Register now for the Big Garden Birdwatch 23-26 January to take part in the world's largest garden wildlife survey Who will be this year's garden faithfuls and traitors? One hour to sit, chill & watch the birds, recording the highest number of each species seen at any one time Link in the comments

So glad to see the team at Spurn are so close to reaching the target! Such a valuable project. @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social gofund.me/1d13e9afe

Huge well done to all those across the country who protested their local Boxing Day Hunts!

Not welcome! Anti hunt protests out in force today!

Christmas Indoor Meeting: Weds 10th December 7.15pm 'Birds and Us' with Professor Tim Birkhead plus the traditional wine, mince pies and then on to the pub! LT2, The Diamond Building Leavygreave Rd Sheffield City Centre #ukbirding #yorkshirebirding

⬇️ Don’t forget! ⬇️ This Wednesday. Come and see out the birding year in style! 2026 Calendars and recent Annual Report will be on sale. Plus member’s offer on our forthcoming book.

I live in Wales and today received my Join Us letter from Reform UK, complete with SAE which I posted back to them, immediately, empty. If every other person in Wales did this, Reform would spend over £1.5 million on postage. Not sorry. Join me Cymru.

Yet another crime in a 'national park' renowned for raptor persecution endbirdshooting.substack.com/p/peregrine-...

Build it & they will come! Fundraising effort to install more nestboxes for Pied Flycatchers in north Sheffield - an initiaitive which has already shown great success Can you help Wharncliffe Heath Trust get their appeal over the line this winter? www.justgiving.com/campaign/pie... #ukbirding

It won't stop until grouse shooting ends. The whole industry thinks it's their birth right to kill everything that poses a threat to grouse. What a very sad place we are in.

The SBSG 2026 Calendar is back from the printers and will be on sale at tomorrow’s Indoor Meeting - minimum donation £5. Please bring the correct cash amount!

Tomorrow...

NB: Comments turned off as legal proceedings are live ⚖️ #RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/11/t...

We've been out delivering again this morning 🌄 #Volunteering

Sneak Preview! The SBSG 2026 Calendar will be on sale soon Once again featuring member's photos taken within our area and designed by our multi-talented Newsletter Editor Pete Garrity Details on how/when to buy will be shared once stock is delivered from the printers #ukbirding #yorkshirebirding

I've heard this is going to be brilliant 🦉🦉🦉

Check your letterboxes! Your dedicated SBSG Trustees and Officers are out this week and next delivering the latest Annual Report by hand and by post. Surplus copies will go on sale at November Indoor meeting #ukbirding #yorkshirebirding

Nice early start. Back in Sheffield @shefbirdstudy.bsky.social field trip at Redmires this morning.

Flamborough 😍

Beautiful Northumberland

#Sheffield #Peregrines Male #birds

Update for the South Yorkshire spring arrivals - with house Martin, swallow, wheatear and sedge warbler added to the list. #UKBirding

UK friends! Tonight Birdsong makes its UK TV debut on BBC4 at 9pm. It will also be available on BBC Player thereafter. Please spread the word! Extract taken from The Times.

Just watched the Birdsong documentary on BBC4. It follows an Irish ornithologist trying to record the songs of all 200 species in Ireland before some species vanish. Particular highlights are the Skellig Isles footage, the last pair of Ring Ouzel & the murmuration www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Good morning, from the back page of Private Eye magazine!

The maximum potential sentence available for this crime is 12 mths custodial and/or £40K fine. Dylan Boyle got a £400 fine because apparently he'd behaved himself for 6 mths since conviction. That'll learn him. FFS raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/03/18/f...

The #SheffieldPeregrines first egg of 2025 arrived on Monday. Here we go again... 🥚🥚🥚 🪺 🐣🐣🐣🐥🐤🐥 🪹 🦅🦅🦅 Follow the Webcam peregrine.sites.sheffield.ac.uk & Blog sheffieldperegrines.wordpress.com @shefbirdstudy.bsky.social @1chrisgreenwood.bsky.social

Latest Sheffield Peregrines Blog Post sheffieldperegrines.wordpress.com/2025/03/13/s...

Life tick for me today. Hawfinch. A few additions to the year list, too.

Nearly there on our push for 1,984 new monthly supporters to help us resist the tech barons and the far right. Still need 368 more people. Want to sign up? See link in bio

There are a few hours of daylight left to do the @rspb.bsky.social excellent #BigGardenBirdwatch so if you haven’t - please do ! And if you are struggling to identify birds then this informative key from @vizcomic.bsky.social will be an enormous help . . .

Success – an important win for nature! 🐝 Today, the UK Government made the only sensible choice - listening to the science and upholding the ban on neonicotinoids. This pesticide doesn’t belong in our countryside. Farmers now need support to adopt nature-friendly alternatives.

#GiveBlood if you can 💚❤️ My 16th donation

It was a bit on the chilly side at Kilnsea / Spurn this morning 🥶

Lead has been poisoning our wildlife and communities for decades – but now we have a chance to turn things around. With a crucial review into lead ammunition finally at an end, will you join me in calling on @SteveReedMP to help make lead history? act.wwt.org.uk/page/160992/...

Really looking forward to tomorrow's evenings, SBSG. Online only. First meeting of the year. Ring Ouzels with Kim Leyland.

🚨 IT’S 2025 – TIME TO END THE BADGER CULL! Thousands of badgers are slaughtered every year in this cruel and unscientific massacre. We need 100,000 signatures for Parliament to consider it for a debate. 🖊️ Sign now: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700317

Organisations (inc. ecology/science) still active on X have a social responsibility to withdraw. 'Outreach' and 'audience' are no excuse. There's alternatives. X is based on advertising/engagement for active users. If you're still an active user, you're fuelling this, plain & simple. Be responsible.

Please if you do one thing for wildlife today, make it this - sign the govt petition for an immediate end to the cull. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Nice Marsh Harrier to add to the 2025 birdy list ☺️ #RSPBOldMoor

Bloody love #DuvetKnowItsChristmas @rhodri.biz 14 years of this now ❤️ thanks to Rhodri. Always brilliant Check out the thread and donate whatever you can

So, let's try doing #duvetknowitschristmas here this evening? People are literally Driving Home For Christmas right now, which MIGHT JUST mean that they'll be sleeping somewhere unusual. 1/

SOUND THE KLAXON WE HAVE OUR FIRST DRUMKIT #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

Matthew Capper was such a fab choice for @shefbirdstudy.bsky.social December talk. Lincolnshire is closeby and has so much fabulous habitat, with details of more to come... Thanks to Matthew for a really great talk.

SBSG December Indoor Meeting: Weds 11th Dec 7.15pm Matthew Capper ‘Lincolnshire Wildlife’ We welcome back our old friend Matthew to take us on a tour of some of the best birding in Lincs including the Wildlife Trust sites he works across. Festive Wine and Mince Pies too. Plus Calendar sales.

And Percy there on the left wont even allow people to walk the wide farm tracks at Boulmer where we used to have free access. No public paths at all on the headland. Its a disgrace. #Northumberland

We’ve already hit 15,000 signatures to end the badger cull—but we need 100,000 for Parliament to debate this issue. Please sign and share: 👉 petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Got three minutes ? Angry that 32 satellite-tagged Hen Harriers vanished or were confirmed as being illegally killed in England in 2023 , most on/near grouse moors ? Then please sign this @WildJustice_org petition . Be nice to get to 25K tonight ! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7000…