Brian Watmough
Brian Watmough
@brianrwat.bsky.social
Birder for 60+ years, ringer, Swale Wader Group, WeBS counter and organiser The Swale.
🚨 The Treasury is threatening our national parks. Dartmoor, the Lake District & wild places could be bulldozed for development. Once gone, they're gone for ever. Join me and sign now to protect them: 38d.gs/rezg
Sign the petition: Save our National Parks
🚨 The Treasury is threatening our national parks. Dartmoor, the Lake District & wild places could be bulldozed for development. Once gone, they're gone for ever. Join me and sign now to protect them:
38d.gs
October 13, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I wonder if the different coloured Oystercatcher egg is a result of egg dumping
July 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Reposted by Brian Watmough
6/6 Please share my story and, when it's published, the petition, which I will also post here on BlueSky. Please help protect one of the Mediterraneans' last unexploited river deltas and its extraordinary wild creatures. Thank you so much.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/t...
The Latest Battleground for Luxury Tourism: Albania’s Adriatic Coast
www.nytimes.com
May 18, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Nest platforms seem to work for Oystercatchers
June 10, 2025 at 1:21 PM
First Ringed Plover fledge from unusual nest hidden under a shingle bank N Kent
May 25, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Reposted by Brian Watmough
Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...
May 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Looks like Oystercatcher appreciate nest platforms away from hedgehogs. The Swale Kent
May 8, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Reposted by Brian Watmough
youtu.be/pvT3aQjLxdE

Here's a 🎶 twist on Coldplay's thumping #VivaLaVida we're calling "Puppets on a Kremlin String?"

It reflects on the grotesque media spectacle hosted by #Trump & #Vance yesterday at the White House. In solidarity with Zelensky & Ukraine.

#SlavaUkraini
#Dontabandonthem
"Puppets on a Kremlin String?" - Marsh Family adaptation of Coldplay's "Viva la Vida" on Trump/Vance
YouTube video by Marsh Family
youtu.be
March 1, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Reposted by Brian Watmough
I wrote a thing…

unherd.com/2024/11/a-fa...
A farmers' revolt is coming
unherd.com
November 16, 2024 at 2:43 AM