James Lowen Wildlife
@jameslowenwild.bsky.social
Naturalist, author, editor, photographer. Written 15 books, won two awards, but happiest when avoiding the computer. Norfolk. jameslowen.com
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Great to see that the National Estate for Nature Group - whose members own c.10% of England - have agreed to "publish estate management plans by April 2026", setting out how each of them are contributing to 30x30 & Environment Act targets.
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Leading the way: National Estate for Nature agrees shared objectives to accelerate nature recovery
The National Estate for Nature group has taken an important step forward in its mission to drive nature recovery across England’s major estates. Read this post to find out more.
defraenvironment.blog.gov.uk
November 18, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Great to see that the National Estate for Nature Group - whose members own c.10% of England - have agreed to "publish estate management plans by April 2026", setting out how each of them are contributing to 30x30 & Environment Act targets.
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With thanks to @lowestoftlizards.bsky.social @perilsofbirding.bsky.social for inspiration& information, I speedbirded 10 minisites in Gorleston,Caister,Gt Yarmouth today. Migrants at all sites, but Meadow Park the best (Pallas’s!). Totals: 1 Woodcock, 5 Firecrest, Willow Warbler, 18 Chiff #ukbirding
November 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
With thanks to @lowestoftlizards.bsky.social @perilsofbirding.bsky.social for inspiration& information, I speedbirded 10 minisites in Gorleston,Caister,Gt Yarmouth today. Migrants at all sites, but Meadow Park the best (Pallas’s!). Totals: 1 Woodcock, 5 Firecrest, Willow Warbler, 18 Chiff #ukbirding
Couldn’t match Mike’s Phyllosc megadiversity at Holkham yesterday, but did chance upon a Pallas’s Warbler on a migrant-rich Stiffkey Binks - a place I like but keep forgetting to go to. A couple of Glossy Ibis encounters & two Firecrest were otherwise the best in the Stiffkey-Warham area #UKBirding
Yesterday with Sibe Phylloscs all around the best I could find was a late Willow Warbler. Today at Holkham I made up for it: first up a Hume’s was soon followed by a Pallas’s and concluded when they were joined in a flock by a Yellow-browed, a Sibe Chiff, a Firecrest & 3 Chiffchaff! #NorfolkBirding
November 17, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Couldn’t match Mike’s Phyllosc megadiversity at Holkham yesterday, but did chance upon a Pallas’s Warbler on a migrant-rich Stiffkey Binks - a place I like but keep forgetting to go to. A couple of Glossy Ibis encounters & two Firecrest were otherwise the best in the Stiffkey-Warham area #UKBirding
Went out to find Hume's Warbler today (well, & Black-faced Bunting)... and did (well, not the BFB). Burnham Overy Dunes, Norfolk. Chuffed to bits. Awful record photo but some decent tape. A bird I'd wanted to find since mates reid'd one in 1989! #UKBirding soundcloud.com/james-lowen-...
November 15, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Went out to find Hume's Warbler today (well, & Black-faced Bunting)... and did (well, not the BFB). Burnham Overy Dunes, Norfolk. Chuffed to bits. Awful record photo but some decent tape. A bird I'd wanted to find since mates reid'd one in 1989! #UKBirding soundcloud.com/james-lowen-...
Delighted to have today received a copy of the British Guild of Travel Writers book, Around the World in 65 Years. I have a story in there about a madcap expedition in the sultry Chaco of Argentina.
November 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Delighted to have today received a copy of the British Guild of Travel Writers book, Around the World in 65 Years. I have a story in there about a madcap expedition in the sultry Chaco of Argentina.
