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#birding #ecology #ornithology
As we've been saying for a while: the "backlash" against climate policies has been wildly, absurdly overstated. This new survey shows how UK MPs badly understate support for climate policies

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
January 5, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Very quiet in the hills today, a Woodcock provided a moment of interest, otherwise just a lot of nival-gazing. ❄️ #seewhatIdidthere? ❄️ #snow ❄️
January 5, 2026 at 5:16 PM
Ynysyfro: 3 male Pochard. #gwentbirding
January 4, 2026 at 12:41 PM
Starting a ‘Books read in 2026’ thread to shame myself into reading an acceptable number of books for a reasonably well-educated adult human, so,…
January 3, 2026 at 9:24 PM
A potter round produced a goody. Hawfinch(!) at Rhiwderin, initially flying around with a small flock of Chaffinch near the ‘swimming pond’ at c.ST263868 (adjacent to the Yellowthroat site), later sat up for high quality handheld phone-scoping shenanigans. #gwentbirding #lowcarbonbirding #footit
January 3, 2026 at 1:50 PM
A light dusting of snow and a female Blackcap out back. ❄️ #gwentbirding #nippy
January 3, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Female Blackcap in the garden. #gwentbirding #gardensafari
January 2, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Uskmouth: every shade of dog shit bag plus Woodcock, Water Pipit, 8+ Snipe and a few Redpoll. Goldcliff Pools: 11 Whitefronts, 4 Golden Plover, Black Redstart, Pintail, Chiffchaff, Common Scoter feeding off the point, 28 Grey Plover and 16 Turnstone on the foreshore. #gwentbirding #birdingWales
January 1, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Ynysyfro: Pochard. #gwentbirding #brevity
December 31, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Quick spin round the local waterbodies, nowt much at Cwm Hedd or Pant-yr-Eos, 5 Pochard at Ynysyfro. #gwentbirding #lowcarbonbirding #birdingbybike
December 30, 2025 at 2:26 PM
A gaping chasm in my graphic non-fiction collection was filled over Xmas. A stone cold classic of the genre. #Persepolis #comics #graphicnonfiction #sequentialart
December 30, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Does anyone monitor the bycatch of shore netting? cc @rspbcymru.bsky.social @btocymru.bsky.social
Quite how shore nets like these are legal is beyond me. Two turnstones were trapped this morning at Rhos Point. I untangled both and they were able to fly off unharmed before being drowned by the rising tide.
December 30, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Reposted by Darryl
Brexit's going well...
December 29, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Goldcliff Pools: 2 Whitefronts, 9 Golden Plover amongst c.1,600 Lapwing, Black Redstart at the ‘dump’, Common Scoter feeding off the point, 3 Grey Plover and 32 Turnstone on the pill. 1/2 #gwentbirding #birdingwales
December 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Heads up! #gwentbirding
A mind blowing visit to Northwick Warth when the first Patch record of 8 Bean Geese circled Pilning Wetland at 12.05 then headed west towards Gwent. Presumably Tundras but will check pics later.
December 28, 2025 at 1:09 PM
This is all *perfectly* normal. Happy Christmas everybody! 🎄🥵🎄
ABSOLUTE INSANITY IN ICELAND
It s warmer than summer !
19.7C Bakkagerði in the middle of the night !
‼️nearly 10C above JULY average

MOST EXTREME EVENT EVER SEEN IN WORLD CLIMATIC HISTORY
Records brutalized allover the country
December 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Oooh, looks like the Caerleon/Llandegfedd Whitefronts were part of a broader movement. Yay for nippy easterlies. #gwentbirding
Amazing incursion of Russian White-fronted Geese - today's records from @birdguides.bsky.social #UKBirding 🪶
December 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Yeah, we should definitely be handing Jim Ratcliffe £70M of government funding. This is the sort of development this country needs. #pollution #health #billionaire #taxdodging #Brexitclown
globalspark.news/world/enviro... cc @antoniabance.bsky.social
New Study Reveals INEOS Plastic Plant Causes More Deaths Than Jobs It Creates
Shocking new research exposes the human cost of INEOS's Antwerp plastic plant, with pollution-related deaths dramatically exceeding employment numbers. A deep dive into the environmental and health im...
globalspark.news
December 20, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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More detail about the missing White-tailed Eagle in mid-Wales.

Not the first investigation into raptor persecution in this area.

Press release from Dyfed-Powys Police & commentary from me 🔽

#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime @iolowilliams.bsky.social

raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/12/19/m...
More detail about the missing White-tailed Eagle in mid-Wales
Further to the news on Thursday (here) that three White-tailed Eagles have ‘disappeared’ in suspicious circumstances, one in England, one in Wales and one in Scotland, Dyfed-Powys Police has issued…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
December 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I’ve stayed there! The Wilderness Hotel near Inari is currently on ‘Amazing Hotels’ (BBC2). Three-toed Woodpecker, Pine Grosbeak, Siberian Tit, Siberian Jay, etc., etc., in the ‘garden’,… also aurora,… also -30 degrees. #Finland #nippy
December 18, 2025 at 8:50 PM
“On 13 Sept, a satellite tag belonging to a white-tailed eagle was recovered near Gwgia Reservoir, Tregynon, … police … are asking anyone who was at or around the reservoir between 11am and 1pm or on access land near Bryn y Fawnog between noon and 3pm on 13 Sept to come forward.” #birdingWales
December 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Reform risk reviving Thatcher-style 'industrial destruction' in Wales, warns TUC

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Reform risk reviving Thatcher-style 'industrial destruction' in Wales, warns TUC
Ahead of crunch Senedd elections next year, analysis for the TUC found Nigel Farage's party poses the biggest threat to Welsh industry - risking thousands of jobs
www.mirror.co.uk
December 15, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Reposted by Darryl
We (@crossdale.bsky.social, Christina Pantazis, @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social, Tiê Franco Brotto and I) present the first academic peer-reviewed article, studying the criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest as a global phenomenon. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
December 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Scops Owl bagged. Didn’t exactly rush down to Copperopolis but seemed rude not to pop in and say ‘hello’. #birdingWales
December 11, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Goldcliff Pools: Black Redstart briefly at ‘the dump’, little else of note. #gwentbirding
December 11, 2025 at 1:32 PM