@birdergranty.bsky.social
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NEW: This is worth your time.
@thenerve_news has the receipts.
A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.
Please read & share.
@thenerve_news has the receipts.
A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.
Please read & share.
November 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
NEW: This is worth your time.
@thenerve_news has the receipts.
A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.
Please read & share.
@thenerve_news has the receipts.
A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.
Please read & share.
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#ukbirding
It is very apparent to patch birders in the east that the numbers, distribution and migration patterns of several winter visitors are rapidly changing as the climate warms. They don’t get talked about much though. 🤷♂️ 1/2
Smew, Lap Bunt, Snow Bunt, Roughleg
It is very apparent to patch birders in the east that the numbers, distribution and migration patterns of several winter visitors are rapidly changing as the climate warms. They don’t get talked about much though. 🤷♂️ 1/2
Smew, Lap Bunt, Snow Bunt, Roughleg
November 14, 2025 at 8:56 AM
#ukbirding
It is very apparent to patch birders in the east that the numbers, distribution and migration patterns of several winter visitors are rapidly changing as the climate warms. They don’t get talked about much though. 🤷♂️ 1/2
Smew, Lap Bunt, Snow Bunt, Roughleg
It is very apparent to patch birders in the east that the numbers, distribution and migration patterns of several winter visitors are rapidly changing as the climate warms. They don’t get talked about much though. 🤷♂️ 1/2
Smew, Lap Bunt, Snow Bunt, Roughleg
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Blue Labour think caring for nature is middle class toss, a character weakness; or worse, code for being Tory.
Blue Labour would love nothing more than a return to concrete brutalism of the 1960s, when progress meant environmental destruction without any concern for the consequences.
Blue Labour would love nothing more than a return to concrete brutalism of the 1960s, when progress meant environmental destruction without any concern for the consequences.
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 13, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Blue Labour think caring for nature is middle class toss, a character weakness; or worse, code for being Tory.
Blue Labour would love nothing more than a return to concrete brutalism of the 1960s, when progress meant environmental destruction without any concern for the consequences.
Blue Labour would love nothing more than a return to concrete brutalism of the 1960s, when progress meant environmental destruction without any concern for the consequences.
Last week’s S Spain #FlywayBirding hol with the wonderful @ingloriousbustards.bsky.social was truly memorable. An uplifting antidote to world madness & evil, & UK’s pitiful state of nature. Leaders Simon&Nikki top people! Highly recommended! Huge thanks! #UKBirding #birds
September 1, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Last week’s S Spain #FlywayBirding hol with the wonderful @ingloriousbustards.bsky.social was truly memorable. An uplifting antidote to world madness & evil, & UK’s pitiful state of nature. Leaders Simon&Nikki top people! Highly recommended! Huge thanks! #UKBirding #birds
Lovely pulse of waders into & through #RSPBMinsmere this morning: 3 Wood Sands, 5 Spotted Redshanks, 9 Whimbrel, 12 Barwit etc. Best though was a superb pale Arctic Skua over East Scrape. Absolute stunner against the blue sky! #UKBirding #SuffolkBirding #Birds
April 29, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Lovely pulse of waders into & through #RSPBMinsmere this morning: 3 Wood Sands, 5 Spotted Redshanks, 9 Whimbrel, 12 Barwit etc. Best though was a superb pale Arctic Skua over East Scrape. Absolute stunner against the blue sky! #UKBirding #SuffolkBirding #Birds
Amazing what a new hip and hearing aids can do for an ageing birder! 101sp seen/heard in 22k steps at #RSPBMinsmere today without trying too hard! 2 Garganey, Spoonbill north, 2cy Caspian Gull, Little Gull, Nightingales & some passage waders the best. #UKBirding #SuffolkBirding #Birds
April 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Amazing what a new hip and hearing aids can do for an ageing birder! 101sp seen/heard in 22k steps at #RSPBMinsmere today without trying too hard! 2 Garganey, Spoonbill north, 2cy Caspian Gull, Little Gull, Nightingales & some passage waders the best. #UKBirding #SuffolkBirding #Birds
Not posted much lately (not seen much that’s not already posted) but highlights at #RSPBMinsmere today were Cuckoo, Short-eared Owl ( roosting in tree!) 3 Bramblings, Nightingale, a steady (50?) northerly Med Gull movement + a decent array of passage waders. #UKBirding #SuffolkBirding #Birds
April 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Not posted much lately (not seen much that’s not already posted) but highlights at #RSPBMinsmere today were Cuckoo, Short-eared Owl ( roosting in tree!) 3 Bramblings, Nightingale, a steady (50?) northerly Med Gull movement + a decent array of passage waders. #UKBirding #SuffolkBirding #Birds
The undoubted highlight at #RSPBMinsmere today was a Hooded Crow flying north. A flashback bird, recalling the 1970s when they were fairly regular winter visitors here. I hadn’t seen one at Minsmere since then! #UKBirding #SuffolkBirding #Birds
March 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The undoubted highlight at #RSPBMinsmere today was a Hooded Crow flying north. A flashback bird, recalling the 1970s when they were fairly regular winter visitors here. I hadn’t seen one at Minsmere since then! #UKBirding #SuffolkBirding #Birds
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Great to see this important study now out in #BirdStudy.
