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Chris Green
@chrisbirder.bsky.social
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Londoner in Scotland via Gloucestershire Birder and wildlife gardener.
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Martin George @jannerbirder.bsky.social · 5h
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 · 1d
€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 · 6h
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 · 4h
Madness.
Chris Green @chrisbirder.bsky.social · 5h
Actually, he was just a bit of a prick!
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Sam Taylor @staylorish.bsky.social · 16h
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 · 7h
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 · 7h
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 · 16h
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 · 13h
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 · 8h
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 · 7h
Another significant environmental crime

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

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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.
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 10h
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 · 7h
Drive for growth = accelerate towards a brick wall.
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Chris Green @chrisbirder.bsky.social · 7h
It's the end of the world as we know it...
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Steve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 10h
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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Chris Green @chrisbirder.bsky.social · 7h
I once knew a John Thomas Allcock - London, 1970's.
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Municipal Dreams @municipaldreams.bsky.social · 11h
Genuine question: do they make themselves believe this stuff or do they say it simply for the clicks and attention or to further a political agenda? Anyway, to Americans and others, it's complete and utter bollocks.
American in video saying 'The crime and immigration is out of control (in London), nobody feels safe.'
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Chris Green @chrisbirder.bsky.social · 7h
US will be 'perplexed'? The US is a shit-show.
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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 10h
Because apartheid South Africa really did a fantastic job of spaffing out a functional human being with you, didn’t it? You loathsome bellend.
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Whaley Queen of the Woke @simonwhale.bsky.social · 11h
You can’t be both pro farming and a climate change denier in the face of the overwhelming scientific consensus

Britain’s second worst harvest on record has been caused primarily by extreme weather conditions, particularly the hottest spring and summer ever recorded and the driest spring in more
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Caithness Birds 🐦‍⬛ @caithnessbirds.bsky.social · 9h
Ended up being at least four Bonaparte’s Gulls with another adult seen this afternoon!!!! Another Mediterranean Gull there too. Ring-necked Duck also still on Wester Loch #CaithnessBirds
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Rob Hughes @rob-hughes-birder.bsky.social · 9h
We had three Bonaparte’s Gulls (ad and two 1st w’s) in Dunnet Bay this morning!!! Also a Juv Sabine’s Gull, Juv Little Gull, 1st w Mediterranean Gull and a Curlew Sandpiper with @ninaohanlon.bsky.social
#CaithnessBirds
Bonaparte’s Gull flying over a Black-headed Gull Bonaparte’s Gull in flight with a Black-headed Gull Juvenile Sabine’s Gull in flight
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Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · 11h
But why would people devoted to shooting animals as a solution to, er, everything, need to misrepresent anyone? It defies sense!
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Raptor Persecution UK @raptorpersuk.bsky.social · 18h
'This is either shameless misrepresentation or whoever wrote that piece for Shooting Times is struggling to grasp the principles of basic English comprehension – you know, the stuff you learn at school when you’re eleven about context and drawing conclusions'

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Shooting Times uses selective quote to shamelessly misrepresent my view on predator culls
A couple of weeks ago, on 24 September, the Shooting Times published a news item in which it was suggested that I support predator culls: The Shooting Times article was supposedly a précis of an ar…
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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 8h
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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 8h
More than 500,000 marched for Palestine in London on 11th October. The reaction of a Labour Government- Bridget Philipson speaking to Trevor Phillips (12th Oct). 'We're bringing in restrictions to curtail the marches'. A Labour Government??
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Over 500,000 marched in London on Oct 11. The 32nd national demonstration for Palestine. The BBC: ‘local London news’
Over 500,000 march in London on 32nd national demonstration for Palestine. BBC ‘local news’ Over 500,000 people marched in central London on 11th October on what was the 32nd national demonstration…
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Paul Dolman @pauldolman.bsky.social · 8h
Polarised public attitudes in Denmark
to return of Wolves, young and left-wing mostly positive, older and right wing mostly negative.
#Rewilding
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 12h
As wolves reappear, Danes are divided – a new poll shows just how much.
Wolves have returned to Denmark, and not everyone is happy about it
As wolves reappear, Danes are divided – a new poll shows just how much.
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