Pleasant hour at RLV, Lytchett Bay high tide am good to see Wigeon back, juv & male ad Marsh Harrier, Green Sandpiper flyby. Also an unseen but calling Grey Plover over, plus a Kingfisher zipped through @narwhalsh.bsky.social @ianballam.bsky.social @harbourbirds.bsky.social
25.09.2025 09:45 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
August moths & birding catch-up twoowlsbirding.blogspot.com/2025/09/
@lytchettbirder.bsky.social
06.09.2025 13:55 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Along Soldiers Road, Hartland Moor at Stud farm 1 Hobby put up a small flock of Meadow Pipit, Yellow Wags, 3 Wheatear, further up Redstart & Hobby best @harbourbirds.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social
06.09.2025 10:05 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Madness from @naturescot.bsky.social
Pls sign petition
The practice dates from when locals were forced to survive by any means. Now they can go to a supermarket & do NOT need to kill Gannets for the fun of eating them. Some traditions just need to be stopped for good @naturescot.bsky.social
10.08.2025 16:27 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Dave Goulson
No More Beewashing! Why beekeeping doesn't help conserve bees.
No more Beewashing please! Why beekeeping doesn't help conserve bees. Pls RT if you agree.
youtu.be/fiBYBmlKSYU
17.07.2025 15:04 — 👍 314 🔁 177 💬 12 📌 18
It must be flying ants coming out in the front garden. Black-headed Gulls are swooping around our front garden really low quite an amazing sight.
28.06.2025 17:18 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Purbeck NNR Heathland survey this am with @lytchettbirder.bsky.social Stonechats and Linnets busy with their families, Tree Pipit, a single Woodlark, singing Redstart and a gorgeous showy pair of Spotted Flycatchers. @harbourbirds.bsky.social
@dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social #dorsetbirds
11.06.2025 15:10 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Irreplaceable habitats are on the line. This is the reality if an unamended Part 3 of the Bill passes.
It must not.
03.06.2025 14:57 — 👍 255 🔁 129 💬 5 📌 5
Great morning at Martin Down with 15 butterflies including Cinnabar moth and Broad-bordered Bee Hawk-moth. Hard to think of when I've seen so many Marsh Fritillaries, also Dingy and Grizzled Skipper, Green Hairstreak - an absolute delight @savebutterflies.bsky.social
07.05.2025 14:07 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
We sat eating lunch next to a singing Nightingale looking over a valley when an adult White-tailed Eagle comes into view, just amazing. A wonderful day at RSPB Pulborough Brooks in W Sussex.
29.04.2025 20:14 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
If a crime is suspected a PM should be done within days to establish cause of death and if necessary inform a police investigation. A poor show by Natural England, a public body, not to keep the public informed.
28.04.2025 05:04 — 👍 28 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 0
Did our Heathland Bird survey this morning with @lytchettbirder.bsky.social on Purbeck NNR and great to record a family party of Woodlark, several Tree Pipit, Linnet, Stonechat but not even one Dartford! A singing Redstart was a nice surprise. @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social
24.04.2025 17:00 — 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
After the recent Dorset fires, I am campaigning to ban disposable BBQs.
Sign my petition to show your support.
Link here – tinyurl.com/vikkibbqban -
10.04.2025 13:31 — 👍 59 🔁 26 💬 3 📌 4
A look across Wild Woodbury DWT reserve from the roadside, these lovely ponies & piggies coming over to investigate us but also heard Cuckoo, a quick glimpse of Whitethroat plus Yellowhammer, Skylark and Linnets on a beautiful early evening.
21.04.2025 18:18 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Fairly quiet on breezy visit to Wareham Forest this morning, star bird was a soaring Osprey at Sherford Bridge seemed to be unringed, giving lovely prolonged view. @woodfordliz.bsky.social @harbourbirds.bsky.social
14.04.2025 11:58 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
I agree I also have RA and buying shoes is a nightmare!
10.04.2025 12:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Osprey with fish circling over top of Middlebere track @harbourbirds.bsky.social
31.03.2025 13:33 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Walk close to home at Lytchett Bay and our first Willow Warbler and Swallow of the spring, lots of Chiff Chaff singing. @ianballam.bsky.social @woodfordliz.bsky.social @narwhalsh.bsky.social #dorsetbirds
29.03.2025 10:38 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Be tick aware! As the season springs into action and birders are wandering about more and more, be alive to emerging, hungry ticks.
Prevention is better than cure!
#birdingWales #birdingScotland #UKbirding
28.03.2025 09:32 — 👍 36 🔁 12 💬 3 📌 0
A tinted portrait of Rachel Reeves, the UK Chancellor, is overlaid with bold white text reading: "Is Rachel Reeves about to defund nature?" Below, lime-green text warns that the UK Government might be cutting the farming budget, which would be disastrous for both farmers and nature.
Right now, the UK Government is considering cuts to the nature-friendly farming budget – the biggest pot of funding for nature.
Here’s why that would be a disaster for farmers, food security, and wildlife.
A thread. 🧵👇
26.02.2025 14:07 — 👍 208 🔁 99 💬 10 📌 8
A walk in Wareham Forest towards Woolsbarrow Fort was quiet at first, usual Stonechat, Coal Tit , Siskin then we turned to go back and a cacophony of sound and 5/6 Crossbill flew around. One male sang in a dead pine. What a sound and show, still smiling 😊 @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social #dorsetbirds
25.02.2025 12:29 — 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
At last Redwing 20+ at home, the first this winter we’ve seen but didn’t stay long, disturbed by people walking by. @narwhalsh.bsky.social @ianballam.bsky.social @woodfordliz.bsky.social #lytchettbay
12.02.2025 10:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Lancashire birder/naturalist/ecologist/wildlife speaker and photographer in exile on Flamborough Head, East Yorkshire.
Local Birding + coastal and downland natural history. Sightings from occasional trips further afield. Previously on Twitter/X @CharmouthBirder
Mainly Bramber/Steyning, West Sussex
We're Dorset's biggest conservation charity, caring for 42 nature reserves and managing 4 visitor centres and a National Nature Reserve.
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Birds, Music, Football, Politics. Not always in the same order #FBPE
I’m campaigning for more messy spaces for nature, join our messy mission and let’s Rewild together by doing less- and letting nature do the rest!
PhD researcher - Rewilding with Beavers 🦫
Founder of the Wee Pond Project 🐸
Aims to further knowledge and protection of birds of prey and owls in the county of Dorset, with a special interest in Hobby.
At my happiest with my camera photographing birds. Love to travel with a passion to see as many species of Terns as I can. Living in Dorset
1 of the UK's premier bird observatories, with hostel style accommodation. Follow for bird news, events and much more. Map of area here http://bit.ly/spurnobs
Retired Tayside Police and National Wildlife Crime Unit officer. Author of 10 books on wildlife, wildlife crime and of http://wildlifedetective.wordpress.com
Wildlife enthusiast, Bird watcher, Dad, Husband. Rave music lover.
Lib Dem MP for Mid Dorset & North Poole
Love to read, walk my crazy dog & investigate my family history
Could live on cheese, coffee & dark chocolate
Passionate about climate, children & community development
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Dorset based amateur photographer with an interest for birds, volcanoes, nature, geography, natural disasters, football, and history. Proud father of 1 girl, British and proud, against the woke culture. Views are my own.
Naturalist, author, editor, photographer. Written 15 books, won two awards, but happiest when avoiding the computer. Norfolk. jameslowen.com
wildlife, travelling and Wildlife Travel
(does what it says on the tin)
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