Darren Archer
@dunnock67.bsky.social
Moving in for #birds #bats #Hoverflies #butterflies. NE England
Worried about the climate
https://curlewsfeathers.wordpress.com/
Worried about the climate
https://curlewsfeathers.wordpress.com/
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Darren Archer
@dunnock67.bsky.social
· Feb 5
Letter From Gaza. Ghassan Kanafani
YouTube video by Palestine Diary
m.youtube.com
The late john Berger reads A Letter from Gaza from the late Ghassan Kanafani Still as relevant today 🇵🇸
m.youtube.com/watch?v=_msu...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=_msu...
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LIVE: Explosions in Gaza, 54 wounded in West Bank settler attacks https://aje.news/t34y2z
February 13, 2026 at 2:00 PM
LIVE: Explosions in Gaza, 54 wounded in West Bank settler attacks https://aje.news/t34y2z
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Palestine Action have WON their judicial review in the High Court!
A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest.
A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.
A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest.
A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.
February 13, 2026 at 10:13 AM
Palestine Action have WON their judicial review in the High Court!
A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest.
A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.
A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest.
A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.
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This morning we will hear the result of the judicial review of the government's ban on Palestine Action, on the grounds that it's a "terrorist" organisation. An important moment, which could have a major influence on freedom of speech and association in this country.
February 13, 2026 at 9:09 AM
This morning we will hear the result of the judicial review of the government's ban on Palestine Action, on the grounds that it's a "terrorist" organisation. An important moment, which could have a major influence on freedom of speech and association in this country.
After all this rain Think he’s waiting for the tide to come in like on Merseyside
February 13, 2026 at 9:35 AM
After all this rain Think he’s waiting for the tide to come in like on Merseyside
And finally there is always one. And it could be one doing its own thing or it could be saying something different? 🦇
February 13, 2026 at 9:32 AM
And finally there is always one. And it could be one doing its own thing or it could be saying something different? 🦇
Are Soprano Pips being agonistic to Common Pips?🦇
February 13, 2026 at 9:32 AM
Are Soprano Pips being agonistic to Common Pips?🦇
What are these Sopranos saying to each other saying to each other outside their summer roost.🦇
February 13, 2026 at 9:32 AM
What are these Sopranos saying to each other saying to each other outside their summer roost.🦇
Soprano Pip last component isn't always higher than the rest 🦇
February 13, 2026 at 9:32 AM
Soprano Pip last component isn't always higher than the rest 🦇
Three components are the norm for Soprano Pipistrelles. But Norfolk 3s and 4s. Northumberland 3s and 2s.
Dose this mean Soprano Pips in Norfolk find things Bootiful? 🦇
Dose this mean Soprano Pips in Norfolk find things Bootiful? 🦇
February 13, 2026 at 9:32 AM
Three components are the norm for Soprano Pipistrelles. But Norfolk 3s and 4s. Northumberland 3s and 2s.
Dose this mean Soprano Pips in Norfolk find things Bootiful? 🦇
Dose this mean Soprano Pips in Norfolk find things Bootiful? 🦇
The study accepts 4 component parts of the Common Pip call are the norm but it varies. Not seen a 6 mentioned in literature 🦇
February 13, 2026 at 9:32 AM
The study accepts 4 component parts of the Common Pip call are the norm but it varies. Not seen a 6 mentioned in literature 🦇
Much of the literature focuses on the biases of animal behaviour studies. Bats are long lived female centred societies so we should take our blinkers off. 🦇
February 13, 2026 at 9:32 AM
Much of the literature focuses on the biases of animal behaviour studies. Bats are long lived female centred societies so we should take our blinkers off. 🦇
Sometimes the social calls of Soprano Pips appear in a recording of Common Pips -Type D are lower and travel further. Note the long tails (bandwidth) on the social calls not well referenced in literature 🦇
February 13, 2026 at 9:32 AM
Sometimes the social calls of Soprano Pips appear in a recording of Common Pips -Type D are lower and travel further. Note the long tails (bandwidth) on the social calls not well referenced in literature 🦇
However, it has also stretched into my findings on Type D social calls especially of Soprano Pipistrelle🦇.
