Hit and killed a Badger yesterday with my van. Couldn't avoid it. Cried so hard I nearly threw up and haven't slept. Might go and make a peace offering of peanuts to a local sett to try and assuage my awful guilt 😭

I like it when they immediately get that you're feeding them

"Why aren't there more women in birding?!"

Kitties

My mum has an interesting delivery to make today 😂🐝🐝🐝

New guy just dropped (Dan's had this tank set up for like 2 months, and yes it's just him and snails)

Not the sort of message you want to get whilst being away but one of my newer hens, Junco, died unexpectedly overnight last night. Really gutted, she was so nice.

Fun afternoon near Bristol checking nest boxes, three Barn Owls and two Jackdaws! Ringed the Jackdaw chicks, will come back when the owls are bigger 😁

Nosy buggers

Fucking hell. 🙄 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If you saw her on the first 5 minutes of an on-lead walk where she knows she's going somewhere exciting, you'd be forgiven for thinking she's had no training at all 😂

Amazing to see and handle my first ever Barbastelle bats (under license) as part of a long-term monitoring scheme with Vincent Wildlife Trust!!! 😍 I've wanted to see one of these for years!

Amazing to see and handle my first ever Barbastelle bats (under license) as part of a long-term monitoring scheme with Vincent Wildlife Trust!!! 😍 I've wanted to see one of these for years!

Today am in trees, looking for bats (hoping not to find any!)

Raven x2

My native mix hedge is starting to look hedge-y 😁

Has the Nechisar Nightjar Mystery Been Solved? A fascinating summary on the identity of the mysterious single wing found in Ethiopia in 1990. www.aba.org/has-the-nech... #birds #birding #ornithology @aba.org

Definitely got this for her and not for me so I could get the Pokémon cards (I had the juice)

"Merlin is making people stupid and losing field skill-" hey, how about shut up and be happy people are engaging with wildlife, my mum sent me these from Spain and is having a great time recording new bird species, she would never have bothered before

That's it for our first Pawsability show, one 3rd in jumping and a few Es, but she hit all the training targets I wanted her to do, thrived in the show environment, and had loads of fun. I'm so pleased with her, she tried SO hard 💕

She was running clear this morning but we were told to stop as the timer wasn't working 😭😭😭

🔴 DIRECTO #Eurovision | "Frente a los derechos humanos, el silencio no es una opción". RTVE arranca la emisión de Eurovisión con este mensaje a pesar de las amenazas del certamen de multar a la cadena si sus comentaristas mencionaban el conflicto en Gaza dozz.es/mbmnv4

World's tiredest puppy, Swedish Eurovision stream (I don't have iPlayer)

So proud of Raven I could cry. Her first outdoor Kennel Club show, smashed the course apart from having to re-do the weave entry, just me to speed up now 😂 all our hard work is paying off 🥹

Camping. Lesser Whitethroats rattling

Chicken keeping updates: Phoenix has bumblefoot, Junco dreams of motherhood (she's never met a rooster) and Patty is laying eye-wateringly large eggs

It's beautiful

This is nice - just re-caught this Dunnock in the garden, I first ringed her in November 2021

It's baby House Sparrow time! #birdringing

Generally try not to body shame but it's giving me with Dream Matte Mousse circa 2007 😭

She's never had to reply to an email

One of us drank some seawater at lunch and threw up in the van on the way home

Neighbours

Drove back from Yorkshire, won a game, scored my first goal. Now bed time 😂

Lovely views of the Kilnsea Kentish Plover today - showed significantly better than my previous British one in Somerset!

Pint listing @ Spurn

Sun's out hens out

I haven't seen my boyfriend for 5 weeks so extremely hyped to be meeting him @ Spurn Bird Obs tomorrow for a weekend of birds & friends & pub & public displays of affection @acrodwade.bsky.social

So nice that so many people are tuning into the baby Yellow-legged Gull cam! 🥰

Got this of a Red-tailed Hawk hunting Mexican Free-tailed Bats in Texas. Honestly kinda love the grain, makes it look like a still from an old gothic horror 😁

Really like this photo I got of a preening Barn Swallow. The evening light was just lovely! 😍

Migration is so good in South Wales 😍😍😍

It's the time of year where the bushes next to the tennis courts grow tennis balls! Let's hope for a bountiful harvest this year

Texas trip report is taking shape! The whole thing can be found here ebird.org/tripreport/3..., with my photos here ebird.org/tripreport/3... which will be added to!

Herons are so Good and Nice and Cool! Here are four species I saw in Texas - Tricoloured Heron, Least Bittern, Green Heron, and American Bittern!

My personal Cardinal choice for Pope...

My chickens were screaming at something earlier. Ran to the window expecting to see maybe a cat, a big Magpie... There was a Blackbird. Under the bird feeder. How dare he 😡

Basic white girl coffee lunch time

Day 5 of chest infection thing - slept most of the morning, managed to walk the dog in the afternoon and saw my first Whitethroat of the year, so that was nice 🌼

I have a lot of unlabelled photos of either Tropical or Couch's Kingbirds, I think this is the latter but book unhelpfully telling me to refer to voice 😂