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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#MarshsideRSPB strikes again with a Juv Palid Harrier this afternoon, quartering the Crossens Outer and occasionally hunting off the Sandplant..cracking bird! #UKBIRDING #RibbleEstuary #LancsBirding @birdguides.bsky.social @mbblerc.bsky.social

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Jumped aboard the Leach's Petrel train this evening, with a single bird from Leasowe Gunsite...also a Grey Phalarope (west), Arctic Tern, Manx Shearwater, Razorbill, and an Osprey working its way along the coast #LeachsPetrel #wirral #osprey #UKBIRDING #seabirds

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ruddy Darter, Fly Agaric, and Bog Myrtle during a walk around Delemere Forest, Cheshire today. #botany #fungi #delamereforest

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A fantastic #Gaza fundraiser at Grand Central Hall, Liverpool organised by the inspirational @AmosTrust check them out & consider donating here: amostrust.org Hats off to @billybragg.bsky.social Paul Weller Steve Pilgrim @ianprowse.bsky.social Amelia Coburn Declan O'Rourke Rasha Nahas Aziz Ibrahim👏

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A great morning at Marismas del Guadalhorce, Malaga. 8 Greater Flamingo, Osprey, Lesser Kestrel, Booted Eagle, 40 Bee Eaters, Temmincks & 2 Little Stints, 20 Stilts, 35 Kentish Plover, Fudge Duck, Crested Larks, Iberian Pond Turtles & Algerian psammodromus #birdingspain #birding #spainishbirding

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

White Headed Ducks, Booted Eagle, Marbled Ducks, Spoonbills and Greater Flamingos all showing from the Observatorio de Laguna Escondida, Malaga. #birdingspain #birding #spanishbirding

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Nothing like a mad dash twitch before an afternoon flight! Bairds Sandpiper showing extremely well at Meols, Wirral. Great find by @seanoh58.bsky.social 👌 #WirralBirding #UKBIRDING #rarebirdsuk

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Treated to five Barn Owls during this evenings walk with the family around Lunt Meadows, also Brown Hares, Sparrowhawk, and a Green Sandpiper @mbblerc.bsky.social #luntmeadows #barnowl #birding #UKBirding

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Remarkably, these Autumn Ladies Tresses are appearing in numbers in this desolate drought stricken Flintshire grassland...I didn't have much hope for them this year!! @ukorchids.bsky.social @europeanorchids.bsky.social @bsbicymru.bsky.social #botany #orchids #UKOrchids #botany #UKbotany

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Hampered by a back injury of late, but got out for the @webs-gsmp.bsky.social @ #Oglet Shore this PM with the binns, minus the scope/tripod/camera equip etc. Garganey, 47 Ringed & 1 LRP, 79 Little & 4 GW Egret being the best of the bunch +4 Clouded Yellow -worst photo ever @mbblerc.bsky.social #WeBS

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This #fox appeared in front of us during this evenings walk along Otterspool Prom...Common Sandpiper along the shore too. @mbblerc.bsky.social

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Connected with the Gloucestershire Long Tailed Shrike; a 3rd for UK (assuming its not the same as the Scottish bird); what a bird...photos were challenging in the heat haze though! Muntjac, Marsh Harrier, Red Kites, Whinchats & Clouded Yellows too #UKBIRDING #rarebirds

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

For #wildflowerhour the impressive Wood Cow-wheat (Melampyrum nemorosum) carpeting the woodland floor this week at Durmitor National Park, Montenegro #botany #durmitornationalpark

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

A week in #Budva, #Montenegro with the family...some great birds found; Golden & Shirt-toed Eagle, Levant Sparrowhawk, Honey & Long Legged Buzzard, Lanner, Egyptian Vulture, Olive Tree Warbler, Lesser Grey & Red Backed Shrike, Eastern Black Eared Wheatear, Sombre Tit & White Stork #birding

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Lake Skadar, Moraca Canyon, Biogradska Gora NP, breathtaking wilderness, the worlds 2nd NP after Yellowstone. Wallcreeper, Rock Thrush, Pygmy Cormorant, Dipper, Short-toed Eagle, Dalmatian Pelicans, Whiskered Terns, Squacco Herons...best of all BROWN #BEAR prints! #Montenegro

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

A brilliant daywith the family exploring Durmitor National Park, #Montenegro; some excellent wildlife chanced upon, with Pine Marten, Red Squirrel, Golden Eagle, Griffon Vulture, White-backed Woodpecker, Sombre Tit...best of all a WOLF glimpsed as we left the park! What a place!

