Andy Gell
@andygell.bsky.social
#Yorkshire #birdwatching (especially raptors) and occasional #phonescoping with Opticron.
Art,Space and other stuff.
Proud Manxman 🇮🇲 living in God's own county.
Former RAF & airline pilot.
Location:
https://w3w.co/beyond.gigabytes.mayhem
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Great Northern Diver, Isle of Man
November 16, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Great Northern Diver, Isle of Man
"the barbaric practice of deliberately poisoning raptors persists today, as highlighted by the bodies found in Nidderdale, North Yorkshire." #raptorpersecution
@friendsofthedales.bsky.social
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November 16, 2025 at 12:02 PM
"the barbaric practice of deliberately poisoning raptors persists today, as highlighted by the bodies found in Nidderdale, North Yorkshire." #raptorpersecution
@friendsofthedales.bsky.social
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#LiveatLeeds last night was brilliant. Stand out bands were Last Train🇲🇫, Flipturn🇺🇸 and The Hubbards🇬🇧
November 16, 2025 at 8:49 AM
#LiveatLeeds last night was brilliant. Stand out bands were Last Train🇲🇫, Flipturn🇺🇸 and The Hubbards🇬🇧
Have you considered donating to Sara's Northern Challenge? Go and stand outside now in the rain and cold and imagine running in it for 5 days.
donate.bbcchildreninneed.co.uk/sara
donate.bbcchildreninneed.co.uk/sara
November 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Have you considered donating to Sara's Northern Challenge? Go and stand outside now in the rain and cold and imagine running in it for 5 days.
donate.bbcchildreninneed.co.uk/sara
donate.bbcchildreninneed.co.uk/sara
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 AM
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Centuries of overgrazing & muirburn for grouse moors mean Highland Scotland looks treeless & desolate. But it doesn't have to be this way. New film Scotland's Missing Forests went online y'day. Chuffed to see almost 10k views. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuTV... @chrisgpackham.bsky.social
November 9, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Centuries of overgrazing & muirburn for grouse moors mean Highland Scotland looks treeless & desolate. But it doesn't have to be this way. New film Scotland's Missing Forests went online y'day. Chuffed to see almost 10k views. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuTV... @chrisgpackham.bsky.social
I'm the great grandson of a Peel #IsleofMan 🇮🇲 herring fisherman so naturally I loved this. Goblin Band and Spritzer Space Telescope put on a brilliant gig at The Attic in Leeds last night. #Folk
Broadside Hacks tour.
Broadside Hacks tour.
November 11, 2025 at 8:32 AM
I'm the great grandson of a Peel #IsleofMan 🇮🇲 herring fisherman so naturally I loved this. Goblin Band and Spritzer Space Telescope put on a brilliant gig at The Attic in Leeds last night. #Folk
Broadside Hacks tour.
Broadside Hacks tour.
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My great-grandad was a piano tuner from Huddersfield. He was conscripted into the army during the First World War, and had an awful time. After I found out a bit about what he went through, I wrote a short story. I thought today might be a good day to share it. richarddsmyth.com/2025/11/09/n...
New short story: ‘FP Number Two’
The sky shivers with fever and there are devils on the roofs of the public houses.
richarddsmyth.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:56 AM
My great-grandad was a piano tuner from Huddersfield. He was conscripted into the army during the First World War, and had an awful time. After I found out a bit about what he went through, I wrote a short story. I thought today might be a good day to share it. richarddsmyth.com/2025/11/09/n...
And again tonight. Anyone else struggling with the fact that littering is illegal but several times a year, Bonfire Night, Divali etc people can chuck cardboard, plastic and wood all over our cities and countryside yet that's somehow OK.
The appetite of the people of Leeds for fireworks is both impressive and fucking irritating.
November 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
And again tonight. Anyone else struggling with the fact that littering is illegal but several times a year, Bonfire Night, Divali etc people can chuck cardboard, plastic and wood all over our cities and countryside yet that's somehow OK.
MTB ride from home to #RSPB St Aidan's. Glossy Ibis, 12 GW Egrets 2 Water Rail & 2 Kestrels the best. Lots of Kites enroute.
#YorkshireBirding #lowcarbonbirding
#YorkshireBirding #lowcarbonbirding
November 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
MTB ride from home to #RSPB St Aidan's. Glossy Ibis, 12 GW Egrets 2 Water Rail & 2 Kestrels the best. Lots of Kites enroute.
#YorkshireBirding #lowcarbonbirding
#YorkshireBirding #lowcarbonbirding
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Good summary of what illegal raptor persecution looks like in the UK, for anyone who missed the launch of @friendsofthedales.bsky.social new campaign last month.
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/05/e...
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/05/e...
‘Eyes on the Skies’ – video now available from launch of new project to raise awareness of illegal raptor persecution in Yorkshire Dales National Park
Last month a local campaign group called Friends of the Dales launched a new campaign to raise awareness of illegal raptor persecution in the Yorkshire Dales National Park (see here). This new camp…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
November 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Good summary of what illegal raptor persecution looks like in the UK, for anyone who missed the launch of @friendsofthedales.bsky.social new campaign last month.
