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Alan Knox @alanknox.bsky.social · 4d

Two of 3 male Crossbills on the sea wall at Musselburgh today.
@scottishbirding.bsky.social #birdingscotland

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Rick Bolton @digiscopingbyrick.bsky.social · 3d

Missed the Glossy Ibis when it circled my local patch but caught up south of Barr loch in fields nr Kerse bridge. #Digiscoped with kowa884 using vario adapter and iphone16Pro #birdingscotland

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Lara 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @swiftlyginger.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you!

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Lara 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @swiftlyginger.bsky.social · 5d

I’m back and forth between Fife and Glasgow for uni, but always appreciate the home nature while I’m here! The resident kestrel put on quite a show for me last week, and these little woodpigeons (I think blown out of the nest by storm Amy) have both fully fledged since this pic #BirdingFife

A male kestrel in flight, carrying a rodent in its talons

A male kestrel soaring, its head locked on to prey

A flock of barnacle geese directly overhead

Two young woodpigeons, huddled together under a bush

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Lara 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @swiftlyginger.bsky.social · 5d

Uni is going to start getting a bit busier soon, but managed to put together something for Halloween, facts and folklore about some weird birds! 🪶

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Vampire Birds and Other Ornithological Oddities

It’s spooky season. There is no better time to discuss some of the strangest birds and bird tales the world has to offer - expect vampires, skeletons, and spirits!

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Raptor Persecution UK @raptorpersuk.bsky.social · 15d

Victorian attitudes towards birds of prey /predators in general remain stubbornly persistent in many parts of the UK.

#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime #BirdingScotland

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Sparrowhawk killed with banned poison in Aberdeenshire – Police Scotland appeals for information

Press release from Police Scotland: APPEAL FOR INFORMATION FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF A BIRD OF PREY IN ABERDEENSHIRE Detectives are appealing for information after a bird of prey was poisoned in Aberd…

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binary sunrise @clarascintilla.bsky.social · 15d

Herons

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kingleby1.bsky.social @kingleby1.bsky.social · 16d

Spoonbill at Musselburgh today, supporting cast of Spotted Redshank, Whooper Swans and Marsh Sandpiper.
@birdinglothian.bsky.social

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Fife Bird News @fifebirdnews.bsky.social · 16d

Glossy Ibis @ Morton Lochs & 2 Common Crane west over Tentsmuir Forest
05/10/25

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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 18d

⚠️ Please report sightings of dead birds for possible testing for Avian Influenza. ⬇️

📌 In England, Wales & Scotland: www.gov.uk/guidance/...
📌 In Northern Ireland: www.daera-ni.gov.uk/...
📌 In Republic of Ireland: aviancheck.apps.serv...

#UKBirding #BirdingWales #BirdingScotland

Image of a deceased Puffin lying on the ground. White wording on an orange background reads: Please report sightings of dead birds.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 18d

And the gender criticals will still say that care is too easily accessed because they don't think trans people should exist at all.

Adam Turner 🏳️‍🌈 @awjt.bsky.social · 18d

In Glasgow, there is a 224-year waiting list for gender clinic appointments.

224 YEARS.

This is institutionalised discrimination. It's unacceptable, it's ruining people's lives and it needs to change.

We have the solution. Time for politicians to act.

Gender Clinic Files: Some people in Scotland will never get a gender clinic appointment on a 224-year waitlist.

This system is failing to support people to transition not because it is broken, but by design. The frustrating thing is that this would not be a difficult problem to solve under a different political paradigm.

Trans+ people do not need to be assessed by gender clinics or diagnosed by psychiatrists to tell us what we already know: we are trans. The healthcare we need, especially when it comes to hormones, is already available to cis people through making an appointment with their GP.

Gender clinics are unnecessary and exist to segregate healthcare for Trans+ people. Abolishing this system and providing Trans+ healthcare in primary care, at the GP through an informed consent model, would solve many of the issues this data reveals. GPs already prescribe hormones to cis adults. Trans+ adults simply need the same access to this healthcare.

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RSPB Scotland @rspbscotland.bsky.social · 22d

We're incredibly concerned about the welfare of two satellite-tagged golden eagles, Tarras and Wren, that have recently disappeared in Dumfries and Galloway.

