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Crex, ducks & Rook n’ Roller
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Given the news about a certain nature writer’s new book, my brief discussion of truth in non-fiction here seems rather timely.
Ten years ago, inspired by the return of my childhood interest in birds, I set myself a target: see 200 British species in a year.
The result was my book Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear?
Through 2026 I’ll be revisiting it, month by month. Here’s January.
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The result was my book Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear?
Through 2026 I’ll be revisiting it, month by month. Here’s January.
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Why Do Birds Suddenly Disappear? – January
Plans | Truth | Wolves
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February 1, 2026 at 8:38 AM
Given the news about a certain nature writer’s new book, my brief discussion of truth in non-fiction here seems rather timely.
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🎶 I'll protect you from the Hooded Crow
Keep the vampire bats from your door 🎶
Keep the vampire bats from your door 🎶
Morning all. All aboard for a rainy weekend. Keep wrapped up and have yourself a nice Hooded Crow. Your welcome. xx 🪶
January 23, 2026 at 8:51 AM
🎶 I'll protect you from the Hooded Crow
Keep the vampire bats from your door 🎶
Keep the vampire bats from your door 🎶
Sign here to voice your disgust at the annual Guga slaughter. Gannets are magnificent and this old ‘tradition’ needs to end.
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Petition: Stop the Guga Hunt
Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to amend Section 16 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 to remove the power to grant licences for taking Gannets on Sula Sgeir.
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January 19, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Sign here to voice your disgust at the annual Guga slaughter. Gannets are magnificent and this old ‘tradition’ needs to end.
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Let’s get as many signatures as possible to end the Guga hunt before Wednesday!
January 19, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Let’s get as many signatures as possible to end the Guga hunt before Wednesday!
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The toughest winter bird race I’ve ever done, with frequent blizzards and treacherous roads - we got rear-ended by a Range Rover and had to limp home to change cars - but excellent company from @yolobirder.bsky.social @dlangstonbirder.bsky.social @shoremark.bsky.social & Sam 🐕.
January 3, 2026 at 8:02 PM
The toughest winter bird race I’ve ever done, with frequent blizzards and treacherous roads - we got rear-ended by a Range Rover and had to limp home to change cars - but excellent company from @yolobirder.bsky.social @dlangstonbirder.bsky.social @shoremark.bsky.social & Sam 🐕.
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THREE satellite-tagged White-tailed Eagles disappear in suspicious circumstances in England, Wales & Scotland - two tags had been cut off.
Press release from Isle of Wight WTE Project Team & additional commentary from me ⬇️⬇️
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
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Press release from Isle of Wight WTE Project Team & additional commentary from me ⬇️⬇️
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
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Three satellite-tagged White-tailed Eagles disappear in suspicious circumstances in England, Wales & Scotland – two tags had been cut off
Press release from Forestry England (17 December 2025) THREE WHITE-TAILED EAGLES DISAPPEAR IN SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES The public are being asked to help the police investigate the suspicious disap…
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December 17, 2025 at 9:23 AM
THREE satellite-tagged White-tailed Eagles disappear in suspicious circumstances in England, Wales & Scotland - two tags had been cut off.
Press release from Isle of Wight WTE Project Team & additional commentary from me ⬇️⬇️
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
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Press release from Isle of Wight WTE Project Team & additional commentary from me ⬇️⬇️
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
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No new designs this year I’m afraid, but maybe we will be more productive in 2026!
Need a last minute gift for the bird nerd in your life?
Last day for standard shipping is today! 👇
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Last day for standard shipping is today! 👇
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Golden Grenades Collective is a group of like minded bird-lovers, sharing their stories and fundraising for birds through a podcast, a blog and now a collection of bird themed clothing and gifts. A sh...
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December 16, 2025 at 9:10 AM
No new designs this year I’m afraid, but maybe we will be more productive in 2026!
Well what a nice surprise! I was genuinely listening to this and then some doofus with a microphone shows up. Still can’t believe they let me do this.
December 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Well what a nice surprise! I was genuinely listening to this and then some doofus with a microphone shows up. Still can’t believe they let me do this.
