I’m old enough to remember when birding media & the RSPB / BirdLife endorsed birdfair ran articles & held events arguing against low-carbon birding. Virtue-signalling cyclists, carbon police, capitalist lackeys (yeah, me too 🤯🙄) etc Don’t hear that any more. Keep doing your best folks! 👍👍👍

Some thoughts on the unique and irreplaceable Vjosa-Narta ecosystem at the heart of the #flamingorevolution in Albania right now. Petition against the destruction of the Vjosa-Narta here: c.org/R76Q28MSZY

What an angry thunder storm is brewing up here. Going to make getting the Audiomoths back a bit tricky 😱

There is no normal with climate change. That’s the point. It will simply keep getting worse until we stop burning fossil fuels.

New data on insect pollinators show a dramatic decline in hoverflies across Great Britain between 2017–2024. 📉 Around one third reduction in abundance & number of hoverfly species recorded as part of @pomscheme.bsky.social www.ceh.ac.uk/press/new-da... 1/ @jncc.bsky.social 🧪

I’ve been playing with the BirdNET integration in Kaleidoscope, and it’s pulled out some lovely detections of Tawny Owls. The first is the typical twit-twoo of a duetting couple. The second is a more ghostly courtship call. No wonder it’s alarming the Blackbirds (sound on)! @wildlifeacoustics.com

Israel deliberately targeting Gaza children to commit genocide, UN inquiry finds

🦇#GunaiKurnaiCountry and it's bat-o-clock! Turn the sound up, you need to hear this

and a wee bit of video of the Woodcock with chicks in tow! #highlandbirds 🪶

UN Human Rights Council: "Israel continues to commit genocide and other atrocity crimes by deliberately targeting Palestinian children" www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

#SummerSolstice sunrise in the Solent 😌 The coolest it'll be for some time... Curlew calling - I hear by declare autumn had begun! 😅 #LowCarbonBirding

🦇 another for the shopping list me thinks

Extinction capital of the so called first world www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

#GunaikurnaiCountry is wild on the river tonight! Turn the sound up, you need to hear this! It's the tree friends off on the night shift

⭕️ Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says Israeli attacks on Nabatiyeh in southern Lebanon have turned parts of the region into a “death trap,” w/ civilians trapped under bombardment & rescue teams unable to safely reach them. MSF said 25 people killed & 37 wounded were brought to Najdeh Al-Shaabiyeh...

Happy #Baturday!

Mona Khalil, Lebanon’s most well-known sea turtle conservationist, died of her wounds today after being injured by an Israeli strike I feel sick

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List of Israeli airstrikes since Israel agreed to another ceasefire, an couple of hours ago (Local times)

“The biggest insult to the memory of the Holocaust is not denying it, but using it an excuse to justify the genocide of the Palestinian people.” - Norman Finkelstein

Anyone seeing a sign of an international boycott 🤔

Totally thrilled to be championing the gorgeous wee Soprano Pipistrelle 🦇 Thank you @naturechampions.bsky.social and @batconservation.bsky.social

A great backgrounder webinar on the (global) issue of bats and windpower given by Dr. Winnifred Frick of @batcon.org We are all in agreement that there needs to be legislation protecting migratory bats. Protective measures need to be deployed (yesterday!)🦇 youtu.be/Qr4hQc1auak?...

Hoping this modelled scenario isn’t even close 🔥🔥🔥

Since the ceasefire was announced in October 2025, 265 Palestinian children have been killed across Gaza. During a period supposedly defined by restraint and protection, a child has been killed, on average, every single day for more than eight months. www.unicef.org/press-releas...

🦇 #BatsInArt #PreciousBats #Jewellery #Japanese #ShochikusaiYuho Shochikusai Yuho (1868 - 1936) BATS OBIDOME, late 19th / early 20th century Sash clip, wood

In new webinar recording, Winifred Frick from @batcon.org shares evidence, guidance and resources on how wind energy projects can reduce risks to bats 🦇 As wind energy expands, migratory species must be part of the equation when building climate solutions. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr4h...

