We are going to have global pandemics of preventable diseases thanks to Chump! apnews.com/article/us-v...

Savi’s Warbler and Collared Pratincole still present and correct… catch them while you can. #lincsbirding

“When the Thatcher government sold off the water industry in England and Wales in 1989, it promised better efficiency, greater investment and improved service quality. But more than three decades on, those promises have largely evaporated.”

Farage is a longstanding supporter of a private healthcare and insurance model with the NHS retained as a low quality bare minimum service for the poor. Anyone old or with an expensive to insure condition would be mad to vote for him.

One missing record for Lincs from the @britishbirdsbbrc.bsky.social file - Black Stork, Holbeach Marsh, 04-Oct-2023. Anyone? @lincsbirding.bsky.social @nenbc.bsky.social @westmidbirdclub.bsky.social #peterboroughbirders

Not sure of the observer details relating to the Booted Eagle claim over Manby Flashes today. If you can get in touch please message me #Lincsbirding #BootedEagle #BBRC

Japan made a refreshing break from the UK winter

A fortuitous and planned weekend in Northumberland, with a bit of birding thrown in. Forgot my camera hence Digiscoped shots 🤪

Unexpected over-wintering Black Redstart in a suburban estate in Louth (Lincs), a species I managed to miss in 2024 @lincsbirding.bsky.social

Unexpected over-wintering Black Redstart in a suburban estate in Louth (Lincs), a species I managed to miss in 2024 @lincsbirding.bsky.social

Ring-necked Duck still at Tallington Lakes today, but though still present and seen by others, the Ferruginous Duck eluded me @lincsbirding.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social @rarebirder.bsky.social

The number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills. Norway - 0 UK - 0 France - 0 Spain - 0 Portugal - 0 Denmark - 0 Australia - 0 Iceland - 0 Italy - 0 Finland - 0 Ireland - 0 Germany - 0 Netherlands - 0 Sweden - 0 Japan - 0 Canada - 0 United States - 643k

A superb letter to the Question Time production team. We will look back and realise, far too late, just how dangerous the bias was.

“Taking Britain out of the Erasmus+ programme was a huge mistake. Labour must rejoin and accept the EU’s offer of a youth mobility scheme” 👏👏👏

@lincsbirding.bsky.social @apcbirding.bsky.social As we begin the trawl through Lincolnshire 2023 records, several were noteworthy including two long-awaited unblockers for quite a few folk. Several Alpine Swifts and 13 European Bee-eaters in one flock! Amazing.

@lincsbirding.bsky.social despite their feral origin, 7 of these at Covenham Reservoir yesterday (3M, 4F) were a colourful sight.

Malawi II, a few post-editing shots.. Sharpe's Greenbul, Boulder Chat, Babbling Starling and a few other scarcities evaded my limited photographic abilities. 273 species overall, 15-20 short of what we expected/hoped for, still very enjoyable (when we weren't on the road...)

Just returned from an unexpectedly gruelling trip to Malawi. Awful roads but lovely people.

One of the 8 Cattle Egrets among the cattle at Saltfleetby-Theddlethorpe NNR this morning. Much more numerous in the SW, but spreading fast.

Red-breasted Flycatcher at Donna Nook showing even better than yesterday.

Phone-scope shot of the mooted Siberian Stonechat at Donna Nook found by Liam Andrews.

A rare post, this, but after a successful sea-watch at Sutton-on-Sea included a cracking adult Pom Skua and Balearic Shearwater, a county tick…

A couple from today at Frampton Marsh with @djrlincsbirder.bsky.social. Baird’s a little tricky to locate at times amidst a blizzard of Dunlin and Ringed Plover intermittently panicking as one of the local Peregrines kept an eye on everything.

A couple from the Lincs coast this week, though I missed last night’s Manx Shearwater “influx” of at least 57 in 2hr early evening. Not usually recorded in such numbers in the east!

Good views of the Imm male Montagu’s Harrier, prob 3CY, at Gibraltar Point today.showed well on and off for 40 minutes or so, but ended up quartering the outer dune at the S end…dangerously close to the Little Tern colony..😳

Haven’t got used to posting on here, but from The Record Shot Studios, here’s today’s Whiskered Tern collage, busily feeding on flying plankton over the lakes at RAF Woodhall LWT reserve, Lincs.

This purring male Turtle Dove is the first I’ve found on the Lincolnshire coast this spring, display flighting too. Seem scarcer than ever. Amazing it got past the nets and guns of N Africa and there Mediterranean.

article I wrote for Orion Magazine in 2021 about a pair of endangered Blakiston's fish owls struggling to survive in a Russian swamp, and our efforts to help them 🦉🌍🧪 orionmagazine.org/article/hope...