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Listening to @drmjwarren.bsky.social and @yolobirder.bsky.social excellent podcast and I’m going off on my own tangent : Friends Named After Medieval Birds. Having found @robyaxley.bsky.social (cuckoo) I’ve just bagged @luciemr.bsky.social (Ruddock =robin)
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Episode 41: Michael J. Warren
Podcast Episode · Golden Grenades · 25/11/2025 · 51m
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November 29, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Listening to @drmjwarren.bsky.social and @yolobirder.bsky.social excellent podcast and I’m going off on my own tangent : Friends Named After Medieval Birds. Having found @robyaxley.bsky.social (cuckoo) I’ve just bagged @luciemr.bsky.social (Ruddock =robin)
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Inspired by my recent chat with @yolobirder.bsky.social about winter birds, and as I drink coffee from my brambling mug this morning, bird place-name of the day 117 is Finchale (Priory) in Co. Durham. OE finc + halh. ‘Nook of land inhabited by finches’. #birdsandplace #PlaceNames #naturewriting
November 27, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Inspired by my recent chat with @yolobirder.bsky.social about winter birds, and as I drink coffee from my brambling mug this morning, bird place-name of the day 117 is Finchale (Priory) in Co. Durham. OE finc + halh. ‘Nook of land inhabited by finches’. #birdsandplace #PlaceNames #naturewriting
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This’ll be a treat with @yolobirder.bsky.social! Always an excellent & entertaining listen, & #TheCuckoosLea is wonderful!
It’s available today, my episode with @yolobirder.bsky.social for his brilliant @goldengrenadesco.bsky.social podcast. Listen on to discover my chosen 5 birds to join me in Armageddon (plus chat on #thecuckooslea)! goldengrenades.com/podcast/ #GoldenGrenades #naturewriting #birdsandplace
November 26, 2025 at 8:06 AM
This’ll be a treat with @yolobirder.bsky.social! Always an excellent & entertaining listen, & #TheCuckoosLea is wonderful!
New podcast episode to wrap your lugs around as you scan the fields for geese and hedgerows for thrushes!
Brand new podcast episode available now with the brilliant @drmjwarren.bsky.social ! Warm your heart cockles on this wintery day with tales of places named after birds, whisky and log fires and the bird that sh*tbombs its enemies!
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Episode 41: Michael J. Warren
Michael J. Warren is a writer, naturalist, medievalist and teacher of English with a passion for the places and birds of Britain. Michael is the author of two books, most recently The Cuckoo’s Lea…
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November 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
New podcast episode to wrap your lugs around as you scan the fields for geese and hedgerows for thrushes!
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I loved this post! It's the little things. My pet TV & film bugbear is vixens screaming........ Day or night, all year round, in every thriller or murder-mystery.......🙄🙄🤣
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 AM
I loved this post! It's the little things. My pet TV & film bugbear is vixens screaming........ Day or night, all year round, in every thriller or murder-mystery.......🙄🙄🤣
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People of Norfolk, come and spend a cosy winter evening with me, @themarshtit.bsky.social and @timholtwilson.bsky.social as we talk birds, landscape and history at NWT’s Cley reserve on 5th Dec. Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tales-of-b.... #NorfolkWildlifeTrust #NorfolkNature #naturewriting
November 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM
People of Norfolk, come and spend a cosy winter evening with me, @themarshtit.bsky.social and @timholtwilson.bsky.social as we talk birds, landscape and history at NWT’s Cley reserve on 5th Dec. Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tales-of-b.... #NorfolkWildlifeTrust #NorfolkNature #naturewriting
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I like this.
What if the Plague doctor mask (not medieval) was based on specific birds :)
By Shayna Daniel, AKA Squid Von Bob
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What if the Plague doctor mask (not medieval) was based on specific birds :)
By Shayna Daniel, AKA Squid Von Bob
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September 23, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I like this.