Read the 🧵 but warming less slowly due to melting of Greenlands ice Not a good position to find ourselves in But hey ‘don’t look up’ 😬

The government has just advised businesses not to trade with illegal Israeli settlements. But with no consequences for businesses that refuse to comply, this is a cop out. We need a complete ban on trade with illegal settlements, and sanctions targeting the illegal occupation. Share if you agree.

🦇 This warm weather is perfect for being out at twilight with friends and family while taking part in the Sunset Survey. Suitable for everyone everywhere and an enjoyable way to watch bats hunt insects in your garden or local green spot: www.bats.org.uk/our-work/nat...

🌳This death of the Major Oak is tragic. 🌲But it joins a community of ancient oaks from Sherwood that were all killed in the 30s - 60s when Corsican Pine was planted throughout the area. 👎We saddened by an individual death, but but un-moved by ecocide! www.bbc.com/news/article...

Do you remember 'All Eyes on Rafah'? This is what Rafah looks like now, 2 years later. The IDF invaded Rafah in June 2024 and systematically destroyed everything that sustained life. "Israel" is incompatible with humanity. 💔💔💔💔🤬

BRW22 singing. 2nd change, I AM SO HAPPY! This is exactly what I wanted. Thats how loud he sounds 1 meter away! Recorder is inside the yellow like flower. 1h and 47 minutes of banger!! I stood still 2h near him if he decides to relocate. Luckily didnt!! #birds #nightsingers2026 #flackoweasel

Thats how BRW22 sings! They go for hours like this. Most of the time they are singing from same place for hours, thats how I get the long recordings! Platinum level important !! Season is very to its end so every new bird I hear is that important level!!! #birds #nightsingers2026 #flackoweasel

Over 19,000 people have signed our petition demanding the UK government investigate the activities of British nationals who have served for Israel amid the Gaza genocide. You can add your name here: 👉 declassifieduk.org/sign

The lovely variation in colour and form within this Dorset population of Pyramidal Orchids (Anacamptis pyramidalis) #orchid #wildflowers #dorset

Redshank calling out over the Aln Estuary.

Happy 90th birthday to Ken Loach, the father of social realism! Here's our little tribute: five film reviews, two docs about the filmmaker (incl. our very own The Bad Patriots), two interviews with the man, and an article about how Cathy Come Home changed history! dmovies.org/tag/ken-loach/

Purple Emperor had a good year in Norfolk in 2025. It will be interesting to see if they expand their range further this summer. Could be on the wing now. #savebutterflies 📷 Iain Leach BC

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Tuesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

We have a family of Wrens - four squeaky fledglings and (probably) mum trying to keep them all fed. Seems male Wrens keep busy building new nests, and courting other females! 🪶🐡 #NEbirding

Men who commit this kind of violence with this kind of rhetoric are not protecting women and girls; they are trying to legislate which men have the right to harm women and girls (and of course it's men like them and not those other men).

"... when innocent children are burned out of their beds ... it is a pogrom. Just like the Nazi pogroms of the 1930s. Nigel Farage’s cut-price Kristallnacht. And its perpetrators should be dealt with at least as harshly as a pensioner holding up a humorous sign saying “Plasticine Action”."

Rayan Abu al-Ajeen was being carried in Gaza when both were shot by Israeli forces on Sunday, family says.

Our croplands produce enough calories to feed 14.5 billion people! BUT 40% of the calories go to livestock — who produce just 5% of our calories, while making 15% of all planet-heating pollution. drawdown.org/insights/we-... Precision fermentation lets us change the math, and feed more people.

Extraction for housebuilding continues apace within the local SSSI. Someone should start a petition. 😉 House Martins Lower Halstow #KentNature

We would love to receive any reports of White-letter Hairstreaks. They are a hard species to find but we feel they may be under recorded. Populations were badly effected by Dutch Elm disease as it feeds exclusively on that tree but some Elm does remain mostly in hedgerows. 📷 Iain Leach BC