TG42Birder🇵🇸
@tg42birder.bsky.social
Low-carbon living & bird finding in TG42, East Norfolk. Patch 328, finds 302, patch finds 287 (latest PGP). Flight-free for 18 years 😁
https://tg42lowcarbonbirding.wixsite.com/tg42
Hardcore will never die, but you will.
https://tg42lowcarbonbirding.wixsite.com/tg42
Hardcore will never die, but you will.
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@tg42birder.bsky.social
· Dec 4
"[A]mongst those of us privileged enough to fly, and make decisions about energy policy that will impact others more than ourselves, we appear oblivious to the catastrophe we are seemingly complicit in. Cognitive dissonance or a deliberate attempt to maintain privilege and global inequalities?"
"what I find most disturbing is that the use of aviation remains typically unquestioned, placing increasing pressure on other industries to move more quickly, despite its dominant use by a privileged minority." - Prof. @aliceclimate.bsky.social
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I’ve little time for the elitist gong system. With occasional exceptions, it rewards those already privileged & who reinforce the establishment rather than challenge it. A scattering of minor honours for the underpaid/volunteers is moral camouflage for rewarding compliance & for flattering power.
January 6, 2026 at 10:01 AM
I’ve little time for the elitist gong system. With occasional exceptions, it rewards those already privileged & who reinforce the establishment rather than challenge it. A scattering of minor honours for the underpaid/volunteers is moral camouflage for rewarding compliance & for flattering power.
Great photo of a BTD in flight.
On the rare occasions I see them here (one in 2025) I’ve noticed the bill always looks slightly downcurved or subtly downward pointing. It shows well in the photo. I think it’s a pretty good additional indicator of the species.
#norfolkbirding
On the rare occasions I see them here (one in 2025) I’ve noticed the bill always looks slightly downcurved or subtly downward pointing. It shows well in the photo. I think it’s a pretty good additional indicator of the species.
#norfolkbirding
I saw a large diver fly up the Crouch at 10:30 from the house at South Fambridge, which I then relocated on the river at 13:30 at Brandy Hole.
It was a very active Black-throated Diver which eventually flew off high east at 3pm.
Stunning view of a close ♀️ Merlin too.
Photo by S Arlow.
#EssexBirding
It was a very active Black-throated Diver which eventually flew off high east at 3pm.
Stunning view of a close ♀️ Merlin too.
Photo by S Arlow.
#EssexBirding
January 4, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Great photo of a BTD in flight.
On the rare occasions I see them here (one in 2025) I’ve noticed the bill always looks slightly downcurved or subtly downward pointing. It shows well in the photo. I think it’s a pretty good additional indicator of the species.
#norfolkbirding
On the rare occasions I see them here (one in 2025) I’ve noticed the bill always looks slightly downcurved or subtly downward pointing. It shows well in the photo. I think it’s a pretty good additional indicator of the species.
#norfolkbirding
Gorgeously bright, clear and crisp. I miss days like these. Got to enjoy them when they happen.
Swans still, but the Pinks and Tundra Beans etc have moved since late last night with only a few around the Waxham area this morning
#norfolkbirding
Swans still, but the Pinks and Tundra Beans etc have moved since late last night with only a few around the Waxham area this morning
#norfolkbirding
January 4, 2026 at 11:30 AM
Gorgeously bright, clear and crisp. I miss days like these. Got to enjoy them when they happen.
Swans still, but the Pinks and Tundra Beans etc have moved since late last night with only a few around the Waxham area this morning
#norfolkbirding
Swans still, but the Pinks and Tundra Beans etc have moved since late last night with only a few around the Waxham area this morning
#norfolkbirding
10:30pm and the geese are making a racket across the road… been like it all night… 🤣
#norfolkbirding
#norfolkbirding
January 3, 2026 at 10:35 PM
10:30pm and the geese are making a racket across the road… been like it all night… 🤣
#norfolkbirding
#norfolkbirding
#norfolkbirding
Future-friendly low-carbon birding in the snow today😁
Lots of Tundra Beans, both Whoopers and Bewick’s Swans, and the Cranes.
