A huge betrayal. Won't lower bills. Won't give us more energy security. Won't insulate from price shocks. And sends a clear message to the world that we are backing new oil and gas drilling. www.lbc.co.uk/article/ed-m...

What a fascinating interview with the non-verbal, autistic author of the recently published novel "Upward Bound", which I will definitely be looking for. We humans can be extraordinarily blind to the abilities of those who don't think/act exactly like us -- and what a loss that can be!

Actor Sean Bean is a BIRDER?! Who knew! Nice to know that even the cool kids know what a great hobby (i.e. obsession) birding is...

Got stuck into my birthday present from Mike this evening. Given our longtime garden project, it's the perfect tome! Next up is setting up a PSL account and inputting all my lists. That could take awhile! 🙃 @graemelyons.bsky.social

The idea that Haiti, Ukraine, Venezuela, etc. are now suddenly "safe" countries to force people to return to is completely ridiculous. How Noem continues to consider herself a "Christian" is beyond comprehension!

Starving people to death is not okay. And it shouldn't be "political" to say that.

This explains a lot about the current government in the US. And why the cycles of revenge aren't likely to stop any time soon.

That this US administration would "believe" a 3-time convicted felon ( human trafficking) over someone who's never been convicted (and would agree to release him early from prison in exchange for testimony against someone they illegally sent to El Salvador) tells you all you need to know about them.

Check out these tiny, ghostly-pale woodlice I found under a log in our Norfolk garden. Known (appropriately) as Ant Woodlice, they live underground with various species of ants and eat the colony's debris and detritus. Apparently, they're blind. #invertebrate #woodlouse @norfolknats.bsky.social

Media companies promoting false stories? Gosh, who'd have guessed? 🤔🤨😡

Orchid wonders from the last few days.

We're finding lots of Spear Thistle Lacebugs in the garden this year. The adults are easy to overlook, being only a few millimetres long.

So, he took the plane, eh? Corrupt, corrupt, corrupt. From top to bottom, this American government is rife with corruption. Especially at the top.

It's beyond sad that one of the new US administration's "top acts" (snort) has been to dismantle and destroy life saving medical assistance. And they BOAST about it. SMH.

Sorry Canada. Our president is a fricking moron. Please ignore him and know that most of us would love to do the same.

The Indian Tortoiseshell is reminiscent of Europe's Small Tortoiseshell -- but redder. We spotted this one near a gorgeous waterfall in southern Bhutan. #butterfly #Bhutan #FieldGuidesBirdingTours

This Crested Bunting was singing his heart out from a telephone wire over a scruffy agricultural field near Punakha, Bhutan a few weeks ago. And a lovely song it was! #birds #Bhutan #FieldGuidesBirdingTours

Just back from a fab trip to Bhutan, where we saw many beautiful things, including this stunning Paris Peacock, which had iridescent scales that glittered like a starry night. They're found primarily in moist evergreen forest. #butterfly #Bhutan #FieldGuidesBirdingTours

When I was at Purdue, my advisor was working hard to "solve" paralysis. He would have been so excited by this leap forward! apple.news/AbXKNvq3pTiu...

What the heck has Bhutan ever done to put on 45's list of "banned countries"? My guess is because the government cares about its people. Can't have the average American learning about that, can we? Not with these soulless morons in charge.🙄

A tiny Vervain Hummingbird on her nest. I love how she's decorated it with bits of lichen to help camouflage it. #birds #Jamaica #FieldGuidesBirdingTours

The Jamaican Tody must surely rank as one of the world's cutest birds -- barely bigger than a ping pong (table tennis) ball but oh so feisty! We had some wonderful views of this one today. #birds #Jamaica #FieldGuidesBirdingTours

The enigmatic Crested Quail-Dove, known locally as the "Mountain Witch", is one of the most challenging of Jamaica's endemic birds to find, so we were delighted to get good long looks at this one in the Blue Mountains today. #birds #Jamaica #FieldGuidesBirdingTours

Interesting that the @nytimes.com hasn't written a single word about the protests occurring in cities and towns all across the country. What exactly are they afraid of? Kowtowing to the liar-in-chief are we? Cowards!

