Jeszcze kilka ujęć wczorajszej chmurki. Pstryknięte na szybko komórką i oczywiście nie oddają w pełni piękna tej chwili😍 #wildlife

If it’s Friday it must be fish day, and here’s the smoked fish stand on the promenade at Kołobrzeg, Poland. There’s always a queue!

Oil + gas drilling is permitted in many Marine 'Protected' Areas in the UK, as illustrated in our Watershed Pollution Map, below. Bottom trawl fishing is allowed in many MPAs. All of which begs the question - what's 'protected' about a Marine Protected Area? share.google/LiNhOTjTO4hY... 1/4

It’s #FingerPostFriday, which this week comes from the bridge over the river Thames at Walton-on-Thames. I don’t quite know why they have a finger post there; I never see anyone walking over the bridge. They seem to spend all their lives in their cars in that part of the world!

Oil pollution can cause terrible harm to wildlife. In seals, it can cause breathing conditions + damage to the nervous system. It affects seals' ability to regulate body heat, making them more vulnerable to starvation + hypothermia. Report by @oceanauk.bsky.social: uk.oceana.org/reports/sea-...

Turns out, if you stop tearing up the seabed, wildlife thrives: ten years after banning bottom trawl fishing, there are 3 times the number of sea creatures + double the number of species in the South Arran MPA, Scotland, than there were before the ban 👏🦪🐟 share.google/2M5WqP3CXwSH...

#BirdofTheDay theme of #FeathersInFoliage is this Rainbow Lorikeet (Trichoglossus moluccanus) cheekily peeking from a bottlebrush at Toowong #Australia. Oh let's do the Alt #CormorantOrHeron as well with some GBH, Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias), Mud Lake #Ottawa #Canada #birds #photography #ECK

There's still time to book for 'Talking Raptor Persecution with Dr Ruth Tingay' - next Wednesday 20 May at 5.30pm. #FreeEvent Time to learn how we can all play a part in ending the criminal killing of #BirdsofPrey 🫶 Book via: friendsofthedales.org.uk/events #RaptorPersecution

Now I want some on my land... lovely story: How a kindergarten teacher became the accidental guardian of 200 king penguins www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The sun goes down on the Polish coast at Kołobrzeg; beyond the beach is a protected area of dunes and woodland that the sun fires up in the evening 😺

Greetings from the Polish seaside at Kołobrzeg. The rain has stopped, the wind has died down and it’s beautiful 😺

‘Ne’er cast a clout till May is out!’ So they say, but here in C Europe it’s the 3 Cold Gardeners or Ice Saints who bring a cold snap from May 12-14, & in Poland Cold Sophie (Zimna Zośka) arrives at on May 15 to deliver one last chilly warning before proper spring finally settles in. Roll on May 16!

There are evenings when the sun reaches through the clouds and turns a single tree into a lantern. For a few seconds, everything around it feels lit up, too. #ThickTrunkTuesday on the banks of the Thames at Walton.

US dollar hegemony - an explainer for beginners www.instagram.com/reels/DYHtd8...

Visiting England last week I was struck by quite how much wisteria there was, especially in the Surrey villages near my mum’s home. I suppose most of the houses there are quite old - the plants were very well established. But this beauty was in Beaulieu, Hampshire. Gorgeous! 😺

I declare the #ŚląskaSwifts 2026 season open! 😺😺😺 #Szczecin

Had a long day at work so just sitting down to look through some of my snaps from the UK. And since it’s #FingerPostFriday, I’ll share the delightful settlement of Buckler’s Hard with you all. A fascinating place! Info in ALT text. Have a relaxing Friday evening 😺

Tofay's #BirdOfTheDay theme from Rob is #SeaBirds, Alt is #Black, birds with mainly Black Plumage. I go with this impressive #NorthernBaldIbis - #Waldrapp. Photo shot at the Viennese Zoo. #Photography #Birding #ZooPhotography #BirdPhotography #bird #Vogel #BlackPlumage #TiergartenSchönbrunn

Good Morning Folks. Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #SeaBirds, birds that spend most of their time at Sea. The Alt Theme is #Black, birds that have mainly Black Plumage. Screenshots off the Camera Screen from RSPB Bempton Cliffs. #birds #photography #ECK #ukbirding #CanonR5mkii @rspb.bsky.social

Albatross on Heligoland #Seabirds

Today is the perfect day for #SeaBirds, as it’s peeing it down today. Also have a couple of #Black ones to kill two birds with one stone, as it were. Here we have a couple of Razorbills and a Puffin all having a good shout from the clifftops 😺 #BirdOfTheDay

A trip to southern England wouldn’t be complete without some admiration of the local oak trees. Here’s a lovely specimen at Buckler’s Hard in the New Forest, Hampshire #ThickTrunkTuesday

It’s #ManholeCoverMonday, and so to celebrate it, here are a couple in England. For those of you who think it rains all the time there, that’s not quite true! Of course the irony is that this terrible patch of desert is right next door to the river Thames 😹

