Fareham VC11: 17/9 last night including 2 December Moths and Large Wainscot + Palpita vitrealis, 2 Rusty-dot Pearl, White-point the potential migrants @migrantmothuk.bsky.social Also many Redwings, Fieldfares and Song Thrushes overhead this morning ☺️ #TeamMoth #HantsBirds

Cicerone Press have a sale on, which means 20% off my new #walking guidebook to the Small Isles. 💚 www.cicerone.co.uk/walking-rum-... #Scotland #Hebrides

The resident Goosander at Titchfield Haven has nearly finished moulting, and today had a companion at long last! #HantsBirds

#WeBS count from Port Solent yielded 119 Brent, Mute Swan, 2 Great Crested Grebes, 2 Sandwich Terns, 3 GBB, 3 Herring, 12 BH and 29 Common Gulls. Combined with bus trips with dipping Southsea Purple Sandpipers (tho 2 Black Redstart & Grey Plover good), walk to Eastney & errands #LowCarbonBirding

Fareham VC11: Methinks the best moth this week is this micro which must've come through an open window on 5/11! Looks like Carpatolechia decorella? #TeamMoth

Fareham VC11: 16/8 in the moth trap last night including 2 Rusty-for Pearls and this Red-green Carpet #TeamMoth

A great website. Full of crucial info and ideas for how to live in a way that gives us a fighting chance of avoiding catastrophe. I’ve threaded it to break it up a little… 1/17 #lowcarbonliving www.tudelft.nl/sustainabili...

It is not true “England cannot effectively subsidise travel costs”. Retired people get free travel. By freezing the fuel duty escalator we are subsidising car drivers, which compounds inequality. See more here: bettertransport.org.uk/media/groups... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The ongoing pandemic of Covid-19 is both a problem of disease and a problem of morality. When most people are thoughtlessly unwilling to practice necessary safety measures for the common good, such as wearing respirator masks, it is clear that collective morality has utterly failed. #COVID19

Titchfield: 5 Glossy Ibis back on Bridge Street Flood, presumably for another winter. #HantsBirds

When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Red Campion, Musk Mallow, Meadow Crane's-bill and Holly tree in Southampton today #WildflowerHour

Yay, back to GMT and not being forced to pretend everything is an hour later than it really is 😌 Had people tell me I wouldn't to get up at sunrise in summer if it was GMT, but if you're awake at sunrise it doesn't matter what a clock says. It's the same time & same amount of light!

Good to see the Black Restarts are back at Daedalus ☺️ Lovely afternoon searching, watching, and trying to figure out how many there are! #LowCarbonBirding #HantsBirds

A cold & relatively clear dawn on the Hants coast prompted a bit of vizmiggging at Brownwich with 848 birds of 10 spp moving west up to 10:00. 72 Redpolls was a good count for here. Also 250+ Brents offshore. #HantsBirds

Beautiful start to the day at Titchfield Haven with decent vis mig including Redpolls, 5 Glossy Ibis, and an elusive Yellow-browed Warbler still at southern end of Canal Path (found by @frannobirder2024.bsky.social y'day) #PWC2025 #LowCarbonBirding

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Brent Geese back in Portsmouth Harbour for #WeBS count! 31 in Paulsgrove Lake. Also 2 Sandwich Terns, 17 Turnstones, 105 Redshank, 5 Mute Swans, Great Crested Grebe, Little Egret, Grey Heron, 57 BH, 7 Common & 3 Herring Gulls. #LowCarbonBirding @webs-gsmp.bsky.social

Another excellent Hampshire Bird Report by @hosbirding.bsky.social, and this year it is available digitally as well as in print! #HantsBirds

Congratulations to ‬Hampshire Ornithological Society, winner of the @marshawards.bsky.social for Local Ornithology! @hosbirding.bsky.social provides a range of engagement activities such as outings, ringing demonstrations, events, workshops and online sessions for participants of all ages.

Forest trails don’t build themselves, and the #Orox helps pave the way. @reizkultur.bsky.social and the Tayside Trail Association haul rocks, tools, and supplies to build trails in the rugged woods of Perthshire, Scotland. 🔗 go.ternbicycles.com/markus-adven... 🔗 go.ternbicycles.com/orox-bs #Orox#Tern

This should scare the crap out of us at 423.9 ppm CO2 “𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙖𝙟𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 2024 𝙖𝙣𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙡𝙮 𝙖𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙚 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙙𝙚𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙣𝙚𝙩 𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙨𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙢 𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙗𝙤𝙣 𝙪𝙥𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨.” 1/2

Enjoying getting to grips with the camera - love the fact that it/I can (sometimes!) get photos like this! Could've done with that last autumn 😅 #BirdingGear

Black- and Red- throated Divers off Hill Head this evening! The Black-throated still favouring the area towards Salterns, and the other was towards Calshot. Lots of Chiffs on the reserve and lovely to have another late opening til sunset 🙂 #LowCarbonBirding #PWC2025