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

For this evenings #wildflowerhour Manchurian Monkshood, Sticky Sage, Martagon Lily & Herb Paris lining the ancient temperate rainforest floor at Biogradska Gora National Park, Montenegro. #botany #montenegro #biogradskagora

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Summer evenings at Black Woods, Childwall

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Mr and Mrs Trellis @thenorfolkcoast.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

So much for caring for God's acre - CofE votes against plan to rewild 30% of its land. The CofE has voted against plans to restore 30% of its land for nature. It owns c105,000 acres of land, yet currently just 3.5% of its land is used for nature restoration... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

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Church of England votes against plan to rewild 30% of its land by 2030

Campaigners criticise C of E for failing to show moral leadership as one of country’s biggest landowners

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Dark Red Helleborines at their most southerly UK location in Peak District. Thankfully, I'm not too frazzled by the recent heat! @europeanorchids.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social #Orchids #Helleborines #Botany

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Common Spotted, Chalk Fragrant l, Pyramidal #orchids & Broad-leaved #Helleborine during a hike around the Peak District yesterday #botany #UKorchids @bsbibotany.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social @europeanorchids.bsky.social

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Stopped off on route to a family walk in the Peaks to (only just) catch these hyperchromic Common Spotted Orchid and belgarum Bee Orchids ...Chalk Fragrants and Eyebright sp. looking a bit more like it! #wildflowerhour #botany #orchids

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Yesterday evenings #superfurryanimals gig at the Llangollen Pavilion. Mwng album in full followed by a best of set! Mind blowing, what a location too...a few drinks in the town beforehand...what at night! #SFA #Llangollen #llangollenpavilion

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Northern Spike Rush (restricted to x13 UK sites), Birds-eye Primrose, Rigid Buckler Fern (restricted to 36 sites) & Long-stalked Yellow Sedge. Some of the highlights of a recent trip in the Yorkshire Dales. #Botany #Ferns #Sedges #Wildflowers @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Greater Spearwort spreading through the reedbeds in Speke, Liverpool for a late #wildflowerhour @mbblerc.bsky.social #botany

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Enchanters Nightshade, Southern Marsh Orchid, and x grandis hybrid swarms (now past their best) at Childwall Woods and Fields LNR this afternoon #wildflowerhour #Botany #Orchids #ChildwallWoods @ukorchids.bsky.social @lenantdelarose.bsky.social @mbblerc.bsky.social

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Explored the South Cumbrian coastal limestone recently, rewarded with 3 rare endemic species; Lancastrian Whitebeam, Small Spotted Hawkweed & Humphrey Head Hawkweed (the latter prob restricted to around 250 plants globally), also Spiked Speedwell about to burst into flower! #Botany #Hawkweeds

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Heath Spotted, Heath Fragrant, Chalk Fragrant & Twayblade #Orchids during a recent mooch in the Yorkshire Dales. @ukorchids.bsky.social @europeanorchids.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #Botany

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

This evenings dog walk; Crow Garlic, Common Spotted #Orchids & Betony; South Liverpool grasslands. #Botany @mbblerc.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Frog, Small White, Common Spotted and Ladies Slipper #Orchid, some of the fantastic species recently recorded on a trip to the wonderful Yorkshire Dales. #Botany #UKORCHIDS #Orchids @ukorchids.bsky.social @europeanorchids.bsky.social

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Marsh Fragrant #Orchid, Marsh #Helleborine, Dune Helleborine & Southern Marsh Orchid at Haltons, Clifton Lagoon. An amazing site; all thanks to years of industrial by-product dumping! @mbblerc.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social @europeanorchids.bsky.social #Orchids #Botany

