Chris Greenwood
@1chrisgreenwood.bsky.social
Telly Maker, Bird Surveyor, Nature Writing, Photographer.
Trustee: Sheffield Bird Study Group
Admin: Sheffield Peregrines project
Strangely Fascinated by Penguins
Trustee: Sheffield Bird Study Group
Admin: Sheffield Peregrines project
Strangely Fascinated by Penguins
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Lapwing eggs only rarely taken by badgers, new data shows
Badgers are often blamed when wader nests fail on British farmland, but new evidence suggests their role may be far smaller than assumed and is largely driven by prolonged cold weather. www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/B...
Badgers are often blamed when wader nests fail on British farmland, but new evidence suggests their role may be far smaller than assumed and is largely driven by prolonged cold weather. www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/B...
Badger Predation on Lapwing Nests Is Rare, six-year study finds
Badgers are often blamed when wader nests fail on British farmland, but new evidence suggests their role may be far smaller than assumed
www.rarebirdalert.co.uk
October 31, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Lapwing eggs only rarely taken by badgers, new data shows
Badgers are often blamed when wader nests fail on British farmland, but new evidence suggests their role may be far smaller than assumed and is largely driven by prolonged cold weather. www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/B...
Badgers are often blamed when wader nests fail on British farmland, but new evidence suggests their role may be far smaller than assumed and is largely driven by prolonged cold weather. www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/B...
Ugly duckling news: Society has become so badly detached from the natural world that even @theguardian.com journalists writing environmental stories cannot spell the word ‘cygnet’ - spelling it ‘signet’ instead 😳
Or has this been written by a machine?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Or has this been written by a machine?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Desecration of landscape’: the fight over development in areas of outstanding natural beauty
Residents of Woodgate estate in West Sussex enjoy its open spaces and wildlife but conservationists say it has set worrying precedent
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Ugly duckling news: Society has become so badly detached from the natural world that even @theguardian.com journalists writing environmental stories cannot spell the word ‘cygnet’ - spelling it ‘signet’ instead 😳
Or has this been written by a machine?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Or has this been written by a machine?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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💛 Brocktober is here! Celebrate badgers this October with events, art, BrockWatch + more. Protect nature, protect our stripy friends: buff.ly/xO8b33S
October 1, 2025 at 7:01 AM
💛 Brocktober is here! Celebrate badgers this October with events, art, BrockWatch + more. Protect nature, protect our stripy friends: buff.ly/xO8b33S
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No evidence for farmers’ claim that Sea Eagles predated Shetland ponies
www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/N...
www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/N...
No evidence for farmers’ claim that Sea Eagles predated Shetland ponies
Five foals vanished from a South Uist farm amid claims of eagle predation – but official nest checks have found no evidence, leaving the case unresolved
www.rarebirdalert.co.uk
September 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
No evidence for farmers’ claim that Sea Eagles predated Shetland ponies
www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/N...
www.rarebirdalert.co.uk/v2/Content/N...
An interesting, informative and digestible issue of @britishbirds.bsky.social journal this month 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
September 26, 2025 at 3:36 PM
An interesting, informative and digestible issue of @britishbirds.bsky.social journal this month 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
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This is an interesting record of one of "our" birds exploring the wider region post-juvenile moult.
It has moved 18km through the Snake Valley, the first confirmed record of an Eastern Moors juv moving in a westerly direction pre-migration - knowledge only possible through colour-ringing #ukbirding
It has moved 18km through the Snake Valley, the first confirmed record of an Eastern Moors juv moving in a westerly direction pre-migration - knowledge only possible through colour-ringing #ukbirding
September 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
This is an interesting record of one of "our" birds exploring the wider region post-juvenile moult.
It has moved 18km through the Snake Valley, the first confirmed record of an Eastern Moors juv moving in a westerly direction pre-migration - knowledge only possible through colour-ringing #ukbirding
It has moved 18km through the Snake Valley, the first confirmed record of an Eastern Moors juv moving in a westerly direction pre-migration - knowledge only possible through colour-ringing #ukbirding
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One of our local colour-ringed juvenile Ring Ouzels has turned up near Glossop. The lower bird in photo, seen feeding on Rowan & Hawthorn. Ringed in the nest at Stanage on 27/6/25 (second brood) - an 18km movement west
Thanks to reporter Paul Cole for sharing his photos #ukbirding #yorkshirebirding
Thanks to reporter Paul Cole for sharing his photos #ukbirding #yorkshirebirding
September 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
One of our local colour-ringed juvenile Ring Ouzels has turned up near Glossop. The lower bird in photo, seen feeding on Rowan & Hawthorn. Ringed in the nest at Stanage on 27/6/25 (second brood) - an 18km movement west
Thanks to reporter Paul Cole for sharing his photos #ukbirding #yorkshirebirding
Thanks to reporter Paul Cole for sharing his photos #ukbirding #yorkshirebirding
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Quite a morning by RVCP standards....3 Glossy Ibis, 2 Ruff, with Green and Common Sandpipers.
