Record breaking day at #Seaforth with 83 species seen, my highest day total there ever. Highlights were a male Hen Harrier heading stratospherically high SW, the Grey Phalarope showing much better, 5 juv Curlew Sands, juv Little Stint, Spotted Redshank, 2 Ruff & a juv Black Tern. #Lancsbirding

Our species is a disgrace and doesn't deserve this beautiful, irreplaceable planet.

💚 #Waders #Shorebirds

Remember, birding is there for you.

Pleased to see this getting discussed. There is a total lack of support in the UK for people with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome suffering Craniocervical Instability. We've been on this awful journey & fundraised for major neurosurgery in Spain, it saved Liv's life when NHS wouldn't help. #EDS #CCI

#SciArtSeptember 1: Islet Somewhere in the waves of Barents Sea, a rocky islet acts as a perch for seabirds. Puffins, guillemots, razorbills and skuas are still here, though threatened by heating oceans and spreading disease. With them sits a lonely ghost of a great auk that once roamed these seas.

We need your help again. Coul Links is an extraordinary coastal dune habitat, home to rare and remarkable wildlife. But it is now threatened for a second time by plans for an 18-hole golf course that would cause irreparable damage. Your voice could help save it. 👇

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🚨 The EU is trying to quietly weaken nature laws during summer break. We have 10 days to stop this. Don't let them destroy our forests, rivers & wildlife in silence. #HandsOffNature handsoffnature.eu/take-action/...

Gruesome scenes @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social yesterday where this juvenile female #Sparrowhawk impressively took down a #Magpie near the YWT visitor centre. The event stopped passers by and traffic! Nature can sure be brutal. #raptors #birdsofprey #spurnbirds

I. Love. August. Exquisite juvenile #WoodSandpiper currently gracing #GrimsarghWetlands #Lancashire. #waders #shorebirds #Lancsbirding @wadertales.bsky.social @waderquest.bsky.social @waderstudy.bsky.social

Great to see the inspirational @rspb.bsky.social #HopeFarm featured in #BritishWildlife. It is rammed with wildlife, profitable and produces quality food. It is a no-brainer that farmers should be supported to make this the norm. You can help make that happen... share.google/vskP9EVEsZxn...

Ringed Plovers have been 'sharing' their beaches with tourists for five months. Blog about how visitors affect the breeding distributions of Ringed Plovers and Oystercatchers: wadertales.wordpress.com/2021/08/23/o... 🎂4️⃣ #ornithology

Just your average day at work... 👀

Looking like a poor season for #Puffins in the #Faroes from local accounts and observations so far - lots of adults still feeding young chicks which should have fledged by this time of year, many dead chicks in the colony and very low numbers in general :( any others finding similar? #seabirds

Remember to keep dogs on lead near breeding seabird colonies!

Working in #Lancaster today. Thanks to the City Council's excellent Grassland Management Strategy, a lunchtime stroll from the office is a delight - flowers and pollinators aplenty. 💚 @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @greenparty.org.uk

Pesticide-free public spaces are already the norm in Paris, and in Denmark, showing chemicals aren't needed to maintain them Two thirds of the British public would support “schools, parks, playgrounds & other public spaces" being pesticide free Time for a ban www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Redshank ☹️ Huge losses of saltmarsh breeders: wadertales.wordpress.com/2019/05/28/r... They can do well on wet grassland: wadertales.wordpress.com/2015/11/30/h... If you use all the available management tools: wadertales.wordpress.com/2018/08/20/t... #ConservationScience🌍

Positive #Swift news from #Longridge #Lancashire. 10 out of 12 boxes now occupied in St Wilfrid's church tower plus 2 newly occupied boxes at a friend's house after a 'patient' 🤣 3 year wait. Lots of screamers over town. They are a joy. Summer would be dead to me without them. 💚

I'm back in court today fighting the legality of overgrazing on Dartmoor . 0.1% of protected sites across the park are in favourable environmental condition , yet we still spend millions in taxpayer cash propping up loss-making , destructive sheep farming . It has to change .

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#DarkRedHelleborine and #MarshHelleborine @rspb.bsky.social #Hodbarrow #Cumbria last week. A wonderful nature reserve probably best known for its tern colony, but it is also a much underrated botanical gem. #HelleborineChallenge #wildflowerhour

Wonderfully showy #HummingbirdHawkmoth nectaring on buddleia at #Seaforth in the morning sunshine yesterday. #teammoth

There are now 148 blogs about waders/shorebirds in the WaderTales catalogue. Here's the list of what's available, with a short descriptor of each blog: wadertales.wordpress.com/about/ There are 14 blogs about (Eurasian) #Curlew, just to name one species. #ornithology

The #Seaforth #CommonTerns were badly hit by #HPAI in 2023 with likely half the adult breeding population lost to the disease. But with bumper productivity last year and lots of chicks this year the colony is starting to recover very well. Current scenes are an absolute joy. 🥰 #terns #seabirds

