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Darren Archer

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Moving in for #birds #bats #Hoverflies #butterflies. NE England Worried about the climate https://curlewsfeathers.wordpress.com/

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Darren Archer @dunnock67.bsky.social · Feb 5

The late john Berger reads A Letter from Gaza from the late Ghassan Kanafani Still as relevant today 🇵🇸

m.youtube.com/watch?v=_msu...

Letter From Gaza. Ghassan Kanafani

YouTube video by Palestine Diary

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 2h

BREAKING NEWS
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.

#NobelPrize

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BossSaru @bosssaru.bsky.social · 23h

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Darren Archer @dunnock67.bsky.social · Feb 5

The late john Berger reads A Letter from Gaza from the late Ghassan Kanafani Still as relevant today 🇵🇸

m.youtube.com/watch?v=_msu...

Letter From Gaza. Ghassan Kanafani

YouTube video by Palestine Diary

m.youtube.com

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Darren Archer @dunnock67.bsky.social · 16h

Most people think of tawny owls as cute But their diet . . . Nightmareish

Darren Archer @dunnock67.bsky.social · 16h

We don’t say the same about owls

Darren Archer @dunnock67.bsky.social · 17h

Or alternate headline
How amazing are all the niches available to life
If only we let it do its thing

Guardian Environment @environment.theguardian.com · 17h

Grisly recording reveals bat catching, killing and eating robin mid-flight

Before the Spanish study, some scientists had been sceptical about the mammals attacking migratory birds

www.theguardian.com

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Layla Moran MP 🔶🕊️ @laylamoran.bsky.social · 1d

The war is Gaza has gone on two years too long. I welcome this ceasefire of course but it’s hard to celebrate after we’ve had such misery and destruction. In this war we’ve seen the worst of humanity. In its aftermath I hope we see the best.

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Dr. Sabine Metzger 🦇 @drsabinemetzger.bsky.social · 2d

🦇 #BatAppreciationMonth
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Good luck watching this video without smiling

YouTube video by Bat Conservation International

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Darren Archer @dunnock67.bsky.social · 2d

Great way to start the day Thanks

Darren Archer @dunnock67.bsky.social · 2d

These are left lying around for those of us not good at fungi identification

Thanks Birch trees for your consideration

Classic fungi of picture books Fly Agaric Scarlet red with white spots

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Alex Morss 🦇🏴‍☠️♾️ @alexmorss.bsky.social · 2d

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Darren Archer @dunnock67.bsky.social · 2d

Crab playing up front for Leeds

Egyptian sitting on the bench for Man City
Fact

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Dave Hemprich-Bennett @davehb.bsky.social · 2d

Pretty incredible to see. Great tits have been known to feed on the brains of hibernating bats, so I guess it tracks 🦇

Hannah Scharf @hannah-scharf.bsky.social · 2d

Today I heard a pair of great tits just outside my office window, followed by a loud thump of something against the windowsill. I rolled up my blinds and to my surprise, there was a bat! This tit had knocked a bat from her roost and looked like he was thinking about lunch…

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Mark Eaton @markaeaton.bsky.social · 2d

Highlight at Boulmer this afternoon was a Black-headed Gull! But not any old BHG, this splendid leucistic bird that’s been around for a little while. Also 3 Curlew Sands, 3 Med Gulls, Wheatear etc #NEbirding #birds

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 3d

UK Government arms exports to Israel hit a 'record high' in recent months, analysis has found

UK arms exports to Israel 'hit record high' in recent months

www.thenational.scot

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Darren Archer @dunnock67.bsky.social · 3d

So it’s un 🇬🇧 to protest against genocide but it’s 🇬🇧 to sell more munitions to 🇮🇱

Sorry Sir Keith you’ve lost the plot and loosing the country
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 3d

We need constantly to remind ourselves that there's nothing normal or inevitable about it. It would be a catastrophe from which we would not recover for many years, in which terrible things are done, to minorities, to vulnerable people, to the rest of the living planet. We cannot let it happen.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 3d

Calling all nature people and orgs, please consider adding your name to Naturalists for Palestine.

It's essential we recognise that ecocide and genocide are two sides of the same coin, and resist both.
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Naturalists for Palestine

Naturalists for Palestine is a call from individuals and organisations in the UK nature sector to stand for an end to the genocide in Gaza, and to the suffering and oppression of the people of Palesti...

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Dr. Sabine Metzger 🦇 @drsabinemetzger.bsky.social · 3d

🦇 #BatAppreciationMonth
#BatsNeedFriends

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Turning Fear Into Facts

Fear is dangerous. Facts save lives. Across Brazil, myths about vampire bats fuel fear — and fear kills bats. Too often, entire colonies are destroyed, threatening more than 180 species that pollinate...

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 3d

Tree on the Moon

A full moon captured in perfect symmetry behind a solitary tree on a hilltop

Photo: Bernd Nowack

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Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social · 3d

The Strid Wood in Wharfedale, North Yorkshire, last week, had a superabundance of shrooms - most of them I can’t ID to species (they require breaking bits off, or sniffing) so am sticking with genus for most. Ink and watercolour drawings in my sketchbook.
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#fungi
#fungiFriends

A selection of fungi seen on a walk in Strid Wood, Yorkshire (UK) - porcelain fungus, oyster longs, bonnets, boletes, funnels, stump puffballs, rosy bonnet, common puffball, Amanita. The site is an SSSI for its fabulous range of woodland fungi, moss and lichen

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Darren Archer @dunnock67.bsky.social · 4d

😱 not good to see

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Alberta Community Bat Program/Western Bat Program 🦇 @albertabats.bsky.social · 4d

#OctoberForBats 🦇 Together, we can make a difference for bats! This month, let's rally behind bat research and outreach programs by fundraising and spreading awareness. Every contribution, no matter how small, helps us, help bats. Learn how you can participate and donate at www.albertabats.ca 💡

Text reads Happy Bat Month! Support Bats! DIY Fundraising! for more info visit www.albertabats.ca Collage of bat images (all by Jason Headley) including top left - Long-eared myotis, top right - hoary bat held in a black gloved hand, bottom left Little Brown Myotis on a cave wall, and bottom right close up of the face of a Little Brown Myotis.

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Darren Archer @dunnock67.bsky.social · 4d

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Ronan @ronan369.bsky.social · 4d

2nd photo reminds me of: youtu.be/bS6KWNB5NEo

Hanging bats filmed upside-down look like a Goth nightclub

YouTube video by Viral Reddit

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Paul Phillips @mrponbss.bsky.social · 4d

Amsterdam, today. ✊🇵🇸👏👏👏

London, are you seeing this? March for Palestine, Saturday October 11. 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

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