Here’s the link to the paper: doi.org/10.1080/0006... @btobirds.bsky.social #ornithology #ukbirding
Here’s the link to the paper: doi.org/10.1080/0006... @btobirds.bsky.social #ornithology #ukbirding
Liz Truss called solar farms a “blight on the landscape”, but researchers have found they are actually better for birds than farmland
Solar farms in East Anglia had greater bird diversity & bird abundance than nearby arable land, a study finds
Paper here later www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Solar farms in East Anglia had greater bird diversity & bird abundance than nearby arable land, a study finds
Paper here later www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
February 13, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Great to see this important study now out in #BirdStudy.
Here’s the link to the paper: doi.org/10.1080/0006... @btobirds.bsky.social #ornithology #ukbirding
Here’s the link to the paper: doi.org/10.1080/0006... @btobirds.bsky.social #ornithology #ukbirding
Sizewell’s Kittiwakes are back on the A station’s offshore platforms for their 30th year! 18 around the rigs today (first returning birds of year?)inc 3 on nesting ledges on the old sea water intake platform. First nested here 1995. Welcome back! #UKBirding #SuffolkBirding #Birds #Gulls
February 12, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Sizewell’s Kittiwakes are back on the A station’s offshore platforms for their 30th year! 18 around the rigs today (first returning birds of year?)inc 3 on nesting ledges on the old sea water intake platform. First nested here 1995. Welcome back! #UKBirding #SuffolkBirding #Birds #Gulls
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Another excellent assessment of Govt (in)actions on the #StateOfNature & their 'green" growth at any cost greenwash by @herdyshepherd.bsky.social
unherd.com/2025/02/labo...
unherd.com/2025/02/labo...
Labour's war on the countryside
unherd.com
February 11, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Another excellent assessment of Govt (in)actions on the #StateOfNature & their 'green" growth at any cost greenwash by @herdyshepherd.bsky.social
unherd.com/2025/02/labo...
unherd.com/2025/02/labo...
