Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 22 Durham Cathedral Artist: SRBadmin

A Wren exploring one of several roost sites in the log shed. #ukwildlife #wrens 🦉

Shortest Day Bathing... 🦉

A trip to a rather dreich Broughty Ferry today - 21/12/25. Redpoll, Bullfinch, Oystercatcher & Common Gull... #BirdingScotland

Robin by Smug, Glasgow

Mandarin Ducks, P&K #birds #birdingscotland

A leaked draft of legislation for MPAs that nearly passed in 2024 indicates that the government is taking a minimalist approach with low ambition for restoration of marine life. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...

At the edge of the wood a large charm of Goldfinches - 30/40 birds - were enthusiastically feeding on the immature male catkins of Silver Birch. It was poor light but it's interesting to build up your knowledge of what the birds are feeding on throughout the seasons. #NaturalBirdFoods #Ukwildlife 🦉

Pleased to get news that the colour-ringed Bar-tailed Godwit I saw on Barra last Friday was ringed on the Dutch island of Griend in Nov '24 and seen there again in August. This is the first Barwit from this scheme to be seen in the Outer Hebrides. #birdingscotland

Woodcock pottering about in the road at Scurrival today: numbers on Barra have been lower than usual so far this season, but maybe they'll pick up if we get a cold spell. #birdingscotland #birds

Nice photo this morning #fox

Highlight at Cley this morning was a woodcock in-off the sea, pursued by a marsh harrier. Supporting cast included a very obliging jack snipe and kingfisher, plus three stonechats. A peregrine beat the place up in full attack mode, before flying off and spooking 2000 golden plovers over Blakeney.

Solstice greetings. The shortest day grows to a close with fresh snow on Bynack More. #solstice #cairngorms

Mosses aside, there are at least 4 different species of epiphytic plants on less than metre of this birch tree. From top down: 1. Polypody fern 2. Broad buckler fern 3. Wood sorrel 4. Hay-scented buckler fern This is rainforest.

Lovely morning around Abberton reservoir west end. Smew, Goosander, Goldeneye, Red Crested Pochard, Slavonian Grebe, Little Stint, Ruff, Ringed Plovers were the best bits. #UKBirding #EssexBirds

Day twenty of #ArtAdventCalendar Here’s a pair of miniature woodcock (made out of clay) reading all about themselves in my Observer’s Book of Birds.

🚨Hoylake beach update🚨 After a LONG six years, we’re finally seeing a light at the end of the tunnel!! An agreement has finally been reached between @NaturalEngland and @WirralCouncil which means around 2% of the 41ha of vegetated foreshore at Hoylake will be cleared.

So last Rattray one for now. On 20th October this year I found a nightingale at Rattray. Around an 8th for Aberdeenshire and first since 2007. Then as my photos hit the various channels it was identified as an Eastern Nightingale. 2nd for Scotland and 4th for Britain. #BirdingScotland #RareBirdsUK

Dec 17. Bird walk Aberlady Bay LNR (36 species) a lone Pink-footed Goose, large flocks of waders & ducks (Dunlin, Knot, Redshank, Bar-tiled Godwit, ... Shelduck, Mallard, Wigeon ...), Greenshank, Sanderling @btoscotland.bsky.social @birdinglothian.bsky.social #BirdingLothian #BirdingScotland

Water Pipit @ St Margaret’s Marsh, Great White Egret @ Birnie Loch, 5 Little Auk past Fife Ness 20/12/25

Dec 19. Bird walk Musselburgh Lagoons & Mouth of R Esk (43 species) Twite (23), Shag (2/4), Ringed Plover (21), Redshank/Bar-tailed Godwits (8) @btoscotland.bsky.social @birdinglothian.bsky.social #BirdingScotland #BirdinLothian

Four from today's wanders - Redpoll, Magpie, Buzzard and Cormorant. #BirdingScotland

Pintail - new for my patch. #birds #birdingscotland

Fourth White-tailed Eagle ‘disappears’ & RSPB offers £10,000 reward for information leading to a conviction – Raptor Persecution UK raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/12/19/f...

stonefactionbirding2014.blogspot.com/2025/10/1441... Another blog-post you might have missed...

Adelaide Springett was so ashamed of her tattered boots, she took them off for this 1901 photograph. She was 8 years old and recorded as lodging with her mother at the Salvation Army Shelter in Hanbury St.

"Little Adelaide's best & only boots"

stonefactionbirding2014.blogspot.com/2025/11/1466... Seen this blog-post?

Water Pipit @ St Margaret’s Marsh 16/12/25

Complete silence so far from the shooting organisations...

Probably time for an emergency statement from the various shooting organisations, to explain what -specifically-they are planning to 1. say and 2. do, to stop this repeatedly happening.

Day four of #ArtAdventCalendar. Here’s a pen and pencil drawing of a woodcock (one of my favourite birds) flying out to forage as the full moon rises behind a distant hill.

Day eight of #ArtAdventCalendar. Tonight’s offering is this coloured pencil drawing of a kestrel I drew for my mum.

Day fifteen of #ArtAdventCalendar Here’s a little watercolour of a Jenny Wren.

In conversation with Jack Humphrey on the Rewilding Earth Podcast... rewilding.org/episode-163-...

Chatting to Forum Wildnis Schweiz about "Toward Meeting Europe's Commitment to 30x30 Targets: a Spatial Modelling Approach" with Iluri Strus, FZS. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAmY...

stonefactionbirding2014.blogspot.com/2025/12/1473... Lousy weather but the birds weren't too bad... #naturewriting #BirdingScotland

No wonder we are one of the most nature-depleted corners of this battered planet, with #biodiversity in a parlous state

Two posts on one Caledonian Pinewood. The first on senseless and counterproductive access management parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2025/12/08/a.... The second on the battle between bog & pine and it's implications parkswatchscotland.co.uk/2025/12/14/t...

Pleased to share that I've written a chapter for FUTURE RURAL, a new book out in April 2026 to mark @cprecountryside.bsky.social's centenary Other authors include @amyjanebeer.bsky.social @nicolawriting.bsky.social @maryannochota.bsky.social Pre-order here: www.littletoller.co.uk/shop/books/l...

Here’s a #HolidayRobin for you all, stood on a large Lurcher statue that is in The Garden Jungle #birds #thegardenjungle #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #shropshire #UKwildlife #birdphotography #canon #photography

'Winter hares in conversation' by UK contemporary printmaker Angela Harding #WomensArt #ArtAdvent

It's ridiculous that the Government *still* haven't banned the sale of peat. Peat bogs are still getting dug up and used for compost and in horticulture. Ministers say they'll ban it 'when time allows'. Get on with it already! Sign the petition: actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sal...

#Rooks in the garden. It's actually pretty difficult to encourage Rooks into the garden here. They have overcome their fear because the Oak mast year was so huge & they couldn't resist the acorn bounty. Today I've put some corn under a familiar Oak tree & camouflaged the camera a little. #corvids 🦉

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Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar Window 7 ‘Frost’ Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

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