Keir Starmer abandoned net zero to court Reform voters. He failed
01.03.2026 13:41 β π 177 π 58 π¬ 45 π 38@wheatear9.bsky.social
I go birding and been all over but not away much these days except Europe and UK. Suffolk is always a focus but will be out and about more 2025. Love sea-watching, when conditions are right. I have local Mid Suffolk inland patch.
Keir Starmer abandoned net zero to court Reform voters. He failed
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#KatrynTickellandtheDarkening brilliant at the Apex BSE last night.
Her Northumbrian pipes lament for the Sycamore Gap Tree was tear jerkingly good! Folk Rock at its best!
Early Sand Martin at Trimley this morning present for about 1.5hrs around the reserve until the weather went driech! 31 WF still and high numbers of wildfowl. Couldnt make H. Tide this week
27.02.2026 17:48 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Hannah Spencer of the UK's left-wing Green Party won the contest for the vacant parliamentary seat of Gorton and Denton, with Nigel Farage's anti-immigration Reform party coming second, and Labour pushed into third place.
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Great result for the Greens today!
Clear message to @uklabour.bsky.social to wake up. How to beat #Reform and what a great candidate Hannah Spencer !
Off to my 2nd gig of the year tonight Apex Kathryn Tickell and the Darkening. Northumberlands finest should be good!
26.02.2026 14:38 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0#patch 1st Peacock of the year today. 2 GWE back again on lagoon
25.02.2026 17:36 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I knew we were a clever bunch www.newscientist.com/article/2516...
24.02.2026 11:29 β π 6 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0YouGovPoll only 15% think it an important issue. Its the most important one concerning every other issue Economy etc.
24.02.2026 13:31 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The RSPB has launched an urgent appeal for Β£10,000 to complete erosion control work at Titchwell Marsh, warning it is in a "race against time" ahead of the spring breeding season:
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Environment 15%? There is a significant link between all the issues on this list! I dont understand how this is not realised made a political priority or key educational issue. The Economy is a direct link it has been proven?
24.02.2026 13:24 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Unless of course trapped inside a reserves electric fence. At a place I spend a lot of time. Very difficult to get them out and breeding year on year becomes unsustainble and they do danage breeding wader nests! Only one option?
22.02.2026 14:21 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I agree many reasons to stop feeding birds and surprised @rspb.bsky.social and others are so slow to drop it? Lots of places in Suffolk have taken feeders away
22.02.2026 14:16 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I was watching foraging birds successfuly rooting out food in moss etc. in my garden and it resonated with me that we have been taking away their natural abilities with feeders. Definately not for me anymore disease spread as well not a viable option?
22.02.2026 13:10 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0#patch signs of Spring displaying Kites singing Cettis and Blackcap again. No Snipe this morning another sign perhaps?
22.02.2026 09:57 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Said the Draft Dodger!
21.02.2026 19:39 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Hey Donald "No"!
21.02.2026 19:27 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Toddler tantrum!
21.02.2026 17:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Back at Trimley today BarnOwl on a post for ay least 2hrs! At least 30 Whitefronts on Top Marsh good numbers of Waders and Wildfowl on scrapes at High Tide lots of water today
19.02.2026 18:57 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0#RoyalFamily Declined to Comment!
17.02.2026 22:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Spent 3hrs on the Stour at Holbrook looking for Slavonian Grebes fruitlessly! Lots of birds though many more than we have been getting downstream on HHB surveys
17.02.2026 15:02 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Does Starmer want to destroy @uklabour.bsky.social ?
16.02.2026 18:59 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0#patch A lot of water about these days!
16.02.2026 17:38 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
#GaryLineker went on to state that Jim #RATcliffe can have a moan about immigration 'when he starts paying his taxes'.
He shoots, he scores. Gary Lineker has made the most of his new-found freedoms since leaving the BBC
www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/doe...
#patch wander round in good light for a change yesterday. 1st Blackcap and pair of Oychs back. 2 Woodcock in the tree lines 2 Great Egrets flying over. My first Treecreeper surprisingly!
15.02.2026 09:13 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0#MattWeston GOLD !
13.02.2026 21:01 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0#patch 150+ Lapwings 300+ assorted Gulls with a potential YLG good numbers of wildfowl around and a very light phase Buzzard not one Ive seen before here this year.
13.02.2026 18:53 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Said one crook about another?
13.02.2026 10:03 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A few hrs at Trimley SWT displaying and food exchange Marsh Harriers well over 1000 Lapwings 1 Whitefront Goose 1 Water Pipit bit like the Somme down there!
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