Martin Collinson

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Britain's Top Vicarious Birder. Aberdeen Wildife DNA lab. Aniridia research. Likes birds, stamps, ghosts, art, and wasps. Leeds United #lufc because I was bad in a previous life. https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/aberdeendnalab

Dark-green Fritillary sat on a Spear Thistle flower
Pair of Great Crested Grebes at Loirston Loch. One is on the nest incubating, other is carrying a stripy head (arrow)
Great Crested Grebe sat on a floating nest in the middle of the Loch.
Four enormous Northern Marsh Orchids flowering in a pink plant pot
Small pink Common Spotted Orchid in the grass
Screenshot of title page of 'Moeliker, C.W., 2001 - The first case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard Anas platyrhynchos (Aves: Anatidae) - DEINSEA 8: 243-247 [ISSN 0932-9308]. Published 9 November 2001
Female Common Cuckoo half hidden in foliage
Pencil and ink drawing of The Hay Wain with cute ghosts walking a ghost dog, fishing, swimming, playing in a boat, driving the hay wain and leaning out of the window of the house. The other images are details of cute ghosts
Dried up corpse of a Little Auk, missing its head, sat in the grand next to a tweet daffodil-themed notebook.
Blurry photo of first summer Black Guillemot on the sea
Agarose gel image with fluorescent orange DNA bands and a DNA ladder. The other photos are beautiful clean variations on this.
Blurry cropped pic of Mealy Redpoll on feeder, with a Eurasian Siskin and 2 Greenfinches.
Herring Gull peeping menacingly through the gap in a window
Huge fuckoff bumblebee, cuddly dense foxy orange thorax, black abdomen, white bum, sat on wooden bench.
Heath landscape, sheep and lamb sat in foreground with a Chough on the short grass behind them
Middle-distance image of Puffin sat on the sea
Phylogenetic tree, scrawled on, indicating the placement of Spurn and Sheringham birds in an 'eastern' clade.
Blurry distant pic of male Pochard swimming right
Pen drawing of Red-breasted Nuthatch facing right on some sort of pine branch
Pencil and pen drawing of Spurs player Archie Gray squatting in despair on the pitch after losing 3-1 to Crystal Palace. Writing says 'Bring Archie Home' and there is a Leeds United badge
Ring-necked Duck on the Loch with a Tufty and 2 Wigeon
Inchgarth Reservoir, Aberdeen, with a Slavonian Grebe and a Great Cormorant eyeing each other up on the water
Dorsal view of a deceased Redpoll
A drake Ring-necked Duck on the water with 4 Tufter Ducks
A long-distance phonescoped photo of a male Ring-Necked Duck sleeping, watched by 2 male Tufted Duck
Child's baby doll lying half submerged in flooded sedge/grass, with passing resemblance to 'Ophelia' by John Millais
A male Brambling feeding in the snow alongside a male Common Chaffinch.
A female Brambling sat among snowy Dogwood and Ivy.
Thermal image, a bright yellow and red splodge (Robin) on a dark grey background.
Beautiful pinwheel patterns of cell migration across the corneal surface visualised by mosaic blue XGal stain so the whole thing looks like a delicious minty humbug.
Nighttime snow scene, with blizzard
Tess collecting poop from fallen leaves in woodland
A cluster of bright orange fungi growing in the ground
Front of Glasgow O2 Academy lit up for Fields of the Nephilim
Tweet saying 'Unplugged the freezer in the Stamp Shop to charge my phone and all their stamps melted. Now I'm being chased slowly down the road by old men'
Photo of Louvre heist perp in a hi vis vest
Sad brown stalk and empty seed heads of a Lindisfarne (Dune) Helleborine, hardly visible among the greenery.
A fairly Great Grey Shrike sat on a bush
Can of pineapple flavour beer called 'Ananas in Pyjamas' featuring 2 pineapples in pyjamas running (possibly chasing teddy bears).
A loose V of winged dots in the grey sky, that's a skein of Pink-footed Geese. No really it is.
Photo of Leeds United forward Patrick Bamford with green hoops drawn on his jersey.
Screenshot of Birdguides page 28 August reporting Menetries's Warbler trapped and ringed in April 2025, confirmed by DNA analysis.
Labbie Alaa dressed extremely fashionably in blue, stood in front of fantastic science, her poster entitled 'Endothelial-specific SMN deficiency drives retinal vascularisation in a novel SMA mouse model.'
Plastic doll's head sticking out of a clump of moss and grass, in a muddy puddle.
Tree Bumblebee on a cotoneaster
Seven-spot Ladybird next to an empty ladybird exuvia. Some kind of creepy white spider lurks nearby
4 Herring Gulls sat like a bridge group, each with a corner of a dead Kittiwake chicken, pulling it to bits
Northern Brown Argus Butterfly sat on a Barley leaf in the sunshine. Small white spots on the brown forefinger give it away
Pink flowers - Reversed Clover Trifolium resupinatum - growing in dry stoney soil