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T.E. Lawrence wrote The Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Isabel, the latter-day sage of the desert, may have to do with The Small Bollard of Thickness.

I'd agree. There was a bird there on Tuesday AM with the bulbous Scaup head shape. That's not it.

UK rain: Are wetter winters and frequent flooding here to stay? Many places across the UK have experienced their wettest January in more than 100 years.

Climate crisis = wetter winters for Britain.
6 of 10 wettest winters in past 250 yrs have been this century.
Every 1C temperature rise = 7% more atmospheric moisture.
By 2050, 1 in 4 properties & half rail network at risk from flooding.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Pinkfeet - the dark head is very typical and it looks proportionately smaller than in other grey geese.

Avocet, Marsh Harrier, Peregrine, Great White Egret, Water Pipit: Saltholme area 14.00
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What an amazingly vacuous article, no substance whatsoever.

Same applies to every NATO country - POTUS controls the nuclear codes - few are as subservient as the UK.

It's not really about Starmer or McSweeney, it's about Labour having so lost its way that appointing an acolyte of the oligarchy like Mandelson ever seemed a good idea. The billionaire class is the enemy of humanity and the planet, and its hangers-on have no place in any progressive movement.

Today was the first time this year when spring felt it might be on its way. At Locke Park lake, Redcar, the Grey Herons have begun repairing their nests and the Gadwall are looking particularly dapper.
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At least 5 territorial Cetti's Warblers at Bowesfield NR as well as the Scaup @teesbirds.bsky.social

The most Reform UK X bio ever?

The weather was calmer today but weeks of rough seas whipped up by easterly winds have punched a hole in the Heugh breakwater at Hartlepool Headland.

2 Short-eared Owls, Cowpen Bewley Road 13:20 @teesbirds.bsky.social

Hartlepool Headland 10.00-11.30; good scattering of Red-throated Divers (20+), GC Grebes, Guillemots on sea, a couple of Shags now with crests, a few Eider but v little moving.
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Spread out dolphin pod moving v slowly N, Hartlepool Headland 10.30
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Not discussed here👇 is the risk attached to introducing novel predators to habitats of international importance for invertebrates, eg Norfolk 'pingos'. Frog fanatics tend to be v single-minded about 'their' species but potential impact on 100s of others, many highly threatened, must be considered.

Something not mentioned is the risk attached to (re?)introducing predators to habitats of international importance for invertebrates, such as Norfolk 'pingos'. Some herp people tend to be single-minded about 'their' taxa but potential impact on 100s of others, many threatened, must be considered.

Anti-nature rhetoric damaging voter confidence in Labour, new poll finds | The Wildlife Trusts 19% less likely to vote Labour because Starmer threatens to remove nature rules

New poll finds Labour’s anti-nature rhetoric is costing voter trust.

After Keir Starmer called environmental protections misguided, 19% of 2024 Labour voters are less likely to vote Labour again.

Attacking wildlife protections is not a winning strategy.

www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/anti-na...

Interesting report 👍

We don’t need crypto

Not sure about this site but Jackdaws are very typical of ruins in UK. Barn and Little Owls sometimes occur. Tall towers e.g. in ruined abbeys can be used by Peregrines. Ruins important in S Europe for Lesser Kestrel, Blue Rock Thrush, Black Redstart and several other species.

The remains of Neville Castle, a late medieval hunting lodge at Manor Vale, Kirkbymoorside, N Yorkshire. The surrounding ancient woodland has a rich flora with Toothwort, Lily-of-the-Valley and Green Hellebore.

For the sake of balance, maybe we should remain open to the possibility that replacing grass with blades of plastic coated in chemicals linked to cancer, thyroid, liver + kidney disease, + inviting our children to play on it is a good idea?

Bishopthorpe Parish Council want to sell a small wildlife oasis hosting rare wildflowers like Yellow Star-of-Bethlehem to a developer. This field belongs to the people of Bish who cherish its wildlife. Please sign this petition to stop them doing this. Thanks 😊 c.org/syGKBRcGBY

Biological Flora of Britain and Ireland: Geranium sylvaticum* Geranium sylvaticum is a perennial forb of upland grasslands, woodlands and riverbanks in northern Britain, with scattered native occurrences also in Wales, central England and Northern Ireland. It h...

Our Biological Flora on Wood Crane's-bill is out in @journalofecology.bsky.social. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... A team effort w/ @ruthsk.bsky.social @sandravarga.bsky.social @spp-rich.bsky.social @duncanwestbury.bsky.social, irina Tatarenko & artist Lucy Hulmes on pen and ink.

The Biological Flora series is incredibly useful and this is a superb example 👍

Rough sea and little moving at Hartlepool Headland late morning. Small numbers of Gannets, handful of Kittiwakes, Red-throated Divers, Common Scoter.
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Cormorant, Albert Park, Middlesbrough.
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Photo of a mist-covered landscape in North Yorkshire

Photo of a lake surrounded by woods which in turn are surrounded by a cloud inversion to the furthest horizon

Progress of a cloud inversion at Sutton Bank, North Yorkshire, with only the highest hilltops visible

Cloud inversion from Sutton Bank, North Yorkshire, today. Almost as if the sea had come back to this ancient reef.