Darren Archer
@dunnock67.bsky.social
Moving in for #birds #bats #Hoverflies #butterflies. NE England
Worried about the climate
https://curlewsfeathers.wordpress.com/
Worried about the climate
https://curlewsfeathers.wordpress.com/
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Darren Archer
@dunnock67.bsky.social
· Feb 5
Letter From Gaza. Ghassan Kanafani
YouTube video by Palestine Diary
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The late john Berger reads A Letter from Gaza from the late Ghassan Kanafani Still as relevant today 🇵🇸
m.youtube.com/watch?v=_msu...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=_msu...
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🦇 We have some very exciting news to share... The Bat Conservation Trust's Nocturnal Garden will debut at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026! Designed by Melanie Hick and sponsored by Project Giving Back.
Read more about the garden here: www.bats.org.uk/news/2026/01... .
Read more about the garden here: www.bats.org.uk/news/2026/01... .
The Bat Conservation Trust's Nocturnal Garden debuts at RHS Chelsea Flower Show - News - Bat Conservation Trust
The Bat Conservation Trust is showcasing its first-ever RHS Chelsea Flower Show garden!
www.bats.org.uk
January 5, 2026 at 10:37 AM
🦇 We have some very exciting news to share... The Bat Conservation Trust's Nocturnal Garden will debut at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026! Designed by Melanie Hick and sponsored by Project Giving Back.
Read more about the garden here: www.bats.org.uk/news/2026/01... .
Read more about the garden here: www.bats.org.uk/news/2026/01... .
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Israel’s ban on 37 humanitarian organisations, including Doctors Without Borders, from entering Gaza is another war crime.
The Green Party condemns this decision and calls for immediate international action to protect humanitarian actors.
The Green Party condemns this decision and calls for immediate international action to protect humanitarian actors.
January 2, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Israel’s ban on 37 humanitarian organisations, including Doctors Without Borders, from entering Gaza is another war crime.
The Green Party condemns this decision and calls for immediate international action to protect humanitarian actors.
The Green Party condemns this decision and calls for immediate international action to protect humanitarian actors.
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“Teams visiting displacement camps reported appalling conditions that no child should endure, with many tents blown away or collapsing entirely." #Gaza theorkneynews.scot/2026/01/03/t...
“Teams visiting displacement camps reported appalling conditions that no child should endure, with many tents blown away or collapsing entirely.” #Gaza
Six children have died in Gaza in December because of the shocking living conditions being endured by the civilian population and the limiting of Humanitarian Aid by the Israeli occupation forces. …
theorkneynews.scot
January 3, 2026 at 8:14 AM
“Teams visiting displacement camps reported appalling conditions that no child should endure, with many tents blown away or collapsing entirely." #Gaza theorkneynews.scot/2026/01/03/t...
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Best wishes for 2026! To start off the new year, here's a great new set of some 400 recordings by Fabrice Schmitt from the Sira mountain range in Peru. xeno-canto.org/explore?quer...
January 1, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Best wishes for 2026! To start off the new year, here's a great new set of some 400 recordings by Fabrice Schmitt from the Sira mountain range in Peru. xeno-canto.org/explore?quer...
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With all respect to our #FootIt forefathers @tommckinney.bsky.social @orgreavebirder.bsky.social and the late great Martin Garner.
♠️
We are joined by @uforthbirder.bsky.social to introduce Foot It 2026!
#TheTwoJonnies #FootIt #Unlimited
www.podbean.com/ei/pb-2dgyg-...
♠️
We are joined by @uforthbirder.bsky.social to introduce Foot It 2026!
#TheTwoJonnies #FootIt #Unlimited
www.podbean.com/ei/pb-2dgyg-...
The Two Jonnies Episode 7 - Foot It
Pendlebury in the house! We talk Foot It - unlimited! Which commences tomorrow!
The Two Jonnies - except in audio not visual format. We’re treading the same path as Birder’s Twitter and Birder’s Spac...
www.podbean.com
December 31, 2025 at 11:49 AM
With all respect to our #FootIt forefathers @tommckinney.bsky.social @orgreavebirder.bsky.social and the late great Martin Garner.
♠️
We are joined by @uforthbirder.bsky.social to introduce Foot It 2026!
