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Steve Dudley @stevedudley.bsky.social · Sep 23

I've long been a gear geek - optics, tripods, clothing - I'm obsessed with it all. I've helped design optics, jackets and more and I love to share and hear others' views on their birding gear. So, I've set up this Feed, Birding Gear, for just that. Tag your posts #BirdingGear to contribute!

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Jen Gill @jengill.bsky.social · 19h

The latest wadertales blog (no. 151) describes how scoring moult from photographs can reveal moult season duration and how it varies between populations: wadertales.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/m...
#ornithology

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George Gay @georgenorthron.bsky.social · 12h

A bit of video of todays White-rumped Sandpiper on Sandsheen. First on here since two birds in 2015. Amazed it was able to predate the Great Black-backed Gull, or thats what I assume from the evidence 🫣

#OrkneyBirding

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Dylan Daunt @alpine-swift.bsky.social · 14h

White-rumped Sandpiper on North Ronaldsay this afternoon. A great find by Craig.

Really nice to have a good bird after a couple quiet weeks.

#BirdingScotland
#OrkneyBirding

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CleySpy @cleyspy.bsky.social · 14h

Join us in-store this weekend, for the best optics deals that you'll find anywhere!
We'll have significant discounts across all brands that absolutely will not be beaten. Offers will be available on 11-12 Oct and will be available in-store only (not online or via phone). #UKBirding #BirdingGear

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Steve Dudley @stevedudley.bsky.social · 13h

Any day with a Sooty Shearwater in it, is a good day. My fave seabird and I never tire of seeing them here in Westray in varying conditions. 85+ from Noup lighthouse this afternoon in an hour. Nowhere suitable to get out of the wind so it was viewing from a rocking car! It was fair 🌬️ #WestrayBirding

Three Sooty Shearwaters, Westray, Orkney Isles, 9 October 2025

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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 18h

I once debated a right-wing media figure on a television programme who described my attempt to provide some historical background as 'Marxist rhetoric.' Defenders of this system and its crimes always regard context with a mix of fear and loathing and here's an example of why.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 19h

Charlotte Church sang From the River to the Sea at a fundraising event for Palestinians and now all the usual people are screaming antisemitism and trying to cancel her.

RT if you stand with Charlotte Church and Palestine.

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Steve Dudley @stevedudley.bsky.social · 19h

Rohan autumn sale includes various Barricade ‘dry’ trousers - some 50% off. I’ve not bought their gear for a while now but one of the few Rohan items I still wear a lot in spring and autumn are my Barricade Dry Requisite trousers. With a dropped liner they are both warm and waterproof. #BirdingGear

Men's Barricade™ Dry Ranger Waterproof Trousers | Carbon | Rohan - Rohan

Shop our classic cargo trouser with added innovative benefits, like our waterproof Drop-Liner Barricade™ to keep you dry as you explore the outdoors.

www.rohan.co.uk

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Badvertising @badvertising.bsky.social · 21h

🚨 Campaign win! 🚨

The City of Stockholm has just voted to ban fossil fuel advertising on public ad spaces from summer 2026.

This is a landmark that adds momentum to the wave of local governments banning the promotion of polluting industries. 🧵 1/6

Stockholm visar vägen med förbud mot fossilreklam — New Weather Sverige

Stockholms stad meddelade den 8 oktober att ett förbud mot fossilreklam i staden införs från och med sommaren 2026.

www.newweather.se

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Scientists for Global Responsibility @responsiblesci.bsky.social · 1d

AI is having a big impact on our planet, from Musk’s gas-guzzling xAI supercomputer in Memphis to data centre-induced water shortages in Querétaro, Mexico.

Find out more at our free online conference:

📆 Wednesday 15th October, 16:00 - 18:00 BST

www.tickettailor.com/events/scien...
🧪 #greensky

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BOU @bou.org.uk · 1d

Bird-window collisions: a critical review | www.tandfonline.com/... | Wilson Journal of Ornithology | #ornithology 🪶

Bird-window collisions: a critical review

Bird-window collisions are a principal source of mortality for free flying wild birds the world over. This report is an update on this important conservation issue for birds and people. Geographica...

www.tandfonline.com

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Steve Dudley @stevedudley.bsky.social · 1d

If Google knows there’s nothing better, there really is nothing better 😂

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William (Bill) Sutherland @billsutherland.bsky.social · 1d

Przewalski Wild horse or Takhi went extinct in the wild and were doing poorly in captivity. Scientists then identified the problem as inbreeding and managed the global herd. Now hundreds in the wild in Mongolia and elsewhere. youtu.be/AN9I-zgve6w?...

Managing to reduce inbreeding: Przewalski Wild horse

YouTube video by Bill Sutherland's Conservation Concepts

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Steve Dudley @stevedudley.bsky.social · 1d

I mean. It does not get better than this.

🪶 #UKbirding

Andy Hood @andyhood75.bsky.social · 1d

Oh lawdy...!!!
White-throated Needletail showing a bit well here at Bempton RSPB reserve @rarebirder.bsky.social @birdguides.bsky.social

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CleySpy @cleyspy.bsky.social · 1d

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Steve Dudley @stevedudley.bsky.social · 1d

Still the best bird I’ve ever seen in Britain (I was working at Fairburn Ings on 27 May ‘85 when John Glendinnning found that bird). To find one tho 🤯 THE dream. And it’s not like Orkney doesn’t have Needletail form 🤞🏼

Steve Dudley @stevedudley.bsky.social · 1d

OMG! Super proud of our Louie making the step up in the crazy world of professional football. I’ve always been footie mad. Right from a nipper. Unlike my bro who really couldn’t care less about it! Yet his kids, Louie and his three sisters, all ace players. He might not be the last Dudley to go pro.

Louie Dudley signs first professional contract - Leeds United

Young defender pens two-year deal.

www.leedsunited.com

Steve Dudley @stevedudley.bsky.social · 1d

Some of them wouldn’t have enough room on their jackets for all their ‘interests’. They’d have to go Formula 1 and wear all in one body suit!

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Steve Dudley @stevedudley.bsky.social · 1d

Aye. Winter is long here and spring, summer and autumn all short. We’re a couple of weeks ahead of normal mind this year cos of Storm Amy. Island looks ravaged and near winter-like cos of it.

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Steve Dudley @stevedudley.bsky.social · 1d

This is all known yet government after government fault to implement what is actually needed by society. Why? Self interests. They follow the donor money and not their social conscience. Not that many Tories have a social conscience but it’s galling to see Labour fail on this key doctrine too.

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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 2d

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 3d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Steve Dudley @stevedudley.bsky.social · 1d

An excellent read, Marc. Oflactory responses in birds has long fascinated me. Thanks.

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Marc Gilles @marcgilles.bsky.social · 1d

Want to know everything about bird smell?
I wrote an "Ornithological masterclass" on Avian Olfaction for BTO News @btobirds.bsky.social #ornithology
Link to the article 👉 www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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Steve Dudley @stevedudley.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly. When I heard Jenrick’s racist comments my first thought was, there are countless communities across the entire UK where you’d struggle to see a non-white face in a week let alone his 1.5 hours in Handsworth. The UK has been ghettoed for decades. And he’s only just noticed.

Steve Dudley @stevedudley.bsky.social · 1d

It’s already been and gone up here at 59°N ☹️

A leafless sycamore tree, Westray, Orkney Isles.

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