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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Another spot on article by Fiona Grahame.
Over the last few weeks our vigil for #Gaza has been highlighting the 37 aid organisations banned by Israel from operating in Gaza. A local supporter printed the new posters and regular vigil attendees got them laminated, my job was to create them.
Over the last few weeks our vigil for #Gaza has been highlighting the 37 aid organisations banned by Israel from operating in Gaza. A local supporter printed the new posters and regular vigil attendees got them laminated, my job was to create them.
February 7, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Another spot on article by Fiona Grahame.
Over the last few weeks our vigil for #Gaza has been highlighting the 37 aid organisations banned by Israel from operating in Gaza. A local supporter printed the new posters and regular vigil attendees got them laminated, my job was to create them.
Over the last few weeks our vigil for #Gaza has been highlighting the 37 aid organisations banned by Israel from operating in Gaza. A local supporter printed the new posters and regular vigil attendees got them laminated, my job was to create them.
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Corr, what a stunning bird, a melanistic Lapwing!
What looks like a dark morph Lapwing seen at #RSPBGreylake #Somerset this morning. It was very aggressive to any other Lapwing that came to close.
February 7, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Corr, what a stunning bird, a melanistic Lapwing!
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🦇 Little Brown Bats are widespread across North America. "Myotis" is the genus they belong to (Myotis lucifugus) and it means "mouse-eared". It is still correct to call them a Little Brown Bat - using "Myotis" is just a little more descriptive.
February 7, 2026 at 8:53 PM
🦇 Little Brown Bats are widespread across North America. "Myotis" is the genus they belong to (Myotis lucifugus) and it means "mouse-eared". It is still correct to call them a Little Brown Bat - using "Myotis" is just a little more descriptive.
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Last winter 🦇 check for a while. Good numbers of hibernating Brandt’s bats recorded above the 500m contour.
February 7, 2026 at 7:42 PM
Last winter 🦇 check for a while. Good numbers of hibernating Brandt’s bats recorded above the 500m contour.
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So, my harvestmen pen and ink drawings have been scanned, reduced and printed off as bookmarks. One for each of my books on opiliones. I now need to make appropriately themed bookmarks for other books - beetles, bees, spiders, hoverflies... think I may be rather busy for a while!
February 7, 2026 at 12:26 PM
So, my harvestmen pen and ink drawings have been scanned, reduced and printed off as bookmarks. One for each of my books on opiliones. I now need to make appropriately themed bookmarks for other books - beetles, bees, spiders, hoverflies... think I may be rather busy for a while!
How it started How it’s going Velvet Shank appearing in December 2025 is now well past its best
February 7, 2026 at 1:48 PM
How it started How it’s going Velvet Shank appearing in December 2025 is now well past its best
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Ordered last June, arrived Tuesday, finished last night. A book I needed years ago. Absolutely terrific and if you’re early in your naturalist phase an essential read I would say. One that won’t go on the shelf but to reread and dip into, especially the section on different groups.
February 7, 2026 at 11:46 AM
Ordered last June, arrived Tuesday, finished last night. A book I needed years ago. Absolutely terrific and if you’re early in your naturalist phase an essential read I would say. One that won’t go on the shelf but to reread and dip into, especially the section on different groups.
Horden news
ITS NOT RAINING!
After that bird song was picking up
Site very wet and with strong E winds the beach head is disappearing Probably 2m this week has gone
Roe deer prints on beach would have liked to see that
Storms impact and human waste on the beach
ITS NOT RAINING!
After that bird song was picking up
Site very wet and with strong E winds the beach head is disappearing Probably 2m this week has gone
Roe deer prints on beach would have liked to see that
Storms impact and human waste on the beach
February 7, 2026 at 12:18 PM
Horden news
ITS NOT RAINING!
After that bird song was picking up
Site very wet and with strong E winds the beach head is disappearing Probably 2m this week has gone
Roe deer prints on beach would have liked to see that
Storms impact and human waste on the beach
ITS NOT RAINING!
After that bird song was picking up
Site very wet and with strong E winds the beach head is disappearing Probably 2m this week has gone
Roe deer prints on beach would have liked to see that
Storms impact and human waste on the beach
Reposted by Darren Archer
While mainstream media downplays Epstein’s numerous links to the Israeli government, more tenuous links to Russia are becoming increasingly conspicuous.