Anyone currently working on pips especially Soprano Pips I would love to get your views. #Bioacoustics.
This 🧵gives a flavour
Anyone currently working on pips especially Soprano Pips I would love to get your views. #Bioacoustics.
This 🧵gives a flavour
February 13, 2026 at 9:32 AM
However, it has also stretched into my findings on Type D social calls especially of Soprano Pipistrelle🦇.
Anyone currently working on pips especially Soprano Pips I would love to get your views. #Bioacoustics.
This 🧵gives a flavour
Anyone currently working on pips especially Soprano Pips I would love to get your views. #Bioacoustics.
This 🧵gives a flavour
Next up in Northumberland Bat Group Winter Talks is yours truly on Wednesday 18th. 🦇
www.northumberlandbats.org.uk/home/events/
A talk about who I found calling in Hedley Woods Gateshead last year submitted to British Island Bats Vol 6 and also on my curlewsfeathers.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/w...
www.northumberlandbats.org.uk/home/events/
A talk about who I found calling in Hedley Woods Gateshead last year submitted to British Island Bats Vol 6 and also on my curlewsfeathers.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/w...
What I learnt in ‘my’ bat wood. Rhythms of the night -eight months of echolocations and social calls in NE England.
If you have read any of my 2025 blogs most centre on my near obsession with recording bat sounds and other night time creatures in a wood in North East England. The recordings have now finished and…
curlewsfeathers.wordpress.com
February 13, 2026 at 9:32 AM
Next up in Northumberland Bat Group Winter Talks is yours truly on Wednesday 18th. 🦇
www.northumberlandbats.org.uk/home/events/
A talk about who I found calling in Hedley Woods Gateshead last year submitted to British Island Bats Vol 6 and also on my curlewsfeathers.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/w...
www.northumberlandbats.org.uk/home/events/
A talk about who I found calling in Hedley Woods Gateshead last year submitted to British Island Bats Vol 6 and also on my curlewsfeathers.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/w...
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¡Buenos días! 🌧🌧
a man with an umbrella is walking through a puddle
ALT: a man with an umbrella is walking through a puddle
media.tenor.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:45 AM
¡Buenos días! 🌧🌧
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🦇A new episode of #BatChat is out now: From Aberdeen to Madagascar with Paul Racey!
Steve chats with Emeritus Professor Paul Racey, one of the best-known figures in bat ecology and conservation.
Available in your usual place or online here: batchat.buzzsprout.com/680561/episo...
Steve chats with Emeritus Professor Paul Racey, one of the best-known figures in bat ecology and conservation.
Available in your usual place or online here: batchat.buzzsprout.com/680561/episo...
February 11, 2026 at 2:01 PM
🦇A new episode of #BatChat is out now: From Aberdeen to Madagascar with Paul Racey!
Steve chats with Emeritus Professor Paul Racey, one of the best-known figures in bat ecology and conservation.
Available in your usual place or online here: batchat.buzzsprout.com/680561/episo...
Steve chats with Emeritus Professor Paul Racey, one of the best-known figures in bat ecology and conservation.
Available in your usual place or online here: batchat.buzzsprout.com/680561/episo...
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Perhaps why places like Spain have so few deniers left?
We getting it yet?
3/3
www.eib.org/en/press/all...
We getting it yet?
3/3
www.eib.org/en/press/all...
95% of Spaniards support measures to adapt to climate change, according to EIB survey
Residents of Spain surveyed in August 2024 view climate change as one of the biggest challenges facing their country, according to the annual Climate Survey commissioned by the European Investment Ban...
www.eib.org
February 12, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Perhaps why places like Spain have so few deniers left?
We getting it yet?
3/3
www.eib.org/en/press/all...
We getting it yet?
3/3
www.eib.org/en/press/all...
