The Argus: Terns nest at Medmerry after raft and sound project www.theargus.co.uk/news/2556922...

Across the Arun at Ford, one of the highlights of the coastal Sussex rail line.

My 4 year old pointing to a CD: "Daddy, this is what they used to listen to music in the olden days". 💿🥲

National Landscape Operations Manager - Chichester Harbour Conservancy | Environmentjob.co.uk share.google/IeDXao9KaHtk...

Sunset over the saltmarsh of Hayling Island. This section of saltmarsh on the Northney shore, just east of the Hayling Bridge, is a favourite one. Soon the Brent Geese will be feeding in the winter chill.

BBC News - Worst bleaching on record for Western Australian coral reefs www.bbc.com/news/article...

Show your support for the proposed bans on bottom trawling in seabed Marine Protected Areas. 🪼 🌊 Join us in calling for stronger protection for our oceans this #NationalMarineWeek ⬇️ https://action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/171084/action/1

Passing the Mill Pond this morning. Looks like a beauty. #Emsworth

Not a great photo, but a great thing to see 🤎 A recent trip to Knepp had a highlight of three Turtle (🎵 turr turr 🎵) Doves.

End of an era. Pagham Ferry pool & wetlands today. Next week, the long awaited wetland & water control restoration begins 💧🌱🦐🐤

The green menace has returned to parts of the Solent harbours. Excessive nutrients from agricultural runoff & sewage, + warm, sheltered water bodies = an algal mass.

Lesser Black-backed Gull at Lakeside this evening. Also good to see Green Woodpecker, Robin, Wren, House Martins and Great Crested Grebe today. #Birds #UKWildlife

Not a photo.. it's a glorious millpond sea in the Solent harbours this morning. The tide is rising without a ripple 💙

We are extremely concerned to hear that consent has been given to Berwick Bank Offshore Wind Farm, which will be one of the world's largest such developments, sited in an internationally important area for seabirds. Read on for our full statement 🧵👇 (1/7)

A dark day for Scotland’s seabirds. We're incredibly concerned that Scottish Government have granted consent for the Berwick Bank offshore windfarm, which could catapult some of our most vulnerable species toward extinction 🚨 We will carefully scrutinise the details and consider our next steps.

Little terns dead after dog attacks at Norfolk beach | Eastern Daily Press share.google/ryighi5PKWGC...

BBC News - Jeremy Bowen: Israel's allies see evidence of war crimes in Gaza mounting up www.bbc.com/news/article...

BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c0... More than 100 aid agencies say 'mass starvation' spreading across Gaza

Oystercatcher, St Cuthberts Cove, Inner Farne. A photo whilst sat near the jetty, leisurely waiting for the boats to come our way.

Ofwat could be scrapped in water reforms | UK News | Sky News share.google/vcJD2dyw4N5U...

Assessing potential wader breeding habitat remotely. Blog from 19 July 2021 wadertales.wordpress.com/2021/07/19/r... #ConservationScience🌍 Research by Triin Kaasiku and colleagues

Scarborough's Spa Bridge (or Cliff Bridge) hosts a thriving Kitiwake colony. The ledges provide an amazing nesting opportinity, away from the reach of ground predators and with close access to the North Sea. There's much more on Scarboroughs Kitiwakes here: share.google/YPklnnSIir0S... 3/

Some of the many hundreds of Kittiwakes raising families in the heart of Scarborough at present. Red listed in the UK, with an increasingly vulnerable population internationally too, Black-legged Kittiwakes are a familiar sight in a small number of coastal towns. #SuperSeabirdSunday #ReMeMaRe 1/..

A view down on the Gannet colony at Bempton, a new generation now growing by the day 💙

BBC News - Intense Mediterranean Sea heatwave raises fears for marine life. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The feeding flocks of terns and gulls in the Solent is impressive! So many out there today, especially towards Cowes. Here's an attempt to show the scene from Hill Head sailing club #HantsBirds #Seabirds

The sheer face of Bempton Cliffs. Compared to most of the cliff nesting seabird colonies in England, birds look like tiny insignificant dots set against this backdrop. An English wonder.

