Sarah Dalrymple

A female Greenfinch is perched on a branch looking unwell. Her feathers are fluffed up, which can be a sign of trichomonosis.

Help @rspbscience.bsky.social study bird disease (trichomonosis) outbreaks

If you see a sick or dead bird in your garden, please report it here: gardenwildlifehealth.org

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📷 Ben Andrew

This is incredible

"de-extinction feels like a distraction from the unfinished business of protecting life in the present"
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Incredibly disappointing that two extremely wealthy creatives, George Martin and Peter Jackson, have chosen to invest in this rather than fund immediately impactful conservation efforts

Fire A year ago, in November 2019, life was pretty different. My family and I were half a planet away living deep in the mountains of Victoria’s great dividing range, borrowing my parent in laws&#…

Fire: what it's like living very remote and off-grid in a wildfire zone, and what communications actually worked effectively

toolsfortherevolution.com/fire/

Still from the 1941 film "Love on the Dole", with the unfortunate subtitle "She's a strange lassie's arsehole".

Catastrophic subtitling on the 1941 movie "Love on the Dole".

(It should read "She's a strange lass, is our Sal"...)

Is it teasel?

When helicopters poisoned a tiny island in the Galápagos, a 'once-extinct' animal appeared | Discover Wildlife Thought to be extinct on Rábida Island, the leaf-toed gecko has reappeared after conservationists worked to rid the island of invasive, non-native rats.

The Leaf-toed gecko has reappeared on Rábida Island (Galápagos Islands).

Previously, it had only been known on the island from 5,000-year old fossils.

“The return of this gecko highlights nature’s incredible power to heal itself when given the chance”
www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts...

Coquet Island sees Razorbill chicks fledge for the first time - BBC News The RSPB says it is "incredibly rewarding" to watch the population thrive on Coquet Island.

The bit of good news for #SuperSeabirdSunday

#Razorbill #Seabirds

Seen on a lovely hike from Scots Gap along the Wannie line, up to Greenleighton, across and back onto the Wannie line, then back through Rothley, pics here -

sarahdal.github.io/northumberla...

Britain has gained a new butterfly!

The long-anticipated arrival of Southern Small White (Pieris mannii) has been confirmed.

ON a mossy stone in the middle of a stream, several legs and a claw of a crustacean. They are blue-white coloured.

I am holding one of the crustacean claws in my hand. It is about three-fingers width long, dark blue and has a rough surface.

I know nothing about Crayfish, but can we tell if this otter's dinner was native or signal? In the Wannies in Central Northumberland

no worries, glad to help, I wasn't expecting to see anything there so was quite surprised!

@neheritagelib.bsky.social I walked by Longwitton Colliery today, there still a small bit standing, is this pic useful for NEHL? www.northeastheritagelibrary.co.uk/coalsarchive...

Public toilets in Whitby are ‘drain’ on council finances with ‘urgent’ action required Whitby’s public toilets are a ‘drain’ on the town council’s finances and have resulted in more than £85,000 of above income expenditure since 2018.

“Unfortunately, the toilets have never made a profit, they have never even been cost neutral.”

Insane quote...
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/people/...

Godzilla: The Series surprisingly managed to correctly predict the advent of Gen AI in 1998, and had an appropriate lesson at the end of the episode.

YouTube video by WILDLABS.NET Mobilizing Motus: Optimizing a Wildlife Tracking Data Pipeline

Meet the WILDLABS Awards 2024 grantee from @birdscanada.bsky.social who's improving aerial species monitoring by reducing bottlenecks, increasing accessibility, and building new data streams on the Motus Wildlife Tracking System:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSN4...

We’ve had a fantastic 2025 Festival of Archaeology at Yeavering. Thank you to all those who came out to site, to learn and share. Particular thanks to our collaborators @arcdurham @adgefrin @aclereenactment. We’re already planning for next year! #FestivalofArchaeology #Yeavering #Northumbria

The next bridge along has been closed for several years because of a similar structural issue.

Almost like the Council deciding to outsource the parks to a charity, and then that failing and bringing them back in house hasn't really worked in either case.

The end of the road? What The Salt Path scandal means for the nature memoir It wasn’t the first hit memoir to tell a story of redemption inspired by the great outdoors – but could it become one of the last? Authors and publishers assess the damage

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

From the Fauxmoi community on Reddit: Olivia Rodrigo brought out Weezer as a special guest at Lollapalooza Explore this post and more from the Fauxmoi community

@nickoctopus.bsky.social sorry it's a reddit link, I can't find a decent video of it anywhere else, Olivo Rodrigo + Weezer

www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/co...

Shooting estates failing to declare millions of Pheasants – could spell disaster in Avian Influenza epidemic Shooting estates in England are failing to declare millions of Pheasants that are being bred, reared and released in to the countryside. That’s the finding of new research published yesterday…

Excellent research by @guyshrubsole.bsky.social

What are the implications of having millions of 'ghost Pheasants' wandering around the countryside? In a #BirdFlu epidemic it could be catastrophic.

#Ornithology #UKBirding

raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/08/01/s...

This is a nice bit of public art, but I think it underlines the Mayor's view of cycling, that it's a leisure activity that's associated with tourism, and not a sustainable Active Travel alternative.

Like much of the cycling infrastructure in the North East, it's form over function.

Cont.

Happy news: 🪶 , the last tern chicks now survived for a week at #localpatch

Offshore, Reform UK Style.

#OilSlickDick

Belgium Bans Internet Archive's 'Open Library' in Sweeping Site Blocking Order * TorrentFreak A Belgian court ordered intermediaries to block access to major shadow libraries, including the Internet Archive's Open Library.

wow, Belgium's banned the Internet Archive torrentfreak.com/belgium-bans...

A bird’s-eye view of the gannet colony at St Kilda The first drone census at St Kilda has revealed the islands are now home to the world’s largest gannet colony.

Results from the 2023 #StKilda Gannet census are to be published in the December issue of #ScottishBirds, revealing relative stability in what is once again the world's largest colony, despite fears that #HPAI may have had a greater impact on the population
#NTSSeabirds
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Close up of cover of 1895 book, North American Shore Birds, by Daniel Giraud Elliot, showing a breeding-plumage Spoon-billed sandpiper

Cover of 1895 book, North American Shore Birds, by Daniel Giraud Elliot

Spoon-billed sandpiper on the *cover* of "North American Shore Birds" from 1895! Now one of the rarest birds in the world (<450 adults), this lists only 2 North American records, both from Kotzebue Peninsula, Alaska. All known breeding locations are across the Bering Strait in Russia 🦉🌍🧪 1/3

Such awesome #seabirds - one of ~430 Storm-petrels ringed in the Nólsoy colony last night w/ @jasonwalczak.bsky.social @trevormaclaurin.bsky.social @anneausems.bsky.social, plus one UK-ringed bird. No tapes used, just one 18-metre mist net - the colony is quite dense!

Uncommon Ground - British Wildlife Uncommon Ground Patrick Galbraith Uncommon Ground by Patrick Galbraith is a punchy and well-written ‘establishment’ take on the enduring discourse surrounding the public’s right to access the countrys...

An excellent review. The first I’ve seen to appreciate that this book has a clear agenda from the outset. Most readers have fallen for the ‘fair and balanced’ line in the blurb. Not Sam Hackney:
www.britishwildlife.com/uncommon-gro...