I mistakenly cut a hole in our back door, thinking I was installing a cat flap. Actually it was a feline customer complaint window.

Looking for a wild adventure? Our annual Family Nature Weekend is on 4 & 5 July, 12 noon–6 pm. Try pond-dipping, bug-hunting, owl-pellet dissection. Meet our water buffaloes. Enjoy live music and great food and drink! £5 car/day kingfishers-bridge-nature-reserve.sumupstore.com/product/fami...

A fantastic morning — and an unexpected little interview with me, at about 2:56 in, in which I explain why I left university employment to spend more time hanging out with water buffalo. (I mean, who wouldn’t, given half a chance?)

My morning so far 😎

I can’t wait for this, even though it means setting my alarm for stupid o’clock to help with the set-up 🥱 Reserve Manager James always gives excellent interviews and the soundscape will be dreamy 🏞️🌅

Just ridiculously gorgeous out there today. I am so lucky 😍

😎 The Reserve looks breathtakingly beautiful this May Day. Lapwings are nesting, cuckoos calling, and our ponies are lazing in the sun. 🪜Behind the scenes, the refit of @thekingfishercafe.bsky.social is coming on well. Re-opening depends on contractors and deliveries of materials and equipment.

🗃️🏺Come and say hello if you're at BANEA 2026 at UCL today 👋 Our friendly Project Coordinator (me) will be happy to chat to you about our historians of #archaeology online support group @uclarchaeology.bsky.social @banearch.bsky.social

No better way to spend my Fridays 😻

Ruskin Spear (British, 1911-1990). Cat in a cardboard box (oil on board).

STOP POINTING AT FROGS!

On the 23rd anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq I am once again reminding you that it's entirely possible for me as an Iraqi to LOATHE Saddam and want him and his regime gone for good while at the same time be absolutely livid with America for what it has done to my country.

🙋Want to help raise money for the Reserve and get some feel-good exercise in too? 👟We still have spaces on our 5km Spring Run on Sunday 19 April. Go at your own pace through our beautiful meadows - it's not a race - or volunteer to cheer folks on! 🎟️ £15: www.kingfishersbridge.org/5km-spring-r...

Israel has been bombing Lebanon non stop since last night. A thread including all people reporting on this. Spread the word 🧵

I highly recommend that everyone follow artists. If you do, your feed is filled with art every day. Real, original art. It's bonkers that you can even have this. Amazing. Undeniably cool. And then support those artists, when you can, because that helps the delight continue.

It may do absolutely no flipping good at all but you can email Keir Starmer and ask him to remove permission for the US to use UK bases here: contact.no10.gov.uk #Iran #Trump #War

If you think that I am being hysterical about this then let's switch places. Let me teleport myself to your safe whereabouts and you teleport yourself to Baghdad and then let's see how graceful and dignified you will be when America is threatening a nuclear apocalypse on your eastern borders.

If you are Iraqi and seeing this post please reply to it so that I can follow you 💜🙏🏻🌹

👟 Run, jog or walk 5km with us on Sunday 19 April! 🏞️ Trot through the cowslips, listen to the birdsong, and know that every penny raised will contribute to supporting the precious wildlife in our wonderful fenland Reserve 🥰 kingfishers-bridge-nature-reserve.sumupstore.com/product/5km-...

Listening to @theduncanmackay.bsky.social read his wonderful book has distracted from the sorrow of not being in Baghdad this week. I've learned so much about the ancient history of my home landscapes of the Fens and East Anglia and now have a long itinerary of sites and museums to (re)visit 1/3

"It's just football! Who cares about sports?! Why are you making such a big deal out of nothing?!". It never is just football though. Nothing Iraq-related is ever that simple.

Your Iraq update for today is that America?/Israel? is striking Iraqi Hashd posts across Iraq and Iraqi Shi'a militias are targeting US interests in Baghdad and Iraqi Kurdistan. This has been happening every single day. You will read this and move on but this has been our life since the war started.

It should have been the first day of a wonderful conference in Baghdad today - the first time ever that the International Association of Assyriology assembled in Iraq for its annual meeting. This conference was to be the culmination of 4 years of hard work by Iraqi and international colleagues. 1/4

🙋 Hands up if you'd like the last two tickets for our next Dawn Chorus Walk! 🕠 5.30-7 am, Saturday 28 March 👀 Come with us into the Reserve for marsh harriers, lapwing, redshank, maybe bitterns, plus woodland birds, hare & deer 🎟️ kingfishers-bridge-nature-reserve.sumupstore.com/product/dawn...

🐣🪶 Getting ready for nesting season! So many birds! 🐃 🪺 Water buffalo are grazing the wader meadow to make it perfect for lapwing, redshank and avocet nests. 🐴🌼 Ponies are prepping the wildflower meadows for a brilliant summer display. 🥾👀Bring your wellies and binoculars to watch all the action!

My humble submission to the new Bank of England with concepts for the new bank notes to please both sides.

