Another year I’ve not seen Hen harriers in the #YorkshireDales in breeding season. Dales habitat looks like successful Bowland habitat though. No records ever in May & June. July records likely “brood managed” birds 2021. Orange dots on zero are all the dates without HH. @raptorpersuk.bsky.social

This month's Birds of Essex is on Friday 26th September, when Steve and Matt will be joined by special guest Katrina Myers from Colchester Owl Rescue. With all the usual news, photos and sightings it's gonna be a good show! Watch live at ebws.org.uk/BoE/Sep2025 #essexbirding

Water company United Utilities promised to spend £129m to connect private septic tanks to the mains network and reduce sewage pollution. Spent £76.7m over the last 25 years. UU paid nearly £13bn in dividends since privatisation Can't trust water companies www.theguardian.com/business/202...

16. Windermere has turned into a cess pool, because of capitalist greed. United Utilities (whatever that name means) has underspent £52 million on vital work and where did the money go? Bonuses and dividends?

On September 25 1915 my great uncle, George Ravenhill, died on the first day of the Battle of Loos. Aged 35, he was a Herefordshire agricultural worker who volunteered to fight in the war to end all wars.

You can read in more detail the research we commissioned from Howard Stevenson et al on this - ‘Changing lives and transforming communities: harnessing the power of post-compulsory education’ - here: www.ucu.org.uk/media/14604/...

Wondering why @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social is dumb on this platform. Many individual county trusts are active here, reaching the huge environmental/conservation/natural history community that has left X. Sadly the Essex Wildlife Trust is still not among them.

I remember from my 1950s childhood, when WW2 was still fresh in adults' minds, that the St George's flag appeared once a year from church towers, on April 23.

Sadly the Essex Wildlife Trust still refuses to join many other county Trusts on this platform. It has frozen its X account but says it will continue to rely on other social media platforms (Facebook, LinkedIn etc) rather than here. #essexbirding

NEW: Our members at the University of Bradford will begin 10 days of strike action on Monday in a fight to protect jobs. Time for management to listen to staff, rethink the cuts and rule out compulsory redundancies. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1418...

Led By Donkeys: “We’ve done, I reckon, 25 or 30 projections since we’ve been going. Often the police come along and we have a chat to them, and they even have a laugh with us and occasionally tell us to not do it. But no one’s been arrested before” - for your “Actually worse than Tories” folder

No one should live in fear; especially those seeking sanctuary, who carry deep scars of dreadful conflicts and traumatic experiences of perilous journeys to safety. www.bigissue.com/opinion/refu...

Eeenteresting.

You are a journalist and you are wondering how to take care of your #mentalhealth? You would like to improve the #wellbeing of your team? Then this event by The Self-Investigation is for you ⬇️ 🗓️ 8-10 October (online) Full programme: theselfinvestigation.com/summit/#agenda

Male and female Tawny Owls calling close to my window at 2.30 this morning. Pure magic #essexbirding

No question, and no surprise, Yvette Cooper, Jarvis and their chorus are peddling lies about Palestine Action

If you like bird photography and live in Essex, this might be for you 👇🏽

It's good to see Suffolk locals determined to save these 100+ year old oaks, along the B1125 Westleton Rd. All earmarked for the chop as part of Sizewell C's wanton destruction of vast swathes of the East Suffolk countryside. Enough is enough! #SayNo2SizewellC

Journalists questioning Nigel Farage should be pointing out Brexit has been a primary factor in the sky rocketing number of small boat crossings. How hard can this be? youtu.be/cKXFjbxSBBI?...

So many ways in which Reform has made life in the UK worse for everyone (I don't need to elaborate) but the adulation for a woman who invited others to burn down buildings with the occupants still inside was sickening. I despair for my country.

21 officers in London storm in to arrest one elderly man for holding a sign supporting Palestine Action (via Hidden Palestine) #UK #Palestine

Something to provoke gammon - have learned to my surprise that the shorter flakes used in "99s" are manufactured in Egypt!

Kemi Badenoch’s ‘Free Speech’ Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Party Conference The ban on covering the party’s annual gathering came despite Badenoch’s repeated commitment to “fight” for free speech and a free press bylinetimes.com/2025/09/04/k...

Racist Israeli leaders have declared that Greta Thunberg and thousands of doctors and nurses delivering food and baby formula to Gaza is an act of terrorism. What is @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu doing? Actions Ursula. Your actions now will determine the fate of your trial.

