Mark Andrews

Not that I know of and this is multicultural Leicester. More likely suppliers shifting cheap.

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Our paper in December's @britishbirds.bsky.social describes success in using sound recording for detecting Lesser Spotted Woodpeckers. We found Lesser Spots still present in woodlands where they have not been seen/heard for years. This is very exciting www.woodpecker-network.org.uk/index.php/ne...

Here in Leicester too. Why? 🤬

High levels of ‘forever chemical’ found in cereal products across Europe – study Pesticide Action Network Europe study finds average concentrations 100 times higher than in tap water

“The highest levels were found in Irish breakfast cereal, followed by Belgian wholemeal bread, then German wholemeal bread, then French baguette. It was found across a huge range of products, from spaghetti, to cheese scones and ginger bread.” 🥖

Evidence of long-term woodland persistence despite prolonged anthropogenic stress: The combined use of pollen and place-names in lowland Leicestershire, UK - Hannah Sellers, Juan Carlos Berrio, Stef D... A multimillennial analysis of woodland ecosystems in the Leicestershire landscape (UK) shows significant anthropogenic stress over the last six millennia. We tr...

Congratulations to my colleague at Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust Dr @hannahjsellers.bsky.social on the publication of the second paper from her PhD!

Read the #OpenAccess paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Same here.

Volume up 🔊...

The wonderful sound of a couple of hundred Twite - known here in Shetland as 'Linties' - at Loch of Spiggie in one of the 40 'Bumblebird' wildlife-friendly crops grown by crofters and the Shetland Species on the Edge team in 2025. 👏

#BirdingScotland #UKbirding #Birds #UKWildlife

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This Swallow at Balranald, N Uist this afternoon appears to be the American subspecies: erythrogaster due to the lack of a dark band across the lower throat.

Keep me going over winter! 🤞

I’ve always felt it had possibility, wet scrubby habitat similar to that favoured out east but to find two in four years on a 150metre stretch of river is just bonkers. I think they’re overlooked, though I’ve obs had a dump. 2 YBW, 2 Sibe Chiff and Firecrest.

Absolutely! Been watching two today on my Leicester patch. They go absolutely mental at Sibe playback, wing flicking and bombing like mini skuas. Love em!

Unbelievable. Two Sibe Chiffs and the Dusky on the patch, we could really do with a county Hume’s!

More obliging 😳… Ace!

Mega mate, I’ve also been in the ‘am I hallucinating phase’ on the patch in Leicester but the east coast has certainly been delivering!

I like that one, congrats.

A trip to Aylestone Meadows, Leicester for the Dusky Warbler, which showed well despite its reputation as a 'skulker'. A bogey bird put to rest, my 7th British lifer for 2025.

Thanks to the finder @beidaihebirder.bsky.social for help locating the bird. Photo by @jcbirder.bsky.social

#UKbirding

Thanks Chris. Still analysing the absurdity!

That’s brilliant Chris, these wanderers give a smidgen of hope.

Thanks Tim. It’s Bonkers really, both county records both self found on the patch in the middle of England. 🤷🏼‍♂️
Good habitat though!

Proof lightning does strike twice. @beidaihebirder.bsky.social found the second Dusky Warbler at Aylestone Meadows, 100m from the site of the Christmas Eve 2021 bird. Proved patchworking works. #vc55birds #ukbirding

After a dawn raid on the Point, this little beauty was cowering in the buckthorn on my birding walk back, not far south of the Breach at Spurn. Thomas Willoughby’s brilliant pic. Bird of a lifetime. A British tick as well 😂

Eastern Yellow Wagtail on St Kilda today! Sound recording on a phone isn't easy, but the bird had a short raspy call, not dissimilar to a Citrine Wag.
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Or are there two?

Hand held iPhone Bempton Swift.

Wow! Tracking a butterfly with motus!

Just published: Conservation genomics of two
endangered buntings reveal genetic diversity
before and after severe population declines. doi.org/10.1186/s129... Despite severe population declines, both species retained high genetic diversity but experienced increased inbreeding. #ornithology #birds

Nothing obvious here at present.