Phil Ritchie

Jersey Tiger Moth in the conservatory, released and resting on the hedge (north Essex). @savebutterflies.bsky.social @britishnatureguide.bsky.social

Our recently fledged Blackbird siblings were out and about for breakfast this morning. The difference in their plumage is quite striking even though I think they are both females. #birds 🪶

One of our garden's wood pigeon squabs resting up in the shade of the wisteria. @rspb.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social #birds 🪶

One of the two blackbirds that fledged from the nest in our porch earlier this summer and it seems quite happy to hop round the garden even when we are there. I think it's a young female and I haven't seen one with a grey bib before. @rspbengland.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social #birds 🪶

The wood pigeons are at it again, building another nest in the wisteria beneath our bedroom windows. I say building, the nest usually comprises a few sticks chucked together precariously on a branch but it seems to do the job. #birds 🪶 @rspb.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social

Not sure which is more pathetic, the MP desperate to be suspended or the Byline writing up this nonsense.

Rescued this fledgling Wren from the conservatory this afternoon. #birds 🪶 @rspb.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social

Kestrel chicks at the Naze Tower, Walton-on-the-Naze. There's a camera in the box with a monitor inside the tower but the chicks were visible outside as they watched the world go by. #birds 🪶 @rspb.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social

Made the mistake of posting a comment on a FB forum. Kate commented, 'don't you remember what happened when Josh posted a comment on an Internet forum in the West Wing?' (S3E17).

Think about how insane this is. I know we normalize every abnormal thing Trump does, & he floods the zone & numbs us, but a leading media organizing rolling over & agreeing to pay $16m to the president because he didn’t like how they edited an interview?? What country is this?

Fledgling Blue Tits getting in line for the bird feeder... @rspb.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social #birds 🪶

Fascism

Colchester Area Study Day in Coggeshall being led by Father George Guiver. @chelmsdio.bsky.social

We've had a Blackbird nest in the eaves of our porch and the fledgling is starting to make an appearance. #birds 🪶 @rspb.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social

The racism is off the charts with this regime.

Fascism

The fledgling Blue Tits have become and bit bolder and more bossy at breakfast time. @rspb.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social #birds 🪶

Wearing my Area Dean of St Osyth hat this evening for the Admission of Churchwardens and Area Bishop’s Charge at St Osyth’s. (The pic is of the Priory across the road). With @bishcolchester.bsky.social @chelmsdio.bsky.social

I see Honest Bob Jenrick has a new little video attacking barristers for representing unpopular clients.

Once again for those at the back:

Lawyers are not their clients.

Which is how, when Jenrick broke the law in government, he had lawyers to defend him.

Yes, Joni, we are all going to die.

But it shouldn't be our SENATORS who are killing us.

There must be absolutely no place for racism in Scotland.

Anas Sarwar is a political rival of mine but he shouldn’t be subjected to race-baiting attacks.

Farage has done more than anyone else to demonise minorities and inflame tensions. It must stop.

Gorgeous colours at Christchurch Park in Ipswich this afternoon. The Mandarins in particular were strutting their stuff, alongside Moorhens and various gulls including the Lesser Black-backed Gull... @rspb.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social #Birds 🪶

Trump’s choice to lead IRS has a few tax issues of his own

President Trump’s choice to lead the embattled Internal Revenue Service fought off accusations of being a “crook” at a Senate confirmation hearing as he defended his business activities selling advice on how to claim “fake” tax breaks

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Adam Douglas Thompson. #NewYorkerCartoons

Excellent article. @lewisgoodall.com one of our most astute political commentators at the moment.

It’s still hard for me to believe that after so many years of deranged posts like this, we’ve still never had a serious national conversation about this man’s mental health.

Morten Morland @mortenmorland on #Keir_Starmer #Starmer #EuropeanUnion #EUsummit #Farage #Badenoch @thetimes – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com

Joint statement from the leaders of the United Kingdom, France and Canada on the situation in Gaza and the West Bank Joint statement from the leaders of the United Kingdom, France and Canada on the situation in Gaza and the West Bank.

“We will not stand by while the Netanyahu Government pursues these egregious actions. If Israel does not cease the renewed military offensive and lift its restrictions on humanitarian aid, we will take further concrete actions in response.”

www.gov.uk/government/n...

‘Putting the upside to a 12 year giveaway to the EU’ says Evan Davies on Starmer who is peppering his summary with sly asides and chuckling. All day BBC coverage has been following the Brexit sellout narrative, why didn’t they just hand over coverage to Farage?

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