Andrew Clarke
@mrandrewclarke.bsky.social
Art. Archaeology. Biomimicry. Birding. Botany. Conservation. Cymraeg. Entomology. Food. Foraging. Gardening. Health. Herbalism. Horticulture. Music. Natural History. Ornithology. Permaculture. Philosophy. Politricks. Spirituality. Sustainability + more
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Real wildlife laws unlike feudal Britain
4 Northern Bald Ibis were killed with an air rifle in Extremadura in 2019. Covid caused issues with the police investigation, but they continues & last month the guilty party was sentenced, 1 year prison term, banned from hunting & fishing for 3 years & a 20,000Euro fine. @raptorpersuk.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Real wildlife laws unlike feudal Britain
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If Britain is to renew itself, it will not be through punishing weakness, poverty, ill health, disability or immigrants. It will be through recognising the strength and potential that exists in every person and building the systems that allow that potential to be realised.
November 22, 2025 at 9:23 AM
If Britain is to renew itself, it will not be through punishing weakness, poverty, ill health, disability or immigrants. It will be through recognising the strength and potential that exists in every person and building the systems that allow that potential to be realised.
This fascinating short article is highly recommended for anyone interested in marine mammals, zooarchaeology, history, folklore, Orkney and the links between humans, seals and the sea.
@mammalsociety.bsky.social
@coastalpaleo.bsky.social
@nesmammals.bsky.social
@marinemammalogy.bsky.social
@mammalsociety.bsky.social
@coastalpaleo.bsky.social
@nesmammals.bsky.social
@marinemammalogy.bsky.social
What a privilege to be among the final contributing authors for @sapiens.org. This piece grows out of my Earth fellowship in Orkney, Scotland, exploring deep-time human–seal relations.
Grateful for the chance to share it and keen to hear what you think. www.sapiens.org/culture/seal...
Grateful for the chance to share it and keen to hear what you think. www.sapiens.org/culture/seal...
Connections and Conflicts With Seals in a Scottish Archipelago
An environmental archaeologist investigates deep-time, mythical, and contemporary relations between seals and Orkney Islanders.
www.sapiens.org
November 22, 2025 at 10:26 AM
This fascinating short article is highly recommended for anyone interested in marine mammals, zooarchaeology, history, folklore, Orkney and the links between humans, seals and the sea.
@mammalsociety.bsky.social
@coastalpaleo.bsky.social
@nesmammals.bsky.social
@marinemammalogy.bsky.social
@mammalsociety.bsky.social
@coastalpaleo.bsky.social
@nesmammals.bsky.social
@marinemammalogy.bsky.social
Incredibly, it wasn’t until the Equal Franchise Act of 1928 when women over 21 were able to vote. My grandfathers were born in a time when females were deemed somehow inferior.
Sadly this archaic attitude persists as some of your trolls are clearly lagging behind in terms of social human evolution.
Sadly this archaic attitude persists as some of your trolls are clearly lagging behind in terms of social human evolution.
Amazing to have so much attention brought to the wonderful topic of social insect evolution! 🐜
www.thepoke.com/2025/11/20/a...
www.thepoke.com/2025/11/20/a...
November 22, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Incredibly, it wasn’t until the Equal Franchise Act of 1928 when women over 21 were able to vote. My grandfathers were born in a time when females were deemed somehow inferior.
Sadly this archaic attitude persists as some of your trolls are clearly lagging behind in terms of social human evolution.
Sadly this archaic attitude persists as some of your trolls are clearly lagging behind in terms of social human evolution.
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The ‘dresser’ from the Neolithic village of Skara Brae on Orkney. Occupied from around 3100 to 2500 BC, the prehistoric settlement is one of the best preserved in the British Isles. 📸 My own. #SkaraBrae #Neolithic #Orkney
November 22, 2025 at 8:07 AM
The ‘dresser’ from the Neolithic village of Skara Brae on Orkney. Occupied from around 3100 to 2500 BC, the prehistoric settlement is one of the best preserved in the British Isles. 📸 My own. #SkaraBrae #Neolithic #Orkney
Presumably criminals are dumping waste because an expensive license is required to use the council recycling centres.
Surely it would be more sensible to allow free access so materials can be graded and sold on, rather than wasting money employing staff and vehicles clearing up fly tipping?
Surely it would be more sensible to allow free access so materials can be graded and sold on, rather than wasting money employing staff and vehicles clearing up fly tipping?
Organised gangs are involved in waste crime across the country, costing the taxpayer £1bn/year.
They can make £2,500 for each lorry-load of waste dumped.
Evidence suggests 117 gangs are involved; 97% of them are also engaged in other criminality, but the crime isn't deemed a priority by the police.
They can make £2,500 for each lorry-load of waste dumped.
Evidence suggests 117 gangs are involved; 97% of them are also engaged in other criminality, but the crime isn't deemed a priority by the police.
Mountain of waste dumped in Oxfordshire field contains rubbish from councils
November 19, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Presumably criminals are dumping waste because an expensive license is required to use the council recycling centres.
