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The length this herring gull goes to in order to get away from its noisy teenager. Bond vibes #trainstationnature #birdsattrainstations Herring gull = gwylan y penwaig 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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Angharad @angnatur.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Brief but lovely views of 2 firecrests yesterday at Lavernock 💛 2 Dryw Penfflamgoch yn Larnog ddoe 💛

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Angharad @angnatur.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Annual trip to Llanwonno to see the nightjars (and midges!) Also noted were tree pipit, redpoll, whitethroat, willow warbler, jay and grasshopper warbler who only called for a few seconds but enough to positively ID it. A special place 🤩 Troellwr mawr a bach yn Llanwynno 😎

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Angharad @angnatur.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Pure joy #swifts #gwenoliaidduon A woodland walk around Castle Archdale Country Park started with a glimpse of a red squirrel and ended with screaming swifts at the Courtyard. The best.

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Hot? Our wildlife is feeling it too! 🥵 Here are four ways to help your garden visitors stay cool this summer. 👇

A colourful graphic titled 'Help wildlife beat the heat' with illustrations and tips on creating natural habitats. Tips include letting grass grow long to provide cool refuge for insects, planting shrubs for shade, setting up shallow water stations for hydration, and creating muddy puddles to help nesting birds, amphibians and reptiles. The scene depicted shows a garden for wildlife, with long grass, pools of water, trailing plants and a muddy puddle set against a fence. The sun is pictured in the top right in orange hues.

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Angharad @angnatur.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

With my To-do list getting longer and longer, it’s difficult to get things done when swifts are screaming in the skies, the bees and butterflies are in flight, the garden is wild and green, hungry and vocal juvenile house sparrows and starlings, magpies squabbling and insect/caterpillar spotting 🥰

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Angharad @angnatur.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

My battered copy of 1979’s Life on Earth #DavidAttenborough Signed by little me in my best joined-up writing, and a couple of photos that bring back memories of flicking through the pages (I never read it! 🫣) Happy Birthday Sir! 🎉 Penblwydd Hapus! 🎉

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Angharad @angnatur.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

This time last week I was in Linlithgow, and this was the soundtrack surrounding the accommodation. Yellowhammers (Wel: bras melyn). Such a treat. This one was just outside the bathroom window. Fair to say, still on a downer since returning! The power of birdsong eh 💛

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Angharad @angnatur.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Redstarts & Wheatears. They’re here! Early morning local walk also included chaffinches galore, linnet, whitethroat, siskin, parachuting meadow pipits, stonechat, a beautiful pale buzzard, blackcap, rattling fly-by mistle thrushes & willow warbler. And scratching sheep 🐑

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Angharad @angnatur.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

More birds at Aust yesterday. A feasting fieldfare, a stunning stonechat stance, an unhurried heron, and kissing kestrels* . . . . . *they weren’t, they were just close…had to keep up the alliteration 😬

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Angharad @angnatur.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Aust’s penduline tit, 10.01.26 Literally blink and you’ll miss it. Hours of standing around but a beautiful patch to do so in the winter sun, and lots of other birds to stare at too. Also lovely to meet the like minded

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Angharad @angnatur.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

First bird of 2026, tawny owl heard from the garden Blwyddyn Newydd Dda 🦉 Happy New Year

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Angharad @angnatur.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

An early morning ‘stand-in-the-garden-to-see-what-I-see’ in Denbighshire was worth it this morning when a male blackcap turned up, and a mistle thrush camouflaged within branches a while. Vocal blackbirds were busy, chasing, fighting, eating, and a great tit shared a repetitive, splendid song

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Angharad @angnatur.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Feeder’s busy then @naturespy.bsky.social 🎵 Birdhouse in your Soul - They Might be Giants

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Angharad @angnatur.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

At last one for the @bto-gbw.bsky.social I’ve heard goldcrests and seen glimpses in surrounding gardens for aaages, and finally seen here in nextdoor’s tree. They hopped along the garden fence to get to this tree…that’s a GBW ✅ for me 🤗 2 dryw eurben yn yr ardd…un yn showan off ei eurben! 💛