Does anyone *recognise* this bird call soundcloud.com/james-lowen-... please? From a Norfolk crop field after dark. Ideal would be the link to an identical XC/ML cut, please. Bird called twice; only taped the 2nd time. Ideas so far inc Stone-curlew, Curlew, Whimbrel, Barn owl, Tawny Owl. #UKBirding
Mystery bird call
Listen to Mystery bird call by James Lowen Wildlife #np on #SoundCloud
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November 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Does anyone *recognise* this bird call soundcloud.com/james-lowen-... please? From a Norfolk crop field after dark. Ideal would be the link to an identical XC/ML cut, please. Bird called twice; only taped the 2nd time. Ideas so far inc Stone-curlew, Curlew, Whimbrel, Barn owl, Tawny Owl. #UKBirding
My Beyond Birdwatching column for November (in Bird Watching magazine) wonders whether Cypress Carpet, a recent colonist, might 'grace your garden moth trap this year?' I was actually hoping that it might arrive new for OUR garden... and so it did, albeit late last month rather than this! #teammoth
November 5, 2025 at 11:05 AM
My Beyond Birdwatching column for November (in Bird Watching magazine) wonders whether Cypress Carpet, a recent colonist, might 'grace your garden moth trap this year?' I was actually hoping that it might arrive new for OUR garden... and so it did, albeit late last month rather than this! #teammoth
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Overshooting 1.5°C wasn't 'inevitable.'
We've been pushed by fossil fuel giants & governments that pander to them.
Every delay, every oil field, every broken promise made this crisis worse.
Keir Starmer, will you promise to leave Rosebank undeveloped?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We've been pushed by fossil fuel giants & governments that pander to them.
Every delay, every oil field, every broken promise made this crisis worse.
Keir Starmer, will you promise to leave Rosebank undeveloped?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head
Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Overshooting 1.5°C wasn't 'inevitable.'
We've been pushed by fossil fuel giants & governments that pander to them.
Every delay, every oil field, every broken promise made this crisis worse.
Keir Starmer, will you promise to leave Rosebank undeveloped?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We've been pushed by fossil fuel giants & governments that pander to them.
Every delay, every oil field, every broken promise made this crisis worse.
Keir Starmer, will you promise to leave Rosebank undeveloped?
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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This might also explain the slow and steady decline of common insects. I am sure they cannot avoid these pesticides either and low levels could disrupt behaviour or reduce survival rates www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘I was contaminated’: study reveals how hard it is to avoid pesticide exposure
Silicone wristbands worn by volunteers in the Netherlands captured 173 substances in one week
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:15 PM
This might also explain the slow and steady decline of common insects. I am sure they cannot avoid these pesticides either and low levels could disrupt behaviour or reduce survival rates www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Most pleased with this nfg Cypress Carpet in Norwich. Not unexpected, given the surge in #Norfolkmoths records but last night’s front felt like it might confer one. And it did. Also Silver Y (rare this year) and Diamondback, hinting at #migrantmothuk arrivals. #teammoth #muchadoaboutmothing
October 20, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Most pleased with this nfg Cypress Carpet in Norwich. Not unexpected, given the surge in #Norfolkmoths records but last night’s front felt like it might confer one. And it did. Also Silver Y (rare this year) and Diamondback, hinting at #migrantmothuk arrivals. #teammoth #muchadoaboutmothing
The boys are back in town. Oddly, they are all called Merv. #teammoth #norfolkmoths #merveilledujour #muchadoaboutmothing
October 19, 2025 at 7:22 AM
The boys are back in town. Oddly, they are all called Merv. #teammoth #norfolkmoths #merveilledujour #muchadoaboutmothing
F@k, yeah! Red-flanked Bluetail, Wells Woods, right now. made me fall to the floor, knees too week
October 15, 2025 at 12:38 PM
F@k, yeah! Red-flanked Bluetail, Wells Woods, right now. made me fall to the floor, knees too week
Tooling up for another day in the Shetland iris beds and burns, with the expected highlight being Redpoll. @dbradnum.bsky.social @moorebirdsbybike.bsky.social @beardybirder.bsky.social
October 12, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Tooling up for another day in the Shetland iris beds and burns, with the expected highlight being Redpoll. @dbradnum.bsky.social @moorebirdsbybike.bsky.social @beardybirder.bsky.social
We don’t seem to be in a rush to get outside and find birds today. @dbradnum.bsky.social @beardybirder.bsky.social @moorebirdsbybike.bsky.social #Shetland
October 11, 2025 at 6:37 AM
We don’t seem to be in a rush to get outside and find birds today. @dbradnum.bsky.social @beardybirder.bsky.social @moorebirdsbybike.bsky.social #Shetland
Yeah, I’ll have some of that.
