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Nutcracker
@nucifraga.bsky.social
Birds, conifers and some green & pro-European politics.

Strictly no DMs (any sent, won't be read).
14 November, bike along to Elswick just in time to see @pauldavidson936.bsky.social's Great Northern Diver for 4 or 5 minutes before it flew off! #135 on the green patch yearlist 😃😃😃
@beardedgeordie.bsky.social @mike-carr.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Wannabe Wollemia 😂
November 11, 2025 at 5:19 PM
This printscreen is what I'm seeing; they need to get the proper spelling set as their default, so this sort of obnoxious American imperialism doesn't happen!
November 7, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Can be useful for identification, too - Acer ginnala has glossy leaves (pic), closely-related Acer tataricum has matt leaves 👍
November 5, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Explaining the current is easy enough; shared temperate oceanic climates with low mean annual temperature ranges. Frequent in the Southern Hemisphere, but rare in the Northern. Britain and Ireland, along with the Faroe Islands, has most of them.

What'll happen in the future? Don't know!
November 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
2 November, text from SPP and I've at last managed to catch up on the 2025 crossbill influx! Around a dozen Common Crossbills at Swalla this pm, #134 on the green patch yearlist 😃

#LowCarbonBirding #NEBirding #PWC2025 @mike-carr.bsky.social @whitleybirder.bsky.social @yellowbrow.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I get the page viewable for half a second or so, and then this flashscreen pops up. I wouldn't mind the ads alone, but I'm absolutely not willing to allow these 103 ghouls freedom to strip all my personal data and everything else out of my computer for their profit 🤬
October 30, 2025 at 11:16 PM
With, sadly, a juvenile, presumably theirs, looking very unwell and taking no interest in its parents or life generally; no more than an odd bit of head-flopping preening. I fear it'll be dead of bird flu by the morning 😢
#NEBirding #LowCarbonBirding @btobirds.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 8:11 PM
29 October, a call from @pauldavidson936.bsky.social that there was a 1st-w Caspian Gull on the Tyne at Elswick; a quick bike dash before dusk, and #133 on the green patch yearlist 😃
#LowCarbonBirding #NEBirding #PWC2025 @saloplarus.bsky.social @mike-carr.bsky.social @onemantess.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Please deal with the worst bug of them all - make it so that when you click on the arrow to load new posts, your browser stays with the most recently read post, with the new ones ABOVE, and not go to the newest first!
October 27, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Haven't taken any #SuperSeabirdSunday pics this week, so it's an old pic today. A bit of a sad one, to remind and warn us all, that with the way #globalwarming is going, lots of other seabirds will soon only be seen like this, in museums 😢
October 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Definitely yes! Far too dense commercial planting, that would not usually happen naturally. Though equally, I have seen self-sown Tsuga heterophylla and Abies procera do this:
October 26, 2025 at 10:49 AM
First I've seen mentioning it as Daurian! I'd always had it down as isabellinus. What grounds? If it is, it gets me an armchair tick 😁
October 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
1st winter Waxwing, not adult, I think?
October 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Thanks! You're welcome to use it, cc-by-sa; I've got more 👍
October 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM
We get Nuphar lutea here in Europe 👍
October 22, 2025 at 11:23 AM
20 October, a look round Swalla got a calling flyover Brambling #132 on the green patch yearlist. Then on to Killingworth Lake; last week's Whooper gone, but a very confiding Pink-footed Goose was nice ☺️
#LowCarbonBirding #NEBirding #PWC2025
@nenature.bsky.social @ntbirdclub.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Even more so if it gets out sunny!

Also look out for its frequent broken branches, it's dangerously brittle 😬
October 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Ditto . . . 😖
October 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
And all three are really, really, 𝑟𝒆𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦, worried about Waxwings? 🤔

😂
October 16, 2025 at 4:27 PM
👍
October 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
800 m would also explain this tiny dark dot for the summit of the Cheviot (812 m) poking through on the other pic you posted 😀
October 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
A more typical view, from today 😃
October 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Something very odd going on there! "Submitted by Anonymous eBirder", and this . . . 🤔 (printscreen of part of the list)

Could the whole thing be a fake?
October 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
It's #SuperSeabirdSunday again – my pics from the last few days a bit limited, choice of gulls or cormorants; the latter is more photogenic, so here's a Great Cormorant, at Gos Park NR Saturday 11 Oct.
@steelyseabirder.bsky.social @nenature.bsky.social
October 12, 2025 at 12:37 AM