Simon Gillings

@simongillings.bsky.social

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Birder, artist, sound recordist, data scientist at BTO; One half of Alula Designs. Views my own

An adult White-rumped Sandpiper feeding on a mudflat
Adult White-rumped Sandpiper (left) with adult Dunlin
spectrogram showing calls of a Stone-curlew
Faux fur covered audio recorder
Sample page from The Sound Approach to Birding
Juvenile Mediterranean Gull on the sea
Adult summer Mediterranean Gull with Black-headed Gulls, loafing on a track between bouts of hawking for insects
Red-belted Clearwing moth
A view along one of my transects, comprising a grassy bank beside a stream, with tall marginal vegetation and bushes
Western Reef Heron portrait, by Simon Gillings for Alula Designs
Red Grouse in moorland vegetation
Male Whinchat singing amongst bracken
Hummingbird Hawkmoth sat on a hand
Walberswick, Suffolk, viewing south over a brackish pool looking towards reed beds, with sand dunes on the left
Drake Garganey swimming in front of four Black-headed Gulls on an island
Moulting Great Northern Diver
Grasshopper Warbler singing in a bush
Male Ring Ouzel on grass field
Male Ring Ouzel on grass with twigs behind
A parabolic microphone pointed at a Gannet colony on a cliff
screen grab of the Bird Atlas Mapstore, showing Nuthatch distribution change
Grand Designs, Mute Swan style
design based on the patterning of a drake Mandarin duck
Dark-edged Bee-fly on Ivy
Spectrogram of a Great Spotted Woodpecker drum, showing the accelerating tapping
Spectrogram of a Firecrest song phrase
Audio recorder in woodland
Two Tundra Bean Geese and a Greylag Goose. Bill colour oddly pink in this video grab but clearly orange in the field
A drake Scaup asleep
Incomplete acrylic painting of an Egyptian Plover
Snowy footpath next to the River Ant at Ludham Bridge.
Screenshot of my BirdTrack 2025 stats
Red-necked Grebe on sea
Purple Sandpiper feeding amongst seaweed
Eastern Black Redstart, Filey
Distant scoters on the sea
A female and two male Long-tailed Ducks flying over a flat sea
BTO, The Nunnery in Thetford from a drone, S Gillings
A view across the Ouse Washes at Sutton
Kingfisher perched on a branch, looking left
Whooper Swans overhead, phone photo
Pterodroma mug from Alula Designs on a bench next to a pair of binoculars
Example BirdTrack stats screen showing county totals through time
Adult male Turkestan Shrike perched in a bush
Devil's Coach-horse Beetle
A Fea's type petrel flying over a rough sea. Not AI generated!
Kingfisher perched on a secluded branch
A juvenile Lesser Yellowlegs wading through water amongs sleeping ducks
Spectrogram of Quail calls given in flight, with labels produced by the BTO Acoustic Pipeline's nocmig classifier
a Great Shearwater flying right to left over a choppy sea
Great Shearwater record shot
Juvenile Curlew Sandpiper on wet mud
Giant's Causeway
A view out to sea from Garron Point, County Antrim
Spectrogram showing 5 Bittern night flight calls, with gaps removed. Original spanned 67 seconds
A surging mass of (Red) Knot