Phil Aylen
@owlturbot.bsky.social
Photographer, amateur birder, Wednesday fan. East Sussex.
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This is how Farage and Tice reacted at PMQs when someone raised the issue of one of their politicians accepting bribes to spread Russian propaganda. Apparently it’s funny to be a traitor.
October 15, 2025 at 5:37 PM
This is how Farage and Tice reacted at PMQs when someone raised the issue of one of their politicians accepting bribes to spread Russian propaganda. Apparently it’s funny to be a traitor.
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Everyone at Sheffield Wednesday is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of our former owner and chairman Milan Mandarić.
Our thoughts are with his family and friends at this incredibly difficult time.
Our thoughts are with his family and friends at this incredibly difficult time.
October 4, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Everyone at Sheffield Wednesday is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of our former owner and chairman Milan Mandarić.
Our thoughts are with his family and friends at this incredibly difficult time.
Our thoughts are with his family and friends at this incredibly difficult time.
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Drunk, with an air rifle, in a local park. Shoots a Tawny Owl & Woodpigeon & dumps them in wheelie bin.
Various community/rehab orders & fined £40 (!) + £85 costs + £114 victim surcharge (Total: £239). That'll learn 'im. FFS.
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
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Various community/rehab orders & fined £40 (!) + £85 costs + £114 victim surcharge (Total: £239). That'll learn 'im. FFS.
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
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Lancashire man convicted of shooting Tawny Owl in local park
In July 2024 Joe Morris, 28, of White Grove, Colne, Lancashire was charged with killing two wild birds with an air rifle after police received reports of someone seen dumping a Tawny Owl and a Wood…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
April 29, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Drunk, with an air rifle, in a local park. Shoots a Tawny Owl & Woodpigeon & dumps them in wheelie bin.
Various community/rehab orders & fined £40 (!) + £85 costs + £114 victim surcharge (Total: £239). That'll learn 'im. FFS.
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/04/29/l...
Various community/rehab orders & fined £40 (!) + £85 costs + £114 victim surcharge (Total: £239). That'll learn 'im. FFS.
#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/04/29/l...
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Eye-opening graph. The biggest wildfire incidents in the UK don't occur when it's hottest, in high summer: they take place in April - *when landowners set fire to their grouse moors & lose control of burns.*
Time to ban moorland burning.
Source:
www.iucn-uk-peatlandprogramme.org/sites/defaul...
Time to ban moorland burning.
Source:
www.iucn-uk-peatlandprogramme.org/sites/defaul...
April 17, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Eye-opening graph. The biggest wildfire incidents in the UK don't occur when it's hottest, in high summer: they take place in April - *when landowners set fire to their grouse moors & lose control of burns.*
Time to ban moorland burning.
Source:
www.iucn-uk-peatlandprogramme.org/sites/defaul...
Time to ban moorland burning.
Source:
www.iucn-uk-peatlandprogramme.org/sites/defaul...
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President Zelensky will meet King Charles at Sandringham tomorrow. A spokesman for the King said the purpose of the meeting was "to annoy the fuck out of that dreadful orange shithead"
March 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
President Zelensky will meet King Charles at Sandringham tomorrow. A spokesman for the King said the purpose of the meeting was "to annoy the fuck out of that dreadful orange shithead"
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Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.
February 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.
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Imagine you were the richest man in the world. You could have anything you wanted, go anywhere you wished, do whatever took you fancy. How would you spend your weekend? Depriving the poorest people in the world of food and healthcare and boasting about it?
February 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Imagine you were the richest man in the world. You could have anything you wanted, go anywhere you wished, do whatever took you fancy. How would you spend your weekend? Depriving the poorest people in the world of food and healthcare and boasting about it?
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January 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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A beautiful Mountain Hare catching some winter rays in the east Mainland of Shetland today.
Repost if you agree they are better shot with cameras 📷 and not guns. 🙏
Repost if you agree they are better shot with cameras 📷 and not guns. 🙏
January 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
A beautiful Mountain Hare catching some winter rays in the east Mainland of Shetland today.
Repost if you agree they are better shot with cameras 📷 and not guns. 🙏
Repost if you agree they are better shot with cameras 📷 and not guns. 🙏
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Complete & utter bollocks from the Moorland Association
You don’t fight fire with fire - you fight it with water
Peat bogs, burned & drained for decades by grouse moor estates, need to be urgently rewetted
This would also reduce flammable vegetation
www.moorlandassociation.org/post/england...