If this were Just Stop Oil, there'd have been dozens of arrests, furious denunciations in the billionaire press and, perhaps, long jail sentences. Farmers have a right to protest, and the police respect it. Other people, it seems, not so much. The real #TwoTierPolicing www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

White-throated Magpie-jays sport some seriously curly topknots. We found these two -- and four of their flock mates -- near Lago Arenal. #birds #FieldGuidesBirdingTours #CostaRica

With Mr Trump drilling for oil, Ms Reeves building a 3rd LHR runway, & emissions higher every year, all hope for an equitable climate future seems lost. All I’ve ever stood for & sacrificed feels pointless. So I walked for 3 hours today by the river. She was beautiful. Still flowing. Still flowing.

When it comes to snazzy raptors, the White Hawk surely has to be near the top of the list. What a beauty! #birds #FieldGuides #CostaRica

This gorgeous Lesson's Motmot was checking out fruits at the Wilson Botanical Gardens on my recent tour there. #FieldGuides #birds #CostaRica

When UK is one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world, we should be doing everything we can to protect it - not give developers a free pass to concrete over land regardless of what's there Another U-turn on Labour's promise to protect the environment

To the crowds cheering Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement: Do you think you live on a different planet, which climate breakdown does not affect? Do you imagine only greens and progressives will be harmed by Earth systems collapse? Do you believe you can win an argument with physics?

Of course, the REST of the world will go on calling it the Gulf of Mexico. But hey, any snowflake Americans who were hurt by that will feel better about themselves after 45's rebrand, right? 🙄

Perhaps a cure for the winter blues -- the gorgeous tones of a Speckled Tanager (with two White-throated Tanagers in the foreground) seen munching on seeds at a feeding station in El Copal, a private reserve in Costa Rica, during a recent tour. #FieldGuides #CostaRica #birds #tanagers

For #wildflowerhour in today’s glorious hoar frost: European gorse (in flower), silver birch, pedunculate oak and purple moor grass.

Is it a bad sign when moss is growing -- quite extensively -- on your car? Asking for a friend! 🤣 We're growing Silvery Bryum aka Bryum argenteum.

Are they eyebrows or ears? When it comes to the Crested Owl's appendages, it's kinda hard to tell! #birds #owls #CostaRica #FieldGuides

Somehow, Brown-throated Three-toed Sloths always look like they're smiling. #sloth #CostaRica #FieldGuides

There are some truly handsome birds here in Costa Rica, like this Collared Araçari. #birds #CostaRica #FieldGuides

A real tanager-palooza today with 11 gorgeous species seen well, including these Silver-throated (yellow) and Emerald (green) tanagers. #birds #tanager #CostaRica

A nice start with a miraculously dry day up Volcán Irazu. The predicted deluge fortunately never happened! Tropical Screech-Owl, Volcano Junco and Resplendent Quetzal.

The current situation -- gearing up for my next tour, meeting the group in an hour... It's looking lovely and lush out there! Grounds of the Hotel Bougainvillea, Costa Rica.

In the nest. Cladonia #lichens and Polytrichum #moss. Northwest Territories, Canada. #fungifriends #bryophytes

These plus a new UV torch! Can't wait to get out there looking! Thanks @anaturalistabroad.bsky.social! 😁

This stunning, mesmerising Coral Tooth Fungus is today's advent - photo by Dawn and Jim Langiewicz.

Some birds need few words, they are simply artistic perfection. Harlequin Ducks, Barnegat Light, New Jersey

Some excellent spotting by @ians4ad.bsky.social yesterday gave me my life look at the ridiculously named Bowl Hoodie (Calyptella capula), an adorably tiny fungus. It was growing on a decaying Common Nettle stem. There were only two other records for the UK on iNaturalist!

There were few lichens in the heavily fertilised agricultural areas we were surveying today, so this trunk covered in Ramalina farinacea was a nice surprise.

This is under the present system. Things are about to get much worse. www.cheshirewildlifetrust.org.uk/news/cheshir...

Turns out the Labour Party is as unconcerned about nature and the environment as the Conservatives are. Let's build 1.5 million houses on green belt land. Don't rehabilitate the 750,000 abandoned houses across the UK. Forget the fact that 20% of my town is empty second (or third or fourth) homes. 😡