J Hanlon
@jahanlon.bsky.social
Cambs-based Birder & freelance ecologist
writer/ author natural history & UK vagrancy
https://sites.google.com/view/jameshanlonnaturalistecologist/books-media
www.jhanlonecology.co.uk
writer/ author natural history & UK vagrancy
https://sites.google.com/view/jameshanlonnaturalistecologist/books-media
www.jhanlonecology.co.uk
Alpine accentor (ad), Slaughden, Suffolk. October 2022. 32 yrs after my 1st on the Isle of Wight. A mostly winter & spring vagrant to the SE / E Anglia with a few dozen records nationally. #birding #twitching
November 17, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Alpine accentor (ad), Slaughden, Suffolk. October 2022. 32 yrs after my 1st on the Isle of Wight. A mostly winter & spring vagrant to the SE / E Anglia with a few dozen records nationally. #birding #twitching
Alder flycatcher, Blakeney Pt, Sept 2010. V similar to the last species I posted; this was just a couple of yrs after Britain's 1st and will be remembered by those who saw it on the 1st day for the 6 mile return walk along shingle in horizontal rain being battered by a force 10 storm. Nice. #birding
November 16, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Alder flycatcher, Blakeney Pt, Sept 2010. V similar to the last species I posted; this was just a couple of yrs after Britain's 1st and will be remembered by those who saw it on the 1st day for the 6 mile return walk along shingle in horizontal rain being battered by a force 10 storm. Nice. #birding
Good to see official recognition of ‘that’ green wheelie bin after my post yesterday. Yeah, you know the one! #TwitchingProps
November 16, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Good to see official recognition of ‘that’ green wheelie bin after my post yesterday. Yeah, you know the one! #TwitchingProps
Gonna post each day a new bird species I've photographed in UK until I get bored..starting alphabetically with Acadian flycatcher from Sept 2015. The sole record to date & the 2nd N American Empidonax sp to make it here. Virtually a one day #bird, gracing a small garden beside a Kent beach. #birding
November 15, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Gonna post each day a new bird species I've photographed in UK until I get bored..starting alphabetically with Acadian flycatcher from Sept 2015. The sole record to date & the 2nd N American Empidonax sp to make it here. Virtually a one day #bird, gracing a small garden beside a Kent beach. #birding
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Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇
Housing secretary tells Labour MPs to vote down planning bill amendment
Amendment restricts protection for animals to allow faster house building
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇
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Appalling, illegal, unethical, disgusting. Oh, and in the midst of a severe outbreak of Avian Influenza #BirdFlu #H5N1 where free-range poultry are in mandatory lockdown to prevent viral spread.
#Ornithology #UKBirding
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#Ornithology #UKBirding
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Shot Pheasants found dumped in Dorset
Another week and another pile of shot and dumped gamebirds. Thanks to the blog reader who sent in this photo of a pile of dead, shot Pheasants he found yesterday, dumped on the road (B3081) running…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Appalling, illegal, unethical, disgusting. Oh, and in the midst of a severe outbreak of Avian Influenza #BirdFlu #H5N1 where free-range poultry are in mandatory lockdown to prevent viral spread.
#Ornithology #UKBirding
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#Ornithology #UKBirding
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Climate disasters displaced 250 million people in past 10 years, UN report finds
#climatecrisis #COP30
Story by @ninalakhani.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#climatecrisis #COP30
Story by @ninalakhani.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Climate disasters displaced 250 million people in past 10 years, UN report finds
Floods, storms and droughts have uprooted people across the globe as rising temperatures intensify conflict and hunger
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Climate disasters displaced 250 million people in past 10 years, UN report finds
#climatecrisis #COP30
Story by @ninalakhani.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
#climatecrisis #COP30
Story by @ninalakhani.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Amendment 130 is the best chance to reduce the Planning and Infrastructure Bill’s risks to bat conservation. You can read more here: buff.ly/ACYQzDY
Email your MP in less than 2 minutes here: buff.ly/r43w7vE
Email your MP in less than 2 minutes here: buff.ly/r43w7vE
November 8, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Amendment 130 is the best chance to reduce the Planning and Infrastructure Bill’s risks to bat conservation. You can read more here: buff.ly/ACYQzDY
Email your MP in less than 2 minutes here: buff.ly/r43w7vE
Email your MP in less than 2 minutes here: buff.ly/r43w7vE