Chalk Stream Birds walk 🦢🦆 🪹 Don't miss out! Join our walk along the Misbourne. 4 October, 9:30 Book now!

#lesvos - Day 5: 4th September 2025 A revisit to the tranquil Klapados and a late evening visit to the racetrack beach where an interesting Oystercatcher awaited. Any reason why this is not 'longipes'? Not sure of Greek status. blueeyedbirding.blogspot.com/2025/09/lesv... #birds

So Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives, who have repeatedly pledged to fight for "free speech" and a free press have just banned me and Byline Times from attending their conference. Has never happened before under any previous leader bylinetimes.com/2025/09/04/k...

We’ve been banned from Reform Party events for two years now. Why does Nigel Farage lie to Congress about this? @bylinetimes.bsky.social @josiah.writes.news

Three cheers from me for our wonderful NHS. Result of my regular PSA test received in less than 24 hours - anxiety time reduced to a minimum. How could we put our NHS at risk by voting in Farage and his dollar billionaire chums?

Nigel Farage is not at PMQs. He's in the US, seemingly lobbying for sanctions against the UK to force Starmer to repeal the Online Safety Act. Starmer hits out at his absence and says Reform have no idea what they'd replace the OSA with.

Great work by @fabperegrines.bsky.social & @sewh.bsky.social means 'Tom' has a good chance of recovery. #RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/09/03/p...

Politico: "The Sun has seen evidence to [a US] committee submitted by Nigel Farage in which he suggests the White House should use “diplomacy and trade” in the free speech battle, which sounds like calling for Britain to be bullied into a law change." Is Farage calling for sanctions AGAINST the UK?

The myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy | The Bear

Great Yarmouth is set to host the biggest neo-nazi music festival in over a decade. The Home Office has the power to block entry of overseas bands, which will scupper the promoters plans. But they won’t act unless we demand it. Email the Home Office now: hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/28/g...

Cllr Kevin Guy on rogue flags being put up in Bath/NE Somerset: "The safety of everyone using our network is our top priority and any vandalism of signs designed to keep road users safe will not be tolerated."

Over the last two days, NUJ members across the UK, Ireland and Continental Europe organised further solidarity action to commemorate colleagues killed in Gaza and to highlight the vital importance of press freedom. www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...

Homelessness is surging in Southend & last year Basildon & Chelmsford reported surge in child homelessness (see🧵) It's not just Essex. North Norfolk District Council are wanting your thoughts to shape out strategic approach to Homelessness & Rough Sleeping 👇 www.surveymonkey.com/r/RoughSleep...

The NUJ has responded to Reform's refusal to speak to Nottinghamshire Live by affirming journalists’ right to report without fear or favour. Media scrutiny of elected politicians is fundamental to the functioning of a healthy democracy. www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...

Our General Secretary @drjogrady.bsky.social has written to David Lammy demanding the FCDO urgently evacuates *all* Palestinian students with British university places from Gaza.   The British government must act now – to help Palestinian students and end its complicity in Israel's genocide.

Laura Davison, General Secretary of the National Union of Journalists, speaking at an online vigil for the 233 journalists and media workers killed in Gaza so far: "We didn't want to have to remember our sisters and our brothers, your colleagues, & so many killed in the course of their work." (1/x)

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The NUJ has renewed calls for global action to end the Israeli government’s war on journalism and truth after at least 20 people, including five journalists, were killed in strikes on Nasser hospital on Monday. www.nuj.org.uk/resource/pal...

Farage leaving the ECHR would take away YOUR right to ... 🔥 A fair trial 🔥 Fair laws 🔥 Protection from execution 🔥 Protection from discrimination 🔥 Protection from torture 🔥 Protection from slavery 🔥 Freedom of speech 🔥 Freedom of lifestyle 🔥 Freedom to decide if you want or don't want children

A "tragic mishap" occurs once - not a double tap strike. Beyond doubt a war crime aimed at restricting scrutiny of Israel's war on the Palestinian people. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...

Gazan students fear for future as path to UK remains blocked, reports @julietterowsell.bsky.social #academicsky #Gaza

Israel bombed a hospital. Rescue workers and reporters rushed to recover the dead and the wounded. Israel bombed the hospital again. Live on TV. Read that again. Our government’s legacy will be its complicity in crimes against humanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.