Biology PhD graduate 🐣
Bird ringing & generally birding around (esp in Scilly)
Wildlife blog - http://joewoodmanwildlife.com
Bird ringing & generally birding around (esp in Scilly)
Wildlife blog - http://joewoodmanwildlife.com
Wood sandpiper at St Marys on Monday.
#ScillyBirds
#ScillyBirds
July 26, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Wood sandpiper at St Marys on Monday.
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#ScillyBirds
Hedges around Great Pool, Tresco, full of warblers at the moment. Seems to be a particular build up of willow warblers recently.
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#ScillyBirds
July 21, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Hedges around Great Pool, Tresco, full of warblers at the moment. Seems to be a particular build up of willow warblers recently.
#ScillyBirds
#ScillyBirds
Good show of waders so far on Scilly, highlight being a Ruff found two days ago at Tresco
#ScillyBirds
#ScillyBirds
July 19, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Good show of waders so far on Scilly, highlight being a Ruff found two days ago at Tresco
#ScillyBirds
#ScillyBirds
So happy to be back in Scilly. Kicked off the week with this adult cuckoo on Wednesday. Probably a late leaver from the mainland
#ScillyBirds
#ScillyBirds
July 18, 2026 at 10:49 AM
So happy to be back in Scilly. Kicked off the week with this adult cuckoo on Wednesday. Probably a late leaver from the mainland
#ScillyBirds
#ScillyBirds
Reposted by Joe Woodman
Some new research from us, led by @davididiaquez.bsky.social. Using data from the past 47 years, we show that mass of adult great tits has declined by ~1 sd, which seems to result largely from an environmental effect on nestling growth linked to higher pop density
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
February 16, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Some new research from us, led by @davididiaquez.bsky.social. Using data from the past 47 years, we show that mass of adult great tits has declined by ~1 sd, which seems to result largely from an environmental effect on nestling growth linked to higher pop density
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Read now in @asn-amnat.bsky.social ahead of print! 🐦🌳
Do older birds claim better territories, and does this drive age biases in space over time? Woodman et al. use 45 years of data to suggest that habitat quality - not age - shapes spatial demography.
Read now ahead of print!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
Read now ahead of print!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
University of Chicago Press Journals: Cookie absent
www.journals.uchicago.edu
November 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Read now in @asn-amnat.bsky.social ahead of print! 🐦🌳
New paper out, the last one from my PhD 🎓! Age shapes behaviour, survival, and reproduction. By using longterm great tit data, we ask whether age covaries with territory quality, and if territories show spatial age structure over time: tinyurl.com/ya2xp3zc
November 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
New paper out, the last one from my PhD 🎓! Age shapes behaviour, survival, and reproduction. By using longterm great tit data, we ask whether age covaries with territory quality, and if territories show spatial age structure over time: tinyurl.com/ya2xp3zc
Cracking end to my 6 days on Scilly, with a hoopoe on the garrison & a smattering of great shears, 2 sooties, 3 puffin and a bonxie from the Scillonian. 105 species total! Full trip report here: ebird.org/tripreport/4...
#ScillyBirds
#ScillyBirds
October 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Cracking end to my 6 days on Scilly, with a hoopoe on the garrison & a smattering of great shears, 2 sooties, 3 puffin and a bonxie from the Scillonian. 105 species total! Full trip report here: ebird.org/tripreport/4...
#ScillyBirds
#ScillyBirds
What a day - lapand bunting in the morning, buff-bellied pipit and flyover whitefronts on St Agnes, and a bluethroat at Porth Hellick in the evening. Where else but Scilly
#ScillyBirds
#ScillyBirds
October 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
What a day - lapand bunting in the morning, buff-bellied pipit and flyover whitefronts on St Agnes, and a bluethroat at Porth Hellick in the evening. Where else but Scilly
#ScillyBirds
#ScillyBirds
Choose your fighter. Great white egret and grey heron at Porth Hellick yesterday afternoon.
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#ScillyBirds
October 24, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Choose your fighter. Great white egret and grey heron at Porth Hellick yesterday afternoon.
#ScillyBirds
#ScillyBirds
Slightly weird snipe at Peninnis today. Roosting in relatively open/dry patches. Didn’t flush as warily as other comm snipes, didn't call and less zigzagging flight. Sadly no diagnostic features for any vagrant species were seen. Probably just tired!
#ScillyBirds
#ScillyBirds
October 23, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Slightly weird snipe at Peninnis today. Roosting in relatively open/dry patches. Didn’t flush as warily as other comm snipes, didn't call and less zigzagging flight. Sadly no diagnostic features for any vagrant species were seen. Probably just tired!
#ScillyBirds
#ScillyBirds
Reposted by Joe Woodman
Interested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in @biology.ox.ac.uk in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
October 20, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Interested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in @biology.ox.ac.uk in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Very glad that becoming a teacher allows for an October halfterm trip to Scilly. Arrived yday, so far adding 8 spp to my Scilly list. Highlights have been RB shrike, little bunting, 3 redpoll over and ofc the Eyebrowed Thrush. Bring on the next 5 days!
#ScillyBirds
#ScillyBirds
October 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Very glad that becoming a teacher allows for an October halfterm trip to Scilly. Arrived yday, so far adding 8 spp to my Scilly list. Highlights have been RB shrike, little bunting, 3 redpoll over and ofc the Eyebrowed Thrush. Bring on the next 5 days!