Wonderful outpouring of Wood Lark song on heathland near #RSPBMinsmere this morning. My new-ish hearing aids helped me enjoy it to the full after several years of mufflement ( and latterly silence!). Close Water Pipit at Island Mere Hide, Mins too. #UKBirding #SuffolkBirding #Birds
February 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Wonderful outpouring of Wood Lark song on heathland near #RSPBMinsmere this morning. My new-ish hearing aids helped me enjoy it to the full after several years of mufflement ( and latterly silence!). Close Water Pipit at Island Mere Hide, Mins too. #UKBirding #SuffolkBirding #Birds
A mixed bag at #RSPBMinsmere today in glorious sunshine again. Best: L-t Duck still offshore, c250 C Scoter, 1 Purple Sand, 4 Bewick’s & 4 Whoopers, 2 Red Kite, 2 Cranes, 1 Dartford Warb in dunes & 2 frisky Ravens #UKBirding #SuffolkBirding #Birds
January 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
A mixed bag at #RSPBMinsmere today in glorious sunshine again. Best: L-t Duck still offshore, c250 C Scoter, 1 Purple Sand, 4 Bewick’s & 4 Whoopers, 2 Red Kite, 2 Cranes, 1 Dartford Warb in dunes & 2 frisky Ravens #UKBirding #SuffolkBirding #Birds
At last a calm, blue-sky day at #RSPBMinsmere today! Best: Long-tailed Duck with c150 Common Scoter, 1 Purple Sand, 4 Whoopers, 4 Bewick’s, 2 Red Kite, 2nd cal yr Caspian Gull & 2 Russian White-fronts. #UKBirding #SuffolkBirding #Birds
January 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
At last a calm, blue-sky day at #RSPBMinsmere today! Best: Long-tailed Duck with c150 Common Scoter, 1 Purple Sand, 4 Whoopers, 4 Bewick’s, 2 Red Kite, 2nd cal yr Caspian Gull & 2 Russian White-fronts. #UKBirding #SuffolkBirding #Birds
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Labour's simplemindedness will be its downfall - and ours. You can't build and bulldoze your way out of the housing crisis. Unless you also change the system, you'll still leave millions without decent homes. My column today explains why.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Home truths: the only thing Labour is building is a bigger, more dysfunctional housing market | George Monbiot
Private developers offer politicians a simple solution for bulldozing through this crisis – build more. But it won’t work, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
January 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Labour's simplemindedness will be its downfall - and ours. You can't build and bulldoze your way out of the housing crisis. Unless you also change the system, you'll still leave millions without decent homes. My column today explains why.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Meanwhile in Europe's largest area of lowland heath, the New Forest Dog Owners Group's motto is "On the Forest, off the lead" + object to dog restrictions in the National Park, even after a dog destroyed Curlews nests.
And the Kennel Club has guidance to object to restrictions.
Just depressing :(
And the Kennel Club has guidance to object to restrictions.
Just depressing :(
"It was found that 85% of the tracked dogs were walked off-lead in the breeding season despite signage requesting owners not to let their pets run free due to ground-nesting birds. At Snelsmore Common, Berkshire, more than 90% of the site was disturbed by dogs, reducing its conservation value"
A tracking study has found that dogs walked off-lead cause significantly more disturbance on lowland heaths than pets kept on the lead:
January 23, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Meanwhile in Europe's largest area of lowland heath, the New Forest Dog Owners Group's motto is "On the Forest, off the lead" + object to dog restrictions in the National Park, even after a dog destroyed Curlews nests.
And the Kennel Club has guidance to object to restrictions.
Just depressing :(
And the Kennel Club has guidance to object to restrictions.
Just depressing :(
Personal highlights from #RSPMinsmere today: Spoonbill dropped in mid-afternoon, 1 Purple Sand, 1 Water Pipit, 1 Med Gull, 2x1st winter Caspian Gulls & 1x1st winter Yellow-legged Gull. #UKBirding #SuffolkBirding #Birds
January 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Personal highlights from #RSPMinsmere today: Spoonbill dropped in mid-afternoon, 1 Purple Sand, 1 Water Pipit, 1 Med Gull, 2x1st winter Caspian Gulls & 1x1st winter Yellow-legged Gull. #UKBirding #SuffolkBirding #Birds
Visit to #RSPBMinsmere marred by arrogant, entitled dog owners with dogs on trails clearly signed (signs way too small) ‘no dogs’. Both on North Wall( free parking for romp on the beach) One was a slobbering off-lead Alsatian! Sick of this issue! #Natures_Voice #RSPB
