Simon Tucker

Webb’s Wonder: Thursday, 9th October 2025 We had to postpone our session from yesterday because of rain. Fortunately my mid-week team of Laura, Miranda and Ellie could all make this morning and I think we are all pretty pleased that we did…

A surprisingly good session in Webb's Wood this morning:

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Why the ban on camp fires in the Cairngorms National Park maybe political rather than sustainable..... - parkswatchscotland NIMBYism’ and ‘Park politics’ rather than fire risk is probably behind the move to ban camp fires (see here).  My bet is that the Cairngorms National Park Authority (CNP) has caved in to pressure from...

Interesting: so muirburn is responsible for the vast majority of wildfires in the Cairngorms. What a surprise (😎)

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Apparently Suffolk is awash with them. I cannot pretend I have seen more than one in my north Wiltshire garden this morning!

Mine had disappeared for a couple of weeks, got a bit worried but the food was gone this morning. Trail camera out tonight, fingers crossed. Afraid I can't get to Norfolk

They could always try reducing the numbers released to the number they actually intend to eat, i.e. about 5% of the current figures (I admit it, made up statistic but, then, when it comes to the shooting industry they do that all the time so they can't complain too much)

John O'Connell

Hard to find a more accurate, succinct summary of the Reform Party.

Ain't that the truth!

British politics is basically a doom spiral of increasingly unhinged hostile policies.

Reform says something unhinged
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Labour counters with their own unhinged policy
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Tories shout from back they'll be even more unhinged
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Reform announces different unhinged proposal in response
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And repeat...🔁

If most of the politicians were (multiple times) it might improve things. Can anyone really see any difference between Labour, Tories and Reform? Same policies, same racism, same protection for the already wealthy, same lack of care for the majority.

Absolutely abominable and, unfortunately, he is young enough for this hypocrisy to go on for decades. We need a republic (just so long as we don't end up with a Trump equivalent).

I think it is the "they walk amongst us" nonsense - although with Trump et al they could be right!

Police to get broader powers to crack down on repeated protests The move is not a ban on protests but

Who elected the Fascist Party of Great Britain and Northern Ireland? This is not @teamlabouruk.bsky.social this is fascism!

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Fascists in uniform

29 ‘missing’ Hen Harriers & nearly 40 birds of prey poisoned, trapped or shot in Yorkshire Dales National Park since 2015 Media attention has been drawn to the Yorkshire Dales National Park this week, following the RSPB’s press release on the suspicious disappearance of a satellite-tagged Hen Harrier named &#821…

29 'missing' Hen Harriers & nearly 40 birds of prey poisoned, trapped or shot in Yorkshire Dales National Park since 2015.

Not so much a National Park - more of a National Disgrace.

#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime #Ornithology #Yorkshire

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Starmer to protesters: 'Respect grief of British Jews' The prime minister said pro-Palestinian protests happening at the weekend would cause distress.

How about Starmer showing some respect for those grieving the genocide in Gaza?

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Perhaps they could translocate those chicks into suitable woodland / forest habitat (or just leave them alone)? We are beginning to see them in woodland areas of north Wiltshire, as they have spread across from Gloucestershire where there is a healthy population, but there's a long way to go.

who runs Operation Turtle Dove and what are their qualifications?

I think the @rspb.bsky.social are being far too polite. Still, be interesting to know what the @nfudc.bsky.social say. No doubt blame it on foxes, badgers, Corvids etc. rather than the failure of their members to take conservation seriously, unlike @nffn.bsky.social
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Funny how the shooting estates have been trumpeting their "success" over recent years yet none of those successes seem to have lived long enough to breed. If their claims were valid there should be over 100 nesting pairs by now - but shooting, poisoning, trapping ensures this false flag keeps flying

What a load of nonsense. Read some Greek/Persian/Macedonian history. Still, everything is apparently the fault of the British, just ignoring every empire the world has ever known, including those that were contemporaneous with the Brits: France, Spain, Japan etc

Why sack her? Why not make her choose which contract she would continue with? Sounds petty and vindictive to me.

You mean white, racist KKK Man don't need him but all decent southern people, Man (so telling) and Woman certainly do, especially in these Trumpian, racist, fascist times

Don't forget Buffalo Springfield

So I won't watch it on C4, just like I didn't on the BBC.

She should be in jail and bankrupted, give her something genuine to moan about. Another right-wing snowflake.

Indeed

Child abuse

West Wilts Ringing Group Results: September 2025 Just our best month ever.  Prior to this month our best ever single month was in September 2023, with 1,802 birds processed.  This month we have broken the 2,000 mark. As usual. most of this is dow…

A remarkable September for our ringing group:

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Two Golden Eagles ‘disappear’ in south Scotland – Police appeal for information Press release from Police Scotland, 29 September 2025: APPEAL FOR MISSING GOLDEN EAGLE Detectives are appealing for information after a satellite-tagged golden eagle disappeared in the hills to the…

Two Golden Eagles 'disappear' in south Scotland - Police appeal for information raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/09/29/t...

Who lights the fires in the Cairngorms National Park? - parkswatchscotland [The post first appeared on Prof Douglas MacMillan’s Linked-In feed – ed] Last week Scottish Ministers approved a ban on recreational fires and barbecues in the Cairngorms National Park between 1 Apri...

Just more evidence of how politics is corrupted by the wealth and power of a few individuals and their undue influence to which everything else is subservient.
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