A few more of the Siberian Thrush at Loch of Asta on Monday - a bit dark, but that's the way I'll remember it! @dbradnum.bsky.social @beardybirder.bsky.social @jameslowenwild.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Yeah, I’ll have some of that.
Surely this piece of grassy detritus on the cottage window is a good omen for today? #ukbirding
October 9, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Surely this piece of grassy detritus on the cottage window is a good omen for today? #ukbirding
Spotted from 200m away!
Team find of Red-breasted Flycatcher today at Hamnavoe (nr Eshaness) was the highlight of day 2 on Shetland with @dbradnum.bsky.social @jameslowenwild.bsky.social @beardybirder.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Spotted from 200m away!
Rustic bunting cannonballing around Urafirth (Mainland, Shetland) this evening. Not otherwise seen since 3rd? @beardybirder.bsky.social @moorebirdsbybike.bsky.social @dbradnum.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Rustic bunting cannonballing around Urafirth (Mainland, Shetland) this evening. Not otherwise seen since 3rd? @beardybirder.bsky.social @moorebirdsbybike.bsky.social @dbradnum.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Rustic bunting cannonballing around Urafirth (Mainland, Shetland) this evening. Not otherwise seen since 3rd? @beardybirder.bsky.social @moorebirdsbybike.bsky.social @dbradnum.bsky.social
searching for shetland’s pot of gold on muckle
roe… @dbradnum.bsky.social @moorebirdsbybike.bsky.social @beardybirder.bsky.social Two ybw so far and a couple of migrant moths…
roe… @dbradnum.bsky.social @moorebirdsbybike.bsky.social @beardybirder.bsky.social Two ybw so far and a couple of migrant moths…
October 7, 2025 at 9:34 AM
searching for shetland’s pot of gold on muckle
roe… @dbradnum.bsky.social @moorebirdsbybike.bsky.social @beardybirder.bsky.social Two ybw so far and a couple of migrant moths…
roe… @dbradnum.bsky.social @moorebirdsbybike.bsky.social @beardybirder.bsky.social Two ybw so far and a couple of migrant moths…
Collared dove, Asta, Shetland. #ukbirding @dbradnum.bsky.social @beardybirder.bsky.social @moorebirdsbybike.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Collared dove, Asta, Shetland. #ukbirding @dbradnum.bsky.social @beardybirder.bsky.social @moorebirdsbybike.bsky.social
And breathe. After 2.5h soggy dipping yet hoping, male Siberian thrush at Asta, Shetland. @dbradnum.bsky.social @beardybirder.bsky.social @moorebirdsbybike.bsky.social #ukbirding
October 6, 2025 at 11:14 AM
And breathe. After 2.5h soggy dipping yet hoping, male Siberian thrush at Asta, Shetland. @dbradnum.bsky.social @beardybirder.bsky.social @moorebirdsbybike.bsky.social #ukbirding
Good marine wildlife-watching last night from the Aberdeen-Lerwick ferry, inc 2 white-beaked dolphins, 2 Leach’s petrel, half-a-dozen Euro stormies & a dozen Sooties. @beardybirder.bsky.social @moorebirdsbybike.bsky.social @dbradnum.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Good marine wildlife-watching last night from the Aberdeen-Lerwick ferry, inc 2 white-beaked dolphins, 2 Leach’s petrel, half-a-dozen Euro stormies & a dozen Sooties. @beardybirder.bsky.social @moorebirdsbybike.bsky.social @dbradnum.bsky.social
We got blown off course a bit en route to Shetland. #YoungTurk #ukbirding @beardybirder.bsky.social @moorebirdsbybike.bsky.social @dbradnum.bsky.social
October 4, 2025 at 9:13 AM
We got blown off course a bit en route to Shetland. #YoungTurk #ukbirding @beardybirder.bsky.social @moorebirdsbybike.bsky.social @dbradnum.bsky.social
The mantidfly Mantissa syriaca, photographed in Iberia during the summer. Look into my eyes...
October 3, 2025 at 12:58 PM
The mantidfly Mantissa syriaca, photographed in Iberia during the summer. Look into my eyes...