What if the Plague doctor mask (not medieval) was based on specific birds :)
By Shayna Daniel, AKA Squid Von Bob
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What if the Plague doctor mask (not medieval) was based on specific birds :)
By Shayna Daniel, AKA Squid Von Bob
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If I still worked in school, I’d wear my #Red67 badges & give the #sixseven trend a different narrative. The kids’d listen & be horrified. I mean, I’d keep it light, because=kids having fun. But man, then I’d tell them UK red listed birds are now at 73. @yolobirder.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 9:15 AM
If I still worked in school, I’d wear my #Red67 badges & give the #sixseven trend a different narrative. The kids’d listen & be horrified. I mean, I’d keep it light, because=kids having fun. But man, then I’d tell them UK red listed birds are now at 73. @yolobirder.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social
Bunty for Girls annual 1967
October 19, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Bunty for Girls annual 1967
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August 24, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Any budding young naturalists/readers out there who would like 3 @gill-lewis.bsky.social books? I’d love to gift these to someone who would enjoy them. I’ll cover postage :)
August 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Any budding young naturalists/readers out there who would like 3 @gill-lewis.bsky.social books? I’d love to gift these to someone who would enjoy them. I’ll cover postage :)
Yes I did and this is an excellent spot! So jealous though not to get this on my SJP list!
@yolobirder.bsky.social didn’t you once have a thread about rarities seen during football matches? 🤔
August 10, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Yes I did and this is an excellent spot! So jealous though not to get this on my SJP list!
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Been doing a bit of long overdue taxonomy catch-up. I've got my head around divers no longer being at the front of the bird book, but cuckoos between bustards and sandgrouse is going to take a bit of getting used to. #UKbirding
July 29, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Been doing a bit of long overdue taxonomy catch-up. I've got my head around divers no longer being at the front of the bird book, but cuckoos between bustards and sandgrouse is going to take a bit of getting used to. #UKbirding
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Want to know which bird species @greeneindy.bsky.social would choose to peck him to death? Or which bird has one parent go to Sainsbury’s Local while the other does a big shop? Then listen here!
New podcast episode out now! Live from @globalbirdfair.bsky.social with @willrose.bsky.social and special guest @greeneindy.bsky.social !
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July 22, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Want to know which bird species @greeneindy.bsky.social would choose to peck him to death? Or which bird has one parent go to Sainsbury’s Local while the other does a big shop? Then listen here!
As someone who once produced plectrums based on Puffins as members of Kiss, I thought that was as niche as I’d get. Then I started Bird of the Week, ‘reviewing’ birds as if they were albums in a music magazine…
July 26, 2025 at 9:37 AM
As someone who once produced plectrums based on Puffins as members of Kiss, I thought that was as niche as I’d get. Then I started Bird of the Week, ‘reviewing’ birds as if they were albums in a music magazine…
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This is a fantastic piece of research: @yolobirder.bsky.social has combed the “Tintin” albums and come up with identifications for the birds Hergé drew - where they appear, and what they are! It’s a great work of reference, and highly recommended!
@tintinologist.bsky.social hi!
I once counted all of the birds drawn by Hergé in the adventures of Tintin and wrote a couple of blogs about my findings. Wondered if this might be of interest to you :) goldengrenades.com/the-birds-of...
I once counted all of the birds drawn by Hergé in the adventures of Tintin and wrote a couple of blogs about my findings. Wondered if this might be of interest to you :) goldengrenades.com/the-birds-of...
The Birds of Tintin: Part 1
Like many kids growing up, I loved comics. Between Christmas Beano and Dandy annuals, Marvel comics gifted weekly by a kind uncle and my trips to the library for Asterix and Tintin books I was…
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July 22, 2025 at 8:25 AM
This is a fantastic piece of research: @yolobirder.bsky.social has combed the “Tintin” albums and come up with identifications for the birds Hergé drew - where they appear, and what they are! It’s a great work of reference, and highly recommended!
Want to know which bird species @greeneindy.bsky.social would choose to peck him to death? Or which bird has one parent go to Sainsbury’s Local while the other does a big shop? Then listen here!
New podcast episode out now! Live from @globalbirdfair.bsky.social with @willrose.bsky.social and special guest @greeneindy.bsky.social !
goldengrenades.com/podcast/epis...
goldengrenades.com/podcast/epis...
July 22, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Want to know which bird species @greeneindy.bsky.social would choose to peck him to death? Or which bird has one parent go to Sainsbury’s Local while the other does a big shop? Then listen here!