Yep it was like a jewel on the path last July
February 12, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Yep it was like a jewel on the path last July
Jay feather collected for the same reason
February 12, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Jay feather collected for the same reason
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I love doing podcasts!
Here’s my latest one – on wasps of course - with UCL’s Professor Philip Schofield, Director of the Bentham Project on his #Climate Extinction Politics podcast series, with @uclpress.bsky.social
soundcloud.com/uclsound/why...
#WaspLove #Biodiversity
@uclcber.bsky.social
Here’s my latest one – on wasps of course - with UCL’s Professor Philip Schofield, Director of the Bentham Project on his #Climate Extinction Politics podcast series, with @uclpress.bsky.social
soundcloud.com/uclsound/why...
#WaspLove #Biodiversity
@uclcber.bsky.social
Season 3, Episode 6 - Why We Should Love Wasps, featuring Professor Seirian Sumner
More than just picnic pests, wasps are vital to our ecosystems, but are deeply misunderstood. Joining Professor Philip Schofield in this episode is Professor Seirian Sumner, Professor of Behavioural E
soundcloud.com
February 12, 2026 at 11:19 AM
I love doing podcasts!
Here’s my latest one – on wasps of course - with UCL’s Professor Philip Schofield, Director of the Bentham Project on his #Climate Extinction Politics podcast series, with @uclpress.bsky.social
soundcloud.com/uclsound/why...
#WaspLove #Biodiversity
@uclcber.bsky.social
Here’s my latest one – on wasps of course - with UCL’s Professor Philip Schofield, Director of the Bentham Project on his #Climate Extinction Politics podcast series, with @uclpress.bsky.social
soundcloud.com/uclsound/why...
#WaspLove #Biodiversity
@uclcber.bsky.social
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Reader: do you understand? Are you seeing it yet?
Israel is continuing the Nakba: >across< Palestine, not just in Gaza.
They want it ‘swept clean’. This is the resumption of #OperationMatateh: (Look it up.)
The long term goal?: the annexing of it all.
Israel is continuing the Nakba: >across< Palestine, not just in Gaza.
They want it ‘swept clean’. This is the resumption of #OperationMatateh: (Look it up.)
The long term goal?: the annexing of it all.
Former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert says the #ICC is necessary to “expose those responsible” and address atrocities - ethnic cleansing - in the West Bank 👇
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026... #WestBank
www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026... #WestBank
Israel's security apparatus is complicit in the ethnic cleansing of West Bank Palestinians | Opinion
A Militia of Hundreds of Jews Is Operating in the West Bank With Direct and Indirect Backing From Israeli Government Officials, While Security Agencies Have Deliberately Chosen Not to Take Action Agai...
www.haaretz.com
February 12, 2026 at 11:32 AM
Reader: do you understand? Are you seeing it yet?
Israel is continuing the Nakba: >across< Palestine, not just in Gaza.
They want it ‘swept clean’. This is the resumption of #OperationMatateh: (Look it up.)
The long term goal?: the annexing of it all.
Israel is continuing the Nakba: >across< Palestine, not just in Gaza.
They want it ‘swept clean’. This is the resumption of #OperationMatateh: (Look it up.)
The long term goal?: the annexing of it all.
It’s just a simple but pleasing lift in my time line Thanks
February 12, 2026 at 10:46 AM
It’s just a simple but pleasing lift in my time line Thanks
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Happy bday Charles Darwin (born #OTD 1809)! 🎉 Check out Charles Darwin’s Library on #BHLib, a virtual reconstruction of the surviving books owned by Darwin, drawing on original copies & surrogates, providing full transcriptions of his annotations & marks: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/collection/d...
February 12, 2026 at 6:02 AM
Happy bday Charles Darwin (born #OTD 1809)! 🎉 Check out Charles Darwin’s Library on #BHLib, a virtual reconstruction of the surviving books owned by Darwin, drawing on original copies & surrogates, providing full transcriptions of his annotations & marks: www.biodiversitylibrary.org/collection/d...