#yorkshirebirds
@shefbirdstudy.bsky.social
#yorkshirebirds
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September 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Quite a morning by RVCP standards....3 Glossy Ibis, 2 Ruff, with Green and Common Sandpipers.
#yorkshirebirds
@shefbirdstudy.bsky.social
#yorkshirebirds
@shefbirdstudy.bsky.social
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Scotland just approved the world’s largest offshore wind farm—right through vital seabird habitats. Gannets, razorbills, and kittiwakes could pay the price. This isn’t climate action. It’s nature loss dressed up as progress.
August 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Scotland just approved the world’s largest offshore wind farm—right through vital seabird habitats. Gannets, razorbills, and kittiwakes could pay the price. This isn’t climate action. It’s nature loss dressed up as progress.
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Calling all Sheffield & Derbyshire birders! We're looking to gather as many Ring Ouzel sightings as possible this August & September to aid the work of RSPB Eastern Moors Partnership.
Please see our website news item for more details:
www.sbsg.org/sbsg-news/re...
#ukbirding
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Please see our website news item for more details:
www.sbsg.org/sbsg-news/re...
#ukbirding
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August 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Calling all Sheffield & Derbyshire birders! We're looking to gather as many Ring Ouzel sightings as possible this August & September to aid the work of RSPB Eastern Moors Partnership.
Please see our website news item for more details:
www.sbsg.org/sbsg-news/re...
#ukbirding
📷 Chris Greenwood ©
Please see our website news item for more details:
www.sbsg.org/sbsg-news/re...
#ukbirding
📷 Chris Greenwood ©
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At last we are delighted to share with you this year's LIVE Hobby nest camera from a site within the Forestry England South Forest District. To view the live stream visit our website blog and click on the image. Enjoy! drsg.co.uk/f/fabulous-f... @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @harbourbirds.bsky.social
Fabulous falcons go live!
2025 Hobby nest cam now live
drsg.co.uk
July 17, 2025 at 8:41 AM
At last we are delighted to share with you this year's LIVE Hobby nest camera from a site within the Forestry England South Forest District. To view the live stream visit our website blog and click on the image. Enjoy! drsg.co.uk/f/fabulous-f... @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @harbourbirds.bsky.social
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Massive outbreaks of HPAI in Senegal, Gambia in 2023, none of which captured in WAHIS. >10,000 dead African Crested Terns, >400 Caspian Terns, >2000 Grey-headed Gulls, >200 Sandwich Tern
👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
May 19, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Massive outbreaks of HPAI in Senegal, Gambia in 2023, none of which captured in WAHIS. >10,000 dead African Crested Terns, >400 Caspian Terns, >2000 Grey-headed Gulls, >200 Sandwich Tern
👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The problem with Solar Power is that electricity will be so cheap it is free.
And nothing is worse than free to them.
And nothing is worse than free to them.
May 31, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The problem with Solar Power is that electricity will be so cheap it is free.
And nothing is worse than free to them.
And nothing is worse than free to them.
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Latest notpaper for #Sheffield #TheOutdoorCity - ta Pete / Ziggy / Chris / + many others … open.substack.com/pub/abitblac...
Sunday at Bill's Mother's: 1st June 2025
Stonechats, Sandpipers, Stock Doves and Skylarks (and dozens more singing Sheffield birds) on a free bus pass. Also, falcon fledglings, and wild woods.
open.substack.com
June 1, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Latest notpaper for #Sheffield #TheOutdoorCity - ta Pete / Ziggy / Chris / + many others … open.substack.com/pub/abitblac...
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Scarcely spotted flycatcher
Why is a once-common summer migrant becoming so hard to find? Catrin Eden profiles the stark decline of the UK's Spotted Flycatcher population:
Why is a once-common summer migrant becoming so hard to find? Catrin Eden profiles the stark decline of the UK's Spotted Flycatcher population:
Scarcely spotted flycatcher
Why is the once-common Spotted Flycatcher becoming so hard to find in the UK? Catrin Eden profiles the stark decline of this species over recent decades and ponders what the future might hold.
bit.ly
May 31, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Scarcely spotted flycatcher
Why is a once-common summer migrant becoming so hard to find? Catrin Eden profiles the stark decline of the UK's Spotted Flycatcher population:
Why is a once-common summer migrant becoming so hard to find? Catrin Eden profiles the stark decline of the UK's Spotted Flycatcher population:
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Nature-friendly farming delivers some of the key commitments Labour made in its manifesto: lower emissions, restored habitats, and clean energy. Cutting it wouldn’t just be short-sighted - it would be self-defeating. 📢 Write to your MP: https://f.mtr.cool/mflbcligdu
#nffn #naturefriendlyfarming
#nffn #naturefriendlyfarming
May 30, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Nature-friendly farming delivers some of the key commitments Labour made in its manifesto: lower emissions, restored habitats, and clean energy. Cutting it wouldn’t just be short-sighted - it would be self-defeating. 📢 Write to your MP: https://f.mtr.cool/mflbcligdu
#nffn #naturefriendlyfarming
#nffn #naturefriendlyfarming
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This short film shows three ambitious farmers doing great work for nature through the Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier scheme.