Plus some fabulous views.
Future-friendly low-carbon birding in the snow today😁
Lots of Tundra Beans, both Whoopers and Bewick’s Swans, and the Cranes.
Plus some fabulous views.
January 3, 2026 at 4:57 PM
#norfolkbirding
Future-friendly low-carbon birding in the snow today😁
Lots of Tundra Beans, both Whoopers and Bewick’s Swans, and the Cranes.
Plus some fabulous views.
Future-friendly low-carbon birding in the snow today😁
Lots of Tundra Beans, both Whoopers and Bewick’s Swans, and the Cranes.
Plus some fabulous views.
@collegeofteaching.bsky.social
Very disappointed that the CC of Teaching only very recently stopped using X.
Your reasoning was a cop out and should have strongly recommended the profession do not use it.
Don’t take the easy path because “important” people use it.
Speak up. 👍
Very disappointed that the CC of Teaching only very recently stopped using X.
Your reasoning was a cop out and should have strongly recommended the profession do not use it.
Don’t take the easy path because “important” people use it.
Speak up. 👍
I don't honestly see how the DfE and Ofsted remaining on Twitter meets the teacher standards. Surely it's not safeguarding pupils' wellbeing or showing respect for the rights of others? Sorry to go on about it but really? 😔
January 3, 2026 at 10:42 AM
@collegeofteaching.bsky.social
Very disappointed that the CC of Teaching only very recently stopped using X.
Your reasoning was a cop out and should have strongly recommended the profession do not use it.
Don’t take the easy path because “important” people use it.
Speak up. 👍
Very disappointed that the CC of Teaching only very recently stopped using X.
Your reasoning was a cop out and should have strongly recommended the profession do not use it.
Don’t take the easy path because “important” people use it.
Speak up. 👍
31 Tundra Beans in Palling. Do not block farm access. Signage is very clear.
Park sensibly in village and walk the short distance. Viewing not the easiest.
#norfolkbirding
Park sensibly in village and walk the short distance. Viewing not the easiest.
#norfolkbirding
January 2, 2026 at 12:31 PM
31 Tundra Beans in Palling. Do not block farm access. Signage is very clear.
Park sensibly in village and walk the short distance. Viewing not the easiest.
#norfolkbirding
Park sensibly in village and walk the short distance. Viewing not the easiest.
#norfolkbirding
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Looking through my timeline this eve, it's full of birders declaring their yearlist, more and more concentrating on local areas, be it patch, 10K or 10mile from home. Got to be good for #lowcarbonbirding @tg42birder.bsky.social
December 31, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Looking through my timeline this eve, it's full of birders declaring their yearlist, more and more concentrating on local areas, be it patch, 10K or 10mile from home. Got to be good for #lowcarbonbirding @tg42birder.bsky.social
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We're challenging a broken, failed economic model, and the people defending it have no answer other than just to continue with what is broken.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Greens’ Polanski prepared to work with Burnham but not Starmer ‘to stop Reform’
Green party leader says he could see potential for political partnership with Labour under Andy Burnham
www.theguardian.com
December 31, 2025 at 7:22 PM
We're challenging a broken, failed economic model, and the people defending it have no answer other than just to continue with what is broken.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Another year of future-friendly low-carbon birding done.
New to TG42: GR Warbler
Best birds: RL Buzzard & Red-footed Falcons.
Highlights in a mile of home: Hume’s, Greenish, Dusky, Pallas’s, BTD, LTSx3, RLB, Great Shear, PGP, Shore Lark, Nightingale.
Enjoy 2026👍
#norfolkbirding
New to TG42: GR Warbler
Best birds: RL Buzzard & Red-footed Falcons.
