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Matthew Pollock

@mattp1975.bsky.social
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North Warwickshire birder - mainly on foot or by bike 🚲🦉🐦‍⬛🦆🤓 #birdingbybike #lowcarbonbirding #warksbirding #ukbirding

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Matthew Pollock @mattp1975.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Distant footage of the Pectoral Sandpiper this afternoon - Jubilee North, RSPB #middletonlakes #PWC2026
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Matthew Pollock @mattp1975.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
UPDATE from the ELWIND project regarding the satellite-tagged Little Gull that has been present at Kingsbury Water Park, North Warwickshire since 31/08/26 👀 #warksbirds #ukbirding
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Matthew Pollock @mattp1975.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Great shots Gary👏
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Matthew Pollock @mattp1975.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Just sent emails to ELWIND and 3BIRD/Murmurat, along with my photo, enquiring as to whether or not they can provide any further info
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Matthew Pollock @mattp1975.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Not sure. Been looking online trying to find a lead 👀. Not found anything yet....
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Matthew Pollock @mattp1975.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Little Gull fitted with tracking tag - Bodymoor Heath Water , Kingsbury Water Park
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Matthew Pollock @mattp1975.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Kingsbury Water Park - Little Gull (fitted with a tracking device), Red-Necked Phalarope, YL-Gull (Bodymoor Heath Water Kingsbury Firing Range - 9x Chiffchaff, 2x Goldcrest, Blackcap, Red Kite , 14x RLP, 7x Buzzard, 2x Raven #warksbirds #lowcarbonbirding 🪶
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Matthew Pollock @mattp1975.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Thought my trainers were gonna get nibbled at one point 😎 Red-necked Phalarope (juv) feeding a few feet away from the shoreline of Bodymoor Heath Water car park - Kingsbury Water Park this evening #warksbirds #lowcarbonbirding 🪶
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Matthew Pollock @mattp1975.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Thanks mate. Was still buzzing when I went to bed🤣🤣
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Matthew Pollock @mattp1975.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Thanks Pete👍🏻
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Matthew Pollock @mattp1975.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Kingsbury Water Park - found a⭐️Red-necked Phalarope⭐️ on Bodymoor Heath Water this evening 🙂 #warksbirds #PWC2026 #lowcarbonbirding 🪶
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Matthew Pollock @mattp1975.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Matthew Pollock @mattp1975.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Kingsbury Water Park - Black Tern on Bodymoor Heath Water this evening #warksbirds #PWC2026 #lowcarbonbirding🪶
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Matthew Pollock @mattp1975.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
#middletonlakes RSPB this morning: Fishers Mill - 2x Common Sand, 2x Green Sand, 5x Snipe, 3x LRP Jubilee - Green Sand, 2x Snipe 4x Ruff, 4 Great Egret. Also Stonechat (juv) #staffsbirdnews Middleton Hall Lake - Great Egret, Marsh Harrier #warksbirds
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TG42Birder🇵🇸 @tg42birder.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Won’t be great for their mental health when they discover the reality of how bird populations have been decimated and how climate change is turning the future into a sterile hellscape. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Gen Z flocks to BirdTok as birding takes flight: ‘It’s a craving for something real’
Social media and Shazam-like birdsong apps drawing young people to hobby as they seek a gentler connection to the outside world
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Matthew Pollock @mattp1975.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
A couple of hours #birdingbybike this afternoon. Kingsbury Firing Range - 4x Common Redstart (3m,1f), 2x Nuthatch notable, Red Kite Bodymoor Heath Water - Common Sandpiper, Yellow-legged Gull HS2 - Sedge Warbler, 7x Whitethroat #warksbirds #lowcarbonbirding
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Matthew Pollock @mattp1975.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Kingsbury Firing Range this evening - Whinchat, Spot Fly still, Cuckoo (m), 3x Kestrel, 200+ Corvid, 5x Reed Bunting, 6x RLP, Skylark, 36x Canada Geese, 50+ Wood Pigeon/Stock Dove #warksbirds #lowcarbonbirding #PWC2026 🪶
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Matthew Pollock @mattp1975.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Thanks. Been a very good year for Quail at KFR. Wasn't expecting to hear/see any again after they went quiet in July
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Matthew Pollock @mattp1975.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
2 new ✅'s for the #PWC2026 3km patch list at lunchtime. Whinchat & Spotted Flycatcher - both at Kingsbury Firing Range. Both site firsts for me. Also this week - Common Redstart, and flushed a covey of 4+ Quail on Weds lunchtime. #warksbirds #lowcarbonbirding 🪶
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Direct, full-time jobs opening Rosebank oilfield would create: 450 D, f-t jobs opening Jackdaw gasfield would create: 27 D, f-t jobs in UK's net-zero economy: 300,000 + 400,000 more on the way D, f-t jobs in the rest of the green economy: 600,000 Is that really the hill Burnham wants to die on?