Surely it would be more sensible to allow free access so materials can be graded and sold on, rather than wasting money employing staff and vehicles clearing up fly tipping?
Surely it would be more sensible to allow free access so materials can be graded and sold on, rather than wasting money employing staff and vehicles clearing up fly tipping?
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Pink-footed Geese arriving in the rain, Sheringham - seemed an apt image for this morning's weather. Rain drops peppering the watercolour washes. Not the greatest weather forecast for an exhibition preview evening but such is life!
November 14, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Pink-footed Geese arriving in the rain, Sheringham - seemed an apt image for this morning's weather. Rain drops peppering the watercolour washes. Not the greatest weather forecast for an exhibition preview evening but such is life!
Some say ‘𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡’, ‘𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑙𝑦’ or ‘𝑔𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡’ but I’m so repulsed by the majority of these venal scoundrels that I propose a new collective noun:
𝐀 𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐔𝐏𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐎𝐅 𝐏𝐎𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐍𝐒
@susiedent.com
@merriam-webster.com
@oxfordacademic.bsky.social
@universitypress.cambridge.org
Cartoon: Osmani Simanca
𝐀 𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐔𝐏𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐎𝐅 𝐏𝐎𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐍𝐒
@susiedent.com
@merriam-webster.com
@oxfordacademic.bsky.social
@universitypress.cambridge.org
Cartoon: Osmani Simanca
November 18, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Some say ‘𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡’, ‘𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑙𝑦’ or ‘𝑔𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡’ but I’m so repulsed by the majority of these venal scoundrels that I propose a new collective noun:
𝐀 𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐔𝐏𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐎𝐅 𝐏𝐎𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐍𝐒
@susiedent.com
@merriam-webster.com
@oxfordacademic.bsky.social
@universitypress.cambridge.org
Cartoon: Osmani Simanca
𝐀 𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐔𝐏𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐎𝐅 𝐏𝐎𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐍𝐒
@susiedent.com
@merriam-webster.com
@oxfordacademic.bsky.social
@universitypress.cambridge.org
Cartoon: Osmani Simanca
Crikey, I passed a young woman earlier with such colossal false eyelashes that she could have really done with scaffolding on her face to keep ‘em in place!!
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November 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Crikey, I passed a young woman earlier with such colossal false eyelashes that she could have really done with scaffolding on her face to keep ‘em in place!!
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Well that was off my rarity radar. What a superb find! Are there any other European records of this subspecies?
This Swallow at Balranald, N Uist this afternoon appears to be the American subspecies: erythrogaster due to the lack of a dark band across the lower throat.
November 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Well that was off my rarity radar. What a superb find! Are there any other European records of this subspecies?
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“The first impression of Spurn is hardly a cosy one, the second impression is an abomination of desolation!”
I doubt Julian Pettifer returned but the wildness is exactly what draws so many to @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social and the @yorkswildlife.bsky.social centre.
youtube.com/watch?v=CULU...
“The first impression of Spurn is hardly a cosy one, the second impression is an abomination of desolation!”
I doubt Julian Pettifer returned but the wildness is exactly what draws so many to @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social and the @yorkswildlife.bsky.social centre.
youtube.com/watch?v=CULU...
1962: The People Who Live on Spurn Point | Tonight | Voice of the People | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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November 17, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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“The first impression of Spurn is hardly a cosy one, the second impression is an abomination of desolation!”
I doubt Julian Pettifer returned but the wildness is exactly what draws so many to @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social and the @yorkswildlife.bsky.social centre.
youtube.com/watch?v=CULU...
“The first impression of Spurn is hardly a cosy one, the second impression is an abomination of desolation!”
I doubt Julian Pettifer returned but the wildness is exactly what draws so many to @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social and the @yorkswildlife.bsky.social centre.
youtube.com/watch?v=CULU...
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A hugely significant publication from the great RJ Ussher in the Irish Naturalist of 1897: Great Auk bones in kitchen middens at Tramore Sandhills - barely 2 km (as the auk can’t fly!) from the 1834 live capture of the species between Brownstown Head & Ballymacaw, Co Waterford
November 16, 2025 at 9:09 PM
A hugely significant publication from the great RJ Ussher in the Irish Naturalist of 1897: Great Auk bones in kitchen middens at Tramore Sandhills - barely 2 km (as the auk can’t fly!) from the 1834 live capture of the species between Brownstown Head & Ballymacaw, Co Waterford
So the former Ecology Party became so anti-science as to suggest humans can even change sex!
IMHO they’ve been infiltrated by bad faith actors intent on destroying it from within.
I’m awaiting a huge #GreenParty scandal involving top officials before the next election to further alienate voters.
IMHO they’ve been infiltrated by bad faith actors intent on destroying it from within.
I’m awaiting a huge #GreenParty scandal involving top officials before the next election to further alienate voters.
Greens:
Will ban landlords.
Believe men are women if they want to be. (anti-women)
Will allow unfettered immigration.
Will have cosy chats with warmongering dictators, for peace.
