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The new #allotment robin is getting bolder - maybe one day it will come to my hand like the other one did ❤️

Stayed fairly local given the bitterly cold conditions today: #allotment and Growing Sudley walled garden. Birding highlight: a peregrine keeping watch at the church.

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.

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.

"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/

A beautiful morning for a circular walk from the farm 🌞 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!

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 😍 Newcomers welcome to the gardening session each Weds, 2-4pm.

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

Loving the statement sail unfurled at Liverpool Marina this morning!

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, Devil’s-bit Scabious and Harebell. Another wake-up call for action!

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

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 💚 Birding highlights: sparrowhawk, kestrel, buzzard, covey of 9 grey partridge, redwing, mipits (and a bonus great white egret yesterday).

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 🤷🏻‍♀️) #UKbirding

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) 💐

Enjoyed the lovely autumnal colours in Stockton's Wood this morning with @birderjack.bsky.social 🍂

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

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.

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

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.

Walked down Within Way this morning before the rain came. Highlights: one 🤷🏻‍♀️ golden plover, little egrets, a few wigeon, lapwing flock, large linnet flock, skylarks, mipits, reed buntings, raven, buzzard and a few pinkies. #UKbirding

Have you ever wondered what you can do to help Barn Owls? 🤔 Check out our guide on how to encourage wild Barn Owls in your area 🤩 www.barnowltrust.org.uk/barn-owl-fac... 🦉

The world's deadliest wind farm for birds must be stopped.‼️ We need clean energy, but not like this. Add your voice: seabird.org/cancel-berwi...

Good news for barn owls: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #UKbirding

Enjoyed a walk around Speke & Garston Coastal Reserve with @birderjack.bsky.social during what turned out to be a 🌞 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

What does crossing 1.5°C really mean for our planet, our economies, and our lives? And why is it still possible to change course? 🌡️🌍 Watch this quick explainer — then dive deeper into the data and pathways forward. Read the full breakdown: go.wri.org/criticalwarm... #WRIExplains

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...

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

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

Liverpool Marina mute swans enjoying a brisk bathe. The two cygnets have been practising their wing flapping 🤍🤍 #UKbirding

This morning, our Founder and CEO Dave Webb is sharing some difficult news. “On September 18th, we were given four months’ notice to leave our home and six months' notice to dismantle and move all otter centre materials, animals, and associated equipment.

The kingfisher is having a good morning at Liverpool Marina. Pity the video doesn't do him justice! #UKbirding

Had a great morning at Speke & Garston Coastal Reserve with @birderjack.bsky.social 🌞 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

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 💐

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.

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

Kingfisher (and mallard) at Liverpool Marina this morning 😊 #UKbirding

Decided on a whim to walk up to Fairy Glen rather than round Sefton Park lake, and was lucky enough to see the kingfisher 🩵 (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

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

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 💚

Butterflies need our help. If you’re in the UK please sign and share. 🦋 @savebutterflies.bsky.social #pesticides butterflyemergency.good.do/rescue-missi...

I have another #buyastrangerabook day offer to tell you about. @61jab.bsky.social is offering to buy a book for a child, up to £10! So if there's something you have in mind (anything at all, not just what's on my website), get in touch! UK only

Limped down Within Way to the dogleg and back this morning, and was lucky enough to see a male marsh harrier 🌞 Other highlights: kestrel, buzzard, raven, grey partridge family, swallows and house martins.

@davidho.bsky.social You might like this article, too: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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 🌻🌻 How lovely - but even lovelier to have watched in anticipation as they grew. Still, at least I was outside, right?!

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?

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...

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).

Well, the Victorian #YA novel is out for a #betaread, and it even has a (possible) title - clue in the photo 😉🌿 #BookSky

A great find during my first afternoon volunteering @nationaltrust.org.uk Speke Hall - still #birding even though I can't do the walking (yet) 😁