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Angharad @angnatur.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Fading light over River Clwyd, Rhuddlan. This time of year is the best time to witness beautiful light, dramatic skies, and silhouettes (I’m obsessed!) 😍 Afon Clwyd yn hyfryd ac arbennig iawn heddiw 🤩 27.12.25 @marcbuzzard.bsky.social

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Marcbuzzard @marcbuzzard.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

An unseasonal Common Sandpiper on the River Clwyd near Rhuddlan this afternoon on enjoyable walk with @angnatur.bsky.social 55 Pink footed Geese, 47 Black-tailed Godwits and many many Wigeon, Teal and Dunlin to search through. #ukbirding #birdingwales

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Angharad @angnatur.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

An afternoon walk with @marcbuzzard.bsky.social along River Clwyd, Rhuddlan; long overdue catch up, a good list of birds, and beautiful light. Easier to repost Marc’s post for bird list! 👆🏼👆🏼

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Angharad @angnatur.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Yr ysgyfarnog a’r ffesant. The hare and the pheasant. Just found this video from Penllyn in 2021. The posing is perfect at the end.

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Angharad @angnatur.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Lots of squealing water rails at Newport Wetlands this morning and amazingly I spotted 2. Here’s one…honest! Water rail = Rhegen ddŵr 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 06.11.25

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Angharad @angnatur.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Morning trip to RSPB Newport Wetlands, numerous reed buntings, blackbirds, pheasants and 100s of wood pigeon. Quick glimpses of jay and kingfisher. As usual, the vocal Cetti’s warbler, but I’ve never heard so many squealing water rails across the reserve 06.11.25

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Angharad @angnatur.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Redwing calls caught last night on Merlin, among the bangs and bright lights of the fireworks. Not picked up here, but also tawny owl in the distance. 05/11/25

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Angharad @angnatur.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

The annual Sunday morning somewhere-in-Ceredigion walk, the day after the WOS conference. This year, Parc Natur Penglais. Not many on the bird list, but amazing trees and lots of fungi. Bore braf yn cerdded Penglais, a nath hi ddim glawio! 🧵 1/2

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Susan Jones @welshlassy.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Thanks for sharing! It would be amazing to have some extra sign ups across Wales! Only 500 gardens currently submitting their records.

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Angharad @angnatur.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Hei Cymru, BTO’s Garden BirdWatch (not RSPB’s GBBW) needs you! More so if you live in one of the thin slivers below, give it a go-just note the birds that visit your garden throughout the year💚 Shot taken from @welshlassy.bsky.social talk in @birdsinwales.bsky.social conference @bto-gbw.bsky.social

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Angharad @angnatur.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

WOS Conference 2025: 'Hear it! See it! Record it!' Great talks about the importance of monitoring & recording birds and flora & fauna sightings. Fab day👌🏼 @birdsinwales.bsky.social @rivers-disguise.bsky.social @penrhynbirder.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk @btocymru.bsky.social @rspbcymru.bsky.social

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Angharad @angnatur.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I love the @birdsinwales.bsky.social conference. The venue, the talks, the food, the stalls, the raffle! All brilliant, da iawn! But I really enjoy the socialising. Break times are scheduled perfectly into the day to catch up, or meet new acquaintances. Annual selfie with BTO’s Gethin Jenkins-Jones!

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Angharad @angnatur.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Light and dark mode. Glorious robins in early morning sunlight and shade

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Angharad @angnatur.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Unplanned Eglwysilan blue-sky walk this morning 💙 Lots of wood pigeons and pied wagtails, a few redwings overhead and fieldfares in trees, calling chaffinches and singing robins. Also green & great spotted woodpecker, jay, greenfinch, nuthatch, meadow pipit, skylark, wren, 3 rattling mistle thrush

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John Wilson @48birder.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

This annual slaughter of Dolphins & Pilot Whales takes place in the Faroes annually, as a 'tradition', know as the Grind. They are set to host the 2027 Island Games. Please sign this petition to stop that hosting unless this needless slaughter ends. c.org/N9kkXvDRjj

c.org

We Can Make an Impact.

Oppose the Faroe Islands hosting the 2027 Island Games

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Angharad @angnatur.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Posts from a fallen down trellis and a photo @dramirkhangp.bsky.social shared ages ago of horizontal bird feeders in his garden is the inspiration behind these feeders I’ve just hung up. Blue tit on it in less than 10 seconds, followed by great tit, then starling minutes later. A resounding success!