#TheTwoJonnies #FootIt #Unlimited
www.podbean.com/ei/pb-2dgyg-...
♠️
We are joined by @uforthbirder.bsky.social to introduce Foot It 2026!
#TheTwoJonnies #FootIt #Unlimited
www.podbean.com/ei/pb-2dgyg-...
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As a new year begins, families in Gaza continue to hold on to hope.
In 2026, WFP will continue to stand by families in need, supporting food security and the path toward recovery.
In 2026, WFP will continue to stand by families in need, supporting food security and the path toward recovery.
December 31, 2025 at 3:26 PM
As a new year begins, families in Gaza continue to hold on to hope.
In 2026, WFP will continue to stand by families in need, supporting food security and the path toward recovery.
In 2026, WFP will continue to stand by families in need, supporting food security and the path toward recovery.
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#footitunlimited2026
Rules
Count the number of species you see at home or whilst on foot from your home during the month of January.
No distance limit. Walk as far as you want. You just need to make it home by the 31st Jan
Have fun and post it on Bluesky
#footit
Rules
Count the number of species you see at home or whilst on foot from your home during the month of January.
No distance limit. Walk as far as you want. You just need to make it home by the 31st Jan
Have fun and post it on Bluesky
#footit
December 31, 2025 at 11:55 AM
#footitunlimited2026
Rules
Count the number of species you see at home or whilst on foot from your home during the month of January.
No distance limit. Walk as far as you want. You just need to make it home by the 31st Jan
Have fun and post it on Bluesky
#footit
Rules
Count the number of species you see at home or whilst on foot from your home during the month of January.
No distance limit. Walk as far as you want. You just need to make it home by the 31st Jan
Have fun and post it on Bluesky
#footit
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Is the government going to sit and watch while the #PalestineAction hunger strikers die? Is most of the media going to carry on ignoring them? Just how callous has the Establishment become?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Families of Palestine Action hunger strikers seek urgent meeting with Lammy
Justice secretary urged to ‘show a bit of humanity’ with protesters severely ill after refusing food for weeks
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Is the government going to sit and watch while the #PalestineAction hunger strikers die? Is most of the media going to carry on ignoring them? Just how callous has the Establishment become?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Bewick's Swan. It's really strange to find these in Ireland now. A mix of delight & sorrow. A species that was relatively easy along the east coast in my youth, now a real rarity. These look to be the first & only for almost 2 years. #irishrarebirds #birds #birding #birdwatching #wildfowl #selffound
December 29, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Bewick's Swan. It's really strange to find these in Ireland now. A mix of delight & sorrow. A species that was relatively easy along the east coast in my youth, now a real rarity. These look to be the first & only for almost 2 years. #irishrarebirds #birds #birding #birdwatching #wildfowl #selffound
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One for any birders pondering how to list in '26.
Recent talk's biggest laff and gasp both from my bit on how I'm Kent's biggest fantasy birder😇
In which I showed my '25 fantasy big listing game has cost c. 1.4 tonnes of carbon from a tiny petrol car. And if used BBC's avg motor, i.r.o. 3.7 tonnes.
Recent talk's biggest laff and gasp both from my bit on how I'm Kent's biggest fantasy birder😇
In which I showed my '25 fantasy big listing game has cost c. 1.4 tonnes of carbon from a tiny petrol car. And if used BBC's avg motor, i.r.o. 3.7 tonnes.
December 26, 2025 at 9:56 AM
One for any birders pondering how to list in '26.
Recent talk's biggest laff and gasp both from my bit on how I'm Kent's biggest fantasy birder😇
In which I showed my '25 fantasy big listing game has cost c. 1.4 tonnes of carbon from a tiny petrol car. And if used BBC's avg motor, i.r.o. 3.7 tonnes.
Recent talk's biggest laff and gasp both from my bit on how I'm Kent's biggest fantasy birder😇
In which I showed my '25 fantasy big listing game has cost c. 1.4 tonnes of carbon from a tiny petrol car. And if used BBC's avg motor, i.r.o. 3.7 tonnes.
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From Haiti and Somalia to the State of Palestine, children in fragile contexts risk losing the learning, stability and access to essential services that schools can offer.
