Been interested in natural history since my childhood where I built up my bird list biking around my local sites in Warwickshire.

Now I tend to look down rather than up, especially since doing a PhD on British eyebrights, working for the British Dragonfly Society and helping out with beetle surveys for my local wildlife trust.

My day job now involves sitting in front of a computer all week, so I like to get out at weekends with my family and slowly build up my pan species list, with evenings spent looking down the microsope and tackling identification keys.