You don’t fight fire with fire - you fight it with water
Peat bogs, burned & drained for decades by grouse moor estates, need to be urgently rewetted
This would also reduce flammable vegetation
www.moorlandassociation.org/post/england...
England’s catastrophic wildfires will be blamed on the Home Office: our letter to the Home Secretary
We recently sent a letter to the Home Secretary outlining the very real risk of catastrophic wildfires engulfing our moorlands due to Natural England’s restrictions on managing vegetation. You can rea...
www.moorlandassociation.org
January 22, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Complete & utter bollocks from the Moorland Association
You don’t fight fire with fire - you fight it with water
Peat bogs, burned & drained for decades by grouse moor estates, need to be urgently rewetted
This would also reduce flammable vegetation
www.moorlandassociation.org/post/england...
You don’t fight fire with fire - you fight it with water
Peat bogs, burned & drained for decades by grouse moor estates, need to be urgently rewetted
This would also reduce flammable vegetation
www.moorlandassociation.org/post/england...
Interesting to see geography isn’t an important subject for the BBC Weather team…
January 12, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Interesting to see geography isn’t an important subject for the BBC Weather team…
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January 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Raven found shot dead next to grouse moor in notorious Peak District raptor persecution hotspot.
S. Yorks Police take 3.5 months to appeal for witnesses. No surprise that illegal killing continues in this part of National Park.
#RaptorResearch #UKbirding
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S. Yorks Police take 3.5 months to appeal for witnesses. No surprise that illegal killing continues in this part of National Park.
#RaptorResearch #UKbirding
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2024/12/11/r...
Raven found shot dead next to grouse moor in notorious Peak District raptor persecution hotspot
South Yorkshire Police have issued the following press release (dated 9 December 2024): WITNESS APPEAL AFTER BIRD SHOT IN PEAK DISTRICT We are appealing for information after a protected bird was r…
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December 11, 2024 at 3:22 PM
Raven found shot dead next to grouse moor in notorious Peak District raptor persecution hotspot.
S. Yorks Police take 3.5 months to appeal for witnesses. No surprise that illegal killing continues in this part of National Park.
#RaptorResearch #UKbirding
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2024/12/11/r...
S. Yorks Police take 3.5 months to appeal for witnesses. No surprise that illegal killing continues in this part of National Park.
#RaptorResearch #UKbirding
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2024/12/11/r...
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Word of the morning is ‘williwaw’ (19th century): a sudden violent squall or a toppling gust of wind.
Goes well with ‘thunderplump’: a sudden downpour that soaks you to the skin in seconds.
Goes well with ‘thunderplump’: a sudden downpour that soaks you to the skin in seconds.
December 7, 2024 at 11:34 AM
Word of the morning is ‘williwaw’ (19th century): a sudden violent squall or a toppling gust of wind.
Goes well with ‘thunderplump’: a sudden downpour that soaks you to the skin in seconds.
Goes well with ‘thunderplump’: a sudden downpour that soaks you to the skin in seconds.
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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says the public want to leave the ECHR
Let him know he’s wrong by sharing this widely
Let him know he’s wrong by sharing this widely
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says
“We need to leave the ECHR so we can deport people that come illegally & take back control of our borders & that’s what the public wants”
Share if you disagree with his populist boll**** the UK should join Russia & Belarus outside the ECHR
youtu.be/iSTN-h8NoyY
“We need to leave the ECHR so we can deport people that come illegally & take back control of our borders & that’s what the public wants”
Share if you disagree with his populist boll**** the UK should join Russia & Belarus outside the ECHR
youtu.be/iSTN-h8NoyY
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says public want to leave the ECHR - let’s put the record straight
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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December 6, 2024 at 5:23 PM
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage says the public want to leave the ECHR
Let him know he’s wrong by sharing this widely
Let him know he’s wrong by sharing this widely
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Got three minutes ? Angry that 32 satellite-tagged Hen Harriers vanished or were confirmed as being illegally killed in England in 2023 , most on/near grouse moors ? Then please sign this @WildJustice_org petition . Be nice to get to 25K tonight ! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7000…
December 2, 2024 at 9:13 PM
Got three minutes ? Angry that 32 satellite-tagged Hen Harriers vanished or were confirmed as being illegally killed in England in 2023 , most on/near grouse moors ? Then please sign this @WildJustice_org petition . Be nice to get to 25K tonight ! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7000…
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These animals deserve to live in peace. REPOST if you agree!
