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Chris Green
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Londoner in Scotland via Gloucestershire Birder and wildlife gardener.
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Chris Green @chrisbirder.bsky.social · 20m
If a breed trained to kill becomes redundant, so be it.
Funny how these killers get all sentimental over their ill-treated hounds.
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Chris Green @chrisbirder.bsky.social · 23m
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I had one in 2023 and last week - wondered why the recorder asked for a photo! My 10k square's barely been mothed before - gained new 20 species during my 1st training session back in June.
Chris Green @chrisbirder.bsky.social · 1h
Nice Brick!
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🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴 @scottzona.bsky.social · 4h
Up this week: Orobanchaceae. This family was, until the 21st century, conflated with the Scrophulariaceae, which itself was a jumbled mess. There are, however, anatomical, morphological & molecular characteristics for the family. Members are mostly parasitic. 📷: Castilleja coccinea #Botany 🌾🧪🌱
Photo of a green leafy herbaceous perennial with erect shoots terminating in bracteate inflorescences. The bracts are red and showy. Flowers are tubular, greenish with red tips. Photo by Scott Zona CCBYNC2.
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Chris Green @chrisbirder.bsky.social · 5h
👍 I get the meaning - just think this usage waters down and distracts from the prime meaning -we are living in a crisis of climate-driven ecosystem collapse.
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Chris Green @chrisbirder.bsky.social · 5h
12+ Blackbirds, 5 Song Thrushes and a Mistle here in our Borders garden, but none of the others!
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 1d
They're stopping wind and solar because the president is an idiot who doesn't understand how anything works, doesn't try to learn, and assumes he knows more than all the experts about almost everything that he knows nothing about.

Also because Big Oil gives him lots of money.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d
Schatz: They’re stopping wind and solar because this guy has some very strange ideas about the energy mix. And it’s consistent with the rest of his political and economic philosophy — if there’s less of everything, it gives him more authority to dole out favors
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Chris Green @chrisbirder.bsky.social · 5h
#TeamMoth
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MartinWW @swaledalebirds.bsky.social · 6h
Only 2 in the trap on Saturday but night before was better.

Another Merv and Chestnut, Y-LQ?, The Brick? (If so NF🔲) and a December moth.

I caught 11 December moths on 6/11/24 so still plenty of reason to get the traps out!
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Chris Green @chrisbirder.bsky.social · 5h
Ecological?
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Rosalind Ahmed @21rosa.bsky.social · 7h
There's not been a natural history programme quite like it. Particularly impressive is his connection with people, from the lad doing his excited dance in the hide, to the gasps of delight from his nieces to the hug with adderman (which had me foggin ower 🥹). Also enjoyed seeing Simon King, too
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Hairy Neil @rovingrollo.bsky.social · 20h
Just watched the first episode of 'Hamza's Hidden Wild Isles' on BBC1.... outstanding. He is such a nice bloke and a natural at explaining his subject... a worthy successor to Sir David Attenborough ?
The whole series is available on the BBC iPlayer, well worth a watch. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
Hamza's Hidden Wild Isles
Wonder is everywhere – if you know where to look. From sunny beaches to rugged moors, craggy munros to city streets, Hamza Yassin reveals amazing wildlife hidden around the UK.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Martin George @jannerbirder.bsky.social · 18h
Nothing wrong with that, John!

The image of you two really sells it for me, it's such a positive pic. No grim, studious faces, hand lenses or clipboards in sight, just the joy of natural history. It's why most of us do it 🙂
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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 2d
€2,400 for excavating 750m of river leading to a Special Area of Conservation. This is not a fine, it's simply a cost associated with the works (no mention of remediation)

www.independent.ie/regionals/we...
Kilkenny landowner ordered to pay €2,400 for damaging a tributary of the River Barrow
A landowner in Co Kilkenny has been convicted for habitat damage after he was found to have damaged a tributary of the River Barrow.
www.independent.ie
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Ruth Tingay @ruthtingay.bsky.social · 19h
The seascapes are the big draw for me on #IslesofScilly

Someone here has shipped over Pheasants & Red-legged Partridges, swarming over the fields of Tresco today & being fed in this woodland. FFS.
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Chris Green @chrisbirder.bsky.social · 17h
Madness.
Chris Green @chrisbirder.bsky.social · 18h
Actually, he was just a bit of a prick!
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Sam Taylor @staylorish.bsky.social · 1d
Another mauling for John Swinney on his ludicrous currency proposals. This time, all he can do is accuse Martin Geissler of being overly gloomy, and suggest that Scotland’s renewables will somehow come to the rescue. Desperate and embarrassing stuff.
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Chris Green @chrisbirder.bsky.social · 20h
If another well-known App were to be believed, I had more Spotted Flycatchers in my garden this morning than Song Thrushes, and I saw a few thrushes!
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TG42Birder🇵🇸 @tg42birder.bsky.social · 20h
The messages from conservation orgs are finally getting more urgent and more realistic in their language.

Climate change is rapidly outpacing conservation.

Grim reading.
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BirdGuides @birdguides.bsky.social · 1d
The Wildlife Trusts have published a new assessment of the effects of climate change on UK nature reserves:
New report highlights effect of climate change on UK nature reserves
The Wildlife Trusts have published a new assessment of the effects of climate change on UK natue reserves. The report, Resilient Nature, shows how much-loved species and habitats are faring across 2,600 reserves in response to the changing climate and extreme weather over the past year. Extreme changes in weather patterns have been the most damaging overall, reports BirdGuides.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d
Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.
www.cbsnews.com
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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 21h
I ❤️ Viz
A letter to viz on why we should be removing British objects from people’s rectums, not foreign ones
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Pádraic Fogarty @whittledaway.bsky.social · 20h
Another significant environmental crime

Investigation after more than 30 acres of native trees - some centuries old - felled in Co Cork

jrnl.ie/6805578
Investigation after more than 30 acres of native trees - some centuries old - felled in Co Cork
The Department of Agriculture has been formally alerted to the incident by the National Parks and Wildlife Service.
jrnl.ie
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 23h
Because what we need as our climate falls apart, and extreme weather threatens to bring down society and economy, is not to build our resilience but.....

.....to have more growth and more roads

www.theguardian.com/business/202...
UK ministers take control of £10bn Lower Thames Crossing
Exclusive: National Highways Agency stripped of oversight with project handed to DfT amid Labour government drive for growth
www.theguardian.com
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Chris Green @chrisbirder.bsky.social · 20h
Drive for growth = accelerate towards a brick wall.
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Chris Green @chrisbirder.bsky.social · 20h
It's the end of the world as we know it...
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Steve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 23h
Headley Heath, Surrey: a Goshawk, 5 Hawfinch and a Crossbill, but highlight was the vast numbers of Harlequin Ladybirds on the wing. I brushed so many off me and my optics that at the end of the session my hands smelt strongly of their acrid defence ‘juice’ #UKBirding
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