Best at Titchfield Haven this morning was a male Merlin hunting over the meadow and this Black-throated Diver offshore! @birdguides.bsky.social #PWC2025 #LowCarbonBirding

Our Billy found Bartramia pomiformis - a rare and declining bryophyte in Hampshire while surveying a sunken lane in the South Downs near Liss! #HantsPlants @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Still some Common Fleabane in flower at Titchfield Haven. Impressed the lens can focus close (ish) and far away! #WildflowerHour

Young Hobby hunting over the meadow at Titchfield Haven this afternoon #PWC2025 #LowCarbonBirding

Welcome to the Hampshire Nature (UK) feed collating wildlife and plant sightings in Hampshire: bsky.app/profile/did:...

1/2 Nine months pregnant feels like an odd time to start promoting something, but the #Cicerone walking guidebook @writesofways.bsky.social and I wrote for the #SmallIsles has just been published. This little book took a long time to put together and I'm really proud of it.

Whinchat with Stonechats on the meadow at Titchfield Haven, and Great White Egret still on the Frying Pan. Good to have some Brent Geese back with a small group offshore. #HantsBirds #LowCarbonBirding

Hello Bluesky - The 'Supporting Local Recording Fund' for Hampshire is OPEN. Get up to £350 to train, run wildlife recording activities or even buy equipment! Deadline, 31st January 2026. More information here: www.hants.gov.uk/landplanning... #BiologicalRecording #Ecology

It is perfectly possible to unconditionally condemn an antisemitic terrorist attack against Jewish people AND white nationalist terrorist attacks against Jewish people and Muslims AND Israel's terrorist attacks and genocide against Palestinians AND Hamas' terrorist attacks against Jews and Israel.

Why are buses allowed to zoom past stops early without stopping? Today, being 3 mins based on scheduled time was no use as it had already passed! 😐 (it's not a proper frequent service) #PublicTransport

Forster’s Tern briefly from our Autumn Safari cruise this PM in the Wareham Channel, also 1 Glossy Ibis, 2 BN Grebe, 1 WT Eagle, 3 RB Merg’s (first of autumn), 113 Spoonbill, 3-4 Marsh Harrier, 2 Spotshank @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social

Gulp, just switched from a bridge camera to micro four thirds (secondhand gear), and also got a digiscoping adaptor by SRB which I look forward to testing properly! Photo is a screenshot from a video. #BirdingGear

Lovely afternoon in the field around Winchester looking at pavement plants, chalk streams, and the chalk grassland of St Catherine's Hill. Highlights included Autumn Gential (not pictured), Toadflax Bastard and an unexpected bat which appeared to be feeding! #WildflowerHour #BiologicalRecording

That moment when an Osprey flushes a Caspian Gull (and indeed everything in the way Osprey do)! Seen briefly on the Frying Pan at Titchfield Haven. Pleased they've now found patch 🙂 #PWC2025 #HantsBirds

Two Little Stints at Titchfield Haven this morning were the highlight of pre-work birding! Just had time for a very quick look on the Scrapes before heading home #PWC2025 #LowCarbonBirding

Lovely morning at Titchfield Haven with Great White Egret, Whinchat, 8+ Stonechat, 2 Dunlin, 2 Common Sandpipers, good numbers of Chiffchaffs, and a steady trickle of hirindines and Meadow Pipits overhead 😌 #LowCarbonBirding #PWC2025

Good candidate for Caspian Gull at Hill Head tonight, on shingle island instead of closer beach... Alas neither camera much good in fading light. Hopefully back tomorrow 🤞 Early morning lovely with movements of hirindines, Meadow Pipits and offshore terns #PWC2025 #LowCarbonBirding

It also has a nationally important invertebrate assemblage, the primary reason for its designation a an SSSI...

Looking forward to studying @universityofleeds.bsky.social GIS masters - enjoy GIS work & feel it's time to learn more! It's great that distance learning options exist to fit alongside work/life 🙂

Sigh, here we go again... Dibden Bay is a SSSI, important for overwintering birds. #Solent

I'm going to try to change your perspective on COVID in under 2 minutes.

“Clean air isn’t a luxury – it’s infrastructure. It’s the foundation for health, safety, learning and achievement. We have immediately available, affordable solutions. The question now is not whether we can act, but when we will.” www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/opinion...

Fwoar, Bristol Temple Meads looks pretty impressive for a train station! #PublicTransport

Titchfield Haven: 3 Curlew Sandpipers, 3 Ruff, Common Sandpiper and new for #PWC2025 a Knot on the Scrapes today + 2 Glossy Ibis and increasing numbers of Godwits #LowCarbonBirding

Will be @ @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social for Migfest this weekend and would like to giveaway my old scope and tripod. If there's any young birders looking for a used but well loved scope that's seen plenty of rare birds please either point them in my direction or come find me over the weekend! #ukbirding