Neil Manthorpe

Has reporting - apart from structured atlas work - always reflected this bias? I recall reading that we missed the decline in Starlings and House Sparrows because they are 'always there' and were not counted.

Sat 8th and Sun 9th?

*Reminder* Our next Open day is this coming Saturday 18th October. We look forward to seeing you there.

And it's still not illegal in the UK - despite governments saying they'll introduce a ban for the last DECADE!

Also, NHS trans youth care is now nothing BUT conversion therapy.

“What’s the charge? Eating a seal?”

One of my favourite books as a child

Here’s to the birdwatchers! Optimistic, slightly eccentric custodians of wonder and joy and passion and love At its heart, birdwatching is an act of quiet rebellion, says Natalie Kyriacou. It is the gentle act of noticing – the willingness to see the world around you

Written for an Australian audience but much of it applies to birders everywhere, although as a tribe we don’t all reach the lofty heights described 🙂

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

5 (including host) vs 1
Should be interesting 😅
Go get'm @zackpolanski.bsky.social !

We know why don't we Mr #starmer

The Met condemned the Palestine Action demonstrations for taking officers away from protecting the Jewish community. I’d understood the Met set their own priorities. Do they not think that protecting people from terrorists is more important than arresting people for sitting about holding placards?

Police arrest peaceful protestors under the Terrorism Act for silently holding signs in opposition to genocide and the Palestine Action ban.

The absurd proscription was a huge political misstep that has led to over a thousand people arrested for sign holding. It must be lifted.

Congratulations to The Rt Revd and Rt Hon Dame Sarah Mullally on the release of her new album today.

A group photo of the BTO and BirdWatch Ireland team together on the top of a cliff with green vegetation in the foreground and blue sea in the background.

A group photo of the BTO and SOC team together sitting on a bench and standing in front of a wood timber building.

A group photo of the BTO and WOS team together standing in front of a building with a small tree behind them.

Exciting news! We’re planning the upcoming Bird Atlas 2027-31, and have met with @birdwatchireland.bsky.social @scottishbirding.bsky.social and @birdsinwales.bsky.social to discuss how we can work together on what we hope will be the most productive Atlas yet. #Ornithology #UKBirding

This is a clear sign that the Overton window has shifted when it comes to race and national identity. It’s a disturbing and dangerous change which goes to show liberal values aren’t universal or inevitable, but something you have to fight for.

Reform say it is "disgusting and libellous" to suggest that Nigel Farage flirted with Hitler Youth when he was young.

Here's how a former teacher at his school remembers it

Who could disagree?

Graphic displays a photo by Sam Langlois/BTO of a Herring gull chick. In the top right hand corner is the Seabird Monitoring Programme logo. The caption reads: 'Herring Gull plumage varies vastly between hatching and becoming adults! Initially, they are leggy balls of black-speckled down, soon to embark on a shifting plumage journey! Discover their plumage changes in this thread⬇️ #seabirds #birds @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social'

Herring Gull plumage varies vastly between hatching and becoming adults! Initially, they are leggy balls of black-speckled down, soon to embark on a shifting plumage journey!

Discover their plumage changes in this thread ⬇️ #seabirds #birds @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

Our Peggy is 12 today. She came to us from @dogstrust.bsky.social when she was 4. Here she is helping herself to toys in @petsathome.bsky.social . Happy Birthday Pegs! ( though she's not on social media...) 😊🎂🍗🥩🧀

But someone else will have driven him to it - his hatred of antifa lgpt communists eg

But nought changeth he 😉

So James Delingpole hasn't changed then? My wife tells me he was a bit of a prat when at #ChCh in the mid-eighties - many of us grow-up after patchy undergraduate years!

A sensible woman

I'm assuming that every opponent of migration does not consider themselves guilty of assaulting the police because a small number of their folk did so on the protest in London. It is incitement of the worst kind for the MSM to repeat these stories - and they know. 2/2

And even if one or two swans were being taken and consumed - compared to vast numbers of pheasants released and shot as sport and raptors killed to protect shooting interests - it is the idea that all migrants to our land are guilty of the same so-called offence because one of two fall short 1/2

A row of military graves (at Hermanville Cemetery, Sword Beach, Normandy)

All the Antifa my grandad fought with in 1944.

An interesting, informative and digestible issue of @britishbirds.bsky.social journal this month 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

📚 There's a lot of critical environmental decisions piling up on ministers' desks.

🚀 None more so than the environmental improvement plan, which has stalled. Defra Secretary Emma Reynolds must get the new plan out the door and drive its implementation at pace.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I still can't quite believe that the very first attacks from Labour on Farage's bonkers idea to kick millions of people with INDEFINITE right to remain out of the UK were to argue that it's infeasible and wouldn't save anything like the amount he claimed.

How about:
- It's WRONG
- It's IMMORAL
?

Clean, affordable water belongs to all of us. I’ve told the new Environment Secretary to act on real evidence for public ownership and put people first. Join me:https://actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-emma-reynolds-to-base-water-policy-on-facts-not-water-industry-fake-maths?source=bluesky&

Why did the BBC broadcast Nigel Farage uninterrupted for 56 minutes this morning?

Nobody wants this, he has 4 seats, does any other party gets this coverage?

The biased people at the BBC putting Nigel Farage on day after day need to be removed.