Highlights in a mile of home: Hume’s, Greenish, Dusky, Pallas’s, BTD, LTSx3, RLB, Great Shear, PGP, Shore Lark, Nightingale.
Enjoy 2026👍
#norfolkbirding
December 31, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Another year of future-friendly low-carbon birding done.
New to TG42: GR Warbler
Best birds: RL Buzzard & Red-footed Falcons.
Highlights in a mile of home: Hume’s, Greenish, Dusky, Pallas’s, BTD, LTSx3, RLB, Great Shear, PGP, Shore Lark, Nightingale.
Enjoy 2026👍
#norfolkbirding
New to TG42: GR Warbler
Best birds: RL Buzzard & Red-footed Falcons.
Highlights in a mile of home: Hume’s, Greenish, Dusky, Pallas’s, BTD, LTSx3, RLB, Great Shear, PGP, Shore Lark, Nightingale.
Enjoy 2026👍
#norfolkbirding
@markgolley.bsky.social Seen some pics of goose on N coast. Don’t know who took them but show apparent Taiga Bean. Large eye, whooper-like head, flat lower mandible, proximal upper mandible more steeply angled than distal half and minimal grinning patch. Possibly female on bill .
#norfolkbirding
#norfolkbirding
December 31, 2025 at 1:23 PM
@markgolley.bsky.social Seen some pics of goose on N coast. Don’t know who took them but show apparent Taiga Bean. Large eye, whooper-like head, flat lower mandible, proximal upper mandible more steeply angled than distal half and minimal grinning patch. Possibly female on bill .
#norfolkbirding
#norfolkbirding
It’s not just birding…
People want change, they just don’t want to have to change themselves.
Which doesn’t bode well…
People want change, they just don’t want to have to change themselves.
Which doesn’t bode well…
December 30, 2025 at 5:39 PM
It’s not just birding…
People want change, they just don’t want to have to change themselves.
Which doesn’t bode well…
People want change, they just don’t want to have to change themselves.
Which doesn’t bode well…
Was walking to Belper Sports Centre with schoolmates when Archie Gemmill came jogging towards us. I gave a casual nod and said “Alright, Archie”. “Alright, lads” came the reply.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
December 30, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Was walking to Belper Sports Centre with schoolmates when Archie Gemmill came jogging towards us. I gave a casual nod and said “Alright, Archie”. “Alright, lads” came the reply.
The best communicators of the climate emergency were Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion. In their absence, there is very little meaningful informative discussion on what needs to happen.
We seem to have lapsed into a trance-like ignorance of the coming chaos.
🤷♂️🙄
We seem to have lapsed into a trance-like ignorance of the coming chaos.
🤷♂️🙄
December 30, 2025 at 11:15 AM
The best communicators of the climate emergency were Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion. In their absence, there is very little meaningful informative discussion on what needs to happen.
We seem to have lapsed into a trance-like ignorance of the coming chaos.
🤷♂️🙄
We seem to have lapsed into a trance-like ignorance of the coming chaos.
🤷♂️🙄
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NEW: "...we urgently need a mainstream #climate more-than-movement, a wave of wider mainstreamed action. If we are to have a future."
A major piece for @resilience.org to end the year, calling for the end of the inane rule of climate ‘optimism’.
www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
A major piece for @resilience.org to end the year, calling for the end of the inane rule of climate ‘optimism’.
www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
The end of 2025 must be the end of the inane rule of climate ‘optimism’
We should admit that widely-mandated climate optimism has been actively harmful to the needful acknowledgement of reality - and to the active collective self-protection that we now desperately need to...
www.resilience.org
December 30, 2025 at 9:43 AM
NEW: "...we urgently need a mainstream #climate more-than-movement, a wave of wider mainstreamed action. If we are to have a future."
A major piece for @resilience.org to end the year, calling for the end of the inane rule of climate ‘optimism’.
www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
A major piece for @resilience.org to end the year, calling for the end of the inane rule of climate ‘optimism’.
www.resilience.org/stories/2025...