#SandwichTerns having an excellent year at @rspb.bsky.social #Hodbarrow. c.950 pairs and a bare minimum of 400 chicks with many pairs still on eggs. Great to see after #AvianInfluenza #HPAI greatly impacted the species in 2022 and 2023. #terns #seabirds #RSPBEcology

Cold day in The Fridge aka hide A at #Seaforth. Nonetheless, a nice flush of #BeeOrchids, 1st ever fledged #Avocets for the reserve, numerous Black-headed Gull chicks & the first #CommonTern chicks of the year. #RoseateTern still, Little & 3 Med Gull inc an adult dressed appropriately. #LancsBirding

1. It’s good to see this scandal being called out at last. My thanks and congratulations go to Lee Schofield, Karen Lloyd and Ian Convery. But it’s also absolutely infuriating that it has come to this point, as I explain in this thread. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Spot-on flea treatments: "even after 28 days, the amount of pesticide coming off a single large dog in this time frame would be enough to exceed safe levels if mixed into a 100-cubic-metre body of water" www.newscientist.com/article/2482...

It's working! Please contact your MP now to object to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill in its current form if you haven't already 👍 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Always a delight, and frankly an honour when one of these exquisite creatures chooses to stop off on me patch en-route to its Siberian breeding grounds a mere 4000 km away. Especially when they show like this. #CurlewSandpiper at #Seaforth today. #waders #shorebirds

This four year old (ringed as a chick on #CoquetIsland) #RoseateTern was performing brilliantly at #Seaforth on Saturday, calling its head off, display flighting and trying to impress the local #CommonTerns by offering fish. What I would give for it to be joined by another.... 🙏 #seabirds #terns

Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉 Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace. You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.

#SouthKorea sure knows how to do bird races! Friends of the Getbol all set for tomorrow... 🐦 #2025GochangBigBirdRace #GochangTidalFlat #GochangGetbol #UNESCOWorldHeritage #GochangBirdwatching

Happy #WorldCurlewDay from #SouthKorea. A privilege to be representing @rspb.bsky.social supporting flyway partners working to protect & monitor the vast Getbol (tidal flats) & its globally important #waders #shorebirds. Emotional day yesterday visiting the #Saemangeum reclamation project. 😢

Today was red. #YNWA. Not a bird seen often in the northwest, especially in this plumage. Stunning #RedneckedGrebe at Clowbridge Reservoir this evening making short work of a Bullhead. #LancsBirding

First #Garganey of the year is always a treat, especially when they show this well. Nose to beak views from @rspb.bsky.social Lilian's hide at #LeightonMoss this evening. #Lancsbirding

Support Sian Berry’s #GoPesticideFree bill, scheduled for debate 25th April, which would ban local councils in England from using pesticides in public spaces. No more poison in our streets and parks! Contact your MP using the link below: pan-uk.eaction.org.uk/edm-urban-pe... @sianberry.bsky.social

Great end to the weekend watching the #ForstersTern fishing along the River Wyre at Skippool in the sunshine this evening. Chuffed it's lingered locally. Would be very happy if it decided to wander just that little bit further south. 🙏 #LancsBirding

The thermal imager & my ears produced groups of 3,5,3,5 & 3 #CommonScoters heading east over my #Longridge garden between 20:15-21:30 tonight. 16 Wigeon too. c.30 other dots, too distant to hear any calls, heading east mostly in 1's to 3's, were likely scoters too. #LancsBirding #NocMig

Local farmer was tilling this morning so that brought the #gulls in to the #AlstonWetland patch. 28 #MediterraneanGulls amongst them, almost all paired up adults, looking and sounding stunning. Eyow. #ukbirding #Lancsbirding

Albatross Chick Alert! 😍 The world's oldest known banded wild #bird, a Laysan Albatross affectionately known as Wisdom, is officially parent to another chick on Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge! @friendsofmidway.bsky.social

A large ex-dairy farm in Wiltshire is being turned into a chalk-grassland nature reserve with the help of the RSPB:

This is a wonderful watch. Don't miss it! #birds #birding #ukbirding

Glorious spring day at #Seaforth and always a special day in the calendar when your eyes are treated to the dazzling sight of your first #Wheatear of the year. This is my earliest ever. #birds #birding #Lancsbirds #UKbirds

Much needed change of scenery and weather in #Lanzarote #CanaryIslands #Spain last week. Nice to see a few of the local specialities and also a few not so local. Lovely island with some wonderful volcanic scenery. #birding

Huge win! Government announces plans to open up the Land Registry. If delivered, will finally reveal more about who owns land in England and Wales. Read my blog post for more details & how you can write to the Minister to make sure this now happens: whoownsengland.org/2025/03/06/h... 🧵1/

Word of the day is ‘huff-snuff’ (16th century): a hectoring bully or braggart.

I heard someone talking on the radio this morning about leaving #dog hair out for #birds to use in their nests *If pets have been treated with certain flea treatments, this could kill the chicks* Now seems a good time to repost this article 👇 #neonicotinods www.theguardian.com/environment/...