Education is life-saving and life-changing #ForEveryChild and must be protected.
Education is life-saving and life-changing #ForEveryChild and must be protected.
December 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
From Haiti and Somalia to the State of Palestine, children in fragile contexts risk losing the learning, stability and access to essential services that schools can offer.
Education is life-saving and life-changing #ForEveryChild and must be protected.
Education is life-saving and life-changing #ForEveryChild and must be protected.
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Save this for your Winter walks!
How many have you done already this year?
How many have you done already this year?
December 27, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Save this for your Winter walks!
How many have you done already this year?
How many have you done already this year?
What a difference a week makes
Jelly Ear 20th on left 27th on right
Jelly Ear 20th on left 27th on right
December 27, 2025 at 12:49 PM
What a difference a week makes
Jelly Ear 20th on left 27th on right
Jelly Ear 20th on left 27th on right
Horden news Looks like every man got sea fishing gear for Christmas So many cars parked badly thought I was missing out on a twitch
2025 added. LRP Nuthatch Greenish Warb and Tufted Duck
2026 will add bats to the site as have found some great recording spots now
2025 added. LRP Nuthatch Greenish Warb and Tufted Duck
2026 will add bats to the site as have found some great recording spots now
December 27, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Horden news Looks like every man got sea fishing gear for Christmas So many cars parked badly thought I was missing out on a twitch
2025 added. LRP Nuthatch Greenish Warb and Tufted Duck
2026 will add bats to the site as have found some great recording spots now
2025 added. LRP Nuthatch Greenish Warb and Tufted Duck
2026 will add bats to the site as have found some great recording spots now
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"How, then, can we not think of the tents in Gaza, exposed for weeks to rain, wind and cold" theorkneynews.scot/2025/12/27/h...
“How, then, can we not think of the tents in Gaza, exposed for weeks to rain, wind and cold”
In his Homily on Christmas Day, 25 December 2025, Pope Leo XIV said: “Dear brothers and sisters, since the Word was made flesh, humanity now speaks, crying out with God’s own desire to encoun…
theorkneynews.scot
December 27, 2025 at 8:06 AM
"How, then, can we not think of the tents in Gaza, exposed for weeks to rain, wind and cold" theorkneynews.scot/2025/12/27/h...
December 26, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Suddenly out of nowhere we are given the option of kindness instead of fear, isolation and dehumanising others in order to survive. Let’s make kindness, listening and compassion our New Year’s resolution. Get with the greens and make Reform last year’s has beens.
December 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Suddenly out of nowhere we are given the option of kindness instead of fear, isolation and dehumanising others in order to survive. Let’s make kindness, listening and compassion our New Year’s resolution. Get with the greens and make Reform last year’s has beens.
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Advent #25
"A harsh truth of activism and social movements is the fight never ends; there will never be a day that you 'win' ...a constant push for a better world, an ongoing struggle to a horizon you will never fully reach. But while there is no definitive win-state there is also no fail-state..."
"A harsh truth of activism and social movements is the fight never ends; there will never be a day that you 'win' ...a constant push for a better world, an ongoing struggle to a horizon you will never fully reach. But while there is no definitive win-state there is also no fail-state..."
December 25, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Advent #25
"A harsh truth of activism and social movements is the fight never ends; there will never be a day that you 'win' ...a constant push for a better world, an ongoing struggle to a horizon you will never fully reach. But while there is no definitive win-state there is also no fail-state..."
"A harsh truth of activism and social movements is the fight never ends; there will never be a day that you 'win' ...a constant push for a better world, an ongoing struggle to a horizon you will never fully reach. But while there is no definitive win-state there is also no fail-state..."
The meaning of Christmas plants Or more importantly spoiler alert calling things by their name so we don’t lose them from our landscape
Discussing the spiritual side of nature, why Holly, Ivy and Mistletoe are significant, and how meaning is going being lost. Happy Christmas! youtu.be/hkn_r4DZrxY?...