The state of play - or how we left it too late to avoid a non-radical future:
#lowcarbonbirding
#lowcarbonbirding
1/4
Here, Kevin shows how even county bird listing can now use more than an individual’s annual CO2 budget for 1.5 degs C.
Yep. That’s how bad things are.
Our entire personal budget. Gone. Before we even turn the heating on for a day, or eat a burger, or step on a plane.
Reality. 😮🤷♂️
Here, Kevin shows how even county bird listing can now use more than an individual’s annual CO2 budget for 1.5 degs C.
Yep. That’s how bad things are.
Our entire personal budget. Gone. Before we even turn the heating on for a day, or eat a burger, or step on a plane.
Reality. 😮🤷♂️
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 30, 2025 at 10:11 AM
The state of play - or how we left it too late to avoid a non-radical future:
#lowcarbonbirding
#lowcarbonbirding
Reposted by TG42Birder🇵🇸
Another cold-adapted species at the southern edge of its range is being lost as the planet rapidly warms up.
The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else, so the future for many such species looks grim.
However, we can all reduce our emissions and push for system change.
The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else, so the future for many such species looks grim.
However, we can all reduce our emissions and push for system change.
Sweden has declared Snowy Owl nationally extinct, marking the first official loss of a bird species in the country for two decades:
Snowy Owl declared extinct in Sweden after decade without breeding
Sweden has declared Snowy Owl nationally extinct after no breeding records since 2015. Climate change, declining prey and shifting ecosystems are believed to have driven the iconic Arctic owl from the country.
bit.ly
December 29, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Another cold-adapted species at the southern edge of its range is being lost as the planet rapidly warms up.
The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else, so the future for many such species looks grim.
However, we can all reduce our emissions and push for system change.
The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else, so the future for many such species looks grim.
However, we can all reduce our emissions and push for system change.
Another great little documentary on John Robertson.
One of life’s gems. Being from an unfashionable team, his genius and influence wasn’t truly appreciated at the time.
youtu.be/C7yAi5TVE3Q
One of life’s gems. Being from an unfashionable team, his genius and influence wasn’t truly appreciated at the time.
youtu.be/C7yAi5TVE3Q
John Robertson - Icons of Football - BBC Documentary (RIP 1953-2025)
YouTube video by ST Snooker and Sport
youtu.be
December 29, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Another great little documentary on John Robertson.
One of life’s gems. Being from an unfashionable team, his genius and influence wasn’t truly appreciated at the time.
youtu.be/C7yAi5TVE3Q
One of life’s gems. Being from an unfashionable team, his genius and influence wasn’t truly appreciated at the time.
youtu.be/C7yAi5TVE3Q
Reposted by TG42Birder🇵🇸
1/4
Here, Kevin shows how even county bird listing can now use more than an individual’s annual CO2 budget for 1.5 degs C.
Yep. That’s how bad things are.
Our entire personal budget. Gone. Before we even turn the heating on for a day, or eat a burger, or step on a plane.
Reality. 😮🤷♂️
Here, Kevin shows how even county bird listing can now use more than an individual’s annual CO2 budget for 1.5 degs C.
Yep. That’s how bad things are.
Our entire personal budget. Gone. Before we even turn the heating on for a day, or eat a burger, or step on a plane.
Reality. 😮🤷♂️
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 28, 2025 at 10:07 AM
1/4
Here, Kevin shows how even county bird listing can now use more than an individual’s annual CO2 budget for 1.5 degs C.
Yep. That’s how bad things are.
Our entire personal budget. Gone. Before we even turn the heating on for a day, or eat a burger, or step on a plane.
Reality. 😮🤷♂️
Here, Kevin shows how even county bird listing can now use more than an individual’s annual CO2 budget for 1.5 degs C.
Yep. That’s how bad things are.
