Wheatear9
@wheatear9.bsky.social
I go birding and been all over but not away much these days except Europe and UK. Suffolk is always a focus but will be out and about more 2025. Love sea-watching, when conditions are right. I have local Mid Suffolk inland patch.
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Small plastic pellets, used in wastewater treatment facilities since the 1990s, are more than just plastic pollution – they carriy potentially dangerous bacteria.
Plastic ‘bio-beads’ from sewage plants are polluting the oceans and spreading superbugs – but there are alternatives
Small plastic pellets, used in wastewater treatment facilities since the 1990s, are more than just plastic pollution – they carriy potentially dangerous bacteria.
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November 24, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Small plastic pellets, used in wastewater treatment facilities since the 1990s, are more than just plastic pollution – they carriy potentially dangerous bacteria.
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The Sun has come out at Ickworth House,Bury St Edmunds,Suffolk where we will be until 4pm today.Come say hello #birdart #birdartist #wirebirdsculpture #artforsale #shelduck
November 23, 2025 at 10:56 AM
The Sun has come out at Ickworth House,Bury St Edmunds,Suffolk where we will be until 4pm today.Come say hello #birdart #birdartist #wirebirdsculpture #artforsale #shelduck
Been listening to the Test since 6am better pictures on the radio as John Peel used to say
November 21, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Been listening to the Test since 6am better pictures on the radio as John Peel used to say
Who would have thought that?
November 20, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Who would have thought that?
Cut a tall hedge down in the garden this week made a dead hedge out off the cuttings. Much better solution than burning them. Also better for wildlife Robins, Wrens and Dunnocks roosting in it already!
November 19, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Cut a tall hedge down in the garden this week made a dead hedge out off the cuttings. Much better solution than burning them. Also better for wildlife Robins, Wrens and Dunnocks roosting in it already!
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Avian influenza from poultry farms blamed for the deaths of around 35,000 Common Cranes - that’s about 10% of the wintering population in the area. 🪶
Grues mortes de l'influenza aviaire : les ornithologues soupçonnent les élevages industriels
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Grues mortes de la grippe aviaire : les ornithologues soupçonnent les élevages industriels
Alors que la grippe aviaire a tué des milliers de grues cendrées depuis un mois, les autorités craignent pour les volailles. Des ornithologues soupçonnent, au contraire, les élevages industriels d’êtr...
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November 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Avian influenza from poultry farms blamed for the deaths of around 35,000 Common Cranes - that’s about 10% of the wintering population in the area. 🪶
@uklabour.bsky.social you take a lead from Denmark maybe with this one you should learn from the Netherlands?
“Our greatest natural hazard is flooding, and we don’t prepare people for it”. We absolutely should. This is urgent. Another good reason to sign this petition calling for a National Climate Resilience plan - please do sign & share @climatemajority.bsky.social
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Flooded and forgotten: the UK’s waters are rising and we’re being kept in the dark | John Harris
Rescue operations in Wales, submerged railway lines in Cornwall – these events are ever more common. So why have we utterly failed to prepare, asks Guardian columnist John Harris
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:19 AM
@uklabour.bsky.social you take a lead from Denmark maybe with this one you should learn from the Netherlands?
Listening @uklabour.bsky.social ?
This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Nature not a blocker to housing growth, inquiry finds
Commons committee report challenges ‘lazy narrative’ used by ministers that scapegoats wildlife and the environment
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Listening @uklabour.bsky.social ?
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'Knowing he has to fend off Farage, Starmer has chosen to festoon himself with flags and to spout poisonous rubbish about an “island of strangers” and a “one-nation experiment in open borders”. He has not opposed racist politics; he has normalised it.'
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The real Reform voters have been revealed – it’s a slapdash coalition Farage will struggle to hold together | Aditya Chakrabortty
This is no single bloc marching under one ideology, or even a mass of ‘red-wall’ voters. What unites them is a desire for something different, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
'Knowing he has to fend off Farage, Starmer has chosen to festoon himself with flags and to spout poisonous rubbish about an “island of strangers” and a “one-nation experiment in open borders”. He has not opposed racist politics; he has normalised it.'
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
@uklabour.bsky.social why I wont be voting Labour shocking! Now a regressive party under #Starmer
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 14, 2025 at 2:03 PM
@uklabour.bsky.social why I wont be voting Labour shocking! Now a regressive party under #Starmer
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Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new.
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Climate breakdown is driven by a storm of lies. This lying is systemic, funded and coordinated, and operates across almost all media, old and new.
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This week's column argues that we cannot fight the climate crisis without also fighting the epistemic crisis.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The tide is turning @zackpolanski.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The tide is turning @zackpolanski.bsky.social
Nice morning on the Stour for 1st HHB estuary count. Seemed to be more mud on our section and even a few Knot and what looked like a large boom or pipes in the river?
November 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Nice morning on the Stour for 1st HHB estuary count. Seemed to be more mud on our section and even a few Knot and what looked like a large boom or pipes in the river?
#patch big flow of Redwings over on last nights recording only done 6 hrs as so many to enter on Trektellen! Very time consuming but interesting
November 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
#patch big flow of Redwings over on last nights recording only done 6 hrs as so many to enter on Trektellen! Very time consuming but interesting
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Tony Benn on the monarchy
" … “I don't think people realise how the establishment became established. They simply stole land & property from the poor, surrounded themselves with weak minded sycophants for protection, gave themselves titles & have been wielding power ever since!”
#downwiththecrown
" … “I don't think people realise how the establishment became established. They simply stole land & property from the poor, surrounded themselves with weak minded sycophants for protection, gave themselves titles & have been wielding power ever since!”
#downwiththecrown
November 2, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Tony Benn on the monarchy
" … “I don't think people realise how the establishment became established. They simply stole land & property from the poor, surrounded themselves with weak minded sycophants for protection, gave themselves titles & have been wielding power ever since!”
#downwiththecrown
" … “I don't think people realise how the establishment became established. They simply stole land & property from the poor, surrounded themselves with weak minded sycophants for protection, gave themselves titles & have been wielding power ever since!”
#downwiththecrown
#patch #suffolkbirds a very quiet nocmig sess. Last night only a few Redwings 1 Wigeon and a Dunlin not sure why?
October 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
#patch #suffolkbirds a very quiet nocmig sess. Last night only a few Redwings 1 Wigeon and a Dunlin not sure why?