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Steve Dudley @stevedudley.bsky.social · Sep 23

I've long been a gear geek - optics, tripods, clothing - I'm obsessed with it all. I've helped design optics, jackets and more and I love to share and hear others' views on their birding gear. So, I've set up this Feed, Birding Gear, for just that. Tag your posts #BirdingGear to contribute!

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Steve Dudley @stevedudley.bsky.social · 11h

Well, I am part Italian so that explains it 😉

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Steve Dudley @stevedudley.bsky.social · 13h

Exactly. We have one at home (UK) and wouldn’t be without it. The only issue I have is that it doesn’t have a seat and you sit on the cold porcelain. Why? Just why?

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Steve Dudley @stevedudley.bsky.social · 13h

Do yourself a favour and cut out the middle man/woman and throw it straight down the bog. It’s awful.

Steve Dudley @stevedudley.bsky.social · 13h

I don’t think this has anything to do with the issues in this instance.

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Steve Dudley @stevedudley.bsky.social · 15h

Personally it makes no sense to not combine them. It’s just extra work to work across two or more tabs, sheets or files. I see it as a fundamental aspect of my role to present the data to report writers in the simplest form possible. A single sheet.

Steve Dudley @stevedudley.bsky.social · 15h

Last year I sifted out around 20k records before handing over to the writing team. Only my second year and I’m finding it easier and removing more each year. Before I took over the writing team had to work from half a dozen different files on different formats 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Steve Dudley @stevedudley.bsky.social · 15h

That’s the majority of my role. I collate data from all sources and produce a single spreadsheet for the year. I work through manually deleting duplicates and other quality control. But I’m only handling c100k so it’s not a huge task like it would be for larger counties.

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Steve Dudley @stevedudley.bsky.social · 1d

Not really. Mute breeds around the isles. Grey Heron a former breeder. But both are migrants here. I’ve seen these once each, both times heading south past the west headland here. I expected the four Mutes to be Whoopers so was surprised (latter seen regularly in-off).

Steve Dudley @stevedudley.bsky.social · 1d

Mute Swan, Grey Heron.

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TG42Birder🇵🇸 @tg42birder.bsky.social · 1d

Unexpected birds (excluding rare seabirds) we’ve seen on a #Norfolkbirding seawatch:

Little Grebe
Coot
Red-legged Partridge
Temminck’s Stint
Red-necked Phalarope
Pec Sand
Black Stork
Eleanora’s Falcon (Hickling bird)

Anyone else got any weird ones?

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

Limited liability is one of our weird silences. It's a massive free gift society makes to plutocrats, seldom remarked upon, let alone contested.
Shareholders should have to buy limited liability, like any other insurance. The insurers would then be liable. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Will UK taxpayers get their £122m back from PPE Medpro?

The high court told the company linked to Michelle Mone to pay up over the supply of defective gowns, but there appears no clear route to reclaim the funds

www.theguardian.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Ever since I finished Question Time, Reform have massively been on the attack.

Including a rant from Richard Tice entirely designed to distract from Reform and Russia.

Everyone should know about Nathan Gill, the bribes from Russia and the link to Reform.

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CleySpy @cleyspy.bsky.social · 1d

Welcome to our October Deals Weekend! Head over to either of our shops today for unbeatable offers on all brands. Offers are in-store only (not online or via phone). We're open from 10am-4pm - see you soon! #UKBirding #BirdingGear

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Graham Appleton @wadertales.bsky.social · 1d

Yesterday, IUCN declared the Slender-billed Curlew to be extinct.
How did we let this happen?
What lessons are there for the future?
WaderTales blog based on paper by Graeme Buchanan et al
wadertales.wordpress.com/2024/12/12/l...
#extinction #ornithology

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Jonas Algers @jonasalgers.bsky.social · 1d

Norway are facing Israel in the Football World Cup qualifiers today

The Oslo Tram Driver’s Union will be striking on the tram lines to the stadium in solidarity with the people of Palestine

www.nrk.no/stor-oslo/va...

Varsler kollektiv-streik i Oslo før Norge-Israel

Oslo Sporveiers Arbeiderforening varsler streik 11. oktober, samme dag som Israel og Norge spiller landskamp i fotball på Ullevaal Stadion. Hensikten er å vise støtte til Palestina. Én time før kampst...

www.nrk.no

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TG42Birder🇵🇸 @tg42birder.bsky.social · 1d

There may be a ceasefire in Gaza but while all the media talk will be of Israeli hostages, remember that Israel is also illegally occupying the West Bank, murdering, detaining, torturing and abusing Palestinians and stealing their land every day.

IDF Hannibal Brigade @hannibalbrigade.biz · 1d

Israelis are still murdering Palestinians in the West Bank and Israelis on Telegram still think that’s just great

Israeli Telegram @israeligram.observer · 1d

Source

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Graham Appleton @wadertales.bsky.social · 3d

'Photographic ornithology'
How can bird photographers contribute to shorebird research?
New WaderTales blog based on paper by Winfried & Wolfgang Daunicht, published in Wader Study journal.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/m...
#ornithology @waderstudy.bsky.social

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 1d

We have truly not yet figured out how to cope with a person or institution that is "aware" of climate change, "accepts the science", but then decides to continue actively worsening it anyway

We don't even have a word or a phrase for this!

theconversation.com/mark-carneys...

Mark Carney’s climate inaction is at odds with his awareness of climate change’s existential threat

Climate action no longer seems to be a priority for Prime Minister Mark Carney, despite his previous activism. This is bad news for Canadians and the climate.

theconversation.com

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

This is like disbanding your military during World War Two.

The Trump regime is firing many of the 2,540 employee of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) during the ongoing government shutdown. Why? CISA dismissed Trump’s allegations of voter fraud in the 2020 election.

Cybersecurity agency that clashed with Trump one of the first hit with federal firings due to government shutdown

CISA plans to keep just 889 employees on duty during a shutdown while furloughing 65% of its workforce.

nypost.com

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TG42Birder🇵🇸 @tg42birder.bsky.social · 1d

Vote Tice, Get a thick racist who thinks climate change is made up and who sucks up to Trump and helps Russia against his own country’s interests.

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Greens growing. Reform ratttled.

PS - I changed my name back to my family's original Jewish name because I'm proud of being Jewish. If Tice think that makes me a weirdo, I think that makes him an antisemite.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Tice "green party leader Zack Polanski is a weirdo. Changed his name, claimed hypnosis could increase women's breast size, thinks me should compete in women's sport, thinks women can have a penis. Other than that he's fine. Vote Green. Get weirdo."

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Steve Dudley @stevedudley.bsky.social · 1d

I think that true for many areas! I’m under 60 and feel young here 😂

Steve Dudley @stevedudley.bsky.social · 1d

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Chris Green @chrisbirder.bsky.social · 1d

The Blackshirts of today.

Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 1d

Really not good at all that the Christian Right feels emboldened enough to parade in Soho in paramilitary uniforms. www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/10/k...

Evangelical 'King's Army' group disrupts traffic in historic LGBTQ+ London district

A right-wing, evangelical group calling itself the King's Army blocked traffic on Old Compton Street in Soho while chanting anti-LGBTQ+ slogans.

www.thepinknews.com

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Steve Dudley @stevedudley.bsky.social · 1d

FFS 🤦🏻‍♂️

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

Steve Dudley @stevedudley.bsky.social · 1d

I was genuinely inspired by our summer recorders meeting. That so many regions were represented. Folk giving up a weekend to be there. That SOC, BTO and RBBP all had excellence presence and really listened to our local challenges. It was a great exchange of ideas and energy. Made me feel valued.

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