Our entire personal budget. Gone. Before we even turn the heating on for a day, or eat a burger, or step on a plane.
Reality. 😮🤷♂️
Incredible that as we lose species here to the impacts of climate change & tourism is rapidly increasing its carbon emissions, that a few conservation orgs like BirdLife & RSPB are still supporting a Birdfair event based on very high/carbon travel & totally incompatible with our Paris commitments.
December 29, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Incredible that as we lose species here to the impacts of climate change & tourism is rapidly increasing its carbon emissions, that a few conservation orgs like BirdLife & RSPB are still supporting a Birdfair event based on very high/carbon travel & totally incompatible with our Paris commitments.
Another cold-adapted species at the southern edge of its range is being lost as the planet rapidly warms up.
The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else, so the future for many such species looks grim.
However, we can all reduce our emissions and push for system change.
The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else, so the future for many such species looks grim.
However, we can all reduce our emissions and push for system change.
Sweden has declared Snowy Owl nationally extinct, marking the first official loss of a bird species in the country for two decades:
Snowy Owl declared extinct in Sweden after decade without breeding
Sweden has declared Snowy Owl nationally extinct after no breeding records since 2015. Climate change, declining prey and shifting ecosystems are believed to have driven the iconic Arctic owl from the country.
bit.ly
December 29, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Another cold-adapted species at the southern edge of its range is being lost as the planet rapidly warms up.
The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else, so the future for many such species looks grim.
However, we can all reduce our emissions and push for system change.
The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else, so the future for many such species looks grim.
However, we can all reduce our emissions and push for system change.
Reposted by TG42Birder🇵🇸
"There’s a widespread belief that people will wake up to climate breakdown when disasters affect them...For some people, disaster seems to provoke a doubling down. If your entire worldview is challenged by events, it’s tempting to conclude the events are at fault" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A conversation between Joe Rogan and Mel Gibson summed up 2025 for me – and not in a good way | George Monbiot
From merrily dismissing climate science, to promoting irresponsible health claims, the podcast was an unintentional warning for our times, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
"There’s a widespread belief that people will wake up to climate breakdown when disasters affect them...For some people, disaster seems to provoke a doubling down. If your entire worldview is challenged by events, it’s tempting to conclude the events are at fault" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Some Tundra Beans from today. The darker backs, solid blackish tertials, the more extensive black in the tail and the head/bill shape are good pointers when distant or in a pink flock.
#norfolkbirding
#norfolkbirding
December 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Some Tundra Beans from today. The darker backs, solid blackish tertials, the more extensive black in the tail and the head/bill shape are good pointers when distant or in a pink flock.
#norfolkbirding
#norfolkbirding
A Beanfeast today with Tundras peaking at a minimum of 25 before dispersing around late morning. Have really enjoyed several days with them. A nice Xmas surprise.
Fewer WFG and almost no Greylags but 35 Barnacles.
A bit less windy and cold so quite comfortable to watch them. 😁
#norfolkbirding
Fewer WFG and almost no Greylags but 35 Barnacles.
A bit less windy and cold so quite comfortable to watch them. 😁
#norfolkbirding
December 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
A Beanfeast today with Tundras peaking at a minimum of 25 before dispersing around late morning. Have really enjoyed several days with them. A nice Xmas surprise.
Fewer WFG and almost no Greylags but 35 Barnacles.
A bit less windy and cold so quite comfortable to watch them. 😁
#norfolkbirding
Fewer WFG and almost no Greylags but 35 Barnacles.
A bit less windy and cold so quite comfortable to watch them. 😁
#norfolkbirding
Almost 20 degs C in Iceland!!!
We are in a shitload of trouble.
😮😮😮
We are in a shitload of trouble.
😮😮😮
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
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 28, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Almost 20 degs C in Iceland!!!
We are in a shitload of trouble.
😮😮😮
We are in a shitload of trouble.
😮😮😮