@wordsanddeeds.bsky.social
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Writer and academic proofreader ๐ And birder ๐
#AmWriting
#KidLit
#YA
I live by the river
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UK Wild Otter Trust ๐ฆฆ
3 days ago
BLACK FRIDAY SALE! ๐ท๏ธ GOLD OTTER ADOPTION ยฃ5! ๐ฆฆ FRIDAY, SATURDAY AND SUNDAY ONLY! โ SHOP NOW -
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The new
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robin is getting bolder - maybe one day it will come to my hand like the other one did โค๏ธ
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6 days ago
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Stayed fairly local given the bitterly cold conditions today:
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and Growing Sudley walled garden. Birding highlight: a peregrine keeping watch at the church.
12 days ago
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Anthony Moser
3 months ago
I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.
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I Am An AI Hater
I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.
https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html
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Big Green Books
12 days ago
IT'S WEDNESDAY! It's
#buyastrangerabook
day. The grooviest of all the days. I'll give out TWO books. FOR FREE. If you'd like one, let me know. Also, if you'd like to
#BuyAStrangerABook
too, let me know. It's a thing! Look.
www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...
UK only.
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Buy A Stranger A Book. #buyastrangerabook - Stuff you might like... - Big Green Bookshop. @biggreenbooks on Twitter. Cheese fan. My Mum says hi.
The Big Green Bookshop an independent online bookshop in selling awesome titles by awesome authors to awesome people
https://www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-might-like-/buy-a-stranger-a-book-buyastrangerabook/prod_997.html
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The Revelator
16 days ago
"If every birder in the United States gave up eating chicken, more than 2 billion chickens would be spared this year alone."
https://therevelator.org/birding-blind-spot/
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Birdingโs Tragic Blind Spot โข The Revelator
Humans love to watch birds in nature. So why do we ignore the lives of the birds destined for our plates?
https://therevelator.org/birding-blind-spot/
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A beautiful morning for a circular walk from the farm ๐ Birding highlights: grey partridge, sparrowhawk, kestrel, buzzard, lapwing flock. Also rescued an
#allotment
robin trapped in next door's fruit cage - probably gone in there yesterday and they'd not noticed, so just as well I popped in!
14 days ago
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Given the heavy rain, volunteer gardening at Growing Sudley this afternoon consisted of joining in with the Stroke and Brain Injury Group's crafting activities, and admiring these home-grown dahlias ๐ Newcomers welcome to the gardening session each Weds, 2-4pm.
19 days ago
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A great chance to view the amazing transformation of the old changing rooms next to the Growing Sudley walled garden and Sudley House - now a beautiful space for therapists to rent for their practice.
#therapy
#wellness
#Liverpool
20 days ago
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Loving the statement sail unfurled at Liverpool Marina this morning!
21 days ago
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TrevorTheBotanist
26 days ago
Major revision of
#GBRedList
of plants published today shows 25% of our native & archaeophyte flora threatened with extinction. Many iconic widespread species classified as threatened for first time including Betony, Marsh Marigold, Devilโs-bit Scabious and Harebell. Another wake-up call for action!
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Big Green Books
26 days ago
IT'S WEDNESDAY! It's
#buyastrangerabook
day. The best of all the days. I'll give out TWO books. FOR FREE. If you'd like one, let me know. Also, if you'd like to
#BuyAStrangerABook
too, let me know. It's a thing! Look.
www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi...
UK only
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Buy A Stranger A Book. #buyastrangerabook - Stuff you might like... - Big Green Bookshop. @biggreenbooks on Twitter. Cheese fan. My Mum says hi.
The Big Green Bookshop an independent online bookshop in selling awesome titles by awesome authors to awesome people
https://www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-might-like-/buy-a-stranger-a-book-buyastrangerabook/prod_997.html
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A glorious autumn day spent in my favourite place - the farm where I can now volunteer again after my unwelcome break (ho, ho), and the surrounding fields ๐ Birding highlights: sparrowhawk, kestrel, buzzard, covey of 9 grey partridge, redwing, mipits (and a bonus great white egret yesterday).
29 days ago
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Walked through Hale Park to the Estuary earlier. Highlights: a few skeins of pinkies, pair of wigeon on one of the ponds, small flock of curlew, buzzard, sparrowhawk. And a mystery raptor that might possibly have been a ringtail hen harrier (one was spotted locally on 24/10 last year ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ)
#UKbirding
about 1 month ago
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The Growing Sudley garden looked splendid this afternoon during the open garden volunteering session, and there was even fresh produce for sale (and a bonus tin of calendula balm made by B4 Biodiversity and the Stroke and Brain Injury Group) ๐
about 1 month ago
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Enjoyed the lovely autumnal colours in Stockton's Wood this morning with
@birderjack.bsky.social
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about 1 month ago
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wild-life-ranger
about 1 month ago
we look at another
#plant
#grassland
#meadow
plant in the
#Honeysuckle
Family
#Caprifolaceae
known as
#Field
#Scabious
of
#GypsyRose
(
#Knautia
arvensis), so grab your boots camera
#photography
join me
#photography
#botany
#nature
to a trip to the meadow to look at Natures Cafe
youtu.be/4dypN9q6lmk
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Had a very brief walk around the Southern Grasslands after swimming/hydrotherapy. Even the birds thought it was too windy and rainy to be out! Highlights were a kestrel and five mipits.
about 1 month ago
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Lovely to see the marina kingfisher today, and a juvenile little grebe. Plus a peregrine chased by a flock of parakeets over the
#allotment
this morning.
