Exciting times, in between the showers this morning, on a sodden Rhossili Down. A female/imm Hen Harrier and a wet Buzzard and then, on the trudge back, a male Hen Harrier. Never been happier in the rain! @gowerbirds.bsky.social #birdingWales #gowerbirds

I’m trying to save Coul Links. Will you? Remember Trump's golf course at Foveran Links which resulted in the loss of its SSSI status? Coul Links is a beautiful & unique wildlife habitat in the Scottish Highlands. But it is threatened once again with development. action.rspb.org.uk/page/166270/...

Very breezy walk up to the trig point on Rhossili Down this morning enlivened by a confiding Snow Bunting, looking a bit out of place really. Also 2 Chough, Buzzard, Skylark and Snipe. #birdingWales #gowerbirds

Official confirmation of the extinction of the Slender-billed Curlew. How sad is this?

Donate £25 and it's worth £150 (or more with Gift Aid) to the World Land Trust who are one of the best environmental charities ...

Great blog below. Well worth topping up Mark's £100 donation to @wildlifebcn.org and should be essential reading for all Defra ministers.

Should be a no-brainer!

Here's an opportunity to support the case to end the badger cull in England: www.crowdjustice.com/case/legal-c...

84% of Wales is farmed. Investing in nature-friendly farming is the best chance we have of seeing our wildlife recover and thrive. It's vital that we act now - join together with me and RSPB Cymru by writing to the Welsh Government! action.rspb.org.uk/page/167438/...

Spring at Rhossili Down & environs has brought out the raptors this morning with 3 Buzzards displaying, a Red Kite, Kestrel and Merlin. 2 Wheatear were my 1st this year, the Meadow Pipits and Chiffchaff were singing and Green Woodpecker calling but, best of all ... #gowerbirds #birdingwales 🔽

Please sign our petition to ban wind farms on protected peat land in England. There are plenty of more suitable sites than carbon-storing blanket bog and breeding grounds for vulnerable birds such as curlew and golden plover. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Walk on #Rhossili Down this a. m. in rare bit of sunshine. 22 species seen, 'best' being, Raven, Grey Wagtail, 3 pairs of canoodling Chough (one with yellow ring on left leg) &, best ever count for me on the Down, 37 Lapwing, hidden somewhere between sheep & rock in photo #gowerbirds #birdingwales.

A wonderful, discursive piece ranging from Dicken's fog in Bleak House, via a story of the campaign to save Liverpool's 'Welsh Streets' (where Eric Pickles emerges an unlikely hero) to the matter of fact: 'The easy bit is sticking up the turbines on top of the curlews'.

Profoundly depressing. A bird now extinct and we never even knew where it bred, highlighting the importance of international efforts in an increasingly fractured world.