#ScillyBirds
#ScillyBirds
Reposted by Joe Woodman
Wild great tits signal ‘divorce’ long before the breeding season — even in the winter, months before the couples rebreed with different partners in the following spring
New study with @universityofleeds.bsky.social in @royalsocietypublishing.org 👇
bit.ly/4lRt7TN
@sheldonbirds.bsky.social
New study with @universityofleeds.bsky.social in @royalsocietypublishing.org 👇
bit.ly/4lRt7TN
@sheldonbirds.bsky.social
Great tits show early signs of splitting up: researchers uncover social clues to bird 'divorce'
bit.ly
July 30, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Wild great tits signal ‘divorce’ long before the breeding season — even in the winter, months before the couples rebreed with different partners in the following spring
New study with @universityofleeds.bsky.social in @royalsocietypublishing.org 👇
bit.ly/4lRt7TN
@sheldonbirds.bsky.social
New study with @universityofleeds.bsky.social in @royalsocietypublishing.org 👇
bit.ly/4lRt7TN
@sheldonbirds.bsky.social
Really enjoying my new job teaching Biology in London, but the sunny weather has me missing the early Wytham mornings during the field season 🌳
An old video I made of the '23 field season working for @egioxford.bsky.social & @biology.ox.ac.uk takes me back: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-rm...
An old video I made of the '23 field season working for @egioxford.bsky.social & @biology.ox.ac.uk takes me back: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-rm...
Wytham Woods: A Season in 3 Boxes
YouTube video by Joe Woodman
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June 30, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Really enjoying my new job teaching Biology in London, but the sunny weather has me missing the early Wytham mornings during the field season 🌳
An old video I made of the '23 field season working for @egioxford.bsky.social & @biology.ox.ac.uk takes me back: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-rm...
An old video I made of the '23 field season working for @egioxford.bsky.social & @biology.ox.ac.uk takes me back: www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-rm...
Reposted by Joe Woodman
Checklist Media is now live! ebird.org/news/new-che...
April 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Checklist Media is now live! ebird.org/news/new-che...
My happy place: shorebird-watching on Tresco as the tide pushes them inland in the morning sun. This year made even better by a colour-ringed sanderling, originally ringed as a juv in Pontevedra, Spain Oct 2020, and seen again in Syddanmark, Denmark Jul 2022
#ScillyBirds #Birds #BirdRinging
#ScillyBirds #Birds #BirdRinging
April 25, 2025 at 7:50 PM
My happy place: shorebird-watching on Tresco as the tide pushes them inland in the morning sun. This year made even better by a colour-ringed sanderling, originally ringed as a juv in Pontevedra, Spain Oct 2020, and seen again in Syddanmark, Denmark Jul 2022
#ScillyBirds #Birds #BirdRinging
#ScillyBirds #Birds #BirdRinging
Great to catch the shore lark before leaving Scilly - a really scarce bird on the islands with this being the first since 2009 and one of only 13 in total
#ScillyBirds
#ScillyBirds
April 25, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Great to catch the shore lark before leaving Scilly - a really scarce bird on the islands with this being the first since 2009 and one of only 13 in total
#ScillyBirds
#ScillyBirds
Great tramp around Bryher w/ Will @iwtscilly.bsky.social, inc catching up with the woodchat shrike found earlier. Also learnt lots more about Scilly's flora, including seeing the amazing dwarf pansy - found only in Scilly and essentially only within this approx 100m2 plot!
#ScillyBirds
#ScillyBirds
April 17, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Great tramp around Bryher w/ Will @iwtscilly.bsky.social, inc catching up with the woodchat shrike found earlier. Also learnt lots more about Scilly's flora, including seeing the amazing dwarf pansy - found only in Scilly and essentially only within this approx 100m2 plot!
#ScillyBirds
#ScillyBirds
V tough conditions for birding yday with high winds/rain, but in true Scilly fashion the weather flipped completely overnight. Kicked off w a self-found wryneck and a smattering of rouzels. Failed to catch up with the purple heron on St Marys, but it was a lovely day to walk around the island.
April 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
V tough conditions for birding yday with high winds/rain, but in true Scilly fashion the weather flipped completely overnight. Kicked off w a self-found wryneck and a smattering of rouzels. Failed to catch up with the purple heron on St Marys, but it was a lovely day to walk around the island.
Very considerate of my sister to get married in July so our family holiday to Scilly has been brought forward to a much more birding-friendly April! Blustery/wet crossing on the Scillonian brought 100+ Manxies, as well as guillemots and razorbills. Looking forward to a week of birding!
April 14, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Very considerate of my sister to get married in July so our family holiday to Scilly has been brought forward to a much more birding-friendly April! Blustery/wet crossing on the Scillonian brought 100+ Manxies, as well as guillemots and razorbills. Looking forward to a week of birding!
Such a nice bird to catch up with locally, but not quite in the confines of my Brill village patch!
March 24, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Such a nice bird to catch up with locally, but not quite in the confines of my Brill village patch!
Feeling particularly springlike this morning, with the first chiffchaff of the year ringed in the garden. Accompanied by some other faves including 3 new goldcrest and a dunnock in breeding condition
March 23, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Feeling particularly springlike this morning, with the first chiffchaff of the year ringed in the garden. Accompanied by some other faves including 3 new goldcrest and a dunnock in breeding condition