#UKbirding
about 1 month ago
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reposted by
Whale and Dolphin Conservation (International)
about 2 months ago
There has been a 97% drop in harbour porpoise sightings off North Wales. Scientists fear climate change and shifting fish populations are driving them away from key habitats near Bardsey Island. This alarming decline shows we must act fast to safeguard our seas.
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Walked down Within Way this morning before the rain came. Highlights: one ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ golden plover, little egrets, a few wigeon, lapwing flock, large linnet flock, skylarks, mipits, reed buntings, raven, buzzard and a few pinkies.
#UKbirding
about 1 month ago
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reposted by
Barn Owl Trust
about 1 month ago
Have you ever wondered what you can do to help Barn Owls? ๐ค Check out our guide on how to encourage wild Barn Owls in your area ๐คฉ
www.barnowltrust.org.uk/barn-owl-fac...
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RSPB
about 1 month ago
The world's deadliest wind farm for birds must be stopped.โผ๏ธ We need clean energy, but not like this. Add your voice:
seabird.org/cancel-berwi...
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Good news for barn owls:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#UKbirding
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Barn owl numbers 'booming' in west Cheshire thanks to volunteers
A 30-year conservation project has led to a
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0mxwke7wr7o
about 1 month ago
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Enjoyed a walk around Speke & Garston Coastal Reserve with
@birderjack.bsky.social
during what turned out to be a ๐ morning. Highlights: a very urban GWE (beneath the silver globe), stonechats, kestrel, buzzard, skeins of pinkies. Then found a humongous mushroom on the
#allotment
.
#UKbirding
about 1 month ago
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WRI Climate
about 2 months ago
What does crossing 1.5ยฐC really mean for our planet, our economies, and our lives? And why is it still possible to change course? ๐ก๏ธ๐ Watch this quick explainer โ then dive deeper into the data and pathways forward. Read the full breakdown:
go.wri.org/criticalwarm...
#WRIExplains
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reposted by
Chris Hassall
about 2 months ago
I have a
#PhD
project advertised on "Hacking Urban Habitability: A Data-Driven Network Approach to Build Thriving Cities for All Species" led by
@rogercre.bsky.social
. It should be a LOT of fund and would suit a creative graduate who can think in space and systems
yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/hac...
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Hacking Urban Habitability: A Data-Driven Network Approach to Build Thriving Cities for All Species - Yorkshire Environmental Sciences โข Doctoral Training Network
Reimagine our cities as thriving, equitable ecosystems for all life, pioneer a novel network-driven framework for urban habitability at the critical interface of ecological resilience and human wellbe...
https://yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/hacking-urban-habitability-a-data-driven-network-approach-to-build-thriving-cities-for-all-species/
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Watching the antics of the mute swans, I noticed a lovely female wheatear (barely discernible in video) catching insects amongst the vegetation. The marina's 2nd of autumn, briefly joined by a grey wagtail. Once again, the council not spraying here ATM has paid off for the wildlife.
#UKbirding
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about 2 months ago
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Peregrine, ravens, kestrel, curlews, little egrets, LTTs, lots of mipits and singing robins the highlights during a brief visit to Hale Marsh at high tide.
#UKbirding
about 2 months ago
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Liverpool Marina mute swans enjoying a brisk bathe. The two cygnets have been practising their wing flapping ๐ค๐ค
#UKbirding
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about 2 months ago
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UK Wild Otter Trust ๐ฆฆ
2 months ago
This morning, our Founder and CEO Dave Webb is sharing some difficult news. โOn September 18th, we were given four monthsโ notice to leave our home and six months' notice to dismantle and move all otter centre materials, animals, and associated equipment.
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Save Our Charity: Statement from CEO Dave Webb - UK Wild Otter Trust
โIโm sharing difficult news on behalf of the UK Wild Otter Trust โ news that has left me and our volunteers devastated. As some supporters know, my wife and I [โฆ]
https://ukwildottertrust.org/2025/10/02/save-our-charity-statement-from-ceo-dave-webb/
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The kingfisher is having a good morning at Liverpool Marina. Pity the video doesn't do him justice!