"We used an AI to do this" is increasingly a way of saying, "We didn't want to do this in the first place and we don't care if it's done well." 21/

It’s springtime and migratory birds are on the move! 🌍 Have you seen any of our fair-weather friends arriving? Stay tuned: we'll be shining a daily spotlight on our spring returnees. Check out the Arrivals Board to see who's flying in and when... 👇 #SpringArrivalSpotlight

Can't believe it's >4 months since last interacted with a #chalkstream! Today explored 3 parallel tributaries of the River Cam: TL is the lovely Hoffer Brook btw Harson & Foxton, rest are the rather pathetic Rhee, TR at Foxton & below at Fowlmere - little more than a ditch. #MyWalk #Rivers 🧵1/10

And more importantly do not kill women while claiming to be their liberators.

Ever wanted to run, walk or jog through a cowslip meadow next to a field of wild ponies in one of Cambridgeshire's loveliest Nature Reserves? 🏞️ Join our 5km Spring Run on Sunday 19 April! 🎟️ Early Bird entry is just £12 until 15 March kingfishers-bridge-nature-reserve.sumupstore.com/product/5km-...

🌼🐃🐦 Run through the cowslips, wave to the water buffaloes, and immerse yourself in birdsong on our 5km Spring Run! 👟🚶‍♂️🏃‍♀️We loved our January run so much that we're doing it all again on Sunday 19 April. Will you join us? Walk, jog, run — the choice is yours: www.kingfishersbridge.org/5km-spring-r...

🏞️ Get the kids outdoors and into nature on the Reserve this Half Term! ☔ Wellies and waterproofs on for child-friendly walks and adventures, then relax in @thekingfishercafe.bsky.social for a light lunch, hot drinks, and scrumptious home-made bakes and cakes ☕ 👩‍👧‍👦🐾 What will you get up to together?

Submitted an article. Need a nap. #eliza

🍂🪚🔥 Yesterday we welcomed onto the Reserve a brilliant volunteer work party of Environment Agency hydrologists, who helped clear and burn pollarded willow branches from the bottom of the Mound 👍💪 🙋👷‍♀️☕ Do you lead a team who'd like a volunteer day with us, in exchange for coffee & cake? Get in touch!

🌱 Look forward to spring by booking one of our gorgeous Dawn Chorus Walks: • Sat 7 March, 6am • Sat 28 March, 5:30am • Sat 4 April, 6:15am 🦉 We'll go deep into the Reserve to hear warblers and lapwing, barn owls and bitterns. 🎟️ Book at kingfishers-bridge-nature-reserve.sumupstore.com/product/dawn...

🌞🥾🐾🌦️ Make the most of this sunny Saturday, or shake off the showers on Sunday! 🏞️🦢🐴🐃🧑‍🍳 We bring you bird-filled blue skies and wetlands, wild ponies and water buffalo, tiffin and triple-choc muffins fresh from the oven @thekingfishercafe.bsky.social. What are you waiting for? Come on over!

Who'll be doing the #BigGardenBirdwatch this weekend? And how many of these do you think you'll cross off? 😁👇

This is how I roll on a #fenfriday now. Beats working for a living 🐃 🐃

We're still basking in the afterglow of last Sunday's Resolution 5km Mud Run! Here are a few of the wonderful photos taken by participants and volunteer marshals: 1. Keeping warm before the start 2-3. The spectacular start in Home Wood 4. Looking for Water Buffaloes (1/3) #resolution5k

I had the BEST time today. I fell in love with @kingfishersbridge.bsky.social many years ago, when I found myself face-to-face with a surprised water buffalo while out on a slow cross-country run. To be able to bring that joy to 120 other people, runners & volunteers, was a real pinch-me moment 🤩

🏅➡️ 🎪🚾 👟 We're ready for our first-ever Resolution 5km Mud Run on Sunday! Are you? 🌬️Storm Goretti will have been and gone, and @thekingfishercafe.bsky.social will keep us warm with hot drinks, soups, paninis and cake ☕🍲🍰 🎟️ Still a few places left: www.kingfishersbridge.org/resolution-m... Join us!

Same energy

Timeline cleanse, Cherry Hinton Brook, Cambridge, 1 June 2025 #internationalunsolicitedduckpicday @themerl.bsky.social

Eliza has absolutely had it with all this beautiful snow and would like her outdoor facilities back NOW, thank you very much. A fresh litter box in the downstairs bathroom really isn’t good enough 😾 ❄️ Much shouting this morning once front AND back doors were revealed to have snow beyond them 🤷‍♀️

⚠️ Just ONE WEEK before our first-ever Resolution 5km Mud Run — and only 25 places left! 👟 So if you want motivation to keep walking, jogging, or running in nature this January, grab a ticket at www.kingfishersbridge.org/resolution-m... and we'll see you on Sunday! ☕ The Café will be open too 👍

🎵 Cream coloured ponies in watery meadows, Blue skies and bare trees and long winter shadows, Geese on the lake and swans on the wing: These are a few of our favourite things 🎵 If they're yours as well, pop over this weekend! 🥾🐾😎 The @thekingfishercafe.bsky.social's open Sat-Sun 10–4:30 too ☕🍰🌮

Snowtime ❄️😍

🥇Our first-ever Resolution 5km Mud Run is filling up fast and is likely to sell out! 🙋If you'd like to help out on 11 January please DM us or email [email protected] before 2 January if possible. 👟Or grab a place to take part for just £15: www.kingfishersbridge.org/resolution-m...