Here’s an example of LSW young calling from a nest (there were three young not far off fledging in this nest) @ukrbbp.bsky.social @lesserspotnet.bsky.social

Continuing my rather unfortunate trend of finding more dead adders than living ones, this one on Hartland Road in the Purbeck Heaths NNR.

Spent the last few days walking the Norfolk Coast Path from Sheringham to Burnham Deepdale, revisiting old haunts. Fantastic to see so many red kites!

Nearly 1 in 6 UK species are threatened with extinction. We've lost 97% of our wildflower meadows since the 1930s. We have 73 million fewer birds than in the 1970s - a decline of almost a third. And yet some politicians still just see wildlife as a blocker to progress.

🚨 SAVE UPTON HEATH 🚨 Dorset Wildlife Trust is urgently raising funds to protect vital internationally important heathland at risk. ⚠️ Home to rare species such as smooth snake and Dartford warbler, this special place could be lost. Donate and share 💚👉 bit.ly/4mbKIqQ ~ Jack

Even the friendliest dogs can disturb nesting birds! 💔🐶 Please keep dogs on short leads and stick to paths on our nature reserves to help protect ground nesting birds. 💚 📸 Paul Dibben

Raptortastic day at #RSPBArne @rspbengland.bsky.social today, with 3 Red Kites quartering low over Coombe Heath and an immature White-tailed Eagle sat in the middle of the heath. @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @harbourbirds.bsky.social

The results of my first foray into pottery are in. Really pleased with them.

Cracking male Black Redstart in the sunshine on the #PurbeckCoast between Seacombe and Dancing Ledge, accompanied by a female @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social

Adding to the recent reptile fest at #RSPBArne this basking #SandLizard in yesterday's sunshine @rspbengland.bsky.social @arc-trust.bsky.social

Turns out I'm slower than a sleepy #Adder at #RSPBArne just caught it's tail but it then peeked out again @rspbengland.bsky.social @arc-trust.bsky.social

Amazing what a bit of sun can do, with a number of singing Dartford Warblers, a basking Sand Lizard plus bonus White-tailed Eagle and 2 Red Kites at #RSPBArne today. @rspbengland.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @harbourbirds.bsky.social

This is my 30th year as a journalist. But I still continue to be shocked daily at the extent to which these same 'news'papers revel in wilful misinformation in order to relentlessly promote the ideology/interests of their senior editors and owners. An utter disregard and contempt for their readers

I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

I have not personally used X/Twitter for some time now. It was already an unpleasant place prior to its takeover by Elon Musk but since his acceptance of hate speech and anonymous online abusers, it has become utterly unusable.

Great visit to RSPB's second best nature reserve #RSPBMinsmere, cracking views of a bittern climbing the reeds in front of North hide, which was then topped by an Otter crossing the frozen ditch in front of Bittern hide. Supporting cast of Marsh Harriers and a mini-murmuration of c.200 Siskins

Birding at Jerry's point today with highlights of 4 BN Grebe, 4 Goldeneye, 20+ RB Merganser, 15+ GC Grebe and a distant White-tailed Eagle over Goathorn @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @harbourbirds.bsky.social

Sanderling, Purple Sandpiper and Turnstone on a groyne at B'mouth Beach #crapbirdphotooftheday. I make an at least annual pilgrimage from Purbeck to try to see Purple Sandpiper and this is the first time I've succeeded! @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @harbourbirds.bsky.social @keasdenkate.bsky.social

St. Volodymyr’s Cathedral in Kyiv, right now. Have a happy Christmas time, folks. And thank you for supporting Ukraine all this time.

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I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities. Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...

Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇

Back in 1997, there were just 11 booming male Bitterns left in the UK – almost extinct. Thanks to conservation by @rspb.bsky.social and @naturalengland.bsky.social 283 booming males were recorded in 2024. Les Cater shares his story and stunning photos of these rare birds ⤵️

Today I went to RSPB Arne to hold my own, very low budget, Autumnwatch. Autumn was watched and, to an extent, heard and smelt...

Thanks @britentsoc.bsky.social for a great exhibition today, and congrats to @marshawards.bsky.social winners: @markgurn.bsky.social (weevils!), David Brown (moths!) and Laurence Clemons (tephritid flies!)

Lichen Running Spider at #RSPBArne today #Spiders @britishspiders.bsky.social

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Good news on Dorset Cirl Buntings continues to arrive. Early data from the breeding season confirms they are continuing to re-establish a population in the county. Please submit any outstanding records now. 🙏 In winter our focus switches to feeding flocks - please send us all sightings. 🙏

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Congratulations @penrhynbirder.bsky.social ,well deserved.

So many godwits in flight over Middlemere, RSPB Arne today. We thought they were spooked by a marsh harrier, but apparently, it was a peregrine. @harbourbirds.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social

Richard Tice - "Please welcome to the stage... Nathan Gill" So much for Tice's claim to have never met Nathan Gill.

The new European Butterfly Red List is published today, with worrying findings. Over 1/4 (28%) of Europe’s 442 species are threatened with extinction or are close to being so. The situation is far worse for our 148 endemic species, 40% are now threatened or nearly so www.bc-europe.eu/webpage.php?...

Yesterday, IUCN declared the Slender-billed Curlew to be extinct. How did we let this happen? What lessons are there for the future? WaderTales blog based on paper by Graeme Buchanan et al wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/12/12/l... #extinction #ornithology

20,000 new members have joined the Green Party in the past month. This is the Green surge. Want to be part of it? Join the Green Party today ⤵

Boris Johnson's only saving grace as a Prime Minister was his commitment to tackling Climate Change (imperfect as it was). But the Conservatives are now heading to a moronic position of accepting that Climate Change is an existential threat to humanity 1/2 www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...

My first and likely last Clouded Yellow of the year above Seacombe on the Jurassic Coast this afternoon. @dorsetbutterflies.bsky.social

184 years earlier than predicted, London has met the legal limits for toxic NO2 for the first time. This historic milestone proves that bold action like expanding ULEZ works, protecting children’s health and giving millions cleaner air to breathe.

Spotted Flycatcher and Willow Warbler still in the farm fields at #RSPBArne joined by a very smart Whinchat. @rspbengland.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @harbourbirds.bsky.social

UN Secretary-General unequivocal on what is needed from governments to tackle the climate crisis. Clear, concise, rooted in reality, and optimistic. The antithesis of the speech Trump gave to the UN yesterday. www.businessgreen.com/news/4519488...

Americans I am begging you to sort this out. Your mad racist uncle has shat himself in public again.

Two spotted flycatchers and a pied flycatcher in one old willow tree, with willow warbler, chiffchaff, swallows and 12 stonechats at #RSPBArne today. All making the most of the insects on the wing in today's warm weather @rspbengland.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @harbourbirds.bsky.social

Nice afternoon on rspb arnes shipstal trail watching an osprey attempting to fish from the hide, then on way back to the car, we had a very quick view of the wryneck at the Dumbledore trail 🪶 @harbourbirds.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

Sigh, here we go again... Dibden Bay is a SSSI, important for overwintering birds. #Solent

This was a massive distraction project, intended to draw attention away from the ongoing illegal killing on northern UK grouse moors. Maybe now NE & Defra will put their (our!) money where it really needs to go - on ramped up enforcement. #RaptorResearch raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/09/16/g...

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN commission of inquiry www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

5 Glossy Ibis at #RSPBArneMoors this afternoon, presumably the group that has been in the Frome Valley recently. Exciting to see them as we design breeding habitat that would be suitable for them in future! @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @harbourbirds.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social

It's such a novelty to see Republicans finally caring about a shooting at a school.