#UKbirding
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2 months ago
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Had a great morning at Speke & Garston Coastal Reserve with
@birderjack.bsky.social
๐ Walked 3 miles for 1st time since accident in May (am exhausted now!) Birding highlights: kestrel, buzzards, sparrowhawk, stonechats, mipits, chiffchaff, swallows, ringed plover, golden plover, etc.
#UKbirding
2 months ago
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Gave an informal talk on autumn bird migration to the UK to the Stroke and Brain Injury Group at Growing Sudley last week, and was given these lovely home-grown dahlias in return ๐
2 months ago
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reposted by
Julian Hughes
2 months ago
Interesting read about timing and distance of migration by Common Scoters. Also confirms important role of Irish Sea/Liverpool Bay for Icelandic breeding population as well as those from eastern Europe that are vismigged across northern England each spring and autumn.
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Me: "Ah, how peaceful it is here." Canada geese: "We'll see about that." Also, Cetti's, 2 ravens, 6 buzzards, kestrel, little egrets, dunlin and redshank flocks, etc., and my first pinkies of the autumn. Down Within Way.
#UKbirding
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2 months ago
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Kingfisher (and mallard) at Liverpool Marina this morning ๐
#UKbirding
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2 months ago
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Decided on a whim to walk up to Fairy Glen rather than round Sefton Park lake, and was lucky enough to see the kingfisher ๐ฉต (Obviously not in the photo, but there is a grey heron lurking in an unusual place!) Lots of swallows and house martins hunting over the fields, too.
#UKbirding
3 months ago
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Not a great photo, but when I saw the bird I was convinced it was a feral pigeon-woodpigeon hybrid based on the the head, beak and bulk. A quick Google suggests such interbreeding doesn't occur, though. Any thoughts
@willjsmith.bsky.social
#UKbirding
3 months ago
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Spent a lovely few hours on the
#allotment
, mainly sitting and taking it all in. Singing chiffchaff, sparrowhawk chased by a crow, screeching jay, GSW, blue and great tits, blackbird, robin; still lots of pollinators enjoying the field scabious; butterflies and dragonfly ๐
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reposted by
Emma Cameron
3 months ago
Butterflies need our help. If youโre in the UK please sign and share. ๐ฆ
@savebutterflies.bsky.social
#pesticides
butterflyemergency.good.do/rescue-missi...
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Join me in supporting the Remove Pesticides from UK Shelves Campaign
Join the Butterfly Rescue Missionย Sign our open letter to UK retailers, asking them to remove synthetic pesticides from sale, for a wilder, butterfly-filled futureย forย generations to come.ย The UK ...
https://butterflyemergency.good.do/rescue-mission/stop-the-sale-pesticides/
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reposted by
Big Green Books
3 months ago
I have another
#buyastrangerabook
day offer to tell you about.
@61jab.bsky.social
is offering to buy a book for a child, up to ยฃ10! So if there's something you have in mind (anything at all, not just what's on my website), get in touch! UK only
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Limped down Within Way to the dogleg and back this morning, and was lucky enough to see a male marsh harrier ๐ Other highlights: kestrel, buzzard, raven, grey partridge family, swallows and house martins.
3 months ago
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@davidho.bsky.social
You might like this article, too:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Drugs, smuggling and abductions: inside the fast and furious world of pigeon racing in Taiwan
Low regulation and high stakes mean Taiwanese pigeon racing is awash with cheating โ but efforts are afoot to clean up the sport
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/29/pigeon-racing-taiwain-ntwnfb
3 months ago
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A bittersweet image: I walked past this field weekly before my accident and it was fairly barren; drove past it yesterday morning for the 1st time in 4 months and it was full of ๐ป๐ป How lovely - but even lovelier to have watched in anticipation as they grew. Still, at least I was outside, right?!
3 months ago
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Norfolk Ponds Project
3 months ago
The magic of a resurrected
#ghostpond
just 3 years on. Nearly 30 wetland plants & Great Crested Newt where there was ploughsoil. This lost
#pond
was filled in >100 years ago but still had a viable seedbank 1.5 m below the field surface. The most successful form of ecological restoration known?
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Disappointingly, the phone camera won't focus ATM, so here's a poor video of my 1st hornet mimic hoverfly, seen on the
#allotment
field scabious this morning. Info
@the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social
-
www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-exp...
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3 months ago
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Nice to spend time in nature at the
#allotment
earlier and start taming the jungle of annual weeds that have sprung up during my enforced absence. The field scabious was proving popular with bees and hoverflies, there were dragonflies around, but not many birds (apart from woodpigeon, obviously).
3 months ago
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Well, the Victorian
#YA
novel is out for a
#betaread
, and it even has a (possible) title - clue in the photo ๐๐ฟ
#BookSky
4 months ago
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A great find during my first afternoon volunteering
@nationaltrust.org.uk
Speke Hall - still
#birding
even though I can't do the walking (yet) ๐
4 months ago
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