Joncbirder

There’s being thick.
And there’s being thick, and wrong, and racist.
#FullHouse

A cracking day at North West Bird Watching Festival at WWT Martin Mere today.
Enjoyed leading a guided birding walk this morning, and chatting to lots of folk.
Back for more tomorrow!

@btobirds.bsky.social
#Birds #Birding

Bird migration is changing. What does this reveal about our planet? – visualised Bird migrations rank as one of nature’s greatest spectacles. Thanks to GPS tracking, scientists are uncovering extraordinary insights into ancient and mysterious journeys – and new threats that are re...

This is brilliant.
I was delighted to be involved in it, even in a small way.

#birds #BirdMigration

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I've always loved Hendrix's solo from The Wind Cries Mary.

One of my fave Hendrix songs, if not my actual fave. Beautifully played Jase. 💚

Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Has Accepted £2.3 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests, Climate Deniers, and Polluters Since 2019 Election Reform UK has received more than £2.3 million from oil and gas interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since December 2019, amounting to 92 percent of the party’s donations...

Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com

Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown

Just emphasises how close current reality is to satire. Nothing seems too bizarre.

Another frighteningly believable gem… 😜

The last of my tomatoes… looks like Tim Burton may have been mucking about in my garden 🤔

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Marge’s ‘Foilage’.
I haven’t been able to pronounce foliage correctly for years.

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Another classic from the Courier’s esteemed correspondent.

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Watching Trump deliver his ‘speech’ at the UN in New York is quite something. Something utterly nuts, that is.
Immigration and anti-green policies take the lead, delivered in a manner that Colin Robinson would be proud of.

Every year hundreds of thousands of familiar songbirds – blackcaps, robins and warblers – are illegally trapped and slaughtered in Cyprus using glue-coated limesticks, mist-nets and electronic callers to supply a secret market for “ambelopoulia.”

Learn more: www.operationdeadair.org

"I said they are just ordinary people with legitimate concerns, peacefully protesting. What did I say Roy?"
"You said they're a bunch of far right racist twats"

Unfortunately not, I barely left our stand all day! Heard great stuff about it though, from those who did.

Had a top time at @wildsummituk.bsky.social in Bristol on Thurs, representing @btobirds.bsky.social with colleagues.
Met lots of great folk & old pals & familiar faces. Good to see the tremendous @mrhenrymorris.substack.com there, but sadly missed my chance to say hello… his loss, obvs.

Blimey, just walked past this without spotting it. Thanks to my colleague for pointing it out!
21 years old… 😕

#Bristol #EddieCochran

Looking forward to being in Bristol for this on Thursday! (Despite the tube strike’s best efforts to derail travel plans!)

@btobirds.bsky.social

I bet all those ‘defund the BBC’ clots are glad no one took any notice of them now. #BBC continues, unashamedly, to promote Reform as the party of choice… not exactly balanced and impartial, is it?

THE REFORM CONFERENCE DIARY - DAY 2 More incredible undercover insights from deep inside the Reform machine

EXCLUSIVE- The Reform Conference Diary - Day 2

"09:15 - a motion is passed stating that the only people with an automatic right to UK residency should be those with pre-Saxon Romano-British DNA."

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I love this article… endlessly fascinating and really eye-opening (or more accurately, nostril-opening).

I did a thing on a radio prog recently about this very topic, but having read this fab piece, I barely scratched (and sniffed) the surface…

#ornithology #birds @btobirds.bsky.social

I suspect the reality may even be worse than this.

Think of the children..!

A mob of angry drunken men screaming abuse outside an asylum hotel have defended their actions, saying all they want is for women and girls to feel safe walking the streets.

From the new Private Eye, out now.

I hate wokey doughky.

Ask Nigel An anonymous Prime Minister asks 'how can I stop fixating so much on foreigners?'

EXCLUSIVE - ASK NIGEL is back!

This week an anonymous Prime Minister asks, 'How can I stop fixating so much on foreigners?'

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Ouch.