SIGN the govt petition to end the cull today: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
SIGN the govt petition to end the cull today: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
November 29, 2024 at 5:51 PM
These animals deserve to live in peace. REPOST if you agree!
SIGN the govt petition to end the cull today: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
SIGN the govt petition to end the cull today: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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Remember that footage of gamekeepers killing a Hen Harrier on a grouse moor?
Seen pictures of moors being set alight in recent weeks?
It’s time to ban driven grouse shooting.
Please sign @wildjustice.bsky.social’s petition: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Seen pictures of moors being set alight in recent weeks?
It’s time to ban driven grouse shooting.
Please sign @wildjustice.bsky.social’s petition: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Petition: Ban driven grouse shooting
Chris Packham, Ruth Tingay and Mark Avery (Wild Justice) believe that driven grouse shooting is bad for people, the environment and wildlife. People; we think grouse shooting is economically insignifi...
petition.parliament.uk
November 23, 2024 at 12:42 PM
Remember that footage of gamekeepers killing a Hen Harrier on a grouse moor?
Seen pictures of moors being set alight in recent weeks?
It’s time to ban driven grouse shooting.
Please sign @wildjustice.bsky.social’s petition: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Seen pictures of moors being set alight in recent weeks?
It’s time to ban driven grouse shooting.
Please sign @wildjustice.bsky.social’s petition: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
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@wildjustice.bsky.social has just launched a new petition calling for a ban on driven grouse shooting.
How will the new Labour Govt respond? Let's find out!
10K signatures gets a response. Currently on 6K.
Please sign & share!
#raptorresearch #ukbirding
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How will the new Labour Govt respond? Let's find out!
10K signatures gets a response. Currently on 6K.
Please sign & share!
#raptorresearch #ukbirding
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2024/11/23/w...
Wild Justice launches new petition calling for a ban on driven grouse shooting
Yesterday saw the launch of a new petition from Wild Justice calling for a ban on driven grouse shooting. At 10,000 signatures the Government has to issue a response. At 100,000 signatures the peti…
raptorpersecutionuk.org
November 23, 2024 at 8:51 AM
@wildjustice.bsky.social has just launched a new petition calling for a ban on driven grouse shooting.
How will the new Labour Govt respond? Let's find out!
10K signatures gets a response. Currently on 6K.
Please sign & share!
#raptorresearch #ukbirding
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2024/11/23/w...
How will the new Labour Govt respond? Let's find out!
10K signatures gets a response. Currently on 6K.
Please sign & share!
#raptorresearch #ukbirding
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2024/11/23/w...
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Good afternoon.
We've launched another petition calling for a ban on driven grouse shooting.
Please sign & share!
@chrisgpackham.bsky.social @markavery.bsky.social @ruthtingay.bsky.social
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
We've launched another petition calling for a ban on driven grouse shooting.
Please sign & share!
@chrisgpackham.bsky.social @markavery.bsky.social @ruthtingay.bsky.social
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
Petition: Ban driven grouse shooting
Chris Packham, Ruth Tingay and Mark Avery (Wild Justice) believe that driven grouse shooting is bad for people, the environment and wildlife. People; we think grouse shooting is economically insignifi...
petition.parliament.uk
November 22, 2024 at 4:08 PM
Good afternoon.
We've launched another petition calling for a ban on driven grouse shooting.
Please sign & share!
@chrisgpackham.bsky.social @markavery.bsky.social @ruthtingay.bsky.social
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
We've launched another petition calling for a ban on driven grouse shooting.
Please sign & share!
@chrisgpackham.bsky.social @markavery.bsky.social @ruthtingay.bsky.social
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
I ought to post something, I suppose! Here’s a Desert Wheatear I photographed at Beachy Head a couple of weeks back.
November 18, 2024 at 9:18 PM
I ought to post something, I suppose! Here’s a Desert Wheatear I photographed at Beachy Head a couple of weeks back.