Anyone with information should contact Police Scotland.

Read more 👉 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce80l4jgd1qo

📷 Chris Gomersall, RSPB Images

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 25d

When you consider the *ecocide* alongside the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, you begin to grasp the totality of the Israeli state’s attempt to eliminate both the Palestinians and their homeland.
My column today.
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Israel’s ecocide in Gaza sends this message: even if we stopped dropping bombs, you couldn’t live here | George Monbiot

Consider the annihilation of agricultural land alongside the genocide – and grasp the chilling totality of this attempt to eliminate all life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

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Lisa @wildlenslife.bsky.social · 26d

After recently capturing this pair of gannets with their egg, I was concerned about their success and survival. This paper gives me hope that they’ve all made it! 😊

#BirdingScotland 🐦 🌿 📷

Pair of gannets clutching an egg on the cliff.

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Jared Wilson @wilsonjaredm.bsky.social · 25d

A black-eyed and a regular silver-eyed Northern Gannet at Fife Ness yesterday. Suggestion that this change in colour is linked to HPAI infection #birdingFife

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Raptor Persecution UK @raptorpersuk.bsky.social · 28d

Press statement from Police Scotland 🔽

#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime #BirdingScotland #Ornithology

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Red Kite found dead in Perthshire confirmed to have been poisoned (banned pesticide + rodenticides)

Press release from Police Scotland (24 September 2025): BIRD OF PREY FOUND TO BE POISONED IN PERTH & KINROSS AREA Enquiries into the death of red kite are ongoing. On 22 June, 2025 a dead red k…

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Lara 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @swiftlyginger.bsky.social · Sep 20

my own big project might be done soon, im starting a postgrad next week so time may not be on my side 🥴 but a big seagull ramble is still in the works

Lara 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @swiftlyginger.bsky.social · Sep 20

Wrote a little bit about a very charming project you can watch for free on youtube! 🪶
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Review - Listers: A Glimpse Into Extreme Birdwatching

A fun, fresh, cinema quality look into ‘Big Year’ birding in America, for free on YouTube

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Woodland Trust Scotland @wtscotsocial.bsky.social · Sep 17

A raven turned up on our #LochArkaig ospreycam today, and had a lot to say for itself!

🔊 Sound up for some lovely kronking.🐦‍⬛

#raven

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Stewart @stewchat.bsky.social · Sep 14

Some Marsh Sandpiper notes from yesterday...
#BirdArt #UKBirding #BirdingScotland #LothianBirding

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Lara 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @swiftlyginger.bsky.social · Sep 14

thank you!

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Lara 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @swiftlyginger.bsky.social · Sep 13

Almost all the rare birds in Fife that I’ve gone looking for have evaded me the last few days (especially the Ibis 🥲), but still had a couple good days of birding, except when I got soaked by sudden torrential rain 😅 #BirdingFife

Soaked swallows at kilminning, perched on a fence

A handsome stonechat perched on dry branches

A golden plover flies overhead at Letham pools

A Garganey amongst rocks at Angle Park, with a moorhen to the back left and lapwing to the right, deciding to show well, and give me one rare siting this weekend!

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Jared Wilson @wilsonjaredm.bsky.social · Sep 10

Fife got in on the current Glossy Ibis action with one at Angle Park this afternoon (briefly relocating to Letham Pools). Only the 3rd record for Fife, the previous birds being in 2016 & 2020. #birdingFife

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Jared Wilson @wilsonjaredm.bsky.social · Sep 7

Most notable though, a Nathusius' (?) pipistrelle landing on my leg as I was watching it fly around a potato field. Seemed knackered after its North Sea crossing so i rescued it offf the ground and put it some sheltered cover #birdingFife

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Lara 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @swiftlyginger.bsky.social · Sep 4

Treated to a beautiful wee kestrel very visible in my area today on an otherwise quiet evening #BirdingFife #BirdingScotland

A male kestrel perched on a wire, bathed in golden sunset light

A (clumsy?) crow, dropping a dead rodent

A male kestrel perched on a wire, with a truck and buildings in the background

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