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Matthew Pollock @mattp1975.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Went looking for Nightjar on Cannock Chase this evening. Didn't manage any flight views but at least 4 birds churring away at dusk. 🪶
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Matthew Pollock @mattp1975.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Productive hours walk at Kingsbury Firing Range this am. Marsh Harrier, Red Kite, Hobby,2x Kestrel, 4x Buzzard, 2x Mistle Thrush, 2x Chiffchaff, 30x Linnet, 9x RLP #warksbirds #lowcarbonbirding🪶
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Matthew Pollock @mattp1975.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Decent morning #birdingbybike between Dosthill NR and Cliff Pool. Reaquained myself with Cliff Lakes, and called in at RSPB for a look at Jubilee. 2x Dunlin at the latter - new for my #PWC2026 10km list, Hobby over Cliff Pool, c20 Common Tern, c20 Sand Martin, 4x Swift #lowcarbonbirding 🪶
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Matthew Pollock @mattp1975.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Top find, well done👍🏻
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TG42Birder🇵🇸 @tg42birder.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
A couple of days of low-key press releases, a few people commenting, and then it’s over. Dotterel - going with a whimper, not a bang. news.sky.com/story/mounta...
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Mountain-breeding dotterels could be first UK bird lost to climate change, RSPB warns as population falls 89%
"Dotterel are in steep decline, and we are seeing them disappearing before our very eyes," the RSPB's Dr Leah Kelly said as a survey showed the dotterel's remaining numbers are restricted to the easte...
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Matthew Pollock @mattp1975.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Spent the morning #birdingbybike around my 10km #PWC2026 patch Highlights: Kingsbury Range - 2x singing Quail, brief flight views of one bird Hurley - 2x Yellow Wag, 3x Y'hammer, Green Woodpecker Bodymoor Heath GP - 6x LRP, 12x Oyc, 12x Pied Wag, 60+ Lapwing, 50+ BHG #warksbirds #lowcarbonbirding 🪶
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Matthew Pollock @mattp1975.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
#nebirding #birdsofbudlebay
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Matthew Pollock @mattp1975.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Just having a first look at this superb publication which arrived today. As site guides/reports go, this is top drawer quality. I'll be studying this over the next few months, ahead of my next visit to "The Bay" in the autumn. Do your self a favour and pick up a copy from @budlebirder.bsky.social
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Matthew Pollock @mattp1975.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
A singing Common Quail was a nice find this morning at Kingsbury Range. A Red Kite and a dozen or so displaying Skylarks also. Lea Marston Lakes had 100+ Swift, which has increased to 300+ this evening. Cliff Pool - Cuckoo still, 300+ BHG 🪶 #lowcarbonbirding #warksbirds #PWC2026
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Chris Knox @budlebirder.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
226-pages with colour photos maps graphs & info from one of Northumbs most impt birding areas. 💷 Special price for NTBC/NNBC members: £15 + £3 postage 📩 Non-member price avail on enquiry. PLS REPOST To order send a Direct message to @budlebirder.bsky.social #NEbirding #BirdingScotland #UKbirding
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Matthew Pollock @mattp1975.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Superb shots mate 👏 👍 A cracking run of birds you're having 🙂
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Matthew Pollock @mattp1975.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Marsh Harrier bothering Skylarks at Kingsbury Range at lunchtime. Nice to get some footage albeit distant. 2nd sighting in as many weeks. 2x Hobby, 2x Mistle Thrush also. #warksbirds #lowcarbonbirding #PWC2026
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Matthew Pollock @mattp1975.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
This is great to see. Every reserve should have some form of accessibility scheme as standard. Not the norm though. I can count 4 membership-based nature reserves in my locality (Tame Valley) and my wife cannot get beyond the car park (if at all) in any of them - even in her off-road powered chair🪶
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'RSPB Accessibility trail changed my life'
Sue Just said she's had her
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Matthew Pollock @mattp1975.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Earlier in the week: Kingsbury Range 16/05 - Marsh Harrier (f) - my first within 3km patch KWP Cliff Pool 15/05 - Bittern - prolonged views being mobbed by BHG's.
