Darrin Jenkins

Getting dark but fun walking

Halfway home. Rain eased and warm. About a mile and a bit to go.

Over 25,000 people have already signed the letter to Keir Starmer and national broadcasters calling for a televised emergency briefing.
www.nebriefing.org/open-letter-... #NEB2025

As I was the only passenger the driver took a shortcut and missed out a convoluted section of roads and I got to my destination 10 mins early 🙂

Last bus of the day, yes last bus at 1:36pm! Walking back home later in the rain. No wonder few people bother to catch the #bus

A Protected Colony in Decline: Why the Guga Hunt Can No Longer Be Defended For decades, the killing of gannet chicks, the “Guga hunt”, on Sula Sgeir has been defended as sustainable, harmless, and woven into cultural heritage.

Sign petition to ban the barbaric Guga Hunt. Gannet killing is still going on even though Sula Sgeir’s gannet population is not stable. protectthewild.substack.com/p/a-protecte...

Blackthorn tree with lots of Sloes

Massive amount of Sloes this year, a loaded tree at the end of my driveway. The birds will have a feast!...... EXCEPT this tree has been marked with a red cross and is due to be felled because council have deemed it is dead or dying. Some signs of decay but tree is very much alive. #trees #uktrees

Housing secretary tells Labour MPs to vote down planning bill amendment Amendment restricts protection for animals to allow faster house building

Steve Reed has told Labour MPs to vote down amendment to the new planning bill intended to protect British wildlife and its habitats from destruction.

First Swifts, now hedgehogs and dormice. Nothing is sacred... just betrayals by this govt at every turn

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Not the most sharp of images but this is a view down my microscope of a small drop of water from some collected moss. I'm always amazed by how much life there is that we cannot see with the naked eye! Puts our lives into perspective.. #microscope #ukwildlife #Protozoans

pyracantha with lots of red berries next to a bird box

Pyracantha in my garden, all those thousands of berries soon to be gobbled up by the birds. #ukwildlife #birdfood #pyracantha

It’s a fact that only half of Briton’s fly in any given year and just 10% of us are taking 50% of all flights. We should take VAT off our energy bills and stick it on flying and other things that are a nice to have after you pay the bills.

Interesting clouds today. #clouds #uk

Hellllllloooo? Are you there? Please help birds by sharing this if you also want to ensure swifts & other urban birds have homes alongside us. People power works but only if we work together. SAVE OUR SWIFTS.

Fungi in chiltern woodland

I do like theses ... Anyone know species? Found in Beech woodland #chilternhills #fungi #ukwildlife #macrophotography

Donate to Secure the Rothbury Estate | The Wildlife Trusts Stretching over 3,800 hectares, the Rothbury Estate in Northumberland is abundant with opportunity. It’s the largest continuous area of land to appear on the market in 50 years. Its sale creates a uni...

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Been wanting to find one of these Fly Agaric and today found several all together. #chilternhills #fungi #FungiFriends

Pedal Power Remains Most Efficient Way To Travel, Confirms Scientific American Scientific American confirms that human on a bicycle more efficient than salmon, seagulls, or jet planes, updating a piece from 1973.

“Since the bicycle makes little demand on material or energy resources, contributes little to pollution, makes a positive contribution to health and causes little death or injury, it can be regarded as the most benevolent of machines.” Here’s the article by @carltonreid.com HT @sciam.bsky.social

Climate investment is only growth opportunity of 21st century, says leading economist Lord Stern says fossil-fuelled growth is futile as the damage it causes ends in economic self-destruction

📢 Lord Stern: “Investment in climate action is the economic growth story of the 21st century, while growth fuelled by fossil fuels is futile because the damage it causes ends in self-destruction.”

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

THIS.

National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published

"The UK’s national security is under severe threat from the climate crisis and the looming collapse of vital natural ecosystems, with food shortages and economic disaster potentially just years away"

Had a woodland walk in the Chilterns on Sunday and saw lots of fungi. This one is a beautiful Porcelain Fungus, with obliging Ladybird walking past to show scale. #ukwildlife #ukfungi #fungi

Don’t crush our right to protest! The right to protest is the heartbeat of democracy. It lets us speak out, challenge injustice, and hold those in power accountable. The Government’s plan would give police sweeping powers to ban repea...

😡 The Government wants to ban repeated protests & jail those who defy them. Stand up for our democratic right to protest - sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/do...

This is state-sanctioned slaughter. Year after year, licences have allowed thousands of baby gannets to be killed in Scotland’s so-called ‘Guga Hunt’. Even in 2025, nearly 500 chicks were massacred under licence — paid for by taxpayers, justified as ‘tradition’, and carried out in secret.

The FT photo shows a tractor in a Maize field. Either the Getty stock image was labelled wrong or FT don’t know the difference btwn Soya & Maize…..”John Duffy loads soyabeans” Maize is v tall, Soya is low growing, you can get lost in a maize field but not in Soya field….

Small Tortoiseshell butterfly on Sedum flower

Nice to see a Small Tortoiseshell butterfly this afternoon on Sedum flower. Not so many about this year. #ukwildlife #ukbutterflies #butterflies

Gatwick airport second runway approved by transport secretary There has been strong opposition against the airport wanting to use its northern runway.

Absurd. How little does this Government care about the climate?

Squeezing out 100k more flights a year won’t improve people’s daily lives. Investing in a growing green economy to lower bills, create high-paid jobs and cut deadly air pollution will! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Trumps calvacade of helicopters flew over me today. I managed to wave one of my fingers in a meaningful way as they flew over.

Petition: Stop airport expansion: halt all airport expansion plans across the UK More than 20 airports across the UK have expansion plans, which will result in a combined increase of 60%+ capacity. More flights means more emissions, at a time when we should be doing everything we ...

Just 500 signatures needed on this for a government response.

We already know what it's going to say ("don't worry, we've got it covered with SAF and fairy dust"), but it's still vital to tell our politicians we don't want airport expansion.

Sign and share 🙏
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

Bird feather

Found this feather in a patch of woodland with open fields nearby, Chilterns hills today. Anyone know the which bird it came from? I thought a hawk or Buzzard but cannot find photos that match it. It is 20cm long.
#feather #ukwildlife

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