The spiritual side of nature
YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts
youtu.be
December 25, 2025 at 8:17 AM
The meaning of Christmas plants Or more importantly spoiler alert calling things by their name so we don’t lose them from our landscape
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A veteran pear tree, a stubborn partridge, and a girl with a wooden sign – day one of our 12-day Christmas series reimagines “a partridge in a pear tree” for 2025.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social
The partridge in the pear tree
Today we launch our seasonal series of articles for the twelve days of Christmas, with a tale of a girl, a partridge and a pear tree
eastangliabylines.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 7:53 AM
A veteran pear tree, a stubborn partridge, and a girl with a wooden sign – day one of our 12-day Christmas series reimagines “a partridge in a pear tree” for 2025.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social
@eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social
Manal Mahamid born Muawiya Palestine
The Palestine Gazelle renamed Israeli Gazelle in zoos in 🇮🇱 is portrayed with an amputated leg -a powerful metaphor for the mutilation of identity and territorial continuity.
metacpc.org/en/all-eyes-...
The Palestine Gazelle renamed Israeli Gazelle in zoos in 🇮🇱 is portrayed with an amputated leg -a powerful metaphor for the mutilation of identity and territorial continuity.
metacpc.org/en/all-eyes-...
December 25, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Manal Mahamid born Muawiya Palestine
The Palestine Gazelle renamed Israeli Gazelle in zoos in 🇮🇱 is portrayed with an amputated leg -a powerful metaphor for the mutilation of identity and territorial continuity.
metacpc.org/en/all-eyes-...
The Palestine Gazelle renamed Israeli Gazelle in zoos in 🇮🇱 is portrayed with an amputated leg -a powerful metaphor for the mutilation of identity and territorial continuity.
metacpc.org/en/all-eyes-...
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Reports that Palestine Action activists on hunger strike have been hospitalised due to seriously deteriorating health send chills down the spine.
The Government should agree to meet their representatives whilst prosecutors must take steps to end this excessively lengthy pre-trial detention.
The Government should agree to meet their representatives whilst prosecutors must take steps to end this excessively lengthy pre-trial detention.
December 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Reports that Palestine Action activists on hunger strike have been hospitalised due to seriously deteriorating health send chills down the spine.
The Government should agree to meet their representatives whilst prosecutors must take steps to end this excessively lengthy pre-trial detention.
The Government should agree to meet their representatives whilst prosecutors must take steps to end this excessively lengthy pre-trial detention.
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Advent #24
"At this critical point.. fossil fuel lobbyists still enjoy closer relationships with political decision-makers than climate scientists do. We still see politicians prioritising the interests of corporations and personal contacts over the needs of the people they're elected to represent"
"At this critical point.. fossil fuel lobbyists still enjoy closer relationships with political decision-makers than climate scientists do. We still see politicians prioritising the interests of corporations and personal contacts over the needs of the people they're elected to represent"
December 24, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Advent #24
"At this critical point.. fossil fuel lobbyists still enjoy closer relationships with political decision-makers than climate scientists do. We still see politicians prioritising the interests of corporations and personal contacts over the needs of the people they're elected to represent"
"At this critical point.. fossil fuel lobbyists still enjoy closer relationships with political decision-makers than climate scientists do. We still see politicians prioritising the interests of corporations and personal contacts over the needs of the people they're elected to represent"
Christmas comes early for @suffolkseawatcher.bsky.social
Been working on a little video looking at IDing Aythya ducks over the past month. Feel free to give it a watch here as a little early Christmas present (if you're a fan of niche ducks): youtu.be/f4aF7_zONIM?...
A Deep Dive into Aythyism
YouTube video by Humphrey Keeper
youtu.be
December 24, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Christmas comes early for @suffolkseawatcher.bsky.social
Duaa Qishta from Gaza
Waiting loss exile and hope
Gives voice to the invisible creating a space of listening and recognition where silent human trauma becomes a manifesto
metacpc.org/en/all-eyes-...
Waiting loss exile and hope
Gives voice to the invisible creating a space of listening and recognition where silent human trauma becomes a manifesto
metacpc.org/en/all-eyes-...
December 24, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Duaa Qishta from Gaza
Waiting loss exile and hope
Gives voice to the invisible creating a space of listening and recognition where silent human trauma becomes a manifesto
metacpc.org/en/all-eyes-...
Waiting loss exile and hope
Gives voice to the invisible creating a space of listening and recognition where silent human trauma becomes a manifesto
metacpc.org/en/all-eyes-...