Ok. So. They anonymised the sheep.

Can you help us fill the remaining vacant sites for the International Swan Census on 17-18 January? 🦢 Find and request a site at app.bto.org/gsmp/public/... Thank you! #UKBirding

They genuinely had Easter Eggs on display in my local supermarket on New Year’s Eve. What was once a gag, has become reality. #ModernLifeIsRubbish

A lovely stroll in The Broads, on a sunny New Year’s Eve, was made that little more enjoyable by seeing this fine beastie. Great watching it hunt, and then scoffing its unfortunate prey… (FYI it’s a Black-winged Kite) #UKBirding #UKBirds #Ornithology

Discover what BTO has achieved in 2025 for birds and people ➡️ youtu.be/NDZ96B_tVZM Thank you to everyone who has supported us this year, and helped make our work possible. 💚

Grab a cuppa and read our Seabird Poo comic! ➡️ http://www.bto.org/S... ☕📖 Discover how seabird scientists collected bird poo and analysed its DNA contents to determine the types of prey consumed by Shags and Kittiwakes! 😮 #Ornithology ✏️ Illustrations by Anna Dupont-Crabtree

Man who bought up 33,000 acres of farmland to avoid tax and moved his business to Singapore after the Brexit he voted for wants your sympathy.

I mean, it’s one way of looking it…

Let's choose kindness in 2026. youtu.be/lopMMkz0law

If you get really bored over the festive period, you can always have a listen to me blabbing about the ‘12 Birds of Christmas’ on this fine podcast…

Nice to see The Spectator filling its pants as the threat of Polanski gains momentum… 💚

Our new festive BTO blog post looks back at BTO Christmas cards across the years. Grab yourself a cuppa (or a mulled wine), sit back and enjoy.🎄☃️❄️ www.bto.org/our-work/new... #ornithology

Spend spring where migration happens 🌿 We’re looking for Residential Spring Volunteers to live & work at Spurn in 2026. Accommodation + expenses provided. Know someone perfect? Please share! Apply 👉 forms.gle/9u4X65F4Vn5M... More info ▶️ spurnbirdobservatory.co.uk/news/were-re...

There once was a fellow called Trump Who promised a document dump But he wasn't impacted As the files were redacted Now everyone's getting the hump

Ooh, poop sample from the grackle from Calshot, Hampshire, Nov 25, shows it was Great-tailed, not Boat-tailed as thought. Analysis by @tessaroo.bsky.social poop by @wjrpb.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social

Unsure which tern you saw? Cover all bases with our orange-billed terns t-shirt! ;-) aluladesigns.co.uk/s... #BirdArt #ByBirdersForBirders #UKBirding

Here’s a poem called ‘An Invention of Collective Nouns’.

I saved myself a few quid, and many hours, (not to mention my dignity) by not travelling to South Wales to twitch the Scops Owl. I simply recreated the experience in my own home. ✅ #UKBirding #UKTwitching #Birds

Exciting news! We’re hosting our very first Welsh Raptor Convention to celebrate the first season of Cudyll Cymru. Book a spot ➡️ www.bto.org/RaptorConvention2026 Find out results from the survey, listen to expert guest speakers, join our feather ID workshop and enjoy lunch! #BirdingWales

Another brilliant piece from the pen of @mrhenrymorris.substack.com Tragic. Acerbic. Hilarious.

There is still time to sign up to take part in the Winter Bird Survey on a BBS square near you. More information here: bto.org/winbs

MAGA Thanksgiving. High Resolution Download. £1. Whole amount going to Crisis at Christmas charity. 👇👇 we.tl/p-wgcmtv0wHK

Hang on, this is what we northerners have been calling the pub landlord or landlady, for years…

1/ 📢Looking for counters for the International Swan Census (ISC) on the weekend of 17th-18th January 2026 in Northumberland. Please visit the vacant site map to request a site near you: app.bto.org/gsmp/public/... #Ornithology #UKBirding

Brand new podcast episode available now with the brilliant @drmjwarren.bsky.social ! Warm your heart cockles on this wintery day with tales of places named after birds, whisky and log fires and the bird that sh*tbombs its enemies! goldengrenades.com/podcast/epis...