January 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Visit to #RSPBMinsmere marred by arrogant, entitled dog owners with dogs on trails clearly signed (signs way too small) ‘no dogs’. Both on North Wall( free parking for romp on the beach) One was a slobbering off-lead Alsatian! Sick of this issue! #Natures_Voice #RSPB
Highlights from a few hours around RSPBMinsmere today: Bonxie offshore, 6 Caspian Gulls (4x1st w, 2x2nd w), 1 Purple Sand, 103 Pintail, 11 Goosander but no White-rumped Sand (I saw it briefly yesterday). Also sunshine & blue sky! #UKBirding #SuffolkBirding #Birds
December 30, 2024 at 5:40 PM
Highlights from a few hours around RSPBMinsmere today: Bonxie offshore, 6 Caspian Gulls (4x1st w, 2x2nd w), 1 Purple Sand, 103 Pintail, 11 Goosander but no White-rumped Sand (I saw it briefly yesterday). Also sunshine & blue sky! #UKBirding #SuffolkBirding #Birds
Apologies for repeating myself but the White-rumped Sandpiper was still at RSPBMinsmere today. Also at least 4 Caspian Gulls ( 2ad, 2 1st winters), 1 Purple Sandpiper & 4 Goldeneye south offshore in a small wildfowl movement. Best wishes to all Bluesky birders. Cheers! #UKBirding #SuffolkBirding
December 24, 2024 at 4:48 PM
Apologies for repeating myself but the White-rumped Sandpiper was still at RSPBMinsmere today. Also at least 4 Caspian Gulls ( 2ad, 2 1st winters), 1 Purple Sandpiper & 4 Goldeneye south offshore in a small wildfowl movement. Best wishes to all Bluesky birders. Cheers! #UKBirding #SuffolkBirding
The 1st winter White-rumped Sandpiper paid a return visit to RSPB Minsmere’s East Scrape this morning after a few days’ absence, or at least no reports. Also 3 Caspian Gulls (2x2w, 1x2w) #UKBirding #SuffolkBirding
December 20, 2024 at 2:49 PM
The 1st winter White-rumped Sandpiper paid a return visit to RSPB Minsmere’s East Scrape this morning after a few days’ absence, or at least no reports. Also 3 Caspian Gulls (2x2w, 1x2w) #UKBirding #SuffolkBirding
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I looked into the ecological assessment for a site bought for development near my flat in London. Its conclusions were based on a visit of a handful hours across the middle of one day in May. The idea that nature gets fair consideration in any normal planning assessment is laughable.
I have just read an ecology report for a new development, which repeatedly mentions "Canadian Goose" and "Missile Thrush"
The proposal: to remove hundreds of trees for a development on a site where singing Siskin was recorded, a species not proven to breed in Hertfordshire since 2014
The proposal: to remove hundreds of trees for a development on a site where singing Siskin was recorded, a species not proven to breed in Hertfordshire since 2014
December 19, 2024 at 9:38 AM
I looked into the ecological assessment for a site bought for development near my flat in London. Its conclusions were based on a visit of a handful hours across the middle of one day in May. The idea that nature gets fair consideration in any normal planning assessment is laughable.
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cool, shut it down
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
Pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their productsBusiness live – latest updatesThe developer OpenAI has said it would be impossible to create tools like its groundbreaking chatbot ChatGPT without access to copyrighted material, as pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products.Chatbots such as ChatGPT and image generators like Stable Diffusion are “trained” on a vast trove of data taken from the internet, with much of it covered by copyright – a legal protection against someone’s work being used without permission. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2024 at 3:52 PM
cool, shut it down
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There are some excellent field trips coming up in 2025, all put together by @wildlifegig.bsky.social. The trips are good for those new to birding and for the more experienced. For information on membership of Suffolk Bird Group go to www.suffolkbirdgroup.org SuffolkBirds
December 16, 2024 at 9:18 PM
There are some excellent field trips coming up in 2025, all put together by @wildlifegig.bsky.social. The trips are good for those new to birding and for the more experienced. For information on membership of Suffolk Bird Group go to www.suffolkbirdgroup.org SuffolkBirds
Nice to welcome back last winter’s drake Ring-necked Duck this morning. It’s returned to Thorpeness Meare and was in the extreme north-west corner late morning. Mobility improving daily ( mine, not the duck’s) after my hip replacement! #UKBirding #SuffolkBirding
December 15, 2024 at 1:29 PM
Nice to welcome back last winter’s drake Ring-necked Duck this morning. It’s returned to Thorpeness Meare and was in the extreme north-west corner late morning. Mobility improving daily ( mine, not the duck’s) after my hip replacement! #UKBirding #SuffolkBirding