A trip out to Leics & Northants - the AGP showed well and there were a nice couple of redhead Smew. The afternoon finished with brief distant views of the rather elusive Lesser scaup at Ditchford GPs. #Birding #Twitching
November 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
A trip out to Leics & Northants - the AGP showed well and there were a nice couple of redhead Smew. The afternoon finished with brief distant views of the rather elusive Lesser scaup at Ditchford GPs. #Birding #Twitching
Paying respects to Boaty McGrackleface. Gutted I missed the white starling there though! Pic by A Clifton. #MoreMigrantsOnBoats #BOUcatS
November 5, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Paying respects to Boaty McGrackleface. Gutted I missed the white starling there though! Pic by A Clifton. #MoreMigrantsOnBoats #BOUcatS
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St Ives Island. An ‘all-dayer’. 13 Leach’s Petrel, 2 Cory’s, 3 ESP, 2 Pomarine Skua, 1 Little Auk, 2 Puffin, 3 Little Gull, 8 Sootys & a Snow Bunting with 000’s Kitts, Auks etc. But the highlight was the Loggerhead Turtle off the NCI gully for a few mins. #cornwallbirding
Pic thanks to Adam H
Pic thanks to Adam H
November 2, 2025 at 5:55 PM
St Ives Island. An ‘all-dayer’. 13 Leach’s Petrel, 2 Cory’s, 3 ESP, 2 Pomarine Skua, 1 Little Auk, 2 Puffin, 3 Little Gull, 8 Sootys & a Snow Bunting with 000’s Kitts, Auks etc. But the highlight was the Loggerhead Turtle off the NCI gully for a few mins. #cornwallbirding
Pic thanks to Adam H
Pic thanks to Adam H
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Hellllllloooo? Are you there? Please help birds by sharing this if you also want to ensure swifts & other urban birds have homes alongside us. People power works but only if we work together. SAVE OUR SWIFTS.
November 2, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Hellllllloooo? Are you there? Please help birds by sharing this if you also want to ensure swifts & other urban birds have homes alongside us. People power works but only if we work together. SAVE OUR SWIFTS.
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Great views of European & Oriental Turtle Dove side by side at Hillwell, Shetland this evening. #birdingscotland #rarebirdsuk
November 1, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Great views of European & Oriental Turtle Dove side by side at Hillwell, Shetland this evening. #birdingscotland #rarebirdsuk
For a country with ‘Great’ in the title we seem to be pretty rubbish at a lot of things. Including this. Nothing ‘great’ about being an ecological desert.
Britain one of least ‘nature-connected’ nations in world – with Nepal the most
Britain one of least ‘nature-connected’ nations in world – with Nepal the most
Others languishing near bottom of 61-country study include Canada, Germany, Israel, Japan and Spain
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:21 PM
For a country with ‘Great’ in the title we seem to be pretty rubbish at a lot of things. Including this. Nothing ‘great’ about being an ecological desert.
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Vacancy on BOU Records Committee. Are you up for it? I found it a really interesting and educational experience. Happy to share my experience if you are interested.
#RarebirdsUK #UKBirding
#RarebirdsUK #UKBirding
📢 BOU COMMITTEE NOMINATIONS OPEN
➡️ Awards Nominations Committee
➡️ Engagement Committee
➡️ IBIS Management Committee
➡️ Meetings Committee
➡️ Records Committee
Plus NEW Committee Shadowing Scheme
More info & to nominate: bou.org.uk/about-the...
#ornithology 🪶
➡️ Awards Nominations Committee
➡️ Engagement Committee
➡️ IBIS Management Committee
➡️ Meetings Committee
➡️ Records Committee
Plus NEW Committee Shadowing Scheme
More info & to nominate: bou.org.uk/about-the...
#ornithology 🪶
October 31, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Vacancy on BOU Records Committee. Are you up for it? I found it a really interesting and educational experience. Happy to share my experience if you are interested.
#RarebirdsUK #UKBirding
#RarebirdsUK #UKBirding
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A mixed pair consisting of a Great Northern Diver and a Black-throated Diver successfully bred in the Scottish Highlands in 2024 and again in 2025, it has been revealed:
Mixed-species diver pair successfully breeds in Scotland
A mixed pair consisting of a Great Northern Diver and a Black-throated Diver successfully bred in the Scottish Highlands in 2024 and again in 2025, it has been revealed. The birds were initially discovered at an undisclosed location in the northern Highlands in mid-July 2024, when both adults were s...
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November 1, 2025 at 7:17 AM
A mixed pair consisting of a Great Northern Diver and a Black-throated Diver successfully bred in the Scottish Highlands in 2024 and again in 2025, it has been revealed:
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🚨It's now or never for nature.
The Planning Bill is nearly law. An amendment passed by the Lords offers vital protection for sensitive habitats and species - but it needs MP support to stay in.