True story.

We are hiring! Are you a keen birder? Does the idea of producing exciting and original birding content for a market-leading brand with more than 3 million unique users each year appeal to you? If so, we want to hear from you:

We're now starting to get reports of dead Whooper Swans with rings. If you find a dead bird & feel comfortable doing so - check for rings using the below @btobirds.bsky.social advice 👇🏻 Collecting information on ringed birds helps better understand the impact on different age groups.

Traitors on the inside, Trump on the outside ... who’d want to run the BBC now? Actually, I would This week’s column by Stewart Lee www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Give the gift of nature this Christmas! 🎄🐦 With a BTO gift membership, your loved one can discover the curiosities of birds and their world with a full year of BTO membership, plus a book and a BTO beanie. 😀 Order today ➡️ www.bto.org/GiftMembership

And for the reluctant to click.... The PNG Courier on the carnage at the BBC

According to some people (mostly those funded by big oil, or fans of those funded by big oil) climate change is a ‘con’. Science says otherwise… #ClimateChange #ornithology #birds #science

The irony wasn’t lost on me that I visited an exhibition called ‘Can We Stop Killing Each Other’ on Remembrance Sunday… @sainsburycentre.bsky.social #Norwich

First- and second-year Northern Saw-whet Owls last weekend in Metchosin. 1CYs are characterised by a single generation of new (juvenile) flight feathers. 2CYs exhibit a block of old (juvenile) flight feathers which are sandwiched between new outer primaries and inner secondaries. 🇨🇦🧪🌎 #birdringing

The new RBBP report shows that some northern species are struggling. Numbers of Slavonian Grebes fell to just 16 pairs in 2023, the lowest total we have ever reported. There were only six pairs of Redwings, and no breeding Fieldfares at all. Read more at rbbp.org.uk/2023-report-... #UKbirding

A recent outbreak of bird flu in Britain is causing concern among scientists:

Our report for 2023 is out now in @britishbirds.bsky.social. There's a summary at rbbp.org.uk/2023-report-... but if you prefer to watch rather than read then here's RBBP secretary @markaeaton.bsky.social with a few key points and some lovely photos! #ornithology #ukbirds youtu.be/arj1m7NfKmY

A few of these have been springing up in the garden just lately. They’re Field Blewit mushrooms. 🍄‍🟫 Had some in last night’s dinner, and I’m still here, so all is good! #LazyForaging

Stewart Lee is over here writing throwaway descriptions like "Weetabix-haired news-badger Andrew Neil'. Join me at The Nerve.

Brilliant piece debunking the nonsense claim in the Daily Telegraph. But it’s dangerous nonsense, polarising attitudes & whipping up prejudice. The DTelegraph is such a shit newspaper. Oh, and the photo? Staged - captive eagle, already-dead lamb.

The latest BTO Migration Blog looks at the cryptic Jack Snipe as it arrives in Britain for the winter, as well as more arrivals of winter thrushes, Yellow-browed Warblers and the latest rare vagrants #ukbirding www.bto.org/our-work/new... Photo credit: Jack Snipe by Allan Drewitt / BTO

There’s being thick. And there’s being thick, and wrong, and racist. #FullHouse

A cracking day at North West Bird Watching Festival at WWT Martin Mere today. Enjoyed leading a guided birding walk this morning, and chatting to lots of folk. Back for more tomorrow! @btobirds.bsky.social #Birds #Birding

This is brilliant. I was delighted to be involved in it, even in a small way. #birds #BirdMigration www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I've always loved Hendrix's solo from The Wind Cries Mary.

Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com

Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚 #amindofmyown

Another frighteningly believable gem… 😜

The last of my tomatoes… looks like Tim Burton may have been mucking about in my garden 🤔