@meenakshirv.bsky.social and Drop Site News’s Murtaza Hussain take us through the story.
@meenakshirv.bsky.social and Drop Site News’s Murtaza Hussain take us through the story.
February 6, 2026 at 11:26 PM
While mainstream media downplays Epstein’s numerous links to the Israeli government, more tenuous links to Russia are becoming increasingly conspicuous.
@meenakshirv.bsky.social and Drop Site News’s Murtaza Hussain take us through the story.
@meenakshirv.bsky.social and Drop Site News’s Murtaza Hussain take us through the story.
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More harvestman line drawings completed. Leiobunum species have such long legs that I didn't even try and fit them on the page.
February 6, 2026 at 2:56 PM
More harvestman line drawings completed. Leiobunum species have such long legs that I didn't even try and fit them on the page.
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The call of the Whimbrel.
Using listening devices to study breeding waders?
Careful!
Need to understand breeding behaviour in different situations and years.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/02/06/t... 🎂1️⃣
#ornithology
Using listening devices to study breeding waders?
Careful!
Need to understand breeding behaviour in different situations and years.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/02/06/t... 🎂1️⃣
#ornithology
The call of the Whimbrel
The seven-note whistle of the Whimbrel is a classic sound, welcomed by Icelanders at the end of a long, dark winter. These wonderful waders are responding badly to recent changes to Iceland’s lands…
wadertales.wordpress.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:00 AM
The call of the Whimbrel.
Using listening devices to study breeding waders?
Careful!
Need to understand breeding behaviour in different situations and years.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/02/06/t... 🎂1️⃣
#ornithology
Using listening devices to study breeding waders?
Careful!
Need to understand breeding behaviour in different situations and years.
wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/02/06/t... 🎂1️⃣
#ornithology
🦇👏👏
Last year, BCI and partners launched a new wildlife refuge named Ika (“bat” in the local Emberá language) in Bogotá, Colombia to protect the Endangered Antioquian sac-winged bat (𝘚𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘹 𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘴).
February 5, 2026 at 8:23 PM
🦇👏👏
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🦇 Bats are long-lived mammals which reproduce slowly: each female can only produce one baby per year and not all females will have babies each year. For this reason their populations are very slow to grow or recover their numbers.
www.bats.org.uk/about-bats
Image (c) Daniel Hargreaves
www.bats.org.uk/about-bats
Image (c) Daniel Hargreaves
February 5, 2026 at 5:33 PM
🦇 Bats are long-lived mammals which reproduce slowly: each female can only produce one baby per year and not all females will have babies each year. For this reason their populations are very slow to grow or recover their numbers.
www.bats.org.uk/about-bats
Image (c) Daniel Hargreaves
www.bats.org.uk/about-bats
Image (c) Daniel Hargreaves
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Fortunately the only ICE we have to fear in Norwich consists of frozen water.
Even that is absent in the current mild, wet weather.
Even that is absent in the current mild, wet weather.
February 5, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Fortunately the only ICE we have to fear in Norwich consists of frozen water.
Even that is absent in the current mild, wet weather.
Even that is absent in the current mild, wet weather.
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Israeli air attacks on Lebanon reach highest level since ceasefire: Report https://aje.news/5ymd39
February 5, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Israeli air attacks on Lebanon reach highest level since ceasefire: Report https://aje.news/5ymd39
To 🦇 people
What if pipistrelle-Ppip and Ppyg Type D social calls aren’t about agonistic / defence but contribute to social cohesion over longer distance than echolocation?
With individual finger prints in echos you know who is in your feeding group. And know the pecking order in a feeding patch
What if pipistrelle-Ppip and Ppyg Type D social calls aren’t about agonistic / defence but contribute to social cohesion over longer distance than echolocation?
With individual finger prints in echos you know who is in your feeding group. And know the pecking order in a feeding patch
February 5, 2026 at 11:19 AM
To 🦇 people
What if pipistrelle-Ppip and Ppyg Type D social calls aren’t about agonistic / defence but contribute to social cohesion over longer distance than echolocation?
With individual finger prints in echos you know who is in your feeding group. And know the pecking order in a feeding patch
What if pipistrelle-Ppip and Ppyg Type D social calls aren’t about agonistic / defence but contribute to social cohesion over longer distance than echolocation?
