Most of the media, most days: Morning: "Capitalism must go further! further! further!" Afternoon: "Oh my God, how did that happen?"

2 different #birdingbybike routes around my #PWC2026 #localpatch this weekend. 66 sp. seen across the two days. Highlights - Siberian Chiffchaff, 6x Chiffchaff, Common Gull, 3x GWE, 21x Little Egret, 7x Bullfinch, 9x Goldeneye, 70x Pochard, 2x Redpoll, 60x Siskin #warksbirding #lowcarbonbirding

Probably the most important document release this year that you won’t hear about, which is insane given its contents… assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0e...

A potter around the patch this afternoon #birdingbybike. Highlights - 9x Grey Partridge, 2x Stonechat, 2x Raven, 30+ Skylark, 3x Meadow Pipit, 7x Little Egret, 2 GWE, Bullfinch #PWC2026 #patchbirding #warksbirding #lowcarbonbirding

No real change on the #localpatch over the last week. YBW and 3x Barnacle Geese still. Other bits 3x Chiffchaff, 12x Pied Wagtail, Green Woodpecker, 2x Bullfinch, 2x GWE, 7x Meadow Pipit, 4x Yellowhammer, 3x Reed Bunting #PWC2026 #lowcarbonbirding #warksbirding

Lovely crisp sunny morning on the #localpatch 42 sp. noted, Highlights: YBW, 2x Jack Snipe, 2x Snipe, c10 Yellowhammer, c50 Linnet, 2x Chiffchaff, 6x Reed Bunting, 4x Meadow Pipit, c20 Skylark, 2x Stonechat, 3x Siskin, 4x Barnacle Geese #warksbirding #lowcarbonbirding #patchbirding #PWC2026

3x Barnacle Geese again this afternoon - Mill Meadow, Kingsbury South. Also 2x Common Gull and a Yellow-legged Gull across the river on Hemlingford Water, KWP #warksbirding #lowcarbonbirding #localpatch #patchbirding #PWC2026

Solid start to the #PWC2026 #patchbirding year list. 📊60 species on the board Highlights: ✅Yellow-browed Warbler (Hurley STW) ✅Siberian Chiffchaff (Hurley STW) ✅Red-breasted Merganser (Lea Marston Lakes) ✅Pintail (Lea Marston Lakes) #lowcarbonbirding #warksbirding #localpatch

Found my old OS map from Dec 22 with my 3k boundaries ready for #PWC2026

Just signed up for the #PWC2026 #patchbirding challenge 🐦 Two patches: 10km & 3km 🗺️ 129 species is my previous best 10km total (2023 & 2025) 📈 Let’s see what 2026 brings… 👀 Good luck to those also taking part 🤞🍀

Last #birdingbybike ride for the year produced 60 sp. Highlights: ✅2x WF Geese - relocated by @tamebirding.bsky.social (by the canal at Bodymoor Heath/KWP), Cattle Egret (RSPB access road), Green Sandpiper (Cuttle Mill ditch), 3x Stonechat (Seeney Lane) #warksbirding 📊130 sp. #lowcarbonbirding

📊 Just crunched my BirdTrack stats for the year… 🦅 129 sp. recorded on my #warksbirding county list across 29 sites 🏡 128 on my 10km #localpatch 📍 Furthest: Mancetter Quarry (9.6km) 🔥 Top spots: Kingsbury Water Park (94) Kingsbury Firing Range (88) Lea Marston Lakes (65) 🇬🇧 UK total 2025 : 169

Other than the YBW which was still present this afternoon, I didn't manage to find much else of interest bird wise whilst out #birdingbybike. I was hoping to find some visiting geese or swans in one of the many nearby fields, but unfortunately nothing doing today. #lowcarbonbirding #ukbirding

A few hours this around the #localpatch again this morning - Hurley STW: Yellow-browed Warbler, 3x Chiffchaff, Siberian Chiffchaff, Stonechat, Grey Wagtail, 3x Reed Bunting, 15x Linnet, 2x Meadow Pipit Kingsbury Meadow LNR - 15x Siskin, 2x Raven #warksbirding #lowcarbonbirding

Seeney Lane, Marston this afternoon - Grey Partridge calling from HS2/Lea Marston Fisheries public footpath. 33x Chaffinch also notable. Cuttle Mill/HS2 bridleway- 6x Common Snipe, Green Sandpiper, 6x Skylark, 4x Meadow Pipit. #warksbirding #localpatch #lowcarbonbirding

A couple more shots of this afternoons YBW. The bird was associating with a group of 5+ Chiffchaff (didn't note any possible Sibes ), 2x Grey Wagtail and the 2x Stonechat that are presumably the same birds that I've seen in previous weeks. 39 sp in all #ukbirding #localpatch #lowcarbonbirding