When the weather’s nice in England you need to take full advantage with a proper dose of Neck Oil 😺

Czy ja juź państwu prezentowałem tę ślicznotkę z kwiatkiem? Czapla trójbarwna tapla się w pobliskim stawie. #ŻyjKolorowo #birds #birdwatching

#Parenthood is the #BirdOfTheDay theme today, so here we have Moorhen, Sparrow, Robin and Linnet feeding young #birds #thegardenjungle #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #shropshire #UKwildlife #birdphotography #canon #photography

I so rarely have any pictures of birds to post for #BirdOfTheDay but finally here’s one of an Arctic Tern feeding its youngster on the beach. Those little ones are really well camouflaged! #Parenthood

Nice view along the River Thames at Walton-on-Thames, England 😺

Imagine when the Met is paired up with Palantir.... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Parking, Polish style 😹😾

Scientists believe birds’ skulls hold clues to inner lives of long-extinct dinosaurs

I encourage all my Bluesky pals to read this essay on the benefits of UBI. My brother was part of the ‘Cool Britannia’ creative explosion of the 90s, in part due to being able to scrape by on the dole, which allowed his band to produce their best work. PS If you don’t know Angine de Poitrine … 👍😺

After reading this newest essay of mine, one of my readers said via email, "This is probably the best article I've ever read advocating for UBI. And one of the best you've ever written." If you haven't read it yet, please do. Maybe you will feel the same way. 🎲 www.scottsantens.com/the-angine-d...

The problem of too many cars isn’t just about the tailpipes. And although EVs seemingly address that issue (or “move” much of it, depending on the electricity source), their increased weight, and the potential increase in size and distance driven (due to #JevonsParadox) make EVs “complicated.”

We did it! Two weeks of hard campaigning for the #swifts, national news coverage, MPs, Lords, Ministers, councillors and celebs involved... and yesterday - finally- a result! chapelbiodiversity.blogspot.com/2026/04/news...

Went to the quiet seaside town of Dźwirzyno (yes, you read that right! 😹) which, apart from the beach, has very little BUT it does have a post office. The post box outside is conveniently next to an ATM, which you’ll need to be able to afford the stamps 😸 #PostBoxSaturday

1/ I’ve been working with cash transfers for over a decade and one of the questions I repeatedly get asked is: Wouldn’t giving people cash disincentivize work?

For #FingerPostFriday, here’s an information-packed sign for confused visitors to #Szczecin. It’s located next to a monument to the Hungarian uprising against the Communist regime in 1956. For why that’s important to Poles, see the ALT text 👍

The blossom in all its glory in #Szczecin. This lovely pink ornamental cherry is behind the ‘Spinach Palace’ i.e. City Hall and the white is just along the road off Jasne Błonia meadow 😺

🔈According to @picumofficial.bsky.social, #Greece is the country with the worst record concerning judicial proceedings against individuals acting in solidarity with #migrants: 48 cases, with Poland following with 20... #HumanRightsDefenders #Racism picum.org/wp-content/u...

My town’s gone to town on the daffs this year! can’t say I’m complaining though 😺 #Szczecin

This is a great short summary by Mary Colwell, CEO of Curlew Action explaining what the conservation issues are for curlews and why they are declining. Predation is another issue. You can hear her whole talk on Action For Curlew's wesite. Latest webinar.

People living in areas with elevated air pollution are 11% more likely to be diagnosed with cancer than those living in areas with cleaner air, study finds. The sharpest differences were for liver, colorectal, kidney, lung + bladder cancers. www.euronews.com/health/2026/... 🧵1/9

Have you seen this one, @gehapeters.bsky.social? Cool 😺

This winter I put out a small heated water dish for the birds & while I’ve turned off the heater I kept the water. I’ve seen Sparrows & Blue Tits drinking & bathing in it, but today look who came to visit! See what he’s doing, the clever chappie! #Crow #HoodedCrow #Szczecin

This is one of my favourite trees in the park opposite my home - a mature wild cherry blossom that I always use to determine whether spring is early or not. It seems to be on the slightly early side this year although the blossoms aren’t fully out yet 😺 #ThickTrunkTuesday

Do you want to see the "big picture" on climate change? Here it is. Emissions are on the left, and include CO2, CH4, N2O, and f-gases. Natural CO2 sinks (from healthy forests & oceans) are on the right. And carbon removal, what little there is, is on the right, too. All expressed as GWP100.

A bit of a dull start here in northern Poland this morning, but it’s clearing up nicely now so don’t be thinking that our streets are always this grey! This specimen is in our Old Town on White Eagle Square, which is being renovated at the moment #Szczecin #ManholeCoverMonday

Went to the arboretum at #Prezelewice and caught the beautiful blossom in front of the palace that was fairly humming with bees! The resident peacocks were on fine form, too 😺

Our little ‘garden’ in front of our block, which isn’t ours but the cooperative doesn’t care about, so we planted some random bulbs in November and despite the freezing temperatures, look what’s come up! Now looking forward to seeing the campions, oxeye daisies and knapweed 😺 #Szczecin