Just heard the Yellow-browed Warbler again, but two streets away this time!

Gift Article Use of hundreds of Tomahawk missiles on Iran alarm some at the Pentagon

The difference between these two is racism

Israel has just killed 7 more paramedics and 3 more journalists in Lebanon this morning. In case you care. Israel plans to do to Lebanon what it did to Gaza.

I am a citizen of Iceland and let me assure you that we are not terrified of the future because of “authoritarian gender ideology”. What scares us is transphobes, ultra right wing ideologies, the manosphere, fascism, MAGA, oligarchs, techno fascists, ecological collapse and climate change.

🦡 🦡🦡 'Yesterday I sat down with representatives from other NGOs for a meeting with Defra Minister Angela Eagle. Within moments of the start, she said something we were all waiting to hear: this government will end the culling of badgers.' via @dorseteye.bsky.social dorseteye.com/government-a...

The planet's gonna burn, so I must get in my share of travel!

Certainly had busier sessions! braydonforestringing.uk/2026/03/27/s...

Bird Forum thread on the first world problems of travelling to see birds while there’s a global fuel crisis and a war in the Middle East. And the climate is breaking down (but that doesn’t get a mention). www.birdforum.net/threads/bird...

Londoners urgently need new affordable homes. Our partnership with Peabody will deliver 500 new homes across the capital by 2032, helping families across London access safe, secure and affordable places to live.

This has happened before with Algerian boxer Imane Khelif and yes it will happen again as long as we allow JK Rowling, the wicked witch of the Terf island she inhabits, to toss around her insane claims, without constant and rigorous pushback from all good & sane people and the Law!

Nooo! Dipped LNG carrier, in/out y/day (only rang Shipline last night. Needed for a year tick)😭 😉 Came from Sabine USA? Sabine's big. It'll be back. Sabine so big 1st terminal in world able to accommodate 3 LNG tankers at once. Don't cut back folks! Let's make fossil fuel cos bigly rich (again)😇

Government to consider licensing for all gamebird shooting & releases in England. I don't think licensing is the answer but it's a good start. Now, about those 60 million non-native Pheasants & Red-legged Partridges released each year... #RaptorResearch raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/03/27/g...

LGBTQ conversion practices are abuse. They are ineffective, unscientific and inflict actual harm. Four (almost) successive PMs committed to ending conversion practices yet we are still waiting on legislation. This Government now has only a month to honour their commitment. #BanConversionPractices

First class stuff.

Lying about your own country in return for money from a foreign power. There should be a word for that.

Government to consider licensing for all gamebird shooting & releases in England raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026/03/27/g...

I’m almost ignorant of lichen ID so use apps then a book. ObsIdentify is 98% Nit beard (Usnea subfloridana). Surely too stiff and upright? Is it not a Cladonia? #fungifriday (it’s half a fungi😂)

OK. My career just peaked.

Field ornithology folks- anyone have a color band supplier other than Avinet? Looks like they are having severe supply issues...

Cut the lights – and seven more ways to save Britain’s bats

Ooo, I'm unhealthily interested in SuDS, can I confirm which bit we're looking at tho'? (And I apologise in advance, I'm pedantic/ sad on this..) If talking about area 'nw' of pitch looks like it dug between 2010- 2013 at time of pitch development as 'standing'.. 1/3

The great surprise is not that seals occasionally wander into London. It is that they are now a recognised, thriving part of the Thames ecosystem. londonopia.co.uk/londons-seal...

"Mr. Buria [Hegseth's chief of staff] told Mr. Driscoll [Secretary of the Army] that President Trump would not want to stand next to a Black female officer at military events, the officials said." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...

#teammoth Oak Beauty - moth of the night in VC80. The rain held off all night until the moment I headed outside at 5am. Not much visible activity but ended with 67/8 or 9 depending on the outcome of an Agonopterix puzzle - have I got A. ciliella? Also a Mottled Grey potted from the front door.

'Twilight years' - I wonder WTF 'years' I'm in?

Blocking the pavement, assaulting cyclists, insulting passersby, impersonating the Highways Agency and all while wanted for a crime in Spain. And these guys have the nerve to say they are ‘patriots’. www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2597257...

And he's also the most successful Secretary of State. Because he had ideas, then a plan, then did it and it's critical to national security. And the right wingers hate him for it. And if Labour is to rebuild a progressive coalition, Milibandism is core. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

1/4: When I spotted this emerging from the mud on a low tide last week, I knew I'd found my pipe of the day / week / month. I was a bit over-excited in excavating it, hence my clumsiness, and panicked when a wave started coming in and accidentally hit the off button - hence the incomplete video...

an unstoppable mushroom www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Wow! What a statue. What a monument. And celebrating ordinary people doing extraordinary things. Wonderful 👏🏼 #art #sculpture #publicart

If you're into wildlife gardening and #bees, this is a must-see. It's both captivating and inspiring. #wildlifegarden #bugsky #nature #gardening #pollinators #insectthursday #wildlife

The US appears to have deployed the Gator Scatterable Mine system over Kafari, a village near Shiraz, in southern Iran overnight. At least two people were killed according to local reports. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03...

Deforestation caused by beef production is the number one threat to the Amazon rainforest. We are grilling the Earth's lungs to make burgers... This is our collapsing civilisation. Name it. www.vox.com/climate/4800...

Today, the government has opened its consultation on the best way to bring about a ban on so-called “trail hunting” which acts as a smokescreen for actual hunting. The Hunt Saboteurs Association will be issuing guidance to assist with your submissions. www.huntsabs.org.uk/ha-campaign/

These people are incompetent AND dangerous.

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

And Ukraine could be liberated tomorrow if Russia allowed it.

Today’s moment of calm It might feel like we’re going to hell in a handcart but today there are goldcrests singing in my woods. If that’s not worthy of a moment of joy I don’t know what is. The smallest birds in the UK but they hold an enormous space in my heart

I suppose I could have added “career destroying” vitriol - but those BBC executives got what they hoped for

#teammoth !!!

I’m so sick thinking about how Trump, Elon Musk, and especially JK Rowling’s vile harassment campaign of lies and slander against Imane Khelif resulted in even more restrictions on women athletes. Meanwhile, Khelif is an actual inspiration to women and girls wanting to pursue boxing!

Imagine how much money we’ve wasted. Imagine how much could have gone into the NHS, public services, tackling poverty… Will anyone be held responsible though? For the lies that were told, the false promises made? Perhaps a brexit tax on all the corporations that cashed in? I’M SO CROSS!

Remarkable that these things are being described as "final blows". Everything @ldfreedman.bsky.social has written about war & the fallacy of decisive blows is flashing in front of my eyes.

The FB algorithm just fed me a superb video by @alicemydaughter.bsky.social talking about the dishonest reporting of trans lives and the shocking misinformation about complaints that contributed to the closing of the Tavistock. Please click Like and Interested when you see pro-trans media on FB. 👍

"SOUTH AFRICA TELLS LIBERALS: F*** OFF." New hunting influencer comms strategy. Bold move. "Most liberals don't support hunting!" they defend themselves in the comments. Ok, and you want to make sure that it's no liberals at all instead? Including liberal wildlife scientists?

Giving it a go tonight in VC80. Am I mad? To be fair, the answer's probably 'yes' whatever I do tonight!

Climate change is a scientific reality with real-world consequences—regardless of what any religious text says about the end of the world. We’re governed by the Constitution, not the “Good Book.”