As #localpatch finds go, this one was up there🤘🔥 Yellow-browed Warbler - Kingsbury Firing Range/Hurley Treatment works - 26/12 #lowcarbonbirding #warksbirding #ukbirding

I regularly check Swann Pool (Kingsbury Water Park) in Nov/Dec for Red-crested Pochard. Nearly missed this one today, tucked away asleep on the far side of the pool. Even from a distance though, it's ginger barnet gave it away #ukbirding #localpatch #lowcarbonbirding

3hrs #birdingbybike this afternoon produced 52 sp. in and around Kingsbury Water Park. Highlights - Cattle Egret, 36x Fieldfare (Bodymoor Heath Lane), Stonechat, Kingfisher, 19x Chaffinch (HS2), Great Egret, 34x Goosander, 5x Goldeneye (Swann Pool/Pine Pool) #lowcarbonbirding #ukbirding #localpatch

First visit to Kingsbury Range this morning in over a month. Fair bit of activity bird wise, 40 sp. counted. Highlights - 2x Stonechat, 6x Yellowhammer, 16x Reed Bunting, 7x Meadow Pipit, Green Woodpecker, 2x Raven, 2x Goldcrest, 40x Linnet, 25x Skylark #lowcarbonbirding #ukbirding #localpatch

Down to Cambridge Uni with my daughter yesterday for her placement interview. With 6 hours to kill, I headed out of the city and up to RSPB Fen Drayton Lakes for a mooch. A decent reserve - and managed to connect with the Red-necked Grebe ✅ that has been present for the last few days🔭 #ukbirding

First big flood of the season put KWP off limits today. Across the road at Kingsbury Range was accessible though. Highlights bird wise - Merlin, 40+ Skylark, 60+ Fieldfare, 5x Redwing, c10 Meadow Pipit, 2x Wigeon, 5x Shoveler, c50 Starling, c35 Linnet #lowcarbonbirding #warksbirding

Slow circuit around the accessible part of Lea Marston Lakes (Coton Pools in old money) this afternoon. 51 sp. noted, 10+ Chiffchaff, 6x Greenfinch, 2x Bullfinch, Great Egret, 12x Redwing, 5x Goldcrest, 2x Grey Wagtail the highlights #warksbirding #lowcarbonbirding

Back on the #localpatch after a week away in Northumberland. A few winter thrushes about c40x Fieldfare, c5x Redwing at Kingsbury Firing Range. Other bits - 2x Stonechat, 9x Red-legged Partridge, c50x Meadow Pipit, c50x Skylark, c35 Linnet, 8x Greenfinch, Reed Bunting #warksbirding #lowcarbonbirding

Last day of the break today. No sign of the YBW this morning in High Newton. Nice potter around Craster this morning, then I headed up to Budle Bay this afternoon. Highlights - 3x Red-breasted Merganser, 5x Knot, 10x Sanderling, several thousand Barnacle Geese. #NEBirding

Today's column is about the government's huge, unprecedented assault on nature ... and about the eerie, astonishing silence of the big nature groups. The RSPB, National Trust, Wildlife Trusts have 7.5m members between them. A vast force, completely unmobilised. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Zoe's illness grounded holiday activities today, so I spent most of the day birding on foot from the cottage. 64 sp. for the day. Highlights - Yellow-browed Warbler still, though elusive - Newton Links, 30 Twite - Long Nanny, 16x Razorbill, 6x Common Scoter, 3x RT Diver #NEBirding #LowCarbonBirding

Cracking start to the day with a Yellow-browed Warbler nr Newton Steads car park. Also 27x Gannet past north from the beach. Stag Rocks - 7x Purple Sandpiper Holy Island - was way too busy Low Newton - Pec Sand still, 4x Ruff. Couldn't dig out any Willow Tit despite a good search #NEBirding

A quick walk from the cottage this morning produced 4x RT Divers c100m out in Beadnell Bay. Called in at Beadnell for a couple of hours this afternoon - Arctic Tern, 4x Razorbill, 3x RT Diver, 14x Turnstone, 2x Grey Plover, 3x Golden Plover, 3x Rock Pipit, 2x Gannet, 2x Harbour Porpoise #NEBirding

Today, took in some places I didn't get chance to visit on previous hols - Cullernose Pt, Druridge Bay NR and Longhoughton. Longhoughton proved best bird wise - 30x Barnacle Geese, Twite, 5x RT Diver, c300 Golden Plover, 6x Grey Plover. Rounded off the day with a Barn Owl - Newton Steads #NEBirding

Decent start to our week away in Northumberland. Pectoral Sandpiper still - Low Newton Pool, c20 Twite - Long Nanny. Other coastal goodies inc. - RT Diver, 3x Guillemot, c300 PF Geese, c200 Golden Plover, Grey Plover, Gannet, Rock Pipit, 4x Dunlin, c20 Ring Plover, Common Scoter #NEBirding

Astonishing advance by the Greens, astonishing implosion of Labour. When will Starmer's government get the message that it is destroying its base with deeply unpopular, rightwing policies? By chasing Reform, it legitimises the far right while delegitimising itself.

ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long. There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

An extended #localpatch walk this morning from Kingsbury Firing Range to Kingsbury Wood in search of Stonechat. Found a pair along the dried out ditch that runs through the site - sp #89 for the site list. Other birds of note - c50 Skylark, c75 Linnet, c50 Mipit #lowcarbonbirding #warksbirding

Greta Thunberg along with hundreds of others is being kept in an Israeli prison where she is forced to stay in a cell crawling with bedbugs, refused food and water, and forced to take photographs holding Israel flags. But the West does nothing as Israel tortures its citizens.

I think the genocide is stoking tension, you clattering twat of a charisma void.

A long sought after site ✅ came today, by way of a Common Redstart in the public footpath hedge at Kingsbury Firing Range. Personal site list now up to 87 species. Other birds of note - 20+ Skylark, 100+ Linnet, Treecreeper, Meadow Pipit #localpatch #warksbirding #lowcarbonbirding

Shustoke Reservoir this morning - Dunlin & Ruff - both at the west end. Quiet otherwise #warksbirding #localpatch

Nice to be back out on the #localpatch this pm after 3 days stuck indoors painting. All change bird wise - last few Common Terns gone, along with the steady passage of hirundines from K'bury South. Green Sand replaces the lingering Common Sand. K'bury Range - 60+ Mipit, 70+ Linnet new #warksbirding

A few bits on passage through the patch this weekend. 3x Whinchat - Seeney Lane, Marston (Cuttle Mill Farm/HS2 footpath) yesterday, Wheatear - Seeney Lane, Marston (Marston Lakes/HS2) this evening. #warksbirding #birdingbybike

Went out #birdingbybike this afternoon looking for local Whinchat. Didn't find any, so headed up to #middletonlakes Highlights - Spotted Redshank, 2x Curlew Sandpiper, Water Rail, Peregrine, Ruff, 4x LRP, 3x Snipe, 5x Black-tailed Godwit. KWP - Yellow-legged Gull #ukbirding #lowcarbonbirding

Shustoke Reservoir - Ruff, 4x Common Sandpiper, 2x Raven Whitacre Heath NR - 2x Spotted Flycatcher, Willow Warbler, Chiffchaff #ukbirding #localpatch

Point blank views of a smart looking Ruff this morning at Shustoke Reservoir. Not a bird I've seen at the site before. The receding water levels and exposed shoreline likely bringing the waders in. 3x Common Sandpiper also #ukbirding #localpatch

Visit to #RSPBFramptonMarsh today. Water levels extremely low, so number of birds on the reserve massively reduced. Still, managed a few good bits - 7x Little Stint, 2x Marsh Harrier, Ruff, Whooper Swan, Peregrine, 5x Dunlin, 2x Yellow Wag, Greenshank, Redshank. LRP, Ringed Plover, Golden Plover

Seeing a lot of this in my area. Blackberry yields a fraction of a "normal" year. Trees shedding brown leaves for last 6 weeks. Even got hedgehogs in the garden during the day which I assume is related to heat and lack of water. Be interested to see how this year has played out when the data is in.

A few hours #birdingbybike around the #localpatch this morning. Highlights: KWP - 2x Black Tern (juv) briefly on Swann Pool 10am 20+ Common Tern (mainly juv) across the park, Hobby - Richards Meadow. Whitacre Heath NR - 4x Yellow Wagtail - Flashes hide Lea Marston Landfill - 2x Raven #ukbirding

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Counted 8 juv. Yellow Wagtail on the patch at lunchtime. I suspect there are a few more knocking about. Not sure if this is one or two broods, only seen one adult pair on site this year.🤷‍♂️ #lowcarbonbirding #warksbirding #ukbirding #localpatch

www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2T3... Crypto behemoth nails it. 👇 Oh the irony 😂

Walk from home around the #localpatch this morning produced 28sp Highlights: 2x Yellow Wag, Hobby (juv), 4x GSW, 9x Chiffchaff, 4x Skylark, 2x Buzzard, 2x Raven, 3x Red-legged Partridge, Green Woodpecker, Blackcap. #lowcarbonbirding #warksbirding #ukbirding