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55-year-old disabled former journalist and environmental campaigner [insert verb depending on my state of health] among the ancient flora and fauna in the New Forest, U.K. 🌿🐎🐿️🦉🌳 (Banner photo: https://treesforlife.org.uk "Alder")

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Janet Roch @cumberlandjc.bsky.social · 3h

#Morocco 2025 - #kestrel
This beautiful bird was so incredibly well camouflaged against the sandstone cliffs it looked like it could have been sculpted from the rock and brought to life.
Canon R5 500mm f/8 1/400s ISO500 (taken at distance 😂)
#BirdOfTheDay #EastCoastKin #nature #travel #birds

Photograph of a, likely juvenile male, kestrel (please correct me if I'm wrong about sex) sitting on a cliff of ocher sandstone, looking over its shoulder. The bird, with its brown wings patterned with black spots, buff breast, similarly spotted, and orange brown face and rump matches the patterned rock, only the white shoulder and grey tail barred with black breaking its camouflage. The main tell tail sign of its presence, and a sign that this is a frequent perch are the streaks of white bird poo extending down the rock face, which indeed was the thing that stood out at the long distance we were from the cliff and which, along with its call, led us to notice the bird in the first place.

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Josiah Mortimer @josiah.writes.news · 10h

Most Reform UK voters back investment in renewable energy:

"Research by YouGov showed some politicians had ‘grossly misjudged voters’ views amid criticism of net zero efforts"
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Poll suggests most Reform UK voters back investment in renewable energy

Research by YouGov showed some politicians had ‘grossly misjudged voters’ views amid criticism of net zero efforts, according to investment body.

www.independent.co.uk

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Ani @aninewforest.bsky.social · 2h

Serious subject but hilarious thread:⤵️

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

It's so incredible how low homicide rates are in Europe. The UK, with a population of 70 million people, had fewer than 600 murders in 2023.
www.connexionfrance.com/news/double-...

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Ani @aninewforest.bsky.social · 2h

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Ani @aninewforest.bsky.social · 8h

A prehistoric landscape glows through the crisp, clumsy articulation of a sleek saurian thinking of dinner.

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 10h

You go Miso

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Ani @aninewforest.bsky.social · 9h

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Insta Science @instascience.bsky.social · 9h

These cats were put in separate cages because they kept fighting. #cat #catday #bluesky

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 23h

j.lulu_photography
..Lulu🦋
Great blue heron at sunset on Anna Maria Island, Florida
Gulf of Mexico

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Ani @aninewforest.bsky.social · 10h

Note, the pastor is unarmed! Yet they still see him as a threat just for standing there.

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Bat Conservation Trust @batconservation.bsky.social · 4d

If you are new to bats you may find our e-learning resources a great way to get started! Some highlights:
- Intro to bats
- Bat care for non-bat carers
- Bat resources for teachers and youth workers
- Bat talks from conferences

More here: learn.bats.org.uk/collections/...

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Ani @aninewforest.bsky.social · 23h

I've observed "off duty" birds, as it were, who I would describe as pensive.

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Janet Roch @cumberlandjc.bsky.social · 1d

#Morocco Sept 2025
It felt strange getting better and more (if distant) views of some "British" birds on #migration than I can back home
This beautiful ♀️pied flycatcher was enjoying the evening sun
Canon R5 500mm f/8 1/400 ISO800
#birdoftheday #birds #EastCoastKin #travel #nature #ukbirding

A female pied flycatcher photographed in Morocco during her migration south from her breeding grounds in Europe. She is sitting on a succulent bush, a cactus in the foreground. She is back-lit by late afternoon sun, imparting a glow on her and her surroundings. Original photo cropped and enlarged as she, like most of the birds we saw, was quite distant.

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Ani @aninewforest.bsky.social · 23h

Shots of Tatooine never showed any green (despite Luke supposedly being a farmer!)

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Paul McAuley @unlikelyworlds.bsky.social · 3d

Hampstead Heath: 08:02

Trees in autumn colours reflected in the dark water of Viaduct Pond under a cloudless blue sky.

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Dustin Mulvaney @dustinmulvaney.bsky.social · 1d

Harvest moon, Super moon - the full moon at perigee, its closest point to Earth, appears bigger and brighter. 🌕 #SuperMoon

Big bright moon on blue sky, a few trees silhouette

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 2d

More on Teesmouth seal pup deaths, suggesting sewage effluent and legacy of industrial pollution may have exacerbated natural mortality. Typical comedy response from Northumbrian Water saying they couldn't possibly be responsible for faecal bacteria in estuary.
northeastbylines.co.uk/news/environ...

Pollution kills all Tees Estuary seal pups

Harbour seal pups in Tees Estuary suffer 100% mortality in 2025, prompting MPs to demand a Defra inquiry into the deaths

northeastbylines.co.uk

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Enmodo @enmodo.bsky.social · 1d

Indeed, studies have shown that immigrants are convicted of violent felonies at just 1/3 of the rate natural born Americans do. Removing immigrants will actually increase the per-capita statistic for violent crime convictions.

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Community-Led Restoration @globalstewards.bsky.social · 1d

Please take this quick action to help protect turtles!

Center for Biological Diversity @biologicaldiversity.org · 1d

Each summer in Glynn County, GA, thousands of imperiled loggerheads struggle across the sand to the ocean for their first swim, but the lights of a nearby highway exit have turned their journey from difficult to deadly.

Tell Glynn County to turn off the lights, for turtles' sake ➡️ bit.ly/4nEFpjy

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Ani @aninewforest.bsky.social · 1d

Did you mean, "Mary and I "?

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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 2d

Please support Animal Aid's campaign to ban greyhound racing - petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

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Ani @aninewforest.bsky.social · 2d

Scottish pine martins are being reintroduced all over England and Wales.

We've even had sightings here in the New Forest, about as far south from Scotland as you can get:

www.forestryengland.uk/news/pine-ma...

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Eric Roston @eroston.bsky.social · 2d

It's...
The...
Most wonderful time...
of the year!
#NobelWeek
www.nobelprize.org

The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org

The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...

www.nobelprize.org

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Ani @aninewforest.bsky.social · 2d

These are the same farmers who swell the ranks of political pressure groups claiming to be experts in their field 🙄...
Ready to be put out to pasture, more like! 🐮

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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 3d

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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 3d

May 2015. David Cameron was Prime Minister, UK an EU member, Barack Obama was US President, and this male Marsh Tit hatched in Monks Wood. Colour-ringed 28 August 2015. Photo 2 April 2016. Observed every year since. @martamaziarz.bsky.social & I saw him again today, 10 yrs 5 mo old, still surviving.

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