Excellent post on an unusually illuminating segment of the BBC Today programme: In praise of Jeremy Bowen open.substack.com/pub/brokenbo...

There’s a nature-loving majority in this country. Those in power must listen and stop trashing our environment. There are far more of us than there are developer lobbyists. They have the millionaires. We are the millions. We need a bold campaign to get our nature back.

Newyddion bendigedig! Excellent news! And there’s a CrowdFunder so that we can help support this fantastic project: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/tirnatur

Not had much luck with the trail cam to-date so thought I'd try to lure in some winter thrushes with pomegranate seed. Neighbour's dog, Robin and Woodpigeon resulted. But then, entirely co-incidentally, one Woodcock and half a fox. #birdingwales #rhossilibirds

Excellent series of blogs by @raptorpersuk.bsky.social on a case that illustrates the near-impossibility of obtaining a successful prosecution for killing a 'protected' Hen Harrier. Utterly bizarre comments from the judge and a pitifully inadequate sentence but (1/2)

So, the generations that have witnessed the biggest loss of nature in their lifetimes are the least likely to vote Green. Lots of other things going on of course but nevertheless disturbing - have they simply not seen the dramatic loss of insects, birds, trees and semi-natural environments?

I've just emailed my MP to tell them what nature means to me and that I want it to stay protected. Labour has let us down badly with this legislation. Will you take action too? action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/...

Great to see a Merlin on Rhossili Down this morning. Also 2 Snipe and a Wren. Lots of ice, but warm in the sunshine. Snow on the other side of the estuary for the last 2 days but none here. #birdingwales #gowerbirds @gowerbirds.bsky.social

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.