It's mid February and the bluebirds are right on time starting their nest in the box. #birds

At this very moment both the BBC News and Sky News channels are yet again showing a live speech by Nigel Farage. When will they start showing every speech by @zackpolanski.bsky.social and @eddavey.libdems.org.uk live as well?

Beautiful bird and photo

There are few birds better than a Red-flanked Bluetail & the wintering Crockham Hill bird was a typical (& occasionally showy) stunner this morning. Surprisingly only my 2nd in my old home county of Kent, after my first ever on its eastern extent at Bockhill back in my teens, many moons ago...

Not sure if Man United owner Jim Ratcliffe will see this being as he literally migrated to Monaco to avoid paying tax in the UK, but we wanted to put this up outside the stadium anyway…. 📍 Old Trafford, Matt Busby Way

Jim Ratcliffe 🤝 Nigel Farage

Nadhim Zahawi thinks London is now unsafe, because the other day a tired-looking man walked past him during the morning rush hour.

No Reform MPs turned up to the debate on Russian influence on UK politics yesterday, because we are confident that we already know how it works and don’t need any further advice.

MORE commentary on the sentencing of Yorkshire Dales gamekeeper Racster Dingwall ⚖️ Pertinent points made by the Northern England Raptor Forum (NERF), representing raptor fieldworkers. #RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime 🌍 raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/02/10/m...

Ossoff: "You're seeing what I'm seeing, right? The president posting about the Obamas like a Klansman."

Rolling back the years... #UKBirding

the perils of being a commentator

Spoon-billed Sandpiper on our ‘Spoon full of Thailand’ tour with @alandaviesbirds.bsky.social & @marcbuzzard.bsky.social. A bird I’ve always wanted to see after seeing pictures in a book as a kid #birdsseenin2026

Another dream bird seen in Thailand today. A male Siberian Blue Robin. A bird that has very occasionally made it to the UK! We’d seen a female earlier in the trip and hoped for a male and today we struck lucky @alandaviesbirds.bsky.social @marchug.bsky.social @jay-shrike.bsky.social

A birders dream and one I’ve been lucky enough to find on Shetland a few years ago- Siberian Rubythroat. A bird we’d hoped to see on our “Spoonful of Thailand tour with @alandaviesbirds.bsky.social @marcbuzzard.bsky.social & @jay-shrike.bsky.social and one appeared alongside us as we were walking

Name them shame them

Never forget.

Stephen Miller, Trump’s Deputy Chief of Staff and puppet master, is complaining about unelected judges making rulings he doesn’t like. Funny, I don’t recall Stephen Miller getting elected to any office. He didn’t even have to be nominated and confirmed for his position. Pot. Kettle. Black.

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

Those of us who's ancestors were brought here by force weren't immigrants. They were property. SLAVES. Let's not whitewash that.

Just back from two weeks guiding on the 2026 @wildlifetraveller.bsky.social Costa Rica wildlife tour, with a few of the avian highlights pictured below. Just some of the 260+ bird species we encountered, including 23 species of hummingbird(!), in this fantastically diverse & welcoming country

Black Woodpecker. Was too close & definitely too cold to risk getting out of the car to phoneskope this, so handheld, phone only through the windshield had to do. What a beast she is! 😍😍😎 #birds #birding #birdwatching #woodpeckers #finland

This seems to be the issue,lack if guts. No idea why though.

Male Pied Thrush at Nuwara Eliya (Victoria Gardens) 29th Jan. A spectacular and striking thrush. Described as an uncommon migrant to the hills of Sri Lanka. We saw four today. #srilankabirding

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Nutcracker. My tame garden resident sits expectantly above me as I restock the feeder. Not a care in the world! 😍😎 10x optical zoom on my Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra. No phoneskoping. They really are just amazing #birds #birding #birdwatching #finland

All now proven to be lies. This narrative would have stood, if it weren’t disproved by mobile phone footage.

The ICE murders in Minneapolis are a “glimpse of what happens when fear and loathing of migrants curdles into toxic tribalism, another grim warning for all those European voters flirting with the far-right and dark forces of nationalism.” That’s Reform in the UK. liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/418...

To be so relentlessly ignorant (and shameless about being so) is also a superpower.

It’s not just that they are murdering people who are peacefully protesting, it’s that they then stand in front of the cameras and slander the victims by telling us that what we see on the videos didn’t happen.

My blog (written by a very tired man) reflecting on a brilliant day of birds that "count" and those that don't. #ukbirding #birds

We need to be clear. In the context of the Abu Dhabi talks, Putin carried out these attacks in the full knowledge that there would another day of talks with the US. He gives zero fucks about what Trump thinks because he knows whatever Trump says he'll reel him in again.

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

Not a statesman. Not strong. Not patriotic. Not principled. Farage is a traitorous little shit who is too compromised and too desperate to please Trump, to serve the best interests of our country. He will only ever betray us because he has to see Brexit through to the bitter, broken end. (iPaper)

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

Board of Peace - Season 1

Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen's note to Starmer after visiting Chequers yesterday.

Thought there would be little chance when I arrived on site this am with 1000+ waders in front of me and most of them asleep then this little beauty picked its head up🥳 Spoony Sand, Khok Kham, Thailand

Brilliant

About “giving back Greenland”: bsky.app/profile/just...

@robcrank68.bsky.social has set the #BirdOfTheDay theme as #FeedingTime, any bird eating. TheAlt theme is #Gulls. Here is a Redwing feasting. #birds #photography #EastCoastKin

#BirdOfTheDay #WinterLight White-throated Sparrow with a snowflake ornament. #snow #birds #nature

english people looking on remark "oh! I think I've already seen the british version of this show".

January 19th: UK FIRST RECORDS: 🥇 NAUMANN'S THRUSH Turdus naumanni A male at Woodford Green, London was present from January 19th until March 9th 1990. Collage: © Top two, David Cotteridge, bottom, Jack Levene - many thanks. 👍🏻 #UKrares #rarebirdsUK #UKbirding

A hassle free twitch up to the Kent/Surrey border for a well overdue Life ✔️ Red-flanked bluetail. #ukbirding #birds #kentbirds #ornithology 🦉

Very nice Frosty.