Dare we read them? @brianecambs.bsky.social @davegoulson.bsky.social @craigbennett3.bsky.social @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social

Gannets have just one chick a year and a group of men club them to death for "tradition"

Wishing all my followers & friends a happy #WinterSolstice & a happy, healthy year to come in 2026🙂 Take care & stay safe all as we face challenges & opportunities for people & the planet🙂 #HumberheasLevels Go #PeatFree in 2026👍

Brief mention of the secret agreement which transferred land but allowed corporate carnage to continue @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/1992...

@hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social Hi again Hannah. You tried to DM me on X, & I also tried to DM you across there. No sign of yours so maybe we talk peat on this platform instead, DM me so we can correspond. Thanks🙂

classic bait & switch. Incinerator firm gets permission to burn limited types of waste: "refuse-derived fuel (RDF) from domestic, commercial & industrial non-hazardous waste". Then having got permission, seeks "minor technical variation" to burn 68 more types of waste! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Useful contribution to the understanding of historical #BlackGrouse regional populations #HumberheadLevels @donnybirding.bsky.social @lincsbirding.bsky.social @perilsofbirding.bsky.social @mikepilsworth.bsky.social @rspbblacktoftsands.bsky.social @birdingdad.bsky.social @jimhorsfall.bsky.social

In the words of its author "This research offers an interconnected account of birds, people & places." With >20 pages of endnote references as testament to the word 'research'! Of which 30 papers written by the prolific author Martin Limbert. @brianecambs.bsky.social

Confused catkins? All very well these appearing in early (onset of) winter but will their potential recipients follow suit🤔 Hazel; male catkins 11 December 2025. Another challenged provided by changing #climate patterns🤔 #HumberheadLevels #Hedgerows #Hazel #Phenology

Sadly the Humberhead Levels has always been the poor relation from the north😪 Recall 2004 & the discovery of the neolithic trackway on Hatfield Moors SSSI, reputedly preserved 'in situ' .... mmh, really, is it still there I wonder🤔 @fossilbeetle.bsky.social

Wondering if you guys might be able to help with ID or signposting @brianecambs.bsky.social @fossilbeetle.bsky.social

Time to end the unsustainable practice of #peat use by the horticultural industry, decades of excuses like needing more time to transition away from #peat & need consistent alternative #Horticulture needs to step up & help not hinder #ClimateChange actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sal...

Found over the years that corporate interests have deep pockets & expensive lobbyists🤨 We need to ban #peat sales now if we are serious about challenging #ClimateEmergency

"Today, foreign corporations, or the oligarchs who own them, can sue governments for the laws they pass, at offshore tribunals composed of corporate lawyers. Cases are held in secret. Unlike our courts, these tribunals allow no right of appeal or judicial review." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Carol Day talking sense about the need for the Aarhus Convention on the @green-alliance.org.uk podcast 👍 #PeacefulProtest is an essential part of a #Democracy

A tale of community action safeguarding nature, heartening evidence that challenge can deliver positive outcomes👍 With thanks to @mikeshanahan.bsky.social newsletter posts. planetficus.substack.com/p/the-fight-...

"We broadly know the solutions. The challenge lies in implementation, ...... " & also imho politicians & political will 🤔 #COP30 thenaturebeat.substack.com/p/buried-and...

"They are all now dead & can never be replaced: Martha, Benjamin & Inca, Booming Ben & Lonesome George, each one the last known member of its kind. Their names remind us that we have epic tales to tell of the decline & fall of entire species." #Extinction thenaturebeat.substack.com/p/unhappy-en...

Definitely deserves a wide audience, definitely needs action by Government to safeguard people & the planet, so we need our politicians to step up now as in today not tomorrow #PFAS #Poison ing people & planet 😞 www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

England's bathing water results are out! I've mapped them here: MAP: watershedinvestigations.com/find-out-wha... Defra says it's an improvement but I'm not so sure. A few thoughts here about what the results don't tell you: watershedinvestigations.com/the-environm...

Sunday book review: Spiders and Harvestmen of Yorkshire by @ecology-digest.bsky.social Publisher: Pisces Review: markavery.info/2025/11/16/s... @ynuorg.bsky.social @britishspiders.bsky.social @yorkshiredales.org.uk @northyorkmoors.org.uk @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @wildsheffield.bsky.social

Yeah, look what's just landed, thanks @markavery.bsky.social If it's as good as the likes of your "Message from Martha" then the only down side is it'll not take me long to read🙂👍😉 Also like the excellent artwork by Ian Rees which breaks up the monthly entries👍

"Helena Dollimore, the MP for Hastings and Rye, suspects the beads may have been spilled by a local water treatment centre and has written to the Southern Water chief executive, Lawrence Gosden, demanding an explanation." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

⚠️ Please report sightings of dead birds for possible testing for bird flu via the forms below ⬇️ 📌 In England, Wales & Scotland: www.gov.uk/guidance/rep... 📌 In Northern Ireland: www.daera-ni.gov.uk/.../daera-de.... 📌 In Republic of Ireland: aviancheck.apps.services.agriculture.gov.ie/report

How confident are the public in the water industry I wonder?