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/05/e...
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/05/e...
Ricky Martin's ignorance about 🍾.
"She never drinks the water and
Makes you order French champagne"
"She never drinks the water and
Makes you order French champagne"
November 3, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Ricky Martin's ignorance about 🍾.
"She never drinks the water and
Makes you order French champagne"
"She never drinks the water and
Makes you order French champagne"
October 31, 2025 at 5:22 PM
October 31, 2025 at 12:14 PM
October 31, 2025 at 7:46 AM
All beyond shotgun range?
🎞️ Video courtesy of Yorkshire Dales Moorland Group, showing various raptors on managed grouse moors recently, including red kite, hen harrier and buzzard.
October 29, 2025 at 8:22 AM
All beyond shotgun range?
How the Trump/Musk bromance finally ends.
October 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
How the Trump/Musk bromance finally ends.
Aren't grouse moors already classed as barren wastelands where raptors are persecuted?
#raptorpersecution #rewild
#raptorpersecution #rewild
Commons Registration: What to Do if Your Land Is Targeted as “Waste Land of the Manor”
Across England, landowners are increasingly finding their land targeted for registration as “waste land of the manor” under the Commons Act 2006.
Find out what you need to do - link is in replies 👇
Across England, landowners are increasingly finding their land targeted for registration as “waste land of the manor” under the Commons Act 2006.
Find out what you need to do - link is in replies 👇
October 23, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Aren't grouse moors already classed as barren wastelands where raptors are persecuted?
#raptorpersecution #rewild
#raptorpersecution #rewild
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Superb, hard-hitting presentation (including further info about this infamous C4 News footage) for the @friendsofthedales.bsky.social ‘Eyes on the Skies’ initiative.
youtube.com/watch?v=VKVU...
🙏 @keasdenkate.bsky.social
@rspb.bsky.social
Find out more here:
friendsofthedales.org.uk
youtube.com/watch?v=VKVU...
🙏 @keasdenkate.bsky.social
@rspb.bsky.social
Find out more here:
friendsofthedales.org.uk
Secret filming uncovers illegal killings of rare birds in England
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
youtube.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Superb, hard-hitting presentation (including further info about this infamous C4 News footage) for the @friendsofthedales.bsky.social ‘Eyes on the Skies’ initiative.
youtube.com/watch?v=VKVU...
🙏 @keasdenkate.bsky.social
@rspb.bsky.social
Find out more here:
friendsofthedales.org.uk
youtube.com/watch?v=VKVU...
🙏 @keasdenkate.bsky.social
@rspb.bsky.social
Find out more here:
friendsofthedales.org.uk
A Manxman played a significant role too and many others on other ships at Trafalgar. 🇮🇲 #IsleofMan
October 22, 2025 at 12:29 PM
A Manxman played a significant role too and many others on other ships at Trafalgar. 🇮🇲 #IsleofMan
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A wonderful, heartfelt plea from Chairman of the Northern England Raptor Forum in an Open Letter to DEFRA Ministers:
raptorforum.wordpress.com/2025/10/21/o...
#birdsofprey #conservation #illegalpersecution #wildlifecrime
raptorforum.wordpress.com/2025/10/21/o...
#birdsofprey #conservation #illegalpersecution #wildlifecrime
Open Letter to Defra Ministers
Dear Minister Reynolds “Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone.” Mitchell 1970. These words were written to reflect man’s indifference to the consequences of …
raptorforum.wordpress.com
October 21, 2025 at 11:18 AM
A wonderful, heartfelt plea from Chairman of the Northern England Raptor Forum in an Open Letter to DEFRA Ministers:
raptorforum.wordpress.com/2025/10/21/o...
#birdsofprey #conservation #illegalpersecution #wildlifecrime
raptorforum.wordpress.com/2025/10/21/o...
#birdsofprey #conservation #illegalpersecution #wildlifecrime
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Another favorite bird to paint for me is the mighty Gyrfalcon. Here are some watercolour and acrylic paintings I did over the last few years. Gyrfalcons live here in Norway, far up north. They are the biggest, and according to to some, most powerful falcons in the world.
www.esthervanhulsen.com
www.esthervanhulsen.com
October 20, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Another favorite bird to paint for me is the mighty Gyrfalcon. Here are some watercolour and acrylic paintings I did over the last few years. Gyrfalcons live here in Norway, far up north. They are the biggest, and according to to some, most powerful falcons in the world.
www.esthervanhulsen.com
www.esthervanhulsen.com
Tomorrow 5.30pm and then on YouTube.
Bird crime in the #YorkshireDales persists – after over 70 years of legal protection.
Support our campaign and book for our free ONLINE launch on Tuesday 21 October, 5.30pm at: friendsofthedales.org.uk/events
#EyesontheSkies #RaptorPersecution @raptorpersuk.bsky.social @campaign4parks.bsky.social
Support our campaign and book for our free ONLINE launch on Tuesday 21 October, 5.30pm at: friendsofthedales.org.uk/events
#EyesontheSkies #RaptorPersecution @raptorpersuk.bsky.social @campaign4parks.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Tomorrow 5.30pm and then on YouTube.