Love is love, on Scarborough beach today 💙

The Attenborough nature reserve near Nottingham today. Step out the car & boom, Common Terns flying about calling from the first set of rafts ❤️

It's the season. #SuperSeabirdSunday

When Air India flight 182 exploded off the coast of Cork on June 23, 1985, killing 329 people, the Irish Naval Service’s LÉ Aisling was one of the first on the scene. Journalist Saoirse Hanley, whose late father was on board the ship, speaks to three of his crewmates about what happened that day

Reposting this as it gets better by the day ❤️🐤🐥

Amsinckia lycopsoides, Bugloss Fiddleneck, localised almost entirely within the courtyard on Inner Farne, off the Northumberland coast. Recorded by at least 1922, it's believed this North American native arrived with chicken feed the lighthouse keepers used. #WildFlowerHour

Currently reading 'The Battle for the Faklands' Hastings/Jenkins. Did not know this about the Black Buck raids. Also, amazing how much the word 'Naturalist' has disappeared since the 80's. All the older conservation reports are peppered with it (along with organisation names), now it's a rarity.

The Sandwich Tern chicks on the RSPB Langstone Harbour reserves are rapidly growing now. You can watch them being fed by their parents on your own TV, phone or tablet here: www.youtube.com/live/MB2DSJm... Courtesy of LIFE on Edge & the Solent Seascape Project. #SuperSeabirdSunday

A Guillemot chick, high up on the guano painted cliffs. Since hatching, its had fish brought to it here, but soon it'll need to go out to sea to continue feeding & learning. To get there, this little one will need to jump off & tumble into the waves below. Good luck little one. 💙 #SuperSeabirdSunday

Farming and conservation. In a less predictable climate. we're going to have to get better at collecting and saving water. Successful example discussed in blog from 14 June 2019 🎂 wadertales.wordpress.com/2019/06/14/m... #ConservationScience

Summer is here in the Solent Harbours. Warm, windy & seabirds are flying through on feeding trips for their growing young.

A sight & sound of summer on the northern Atlantic coasts, Arctic Terns are peaking in breeding activity now. Once chicks are fledged or nests failed for the year, they'll set off for their wintering grounds in the Antarctic summer on the other side of the world.

The cliffs of Staple Island are draped with Guillemots at present as the annual cycle peaks. Eggs are hatching & chicks are growing up on their precarious nursery ledges. It's a full on start to life, and there's only one way down (hence the name for Guillemot chicks of fledging age: "jumplings"!).

A memorial to the 189 men of Eyemouth lost in the 1881 fishing disaster, depicting their 78 widows and 182 children left without a father. A silent ongoing vigil over the bay from their darkest moment.

The facial expression of a parent with teenagers. I can relate. 😂

Bamburgh castle & the epic sand dunes of the Northumberland coast.

Razorbills usually occur individually nesting within a larger cliff nesting colony of Guillemots. You can often pick them out easiest as they are led down (rather than standing) or poking their head up for a gander.

The view & sound from lighthouse cliff on Inner Farne today. Sadly I can't share the smell, but it was a glorious mix of sea air, fish & guano.

There's been an explosion of new life on the West Hayling lagoon islands over the last two weeks. Some Black-headed Gull chicks are getting big now whilst more are hatching everyday. #SuperSeabirdSunday @havantborough.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social

Inner Farne, Staple Island (& the Pinnacles), Brownsman, Longstone. A home for saints, seabirds, lighthouse keepers (& family), plus the wardens & rangers. We all pass through, but the Farne Islands, made of hard volcanic dolerite, endure the centuries.

A calm Inner Sound from Seahouses this evening, the gateway to the Farne Islands ❤️💛

BBC News - Ocean damage unspeakably awful, Attenborough tells prince www.bbc.com/news/article...

St Mary's Island, near the mouth of the Tyne, on a rising tide this morning. One of England's many tidal islands & home to an important Grey Seal haul out.