How confident are the public in the water industry I wonder? "Industry body Water UK said it was confident drinking water was safe." "But Water UK called for a ban on the chemicals to prevent accumulation." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Exclusive: mercury from fillings, belched out of crematoria, is getting into our rivers and fish. More than 98% of fish & mussels tested in English waters contain mercury above proposed EU limits. 43 countries have banned it. Why not here you might ask... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

⚠️ Please report sightings of dead birds for possible testing for Avian Influenza. ⬇️ 📌 In England, Wales & Scotland: www.gov.uk/guidance/... 📌 In Northern Ireland: www.daera-ni.gov.uk/... 📌 In Republic of Ireland: aviancheck.apps.serv... #UKBirding #BirdingWales #BirdingScotland

"During the scrutiny of the Wildlife Management and Muirburn Act we took detailed evidence on the role of muirburn in wildfire risk. There is very little credible evidence to support the hunting and shooting lobby’s ridiculous claim that these practices have any role in preventing wildfires“.

"This year, for the first time, the amount of krill fished in Antarctic waters reached what scientists believe is an unsustainable level." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Interesting, of course. The coffee is expensive because the palm civet droppings used to be hand collected in the wild. The trouble is they now trap the civets, cage them and feed them coffee until they die. The coffee is still expensive and now cruel.... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The Highland Cops programme demonstrates the evidential difficulties faced by the police when investigating suspected wildlife crimes, particularly those that take place on privately-owned gamebird shooting estates ...... raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/24/b...

"SNP caves to shooting lobby" - reactions to Scottish Government's decision to delay muirburn licensing (again) raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/11/s...

One of the world's smallest moths found on Hatfield Moors SSSI Doncaster Naturalists' Society fungus foray delivers Enteucha acetosae for a delighted @yorkshireeden.bsky.social Thought to be Yorkshire's first record of this species @andydnunn.bsky.social @doublekidney.bsky.social #TeamMoth

Calling citizen scientists / mycologists, please consider helping .... "This autumn, help Plantlife find Britain’s most colourful and important fungi – waxcaps." #Fungi #Waxcaps www.plantlife.org.uk/waxcapwatch/

#Arachtober is a good month to remind folk my book #SpidersAndHarvestmenOfYorkshire by @naturebureau.bsky.social ought to be available to purchase by the end of the month. It’s not too late to get a pre-publication offer here: www.naturebureau.co.uk/spiders-harv... @britishspiders.bsky.social

UK's first rice crop ripe for picking after hot summer.. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Anyone help with ID of these pupae would be appreciated, quite a few on various spp hedgerow plants #HumberheadLevels today #Lepidoptera #Butterflies @rlewington2.bsky.social @ukbutterflies.bsky.social @brianecambs.bsky.social @bcyorkshire.bsky.social

This was a massive distraction project, intended to draw attention away from the ongoing illegal killing on northern UK grouse moors. Maybe now NE & Defra will put their (our!) money where it really needs to go - on ramped up enforcement. #RaptorResearch raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/09/16/g...

Wonder what 'predator' removed the end of this chrysalis to feed (?) on its contents? Hymenoptera spp perhaps? #HumberheadLevels #Parasitica @ianbeavis.bsky.social @suillia.bsky.social @brianecambs.bsky.social

Suggestions for the ID of the little critter on this Alder leaf would be appreciated (zoom in to see), looks like might be a beetle larva? There are intriguing patterns created as well as just round holes in other nearby leaves. #Entomology #Coleoptera #HumberheadLevels @brianecambs.bsky.social

Signs of Autumn, after the agricultural harvest there comes nature's offering in the #HumberheadLevels Narrow rural roads with dykes either side with vast expanses of industrialised monocultures Should it be farmed for #Food or #Energy? #Sustainability #Peat #Soils #Solar

Liquid oozing from landfill + industrial waste + sewage - treated for pathogens then split, the solid part spread on farmland, the liquid part released into rivers - what could go wrong? Our latest article out now: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Government Ministers are set to decide on whether a new golf course should be built at Coul Links, which would cause irreversible damage to its incredible wildlife. Sign our e-action and help save this precious habitat 👇 buff.ly/zQO8qu2 #UKWildlife #BirdingScotland

Toxic landfill liquid added to sewage and spread on farms.... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Great to meet up with staff from @mydoncaster.bsky.social Neighbourhood Team & introduce them to the volunteer led "Mire Emergency" project at Gomde, Lindholme where sphagnum is being propagated from local material, harvested & then when grown on sufficiently 'planted' out in damaged areas.

An interesting #HumberheadLevels find, a female Southern Oak Bush-cricket found by a friend on her car earlier today. #Thorne #Doncaster #Yorkshire #Orthoptera First recorded in UK in 2001 so a recent ish addition, a predator of Horse Chestnut Leaf Miner according to the literature!

So please take a little time to send a message and stand up for nature, including Fonesca’s Seed Fly: action.rspb.org.uk/page/166270

🛑 Stop grouse shooting 📣 Join our walk to protest against this cruel and environmentally destructive practice. 🗓 10.30am on Sunday 10th August 📍Redmires Reservoir Car Park 🥾 Hike ~3km easygoing trail to a meeting point where we will gather for speeches and music