High water at the Northney saltmarsh on the northern fringe of Hayling Island. The sun was shining and terns are passing through. What's not to like? 💙

As an update: 6 more birds were registered by the system yesterday, such that 8 birds are known to have arrived in total, with more spotted today. Synchronous, but not early, as the first-arrival summary-graph for the years 1994-2026 shows:

The warmth this week has bought on a wave of nest building at some of the Solent gull colony sites, with others following in the next few weeks. Black-headed Gulls at West Hayling are weaving seaweed & spartina to snuggle in. #SuperSeabirdSunday

On these fresh spring days, when the sea air is laden with the scent of the tide line and blossom, it's a joy just to breath it all in and absorb the approaching summer 🌞

Black-headed Gull nesting is underway in the Solent, driven on by some beautiful warm days this week. Over the next few months, some 10,000 pairs of Black-headed Gulls will attempt to raise young on the Solents saltmarsh, shingle islands & lagoons 🐥🐣

The RSPB has urged the public to take simple steps to protect ground-nesting birds during the spring and summer breeding season, as increased recreational activity risks disturbing vulnerable species:

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

"Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests". Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? share.google/rftun172OFqb...

Easter morning in Dawlish 💚

10/ China, India, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, and Taiwan face the loss of 100% of their fuel oil supply. Outside Asia, the US is worst affected, with the loss of around 60% of its supply.

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

BBC News - Storm Dave set to batter UK with gales and blizzards over Easter weekend www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...

Phys.org: A million new SpaceX satellites would destroy the night sky—for everyone on Earth phys.org/news/2026-03...

One of the lessons from Vietnam is that when they start bombarding you with numbers like these -- ordinance used, targets struck, so many killed and wounded -- there's more we're not being told.

Cable for Ørsted’s Hornsea 3 wind farm arrives at Weybourne | Eastern Daily Press share.google/Q73v40cyqKkU...

This summary from the BBC on the current state of affairs across the Atlantic is apt.

Artificial intelligence infrastructure is being handed priority access to Britain's overwhelmed electricity grid, pushing housing down the list www.thenerve.news/p/ai-data-ce...

BBC News - Port Talbot to become offshore wind hub for Celtic Sea www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Pears Foundation new report on Countering Online Conspiracies in Schools is well worth a read. It makes it very clear schools have become a frontline in the fight against conspiracy theories, and need serious support. counteringconspiracies.publicfirst.co.uk/Commission_i...

A few photo's from the little summer last week 🌞 (much missed during our little winter today ❄️).

Subsidising oil is reaching strange new frontiers.. Associated Press: Trump administration to pay French company $1B to walk away from US offshore wind leases apnews.com/article/trum...

The feeling right now of every scientist trying to communicate the seriousness of ongoing global warming and the urgency of reducing emissions. Excerpt from a cartoon by the late Jon Kudelka.

The US President casually announcing his intention to commit war crimes on social media. That's where you're at, America.

It's that time of year, the Forsythia is in bloom across every other street in England 💛 Amazingly, it's name comes from botanist William Forsyth, the great great great great grandfather of Bruce Forsyth.

Ossoff: "After years of this president trashing our allies, we learned today that the Danish govt was preparing military options to defeat a potential American invasion of Greenland just months ago. The president has treated our allies like they don't matter then demanded they come to his aid."

Happy St.Cuthberts Day. The northern saint died on this day in 687 on Inner Farne, Farne Islands Northumberland. Amongst many other good deeds he helped protect the nesting Eider Ducks and some folk still call them Cuddy Ducks to this day.

Happy St Cuthberts day to all who celebrate. He had a great taste in islands, spending 10 years on the Inner Farne in Northumberland. Amongst some quite bizarre events (involving crows & otters), he also protected the Eiders out there, which are still sometimes called 'Cuddy ducks' in his honour.

BBC News - Dog owners to face unlimited fines if their pets attack livestock under new law www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A sky full of stars over Chichester Harbour tonight, and the bright lights of Portsmouth on the horizon.

Happy St Patrick's day to family, friends and colleagues who are celebrating, back in Ireland or across the world 🍀

An informative piece on the difficult decisions and future facing communities on on of our most rapidly changing coastal areas. RTE: In sea-change, UK may abandon homes to coastal erosion share.google/sb2dEmhFB1Qa...

That's funny, I could have sworn he said something about not needing Royal Navy vessels because the war was already won. You broke it Don, you fix it.

Dusk over Langstone Harbour tonight 💙

Defined disinformation for the World Economic Forum with @eliothiggins.bsky.social Disinformation is a form of propaganda, where a messenger intentionally shares misleading or false narratives through selected channels to exploit targeted audiences. intelligence.weforum.org/topics/a1G68...

Alright folks, it's a new week. We only get so many to chew over. The mist will clear, & somewhere out there, beyond the fog, a fresh spring is waiting to come through.

The years Kale is coming through on the shore 🌊🥬 #WildflowerHour

Puffins from the Shiant Isles are having a tough winter of it with an almost unprecedented 'wreck' on European coasts.

With a few days of sun & warmth this week ☀️, the seabird breeding season briefly turned up to 11 on the south coast. At the West Hayling lagoons, Mediterranean Gulls continue ro build in numbers & perform courtship, whilst Black-headed Gulls select territories 1/ #SuperSeabirdSunday

To Selsey Bill, & the easternmost edge of the Solent today 🌊

there's a thing I like to call "load-bearing assumptions", that you don't notice until they're suddenly gone (e.g the air you breath has oxygen in it). the post-ww2 order is a load-bearing assumption for basically the entirety of american life. trump took a sledgehammer to it in the last 90 days.

It’s hard to properly convey the lunacy of these proposals to people outside aerospace. Reflect wants to put gigantic mirrors in orbit and beam down sunlight at nighttime. SpaceX wants a million more starlink sats. If either of these actually happens, space will be unusable.

The FCC has opened public comments for a couple of different proposed satellite systems, both of which have a high likelihood of significantly degrading our ability to experience the night sky. More details from @aas.org here: 🧪

A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000 miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

All other thoughts on the most recent conflict aside, the torpedoing of a ship in international waters without any obvious reasoning to do so for fleet defence, by a far superior force, is a step toward chaos. BBC News - Iranian warship sank by US sub in Indian Ocean www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🧐 www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/news/environ...

The Sewage Map of active and recent discharges is really something: www.sewagemap.co.uk. Current image of discharges into the Solent below.

It's that time again when a few of the Black-headed Gulls in breeding plumage look just a little bit pink - believed to be linked to secretions from the preen gland, which the birds spread over their feathers and/or diet! @sussexornitholo.bsky.social #gull

Welcome to Super Seabird Sunday where we ask you to share photos, videos & artwork of seabirds to brighten up timelines. Here is a European Shag filmed yesterday on Isle of May in summer plumage #SuperSeabirdSunday