A well-know maker of fantasy 'documentaries' opines...
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@chrisbirder.bsky.social
Londoner in Scotland via Gloucestershire Birder and wildlife gardener.
A well-know maker of fantasy 'documentaries' opines...
05.12.2025 23:14 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Another attempt to explain "the hostility to wolves by segments of agribusiness & the general public... given that wolf predation is not responsible for a large number of cattle & sheep losses, with only a very modest economic effect on the livestock industry."
In US but valid for UK: see next post!
Final frames of Killing Joke
This century has been a good one for the greedy, the ignorant , the cowardly , the narcissistic , the cruel and the awful - Trump getting FIFAs inaugural peace prize has had me laughing like Batman and The Joker at the end of Killing Joke
05.12.2025 20:30 β π 70 π 8 π¬ 2 π 0In the almost perma-darkness of a highland winter itβs good to remember back to the summer, and those special otherworldly moments that you only get at night in midsummer! #highlandbirds πͺΆ
05.12.2025 22:01 β π 23 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0What is going on here?
05.12.2025 18:37 β π 1819 π 432 π¬ 944 π 68How much cat do you have in you?
05.12.2025 18:36 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0There is much to say on this, but the very first point that must be made as a matter of urgency to the NEC is that excluding trans women is not a "compromise position", it is a segregation position, a biased position, a transphobic position and a morally repugnant position.
05.12.2025 17:54 β π 65 π 19 π¬ 4 π 0The Trump administration released its latest National Security Strategy--and one thing that can be said is that there is no more pretending. Itβs a plan to weaken European unity, to make Europe MAGA, to force Europe to take economic dictation by the USAβ¦. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
05.12.2025 10:08 β π 404 π 226 π¬ 24 π 54Nobody should ever watch this amoral, genocide-washing circus again.
05.12.2025 10:07 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0The uncontrolled destruction of marine life is the reason I've stopped eating fish - initially farmed fish, now all fish. Anyone who cares about the marine environment needs to do the same.
05.12.2025 08:59 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This is a cataclysmic collapse of a marine food web, caused in large part by commercial fishing. This needs to stop, and sardine populations around South Africa need a chance to recover.
05.12.2025 08:43 β π 31 π 16 π¬ 1 π 0We are going to irreversibly degrade the biosphere for the sake of people asking 'Grok' to explain simple memes and/or generating pictures of cats that look like Hitler.
04.12.2025 22:37 β π 16 π 5 π¬ 1 π 0My wife went to see him in London in the summer - fantastic, she said!
04.12.2025 23:00 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The Office for Environmental Protection says stronger, statutory targets are needed for protected sites. We agree.
Yet the Governmentβs revised βEnvironmental Improvement Planβ, published earlier this week, did the opposite: weakening targets & slowing the action nature needs.
If anybody has any insight about why the UK supported the proposal to downlist the Peregrine, Iβd love to hear it.
04.12.2025 15:32 β π 20 π 12 π¬ 5 π 0Quisling in the making.
04.12.2025 22:43 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Farage has been dismissing evidence of Russian ties to the Salisbury Novichok attack since 2018 π§
04.12.2025 19:52 β π 1345 π 628 π¬ 76 π 45I think it is important to know WI and Girl Guides have not voluntarily moved into excluding trans girls and women they have been pushed into by bigot zealots and the law being an ass
04.12.2025 22:00 β π 199 π 26 π¬ 9 π 2So what do our wonderful farmers do - they organise 'tractor runs' all over the country, wasting their hard-earned money and pumping tons of fossil CO2 into the atmosphere.
Thick as mince?
Rather than apologising for his antisemitism, Farage demands the BBC apologise for the antisemitism of Alf Garnett, a fictional character created to satirise antisemitism, who was portrayed by a Jewish man.
04.12.2025 19:57 β π 1248 π 327 π¬ 56 π 18@markgolley.bsky.social
04.12.2025 22:10 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0These three birds are definitely not french hens, but for advent this is a lovely mosaic so we're posting it anyway.
www.romansociety.org/Imago/Image-...
The Doves of Pliny will do any day!
04.12.2025 17:20 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If @nationaltrust halved its financial reserve, bought 150+ strategic UK sites for climate and wildlife, and opened up new public access via members, would its membership actually rise?
Why not try it?
NT greatest source of income is direct from members and property.
Lowest from investments.
One man's 'offensive' is everyone else's 'racist and malicious', I suppose.
04.12.2025 17:10 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I intended to post this for #GreenSat but forgot. Which is pretty typical for me. Who doesn't appreciate green #moths?
#colouraday #green #teammoth
I'd be the last person to not appreciate a green moth!
04.12.2025 17:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I think we're all at it now - mothing when birding, gardening, sorting the shed, walking, living, breathing...π
04.12.2025 15:35 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Why has this area been felled? The Clashindarroch was called a βwildcat wonderlandβ by the govt, it is not disputed that there is a nationally important population of wildcats there....
www.change.org/p/scottish-g...