My first Redwings of the autumn leaving a roost near Blaydon cricket club this morning Autumn can now start

My favourite Jane Goodall quotes....so many, so to the point, so wise. How different the world would be if enough people listened to her.

“Where in the world is this allowed to happen?” From on the ground in Gaza, UNICEF Spokesman James Elder tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social about the worst things he’s seen — including children targeted by quadcopters and shot at American aid sites. Watch: zeteo.com/p/unicef-gaz...

🪶 We've posted this before, but there are probably a lot of people who could use it today. Take a minute to breathe with a Swainson's Thrush.

Important points 🦇👇

If you want some serious debate about where our country is heading Spoiler alert it’s not pretty But don’t just sit there saying nothing

Common Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) on the hunt and the prize #UKbirding #NEbirding

Was good to have a serious conversation about the rise of fascism & the Brexit dynamics that have twisted our immigration system, as well as cowardice from our media & our leaders on migration.

Important investigation at a time when both EU and UK governments are attacking nature conservation and planning laws. They claim nothing can be built because of frivolous nature protection laws. But the satellites tell a very different story. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Christ the silence on here on this is soul crushing. I was in a meeting today about the recognised problem of silence from white middle class scientists & environmentalists. There can be no environmental justice without social justice. Why is this so hard for so many educated privileged people?

The cynical gesture of Keir Starmer recognising a Palestinian state. The room applaud but when are we going to stop arming Israel who are murdering those same Palestinians?

Tyranny, genocide and now colonialism The ongoing agony of Gaza A stain on the global community A misjudgement by Starmer to support this

".. most plausible current hypothesis to explain this recent decline is.. climate-change-driven cooling of spring and early summer temperatures in west Greenland has severely suppressed reproductive success." "Climate mitigation adaptation measures are unlikely to reduce impacts in the short term."

New series Always a great intro to bats but it has also been a gateway drug to the dark side 🦇🤣

What have we come to? And it’s only going to get worse Vote Green

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This Buzzard was poisoned by a large dose of second generation rodenticide. I discovered it in a Dorset Bluebell wood this April. Please find some time today to complete the consultation. These poisons are such a clear and present danger to our wildlife.

We are a community of kindness and connectivity or we are less. If we can’t manifest this in our behaviours we fail ourselves as well as those around us.

"It’s now a running joke that every biologist in the world is studying the effects of climate change,” “Some of them just don’t know it yet.”

“the Environment Agency and Natural England are not “red tape” factories, as some would like you to believe. These institutions are there to ensure our rivers remain fishable, our air breathable, our countryside hums with wildlife, and our land resilient to floods” www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...

But a tree isn't limited to how it is useful to humans. Every tree is a home for wildlife, a warrior against climate change, a healer of the earth, a survivor of epochs, a story protector, a kind aunt and uncle, and a food bank for dozens of species in difficult times.

Aegopodium podagraria, Ground Elder, Invert Associates In flower from late spring to early summer, there are at least 27 species of invertebrate associated with Ground Elder, several of them favouring species of the family Apiaceae. Bilder ur Nordens Flora, Lindman, Carl Axel Magnus, 1901–1905

Horden news Great walk with @locustella.bsky.social Light passage of finches south dominated by Redpoll More GSWoodpecker today than the rest of year added together <5 Brown Shrike -much less

Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot

I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore. So I wrote a blog about ten things you can do *right now* to help defeat Farage, Musk, and rightwing populism. From scrutinising Reform councillors to demanding the UK Govt leave X - get involved: guyshrubsole.substack.com/p/ten-things...

Seems a good time to remind people of this great resource from the sound approach team #ukbirding soundapproach.co.uk/blogs/blog/f...

A mass walkout of the UN General Assembly as Netanyahu prepares to speak.

Birding in Orkney? Then tag your posts #BirdingOrkney and they'll be picked up by this Feed as well as the main Scottish and UK birding Feeds. Simples 😉

News just in The draw for the FIFA World Cup 2026 semi final has just taken place USA 🇺🇸 vs Mexico 🇲🇽 VII Israel 🇮🇱 Vs Canada 🇨🇦 The winners will do their pre tournament press conference tomorrow

Donny, you are out of your element.

Visiting Spurn this autumn? Please keep us upto date with your sightings using hashtag #spurnbirds

One of my favourite films. 10/10

Israel has committed & continues to commit genocide in Gaza There is a UN convention for exactly this kind of horror: the convention for the prevention & punishment of the crime of genocide What does refusal to act mean for the 🌎’s shared values of rule of law, democracy, human rights & dignity?

Great it’s happening But how long has this taken?

Comme il y a beaucoup de nouveaux arrivants, c'est le moment d'une nouvelle présentation ! Je suis chercheuse en biologie évolutive du développement et dans mon équipe, nous essayons de comprendre comment et par quels mécanismes les espèces (et surtout les chiroptères !! 🦇) se diversifient 👇🧵

Holy shit. Italy has sent a naval frigate to a flotilla of boats attempting to bring aid to the Gaza Strip www.dw.com/en/italy-sen...

Yellow-browed Warbler and Brambling in the Big Mound, Whitburn CP #NEbirding #UKbirding

Between 45 and 50 people met on the Kirk Green Broad Street Kirkwall Orkney on Saturday 20 September to show solidarity with the people of #Gaza. The people attending the vigil included islanders and visitors. For some it was their first time attending the Vigil. youtu.be/0CyLlSui5Bg?...

Don't be shocked. Key scientists have confirmed that all those greenhouses gases still going into the atmosphere from oil, coal, and natural gas are indeed a threat to human health (not to speak of our tenure on Planet Earth).

tRump: Europe should bomb the hell out of geology. There is no place for its science based society

At the UN today Trump called climate change the ‘greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world.’ Congrats to the clever plotters for enlisting the planet’s glaciers, oceans and forests in their scheme.

🥙 🍉 "For Palestinians, #food has been a means to prevail." "Handing down recipes in spite of a decades-long history of erasure and dispossession is a way of resistance and for traditions to endure." 📖 Read this powerful piece by food writer Samar Awaad www.commondreams.org/opinion/pale... #Gaza

I really need to know more about fungi But in this knowledge gap I can appreciate this spectacular show at work yesterday

Hoop, hoop, hoop. Just sayin'.

Exactly this. The UK Labour government can’t recognise the state of Palestines and leave it there. It requires action now to defend that state and their right to be. Starmer and Labour need to stop enabling the genocide and actively take steps against Israel to stop it. Otherwise, what’s the point?

Feeling this one again! 😀🦇 We need to do a tally of our outreach events & numbers of people reached for 2025! It has been busy!

Farage Brexit Boats not a great fan of Ed but he hit it right out of the park with this interview 👏👏

The truth: we need migration. The problem: too many politicians are terrified to say it. Why? They're led by a) toxicity of the charlatans & b) wealthy media organisations who demand these useful distractions rather than us talking about inequality. Reject it. Draw the line.

The cruelty did not start 700 days ago, it’s been nearly a century of a brutal settler colonial project. - The UN’s Francesca Albanese speaking at the Together for #Palestine event @ Wembley. m.youtube.com/watch?v=OkQu... #ceasefire #FreePalestine #T4P 🇵🇸