We need Defra to provide more access to higher tier ELM schemes that help farmers like these put the colours, song and life back in our countryside.
We need Defra to provide more access to higher tier ELM schemes that help farmers like these put the colours, song and life back in our countryside.
May 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This short film shows three ambitious farmers doing great work for nature through the Countryside Stewardship Higher Tier scheme.
We need Defra to provide more access to higher tier ELM schemes that help farmers like these put the colours, song and life back in our countryside.
We need Defra to provide more access to higher tier ELM schemes that help farmers like these put the colours, song and life back in our countryside.
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The National Fire Chiefs Council has reported over 200 more wildfires this year than for the same period in 2022 - the worst year on record for wildfires, and more hot spells are predicted.
Most wildfires are preventable, help us to keep people, nature and wildlife safe.
Most wildfires are preventable, help us to keep people, nature and wildlife safe.
May 24, 2025 at 9:04 AM
The National Fire Chiefs Council has reported over 200 more wildfires this year than for the same period in 2022 - the worst year on record for wildfires, and more hot spells are predicted.
Most wildfires are preventable, help us to keep people, nature and wildlife safe.
Most wildfires are preventable, help us to keep people, nature and wildlife safe.
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There’s already consensus: we must transition to nature-friendly farming.
HM Treasury must, at very least, commit to maintaining the current agricultural budget, or risk sleepwalking into disaster - dragging farmers, food & wildlife down with it.
All eyes are on this decision. ‼️
HM Treasury must, at very least, commit to maintaining the current agricultural budget, or risk sleepwalking into disaster - dragging farmers, food & wildlife down with it.
All eyes are on this decision. ‼️
May 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
There’s already consensus: we must transition to nature-friendly farming.
HM Treasury must, at very least, commit to maintaining the current agricultural budget, or risk sleepwalking into disaster - dragging farmers, food & wildlife down with it.
All eyes are on this decision. ‼️
HM Treasury must, at very least, commit to maintaining the current agricultural budget, or risk sleepwalking into disaster - dragging farmers, food & wildlife down with it.
All eyes are on this decision. ‼️
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The warning couldn’t be clearer. ⚠️
Slashing the nature-friendly farming budget would be catastrophic for the nature and climate crisis, and for our long-term food security.
What's more, it would leave the UK Government’s credibility on climate and nature in tatters.
Slashing the nature-friendly farming budget would be catastrophic for the nature and climate crisis, and for our long-term food security.
What's more, it would leave the UK Government’s credibility on climate and nature in tatters.
May 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The warning couldn’t be clearer. ⚠️
Slashing the nature-friendly farming budget would be catastrophic for the nature and climate crisis, and for our long-term food security.
What's more, it would leave the UK Government’s credibility on climate and nature in tatters.
Slashing the nature-friendly farming budget would be catastrophic for the nature and climate crisis, and for our long-term food security.
What's more, it would leave the UK Government’s credibility on climate and nature in tatters.
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Labour promised to restore nature. ❌
Instead, their Planning Bill contains a licence to destroy it.
We offered solutions. We’re done waiting.
Part 3 of the Bill would gut the laws protecting our most precious habitats & species.
Without significant change, it must be scrapped.
Instead, their Planning Bill contains a licence to destroy it.
We offered solutions. We’re done waiting.
Part 3 of the Bill would gut the laws protecting our most precious habitats & species.
Without significant change, it must be scrapped.
May 23, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Labour promised to restore nature. ❌
Instead, their Planning Bill contains a licence to destroy it.
We offered solutions. We’re done waiting.
Part 3 of the Bill would gut the laws protecting our most precious habitats & species.
Without significant change, it must be scrapped.
Instead, their Planning Bill contains a licence to destroy it.
We offered solutions. We’re done waiting.
Part 3 of the Bill would gut the laws protecting our most precious habitats & species.
Without significant change, it must be scrapped.
Is this friendly little Phyllobius a Green Nettle Weevil?@sorbynathissoc.bsky.social Encountered at Westend, Howden Res, Derwentdale
May 24, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Is this friendly little Phyllobius a Green Nettle Weevil?@sorbynathissoc.bsky.social Encountered at Westend, Howden Res, Derwentdale
Only 10000 more signatures required. Let’s do this! Please sign.
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Petition: End the Badger cull and adopt other approaches to bovine TB control
The Government’s TB Eradication Strategy allows the continued killing of badgers, a protected species, until the end of this Parliament, despite the Labour manifesto calling the cull “ineffective.”
W...
petition.parliament.uk
May 1, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Only 10000 more signatures required. Let’s do this! Please sign.
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My first Brimstone butterfly sightings of the year. East Lincolnshire.
April 4, 2025 at 11:06 AM
My first Brimstone butterfly sightings of the year. East Lincolnshire.