Reuben Singleton

A rat leaps on to the pitch during the World Cup qualifier between Wales and Belgium. Photograph: Charlotte Wilson/Offside/Getty Images

This photograph is absolutely brilliant! I think the photographer should enter it into next year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition 🐀 ⚽️

📷 Charlotte Wilson/Offside/Getty Images www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Bit of a shock to the system here on Fetlar this morning. 1st ground frost of the year made it a cold start out birding on our last morning. Water Rail added to the trip list!

You could extend that observation to newspaper columnists and TV personalities.

Labour have completely fucked up on this. Even the worst Environment Secretary in history Therese Coffey supports it. We really are through the looking glass.

Done

What Can Criminal Psychology Teach Us About Climate Change? With Julia Shaw Podcast Episode · Intelligence Squared · 09/10/2025 · 41m

This Podcast on the drivers for environmental crime is well worth a listen.

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...

Julia Shaw identifies six factors behind environmental crime and how it can be addressed.

One of the factors is Impunity - a real problem in the UK where regulators have been gutted.

1/2 #speciesaday no. 649 is Donacia vulgaris. A local reed beetle with a striking linear rainbow pattern on the elytra, which have distinctively emarginate tips. On a variety of tall emergent vegetation by water ways.

A letter to viz on why we should be removing British objects from people’s rectums, not foreign ones

I ❤️ Viz

I’m reading this at the moment. Very thought provoking indeed about how we treat “pests” and “alien species”. Recommend highly.

Royal Mail fined £21m by Ofcom for missing delivery targets It is the third-largest fine the communications watchdog has ever issued.

Wonders of privatisation.

Royal Mail fined £21m.

Hasn't t meet the 1st and 2nd class mail delivery targets to years.

No personal fines on execs. Corporate fines will no doubt be passed on to customers.

No incentive to deliver value for money. People fleeced.

Red Tractor axes Greener Farms Commitment permanently British food assurance body Red Tractor is dropping its proposed green farming standard, following a backlash from UK farmers.

It is also worth noting that when the Red Tractor Scheme did try to introduce environmental standards, it was met with furious opposition by the National Farmers Union. www.sustainability-beat.co.uk/2024/03/25/r...

Red Tractor ad banned for misleading environmental claims The Advertising Standards Authority upheld a complaint by environment charity River Action.

Red Tractor Scheme = Greenwashing. Charging farmers a lot of money and giving the good ones a bad name. Scheme should be scrapped and replaced with a real farm assurance scheme which has environmental law compliance at its core. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ed Miliband approves UK’s biggest solar farm at Lincolnshire site Tillbridge solar farm will be built in county where Reform UK’s anti-renewables agenda has rising support

I bet Miliband treated himself to a new parker pen for this one. Then posted it as a gift to Andrea Jenkyns. With a bow.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins Far-right activist is accused of refusing to comply with counter-terrorism police request at Channel tunnel

If true, it's an open question which of them this reflects more badly upon.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

East Kilbride restaurant owners apologise for cutting down trees The owners chopped down dozens of trees - including an oak - prompting scores of complaints on social media.

A test for Scottish Forestry. Felling this amount of trees definitely requires felling permission. Having spent several months navigating the felling permission/forest plan process for a community woodland I should be amazed and annoyed if this just gets waved through. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The whole internet loves Cola Bottle Nate, a lovely guy who almost kills himself eating Haribro cola bottles! *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you Mr. Rimmington is racist

31-year-old David Noutch, white British has been charged with racially aggravated assault, threatening with a bladed article in a public place and assault by beating.

It was a White man attacking Non-White people.

Where is the apology from this hateful racist?

I’ve spent most of the last week visiting @nationaltrust.org.uk properties, hearing from staff & volunteers, thinking hard about its future. The idea that fraudulent Farage has anything useful to say on the Trust & it's work is laughable. He’s a lightweight fraud, the Trust is the best of Britain.

Yep - That parasite Ratcliffe can feck right off. He absolutely ruined Grangemouth after taking over and now conveniently blames it on the Labour Govt.

Jan talks about wildlife feasts, intriguing funghi discoveries, storm impacts, and further conservation efforts in her latest blog. Read it here: https://loom.ly/e_AY0_0

#conservationefforts #drystonewalls #walling #cumbria #naturewriting

Quite

The mantra of the Right everywhere - Promise everything! Deliver nothing! Blame someone else! Make money for yourselves!

Ha ha - that’s brilliant!

The Hypnotism Stuff will
come up time and time again. Just keep saying it was a long time ago, we have all done things we wouldn’t do now and brush it off. At some point it might be good to throw in “it was hardly grabbing them by the pussy was it?” That will really irritate the Trumpsuckers.

Violet webcap (Cortinarius violaceus) growing under gorse today near the Devil’s Punchbowl in Surrey. An absolute stunner of a mushroom and nationally rare - it’s always good to see these beauties.
#ukfungi

Mark Telfer and I only went and refound Aulonia albimana on the Isle of Wight two days ago! Quite possibly the best spider find of my life! Lots of other records too. analternativenaturalhistoryofsussex.blogspot.com/2025/10/whit...

#spiders #Isleofwight #biologicalrecording #panspecieslisting

an industry smaller than Onlyfans. Fishing communities deserve protection, but mainly foreign owned industrial trawlers in marine reserves doesn't seem like a growth/nature trade-off that we should be making.

It’s the hope which kills you

I saw this coupe had been felled today as I drove down the Tweed Valley. Well done @wtscotsocial.bsky.social Just the bits at the eastern end now and also encourage FLS to allow the ancient woodland to expand up the hillside at next

Have just caught up with the Labour Party Deputy Leader hustings. @lucympowell.bsky.social should win by a landslide if judged on the hustings. Relaxed, honest, recognises Labour losing voters to Greens/LibDems as well as Reform and need to rebuild Progressive Alliance.