With individual finger prints in echos you know who is in your feeding group. And know the pecking order in a feeding patch
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Pilot whales are known to exhibit a mobbing-like behaviour towards killer whales. Acoustic signals are important in mobbing behaviours. Previous studies have shown that pilot whales are attracted to the sounds of killer whales and increase their vocalisation in response.
Listen to an example 🔈🎧⬆️
Listen to an example 🔈🎧⬆️
February 3, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Pilot whales are known to exhibit a mobbing-like behaviour towards killer whales. Acoustic signals are important in mobbing behaviours. Previous studies have shown that pilot whales are attracted to the sounds of killer whales and increase their vocalisation in response.
Listen to an example 🔈🎧⬆️
Listen to an example 🔈🎧⬆️
Surprised
not surprised #boredofpeacemember
not surprised #boredofpeacemember
In a released recording, convicted sex offender and former Israeli leader discuss 'gigantic' sums paid to former UK PM.
Epstein, Israel's Barak discussed ‘gigantic' consultancy sums paid to Blair
In a released recording, convicted sex offender and former Israeli leader discuss 'gigantic' sums paid to former UK PM.
www.aljazeera.com
February 5, 2026 at 10:48 AM
Surprised
not surprised #boredofpeacemember
not surprised #boredofpeacemember
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At least 10 people, including a four-year-old girl, killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza overnight.
Israeli attacks kill 10 Palestinians amid restrictions at Rafah crossing
At least 10 people, including a four-year-old girl, killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza overnight.
www.aljazeera.com
February 4, 2026 at 6:30 AM
At least 10 people, including a four-year-old girl, killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza overnight.
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More Little Gulls skipping over the waves - this adult was one of three just south of Alnmouth today #NEbirding
February 4, 2026 at 7:59 PM
More Little Gulls skipping over the waves - this adult was one of three just south of Alnmouth today #NEbirding
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What's that bat?!🦇
Seen only as silhouettes in darkening skies, bats are just about impossible to identify. Based on numbers and geography, however, we can make some pretty good guesses. Learn more: https://www.batcon.org/the-ten-most-common-bats-in-the-u-s/
Seen only as silhouettes in darkening skies, bats are just about impossible to identify. Based on numbers and geography, however, we can make some pretty good guesses. Learn more: https://www.batcon.org/the-ten-most-common-bats-in-the-u-s/
February 4, 2026 at 8:02 PM
What's that bat?!🦇
Seen only as silhouettes in darkening skies, bats are just about impossible to identify. Based on numbers and geography, however, we can make some pretty good guesses. Learn more: https://www.batcon.org/the-ten-most-common-bats-in-the-u-s/
Seen only as silhouettes in darkening skies, bats are just about impossible to identify. Based on numbers and geography, however, we can make some pretty good guesses. Learn more: https://www.batcon.org/the-ten-most-common-bats-in-the-u-s/
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I've been back at the drawing board this week, working on some harvestman line drawings. Not the easiest of invertebrates to draw. These were copied from a series of my own reference photos. #arachnids #harvestmen #invertebrates
February 3, 2026 at 2:58 PM
I've been back at the drawing board this week, working on some harvestman line drawings. Not the easiest of invertebrates to draw. These were copied from a series of my own reference photos. #arachnids #harvestmen #invertebrates
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All Palestine Action activists cleared by jury of the politically motivated charges against them.
Incredible news. This is why craven corrupt, irreparably dirty Labour wants to kill jury trials: realmedia.press/filton-verdi...
THE FILTON TRIAL - THE VERDICTS - NO CONVICTIONS - Real Media - The View From Below
Following our detailed coverage of this long trial, we bring you the verdicts as they have just been announced in court.
realmedia.press
February 4, 2026 at 12:34 PM
All Palestine Action activists cleared by jury of the politically motivated charges against them.
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Fascism wants you to believe that you are alone. That you are isolated. That the feelings you have are yours and nobody else has them because everybody is too afraid to speak.
But love is stronger than fascism. Community is stronger than fascism.
But love is stronger than fascism. Community is stronger than fascism.
February 4, 2026 at 2:51 AM
Fascism wants you to believe that you are alone. That you are isolated. That the feelings you have are yours and nobody else has them because everybody is too afraid to speak.
But love is stronger than fascism. Community is stronger than fascism.
But love is stronger than fascism. Community is stronger than fascism.