Will leave NATO.
Think a "wealth tax" will pay for everything.
Christonabike. Where to start?
Will ban landlords.
Believe men are women if they want to be. (anti-women)
Will allow unfettered immigration.
Will have cosy chats with warmongering dictators, for peace.
Will leave NATO.
Think a "wealth tax" will pay for everything.
Christonabike. Where to start?
November 16, 2025 at 7:07 PM
So the former Ecology Party became so anti-science as to suggest humans can even change sex!
IMHO they’ve been infiltrated by bad faith actors intent on destroying it from within.
I’m awaiting a huge #GreenParty scandal involving top officials before the next election to further alienate voters.
IMHO they’ve been infiltrated by bad faith actors intent on destroying it from within.
I’m awaiting a huge #GreenParty scandal involving top officials before the next election to further alienate voters.
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How can #birding be more accessible to people with #disability? See our research on constraints and facilitators!
Accessible birding in the United States: constraints to and facilitators of birding with disabilities
While approximately one-quarter of the U.S. population has a disability, many people with disabilities remain excluded from equitable participation in birding. In this study, we compared the constr...
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January 11, 2025 at 7:48 PM
How can #birding be more accessible to people with #disability? See our research on constraints and facilitators!
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A mind-blowingly cool few days rock-pooling down at Falmouth last weekend concluded with a session at Helford Passage. We found a cockle new to Cornwall! Plus a load of other cool stuff. Full story in my blog...
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November 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
A mind-blowingly cool few days rock-pooling down at Falmouth last weekend concluded with a session at Helford Passage. We found a cockle new to Cornwall! Plus a load of other cool stuff. Full story in my blog...
analternativenaturalhistoryofsussex.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
analternativenaturalhistoryofsussex.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-...
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"Upland forests are like natural rainmakers," Jiang said. "Protecting these ecosystems isn't just about biodiversity—it's about sustaining agriculture."
#ClimateEmergency and #NatureCrisis intimately interlinked
phys.org/news/2025-11...
#ClimateEmergency and #NatureCrisis intimately interlinked
phys.org/news/2025-11...
Rainfall's origin reveals a hidden driver behind drought risks for farmers
A new University of California San Diego study uncovers a hidden driver of global crop vulnerability: the origin of rainfall itself.
phys.org
November 15, 2025 at 8:09 AM
"Upland forests are like natural rainmakers," Jiang said. "Protecting these ecosystems isn't just about biodiversity—it's about sustaining agriculture."
#ClimateEmergency and #NatureCrisis intimately interlinked
phys.org/news/2025-11...
#ClimateEmergency and #NatureCrisis intimately interlinked
phys.org/news/2025-11...
Nuclear was never about ‘clean safe energy’. The plants were built to produce plutonium for warheads.
Alternatively, billions in govt grants should be invested creating real sustainable employment in the area.
I wrote ⬇️ days ago and now hear of a recent earthquake off the Anglesey coast!
#Wylfa
Alternatively, billions in govt grants should be invested creating real sustainable employment in the area.
I wrote ⬇️ days ago and now hear of a recent earthquake off the Anglesey coast!
#Wylfa
November 15, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Nuclear was never about ‘clean safe energy’. The plants were built to produce plutonium for warheads.
Alternatively, billions in govt grants should be invested creating real sustainable employment in the area.
I wrote ⬇️ days ago and now hear of a recent earthquake off the Anglesey coast!
#Wylfa
Alternatively, billions in govt grants should be invested creating real sustainable employment in the area.
I wrote ⬇️ days ago and now hear of a recent earthquake off the Anglesey coast!
#Wylfa
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For 30 years there has been one species firmly at the top of my hit-list: Crimson Speckled. 30 years ago they had an almost mythical status, now more regular of course. So I was beyond elated to find this in one of the traps this morning!!! @migrantmothuk.bsky.social @dorsetmoths.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 9:40 AM
For 30 years there has been one species firmly at the top of my hit-list: Crimson Speckled. 30 years ago they had an almost mythical status, now more regular of course. So I was beyond elated to find this in one of the traps this morning!!! @migrantmothuk.bsky.social @dorsetmoths.bsky.social
I speak for many birders when I say that the price of some optics is just ridiculous nowadays. I know you get what you pay for to some degree… but you don’t require a marketing PhD to realise that many more units could be sold if the price point was more affordable.
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November 14, 2025 at 10:56 PM
I speak for many birders when I say that the price of some optics is just ridiculous nowadays. I know you get what you pay for to some degree… but you don’t require a marketing PhD to realise that many more units could be sold if the price point was more affordable.
#BirdingGear
#BirdingGear
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Great exhibition that many CNHS members attended last night. Our patron, Dafila Scott was there too with some of her wonderful paintings. #dafila.bsky.social #staplefordgranary.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Great exhibition that many CNHS members attended last night. Our patron, Dafila Scott was there too with some of her wonderful paintings. #dafila.bsky.social #staplefordgranary.bsky.social