need more of this exact thing. stupid clankers absolutely eating shit or spazzing out

It's probably time European journalists wrapped their heads around Heat Index (temp + relative humidity). In high humidity, sweating is less efficient, making heat worse, e.g.: Experiencing 35°C in London UK (70% RH) is more dangerous than 50°C in Phoenix Arizona (15% RH)

A beautiful weekend on the Yorkshire coast, Bempton and Flamborough being the star locations for seabirds and the Yorkshire Belle trip with bow-riding dolphins was just superb #yorkshirebirding

Just a relaxing afternoon in Bridlington harbour #dolphins #yorkshirebelle

The struggle is real

this week marks 10 years since "milkshake duck" was coined

💥 In Donetsk region, birds are building nests from drone fiber optics.

Dear BBC journalists, you really do not have to 'debate' every far-right talking point that pops up on your X feed. It is not "deeply contentious" to suggest non-white people can't be English. It's racist. The word you're looking for is racist

Would it be okay to promote my zine again? Made by me, just me, entirely me! Photographed by me, layout designed by me, fulfilled by... me! Available for £10 including second class postage. UK only I'm afraid www.mariegardiner.co.uk/zines-and-pr... #Photography

Few people ever find a niche passion that intersects with a niche talent and at an age when they’re unapologetic about both. Before the world says “you should be embarrassed.” He’s gonna end up being a world renowned ornithological researcher or educator.

A visit to NWT Hickling today: flyover crane, distant hobbies, hundreds of painted ladies and several swallowtails, including this one with a chunk taken out of the tail wings. @norfolkbirding

Some excellent invertebrates on the wing and on the water at @rspb.bsky.social Strumpshaw Fen at the moment, and my first view of a Strumpshaw fen raft spider (with an egg sac) in the meadow.

Asparagus #totp youtu.be/ozB9fD48pFk?...

Green Broadbill (aka lesser green broadbill) one of the birds I really love; came from the montane forest for a long bath on an extremely hot & humid day. #greenbroadbill #broadbills #birds #birdwatching #wildlife

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A wonderful spring walk around East Wretham Heath last weekend and my first view of a tree pipit, as well as plenty of woodlarks, siskins, nuthatches and bank voles scampering through the leaf litter. #norfolkbirding #Birdsseenin2026 #birds

Can't believe the Purple Emperor is only #14th place! The Imperial Majesty lobby obvs hasn't got going yet. Slightly sad there are so many gorgeous brown butterflies at the bottom of britainsfavouritebutterfly.co.uk poll. Remember, a vote for the Brown Argus or Black Hairstreak is NEVER wasted!

Apologies in advance that I will be quoting this dog for the rest of my life.

Repeat after me: Green Alkanet is not a weed.....

We call this design 'Kicking Random Man Up The Arse.' €5 from every sale goes directly to the World Food Programme's Palestine appeal >>> https://waterfordwhispers.shop/products/arse-kicked

That's not a hedgehog... #fox

Remember this brave Ukrainian lady? After a year apart, 77-year-old Antonina Khorunzha - evacuated by Ukrainian Defenders from a shell-shattered road in the Lyman direction using a ground robotic system - has finally reunited with her granddaughter.

Iron Man is a Fe male.

Kelling Heath was full of garden warbler this week, with distant Dartford warblers, stonechat and woodlark. No adders this time but first green hairstreaks for the year and these nomad bees exploring the mining bee holes along the main path to the rail crossing - anyone able to ID? #norfolkbirding

These majestic animals should not be killed for tradition. Share if you agree!

We're very proud to have received the Tripadvisor Travellers' Choice Award 2026! Thanks to all of our visitors for writing such wonderful reviews, and a big thanks to the volunteers who dedicate their time and skills in engaging with visitors and creating this special museum.

What a superb and beautiful show, some brilliant birds and the relationship between the two of them is so warm and supportive

Wonderful to find several adders on our walk today on the North Norfolk heaths. #adders

Well, happy thrremony at tremony at the liremony at the libraremony at the library day to all who celebrate

Human: I get pleasure from smoking. Doctor: It's killing you. Human: But I get pleasure from smoking. Human: I get pleasure from feeding the birds all year. RSPB: Can you cut it down as it's killing some birds? Human: But I get pleasure from feeding the birds all year.

Cuckoo at Strumpshaw tonight, along with reeling grasshopper warblers, reed, willow and sedge warblers too. At least two bitterns booming and one out in the open in the left cut at Fen Hide #norfolkbirding

A reminder that this joke works on virtually anyone if you do the accent. You: What's a pirate's favorite letter? Them: Arrrrrrrrrr? You: *entirely different voice* Ye'd think so, but his first love be the C!!!

Out with mum for the evening check on the new lambs born this afternoon on the farm in Winteringham, picked up a unfamiliar call outside the barn only to discover a corn bunting doing his 'jangling of keys' song from the telephone wires. #lincsbirding

A bad day for the enemies of the rule of law is a good day for everyone else.

Brilliant first visit to Spurn and Kilnsea Wetlands, at least 10 wheatear and whimbrel by the sea hide, six yellow wagtails with the highland cows, and masses of other waders along the shoreline even with the strong winds #spurn #yorkshirebirding

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

The timing is coincidental, but @atomcentral.bsky.social has just released a stunning restoration of “Power of Decision”—a once secret 1957 USAF film showing how a nuclear war would be managed from start to finish, perhaps to help SAC officers and airmen prepare for the worst/last day of their jobs.

This quote from Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell has been in my head the last few days

DucklingWatch The DucklingWatch citizen science project, led by Hannah Coburn at the University of Essex, returns for its second year. Submitting your records of Mallard ducklings will help improve understanding of duckling survival rates and drivers of population trends.

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

Surely I’m not the only one who thinks this whenever they see a map of The Strait Of Hormuz on the news?

This has been the GOP's "starve-the-beast" scheme for nearly 50 years. Meanwhile, millions suffer and struggle to get ahead as the rich get richer. See the problem here?

2 minutes in and already in awe of the photography skills on display here @whistlingjoe.bsky.social

A brilliant afternoon at NWT Hickling with 8 cranes circling overhead, bitterns booming as well as one strutting in front of Bittern Hide, and an adder on the path to the Mill #birdsseenin2026 #birds #norfolkbirding

Ryan Gosling Recalls Preparing For ‘Project Hail Mary’ By Consulting Katy Perry https://theonion.com/ryan-gosling-recalls-preparing-for-project-hail-mary-by-consulting-katy-perry/

The median age in Britain is about 40. The median Briton has not experienced sustained economic growth in their adult life time.

A beautiful morning at RSPB Strumpshaw Fen, first sand martin, snipe and green sandpiper sighting for the year, trees full of birdsong but still not heard or seen a bittern yet. Five lizards along sandy wall, plus a drinker moth caterpillar. #norfolkbirding #birdsseenin2026 #birds

Sanderlings weren't the only things struggling with the wind on Titchwell beach yesterday, just missed the long-tailed ducks and the Sandwich terns, but good views of the scaup and the 'tangle' of knot. Nice to see the tawny owl has a partner too. #norfolkbirding #birds #birdsseenin2026