Mike Warburton wins today's Photo of the Week for his outstanding Eurasian Goshawk portrait:
So all I’ve heard is 6 US serviceman have died on mainstream media. Whatever your opinions on the war, the tragic deaths of school children & teachers in Iran should be equally portrayed. @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social @nbcnews.com @nbcnews.com
Little Owl ‘singing’ from our garden this evening. Reminiscent of Scops Owl #ukbirding #cheshirebirding
There is that difference in structure as well possibly sexual, our bird being a ♂
Yes Tom you’re right, I aged mine as a 1w or 2cy but the East coast bird is clearly much paler and just checked is on RBA as a 2w. Should’ve checked that before! Well spotted.
Interesting looking at your pics, here’s a pic of the bird I had on Blakeney Point on 17th Feb not a great image, but surely a different bird. The bill structure and head to me feel obviously heavier!?
It was good watching the local Pink-feet earlier this week and not too difficult to find some nice Tundra Beans amongst them, especially when there was a total of 18 amongst them! Also 3 Russian White-fronted Geese with this group.
Some decent weather at last! Good to see my local Goshawk population is doing very well, managed at least 3 different males this morning, possibly four! @danmartinwildlife.bsky.social
A good long walk yesterday down Blakeney Point with @mandymyers007.bsky.social proved worthwhile with a Merlin, Great N Diver and this beefcake Glaucous Gull on the end, which unfortunately got flushed before I could get some better pics, real chunky one with a colossal bill.
William Nordhaus received the Nobel Memorial Prize for these flawed economic models, and Bjorn Lomborg built a highly lucrative career on them.
They told rich and powerful people what they wanted to hear.
While helping to consign us all to catastrophe.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We have had multiple Yellow Weather Warnings and one Amber Weather warning for snow this winter covering our Peak District village. Snow depth peaked at about 7 cm with nothing on the last Yellow. Meanwhile images of yesteryear below... #ShiftingBaselines #ClimateChange
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Remember her name: Aliya Rahman
Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself.
It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did.
ICE MUST GO‼️
Out locally on the bike this pm. Rode past these fields with margins and cover strips, but might we be better off putting those subsidies towards educating #farmers on how to cut hedgerows? Plus not smash all the bramble down, a really important nectar source?
#farmland #conservation
Great morning around Salthouse & @nwtcley
with Steve Lewis, Twite, Jack Snipe, lots of Red-throated Divers and a Pale-bellied Brent showing at point blank range. Some nice shoreline delights to be found too!
Accept that trichomonosis has been an issue, though is they’re evidence that it has killed millions of Chaffinch & Greenfinch. The article you were referring to deals with the increase of competition in species where generalists such as Blue, Great Tit & GSWP may benefit.
Goldcrests might be tiny, but they can certainly travel a long way. A male Goldcrest ringed in Lincolnshire was caught alive 1,665 km away in northern Sweden 11 months later! #Winterwatch
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
Blimey, the Firecrest was ringed on 03/11/25 at the Skagen Fugelstation on the northernmost tip of Denmark #birdingFife
Our landscapes & the food for our wildlife is so vastly manipulated it’s tricky to just come down hard on garden bird feeding. Plus the article doesn’t reach conclusions, it just raises questions of what are or aren’t the benefits.
Tricky to leave it here!? Interesting & relevant arguments/debate. But to give context Wn Europe has had massive artificial supplies of food from many sources over 60+years, benefiting certain sp. Sugar beet, winter stubbles, artificial lakes full of fish, refuse tips, fishing fleets etc 1/2
China has the largest installed wind capacity in the world.
There was a wonderful selection of the rare & scarce showing well at Filby broad but you couldn’t ignore this showy stunning ♂ Goldeneye!
A thoroughly enjoyable day out East started with sifting through a few thousand Pink-feet, great to watch at least 7 Tundra Beans, this group of three showing nicely!
A wonderful experience to have guided this Botswana tour for @oriolebirding.bsky.social the full trip report is now online here www.oriolebirding.com/.../Botswana....
This tour runs again in November 2026 - if you're interested, an amazing trip!
For me, the prettiest flower of our New Year Plant Hunt had to be the exquisite soft indigo & snow white of the Ivy-leaved Toadflax. I mean, this is just wow!
@linnetincley.bsky.social
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
#cleyplants
Meeting Andy!?
Have a great day tomorrow!
Here’s some video dwarfed by the Greylags & only fractionally bigger than the RWF Geese.
The general consensus amongst many of the respected birders here is that it’s a Taiga. I saw it today & was pretty amazed how small it was & wasn’t totally convinced. I’m going to bow to the combined knowledge of those birders, but it’s definitely a tricky bird! Very small, for me atypical bill.
