Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇

Appalling, illegal, unethical, disgusting. Oh, and in the midst of a severe outbreak of Avian Influenza #BirdFlu #H5N1 where free-range poultry are in mandatory lockdown to prevent viral spread. #Ornithology #UKBirding raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/11/12/s...

Climate disasters displaced 250 million people in past 10 years, UN report finds #climatecrisis #COP30 Story by @ninalakhani.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Amendment 130 is the best chance to reduce the Planning and Infrastructure Bill’s risks to bat conservation. You can read more here: buff.ly/ACYQzDY Email your MP in less than 2 minutes here: buff.ly/r43w7vE

A trip out to Leics & Northants - the AGP showed well and there were a nice couple of redhead Smew. The afternoon finished with brief distant views of the rather elusive Lesser scaup at Ditchford GPs. #Birding #Twitching

Paying respects to Boaty McGrackleface. Gutted I missed the white starling there though! Pic by A Clifton. #MoreMigrantsOnBoats #BOUcatS

St Ives Island. An ‘all-dayer’. 13 Leach’s Petrel, 2 Cory’s, 3 ESP, 2 Pomarine Skua, 1 Little Auk, 2 Puffin, 3 Little Gull, 8 Sootys & a Snow Bunting with 000’s Kitts, Auks etc. But the highlight was the Loggerhead Turtle off the NCI gully for a few mins. #cornwallbirding Pic thanks to Adam H

Hellllllloooo? Are you there? Please help birds by sharing this if you also want to ensure swifts & other urban birds have homes alongside us. People power works but only if we work together. SAVE OUR SWIFTS.

Great views of European & Oriental Turtle Dove side by side at Hillwell, Shetland this evening. #birdingscotland #rarebirdsuk

For a country with ‘Great’ in the title we seem to be pretty rubbish at a lot of things. Including this. Nothing ‘great’ about being an ecological desert.

Vacancy on BOU Records Committee. Are you up for it? I found it a really interesting and educational experience. Happy to share my experience if you are interested. #RarebirdsUK #UKBirding

A mixed pair consisting of a Great Northern Diver and a Black-throated Diver successfully bred in the Scottish Highlands in 2024 and again in 2025, it has been revealed:

🚨It's now or never for nature. The Planning Bill is nearly law. An amendment passed by the Lords offers vital protection for sensitive habitats and species - but it needs MP support to stay in. 📢 Use our form to ask your MP to back Amendment 130: action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/180301/...

The new Planning & Infrastructure Bill has reached final stages of debate before it becomes law.The Wildlife Trusts have worked hard to try to limit the impacts this Bill will have on wildlife & wild spaces. Tell your MP to keep Amendment 130 in the Bill.. action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/180301/...

WaderTales blog about wader roosts and the energy that's lost when birds are disturbed. wadertales.wordpress.com/2016/10/30/a... Published on this day in 2016 🎂9️⃣ Over 3000 reads #ornithology

Something I just had to get off my chest in relation to the recent trend in bird sighting-related press stories 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️😬 #Birds #Birding #twitching #journalism #BirdNews #press #rant

if you see this post, your actions are: - if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this - if you don't have a spare buck, just repost your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

Northern Bullfinches and Scandinavian LT tits are turning up in some numbers in the Northern Isles. Though I can't see these myself here are some from yrs past - The bullfinch 1 of a flock of 17 'tooters' on Fair Isle during the 2004 influx; and a Suffolk snowball from Oct 2010. #birding #birds

NERF Chair Steve Downing points out 20 years of Govt failure in tackling the illegal killing of birds of prey on gamebird shooting estates in the UK. #RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/24/a...

My book has got a great endorsement from Chris Packham: "This clever and immensely resourceful book is an overdue gem". There's also a few pages up on the website too! It's up for pre-order here with publication set for January pelagicpublishing.com/products/pan...

31 yrs after the Pennington Flash bird it was good to see another Black-faced bunting at Spurn today. But a looker it ain’t! #birding #twitching

Please sign and share the petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

Wow – Britain’s first Great Crested Flycatcher! Photos in the BirdGuides gallery: www.birdguides.com/gallery/bird...

V rare Kemp’s Ridley turtle found yesterday on a Tiree beach. Two Loggerhead turtles have also been found in this part of Scotland in recent weeks. All taken into care and will be flown to warmer climes. www.facebook.com/share/p/17Yq...