📢 Use our form to ask your MP to back Amendment 130: action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/180301/...
The Planning Bill is nearly law. An amendment passed by the Lords offers vital protection for sensitive habitats and species - but it needs MP support to stay in.
📢 Use our form to ask your MP to back Amendment 130: action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/180301/...
October 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🚨It's now or never for nature.
The Planning Bill is nearly law. An amendment passed by the Lords offers vital protection for sensitive habitats and species - but it needs MP support to stay in.
📢 Use our form to ask your MP to back Amendment 130: action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/180301/...
The Planning Bill is nearly law. An amendment passed by the Lords offers vital protection for sensitive habitats and species - but it needs MP support to stay in.
📢 Use our form to ask your MP to back Amendment 130: action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/180301/...
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The new Planning & Infrastructure Bill has reached final stages of debate before it becomes law.The Wildlife Trusts have worked hard to try to limit the impacts this Bill will have on wildlife & wild spaces. Tell your MP to keep Amendment 130 in the Bill..
action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/180301/...
action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/180301/...
Email your MP. Amendment 130 would make sure the new planning systems works for, not against nature.demand they keep amendment 130 in the Bill
It's now or never. This is the last chance to protect nature in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.
Email your MP to keep amendment 130 in the Bill.
action.wildlifetrusts.org
October 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The new Planning & Infrastructure Bill has reached final stages of debate before it becomes law.The Wildlife Trusts have worked hard to try to limit the impacts this Bill will have on wildlife & wild spaces. Tell your MP to keep Amendment 130 in the Bill..
action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/180301/...
action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/180301/...
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WaderTales blog about wader roosts and the energy that's lost when birds are disturbed.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2016/10/30/a...
Published on this day in 2016 🎂9️⃣
Over 3000 reads
#ornithology
wadertales.wordpress.com/2016/10/30/a...
Published on this day in 2016 🎂9️⃣
Over 3000 reads
#ornithology
October 30, 2025 at 6:41 AM
WaderTales blog about wader roosts and the energy that's lost when birds are disturbed.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2016/10/30/a...
Published on this day in 2016 🎂9️⃣
Over 3000 reads
#ornithology
wadertales.wordpress.com/2016/10/30/a...
Published on this day in 2016 🎂9️⃣
Over 3000 reads
#ornithology
Something I just had to get off my chest in relation to the recent trend in bird sighting-related press stories 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️😬
#Birds #Birding #twitching #journalism #BirdNews #press #rant
#Birds #Birding #twitching #journalism #BirdNews #press #rant
October 30, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Something I just had to get off my chest in relation to the recent trend in bird sighting-related press stories 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️😬
#Birds #Birding #twitching #journalism #BirdNews #press #rant
#Birds #Birding #twitching #journalism #BirdNews #press #rant
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Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia
Musk has denounced Wikipedia as "Wokepedia" on X and urged people not to donate to the platform.
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December 26, 2024 at 12:03 PM
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Northern Bullfinches and Scandinavian LT tits are turning up in some numbers in the Northern Isles. Though I can't see these myself here are some from yrs past - The bullfinch 1 of a flock of 17 'tooters' on Fair Isle during the 2004 influx; and a Suffolk snowball from Oct 2010. #birding #birds
October 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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NERF Chair Steve Downing points out 20 years of Govt failure in tackling the illegal killing of birds of prey on gamebird shooting estates in the UK.
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/24/a...
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
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“Act boldly, without delay and introduce game shoot licensing” – open letter to Defra Ministers from Northern England Raptor Forum Chair
The Northern England Raptor Forum (NERF) is the representative body of voluntary raptor fieldworkers across the north of England, including in many of the raptor persecution hotspots in this region…
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October 24, 2025 at 10:32 AM
NERF Chair Steve Downing points out 20 years of Govt failure in tackling the illegal killing of birds of prey on gamebird shooting estates in the UK.
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/24/a...
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/24/a...
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My book has got a great endorsement from Chris Packham: "This clever and immensely resourceful book is an overdue gem". There's also a few pages up on the website too! It's up for pre-order here with publication set for January pelagicpublishing.com/products/pan...
October 23, 2025 at 10:31 AM
My book has got a great endorsement from Chris Packham: "This clever and immensely resourceful book is an overdue gem". There's also a few pages up on the website too! It's up for pre-order here with publication set for January pelagicpublishing.com/products/pan...
31 yrs after the Pennington Flash bird it was good to see another Black-faced bunting at Spurn today. But a looker it ain’t! #birding #twitching
October 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
31 yrs after the Pennington Flash bird it was good to see another Black-faced bunting at Spurn today. But a looker it ain’t! #birding #twitching