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Angharad @angnatur.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Wryneck at Goldcliff 02.10.25 Pengam yn Allteuryn ddoe 🤎

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Glamorgan Bird Club @glamorganbirdclub.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

This Saturday, 27th September, the club will be running a Birding Walk for Women at Bryngarw Country Park! Meet in the car park at 10am 🐦

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Angharad @angnatur.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

🚨 Please help @inccymru.bsky.social and donate to Stop the War on Nature. 🚨 Mae Natur angen ein help ni. Ystryriwch rhoi rhodd (linc isod). youtu.be/ZFCJI5DmArA?... Crowdfunding link: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/jyVJ77m...

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Stop the War on Nature

YouTube video by Initiative for Nature Conservation Cymru

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Natur Cymru @naturcymru.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Butterfly Conservation’s citizen science project, Big Butterfly Count, is running from 18th July-10th Aug. Read more in our latest edition, in an article by Pete Hughes, and check out the @savebutterflies.bsky.social website: bigbutterflycount.butterfly-conservation.org

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Butterfly Conservation @savebutterflies.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

The Big Butterfly Count 2025 is here and butterflies need our help 🦋🚨 This isn't just a survey, it's a rescue mission, and we need everyone to get involved. No lab coats. No science degrees. Just 15 minutes of your time. ⏱️ Get out for the count 👉 bigbutterflycount.org

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Angharad @angnatur.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Machlud o’r Foryd | Sun setting on Y Foryd 05.07.25

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Angharad @angnatur.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Tamaid ola’r dydd i’r Gylfinir | Last snack of the day for the Curlew 🦀 Y Foryd 05.07.25 🎧@gentlegood.bsky.social Revival

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Angharad @angnatur.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

I was asked after the 1st visit to Llanwonno recently if I’d had my nightjar fix this year. I could go searching for nightjars every night given half the chance! Trip number 3 last night…watched it churr on top of a tree a while… Trip number 4 hopefully soon!

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Angharad @angnatur.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Diwrnod Pride Hapus! 🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride Day! To my friends who will be taking part in the parade in Cardiff today, have a wonderful, sweaty time! Sporting a @rspb.bsky.social Pride badge on my way to work

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Angharad @angnatur.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

This morning’s #platformnature star is the dunnock. I stopped in my tracks (no pun intended) and listened a while. Just what I needed ❤️ Llwyd y berth yn canu’n braf bore ‘ma. Diolch am godi calon ❤️

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Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

"Imagine flattening an irreplaceable grade I listed building like the Royal Albert Hall, replacing it with karaoke machines in various towns and then telling the public this is a ‘win-win’ for architecture and music." @ruthtingay.bsky.social on threats to wildlife www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Revealed: 5,000 English nature sites at risk under Labour’s planning proposals

Exclusive: Planning bill includes mechanism for developers to ‘pay to pollute’ valuable ecosystems, experts warn

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Angharad @angnatur.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

I think I might start a #platformnature tag! Lots to see on a train platform. Weekend - blackbirds alarm calling. A few minutes later, a magpie appeard with a blue egg in its beak, and hid it here, in flowers right next to the railtrack. Don’t hate the predators! #itsnature

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BTO Cymru @btocymru.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Can you help us survey Nightjar in Wales for the Heathland Birds Survey? Find a vacant survey site near you on the map on our website ➡️ www.bto.org/get-involved...

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Heathland Birds Survey | BTO

About the surveyThe Heathland Birds Survey will survey all the Nightjars, Woodlarks and Dartford Warblers, in all habitats, throughout the UK and Channel Islands.

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Angharad @angnatur.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

It’s that time of year for the annual ‘they won’t win awards’ photos and footage of Llanwonno’s nightjars, and other birds. 2 nightjars seen. A lovely trip last night with GBC #glambirds 03.06.25 🧵1 of 2

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Angharad @angnatur.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Where do @lucylapwing.bsky.social remarkable #Springwatch props end up I wonder? They should be auctioned. Who doesn’t want a north/south facing mini wall on a mantlepiece?!

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Angharad @angnatur.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

My first ever view of a white tailed eagle on magical Mull in 2019. Lovely item on Dave Sexton on #Springwatch As Iolo would say, good man

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