Well this certainly wasn't on the radar for the local patch this morning, a Northern-bottle nosed Whale, possibly the first record for the Humber estuary.

Finally got out to the coast this autumn for a proper session and had a morning yesterday at Winterton. Among the many goldcrests were a couple of YB warblers and I had a glimpse of this eastern/ Acredula-type Willow warbler. #Birding #migration

The latest British Birds Rarities Committee report has been published, with the acceptance of the Northumberland Indian Golden Oriole and Essex Canvasback, as well as putative breeding records of Spotted Sandpiper and Paddyfield Warbler, catching the eye:

Tens of millions of essentially factory farmed poultry are dumped into the countryside each year. They boost the population of mesopredators like foxes, reducing ground nesting bird populations. They are an obvious avian flue hazard. They eat declining reptiles. Turn out they're also a health hazard

Baird’s sandpiper (juv), Rutland Water, 9/10/2025 #birds #birding

Thank you to everyone who continues to contribute to our fundraiser. Recent greatest hits from samples sent in by ringers and birders for ID include an Atlas Flycatcher in Spain, and a Ménétries's Warbler in Poland! www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...

29 ‘missing’ Hen Harriers & nearly 40 birds of prey poisoned, trapped or shot in Yorkshire Dales National Park since 2015... raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/04/2...

OTD 25 yrs ago a bit of a beauty - West Palearctic's 1st ever Blue-winged warbler on Cape Clear Island. I made it before dark! I wonder what Storm Amy will bring this weekend? #Twitching #Birds

‘It proves this can be done’: Berlin the blueprint to bring goshawks to UK cities

Natural England confirms ongoing & relentless illegal persecution is reason why Hen Harriers are still rare in England. #RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime #Ornithology raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/10/02/h...

Assuming not a hoax, here’s a small unidentified #shark caught by an angler on a S coast beach in U.K that doesn’t match any local/regional species. They’re seeking an id - any ideas? @seatrustwales.bsky.social @iucnshark.bsky.social #Elasmobranchs

Not a new story but cocaine & ketamine traces found in every single sample. Our crustaceans are all off their nut! Pretty sobering really. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

Little Bittern sound recorded over Weymouth last night at 1:06am - that ones blown my mind a bit! macaulaylibrary.org/asset/642530...

Everyone loves a #kingfisher. When I went for a walk at a new site yesterday there was a vocal brood of 6 young! Being fed by at least one parent @cambsbirdclub.bsky.social #birds

Latest government stats show a continued decline in many bird species across the UK 🪶🧪 www.gov.uk/government/s... These data are made possible by the dedication of expert volunteers, allowing us to track common bird populations for >50 years

The inaugural Global Mammal Big Day is set to take place on 5 October 2025:

My absolute bugbear on Facebook #BirdingMemes #Birds #Identification

Little sketch of yesterday’s Silver-striped hawkmoth. @philj61.bsky.social @migrantmothuk.bsky.social #TeamMoth #NatureNotebook

Chuffed to finally see a rare Silver-striped hawkmoth today nr Stafford, courtesy of Adam Hartley. #MothsMatter

I update my website here www.urlvanish.com/d6591d15 with monthly recent rare UK wildlife sightings of interest. Recent highlights include Little Arboreal ladybird & Hair curler slug (both UK 1st) Lang's short-tailed blue (c4th) European mantis Pygmy sperm whale Loggerhead turtle Black-winged kite

This was a massive distraction project, intended to draw attention away from the ongoing illegal killing on northern UK grouse moors. Maybe now NE & Defra will put their (our!) money where it really needs to go - on ramped up enforcement. #RaptorResearch raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/09/16/g...

Another British first discovered last week, like many others probably here due to #ClimateChange. The Hair curler slug! (What a name!) www.itv.com/news/westcou...

#RaptorPersecution has its roots in an archaic & deep-rooted hatred of anything predatory that’s endemic within the rural farming & shooting communities. The lies are espoused by our gutter right wing press, feeding the prejudice while our raptors continue to be illegally slaughtered.

12 yrs ago today distant views of an elusive Great snipe at @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social Left camera at home that day too 🙄 #Birding

A ladybird first for Britain www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's yelling into the void but something tell me it just needs to kept being said: if you are still posting, RTing, or lurking on X, you are helping keep users there and you are helping this guy pull in advertising revenue. You are a volunteer worker for a slobbering, drug-addled white supremacist