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

There can't be many other places (or indeed any) where you can find the diminutive Adders Tongue & Seaside Centaury growing side-by-side...the wonderfully botanically diverse Clifton Lagoon, Halton. #Botany #Wildflowers #Ferns @bsbibotany.bsky.social @mbblerc.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Cuteness personified in the first photo (young piglet AKA humbug) & the complete opposite in the last photo with a brute of an adult boar. The Wild Boars of the Castle Bolton Estate, North Yorkshire. #WildBoar #Yorkshire

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Stopped at a site in the Yorkshire Dales this afternoon, absolutely chocked full of great birds...Short Eared Owl, breeding Redshank, Curlew, Lapwing and Common Sandpiper, many displaying Snipe, Kestrel, and Spotted Flycatcher...stumbled upon it by sheer chance! #UKBIRDING

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

2.5 hour #PaulWeller set at the Pier Head! The sun setting & illuminating the waterfront; it doesn't get much better! Some heartfelt messages of support for the plight of the Palestinians, warmly received by the fans, as was Pauls nod to the Peoples Republic of Liverpool...boss!!

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

ooching around botanising with @Matt_J_ecology in South Cumbria yesterday, apart from the plants, we had an amazing experience of a pair of Osprey circling & interacting overhead. Also Large Heaths, various dragonflies, Grass Snake, Tree Pipits & a Hawfinch briefly landed in front of us! #UKBIRDING

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Very early start for the Western Reef Heron at Foryd Bay; with no sign from dawn things were looking glum...until the bird was refound at Caernarfon; 10 mins mad dash later and at 7am we were face to face with this 1st for Britain & Ireland...I even managed to drag connor along! #UKBIRDING

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Common Bulbuls, Iberian Pond Turtle, & Saharan Green Frog; just some of the wildlife within the breathtaking Jardin Majorelle, at the former home of Yves Saint Laurent #Marrakech

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Dusk watching the sunset over over #Marrakech... the Riads resident House Bunting in attendance, Turtle Dove, White Storks circling (with the Atlas Mountains behin). 2 Erlanger's Lanners regularly zoom through hunting Swifts, with the odd distant Long Legged Buzzard circling! #BirdingMoroccow

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Hectic day spent in the Squares & Souks of the Madina, but there's still wildlife to be seen! Including Little & White Rumped Swift - Jamaa El Fna, Bulbuls & Saharan Pond Turtle - Le Jardin Secret. Booted Eagle, Lesser Kestrel & White Stork overhead #Marrakech #BirdingMoroccow #Birding #herpetology

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Olivaceous Warbler, House Finch and Spanish Sparrow, #Birding at the Bahia Palace, #Marrakech #Morocco

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The aquatic life within & around the Menara Gardens reservoir is really interesting... Orange-Winged & Violet Dropwings being endlessly pursued by Lesser Emperors, European Pond Turtles sunning themselves & Saharan Green Frogs incessantly calling away! #Morocco #Wildlife #herpetology #Amphibians

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Dragged Gaynor around Menara Gardens #Marrakech this morning, amazing place & great birds... Maghreb Magpie, Spotless Starling, Woodchat shrike, Iberian Grey Shrike (algeriensis), Booted Eagle, House Finch, Sardinian Warbler, Common Bulbul, Little & Palid Swifts, RR Swallow #BirdingMoroccow #Birding

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

A botanical mooch around Speke, South Liverpool, this evening ...Orchids emerging at pace... Bee, Southern & Northern Marsh, BL Helleborine some way off, Ragged Robin, Ox-eye Daisy & Cape Pondweed #orchids #botany #Liverpool @ukorchids.bsky.social @europeanorchids.bsky.social @mbblerc.bsky.social

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Dan Foy @dfoyliv.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Licensed #Dormouse surveys in a beautiful Denbighshire ancient woodland today... every winter, I look forward to kicking these surveys off again in May! 4 pairs of Pied Flycatchers cheekily nicked the boxes for nesting too 😆

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