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Matthew Pollock @mattp1975.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Out #birdingbybike again this morning around my #PWC2026 10km patch. 67sp noted. Highlights: KWP - Cuckoo, 6x Common Tern, Lesser Whitethroat Cuttle Mill/HS2 - Wheatear, Common Tern Whitacre Heath NR - LRP, Cuckoo Kingsbury Range - Red Kite, Yellow Wag, Hobby 🪶 #warksbirds #lowcarbonbirding
Cliff Pool - KWPKingsbury Firing Range / Hurley hills Common Whitethroat - Lea Marston Fisheries/HS2
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Matthew Pollock @mattp1975.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
A Grey Plover was a nice find this morning whilst out #birdingbybike. Other notable bits on my #PWC2026 3/10km patches - 3x Cuckoo, 3x Yellow Wagtail, 3x LRP, c20 Swift, Lesser Whitethroat, 10+ Garden Warbler singing Lea Marston Lakes/K'bury South. 64sp #WarksBirds #WarksBirding #LowCarbonBirding
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Matthew Pollock @mattp1975.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
A few more shots from this week in Northumberland #NEBirding
Sanderling - Beadnell Bay, NorthumberlandPuffins - Farne Islands, NorthumberlandGuillemot - Farne Islands, NorthumberlandFulmar - Seahouses
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Matthew Pollock @mattp1975.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Weds 29th April - 6pm onwards
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Matthew Pollock @mattp1975.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
This Spoonbill was nice to see at Budle Bay earlier this week. One of several in the north east recently #NEBirding
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Matthew Pollock @mattp1975.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
A couple of recently returned Little Tern at Low Newton filmed earlier this week. Watched these two fishing in the shallows of Football Hole before they parked up for a rest #NEBirding #LowCarbonBirding
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Matthew Pollock @mattp1975.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
2x Wood Sandpiper still 4pm #LadywalkNR from Bittern hide #warksbirding #PWC2026
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Matthew Pollock @mattp1975.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
A long walk around my #PWC2026 3km patch this morning was relatively quiet - 55sp. Highlight being 6x Wheatear (1x female, and later 5x male), which takes my spring tally for patch Wheatears to 25x across 6 different sites. #warksbirding #lowcarbonbirding
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Matthew Pollock @mattp1975.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Not much change locally over the last few days. Found a few Yellow Wags, several White Wags, the odd Wheatear and a couple of Whitethroat. Sedge Warblers the most noticeable with 7 still holding territory in one 300m stretch of bramble. #warksbirding #lowcarbonbirding #PWC2026
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Matthew Pollock @mattp1975.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
A decent fall of migrants on the doorstep overnight. c1000 Sand Martin shared between Kingsbury South and Lea Marston Lakes. Mill Meadow - 7x Sedge Warbler, c40 Sand Martin, 4+ Swallow, 3x House Martin, 10+Blackcap, 5+Willow Warbler Knowle Hill - 11x Wheatear #lowcarbonbirding #warksbirding #PWC2026
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Matthew Pollock @mattp1975.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Called in at a few local birding spots whilst out and about today. (AM) KWP - c300 Sand Martin, a few Swallow and House Martin Shustoke Res - same as KWP + 2x Common Tern (PM) Alvecote Pools - Hooded Merganser, Garganey Mancetter Hills - 2x Wheatear #ukbirding #PWC2026
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Matthew Pollock @mattp1975.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
A word of caution to anyone using the Lookout first thing tomorrow - I had to turf a lad out who was in there smoking weed, and had two dogs with him. So, if you're wondering why there is dog piss on the floor and why it smells like Snoop-Dogg's garage - now you know.
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Matthew Pollock @mattp1975.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
First trip of the year to #middletonlakes this evening. Didn't disappoint bird wise. LSW showing well in the car park at 17:45, 17x Avocet, 4x White Wag, Yellow Wag, 9x Blackwit, 7+ LRP, 3x Redshank, Barnacle Goose #ukbirding #PWC2026
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Matthew Pollock @mattp1975.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Late afternoon rain brought in 6x new Pied Wag, 2x White Wag and a Wheatear (f) to Mill Meadow, Kingsbury. The latter being my first record for the site. Also a Common Sand was nearby at Hemlingford Water at lunchtime, 60x Sand Martin, the odd Swallow and 2x Red Kite. #lowcarbonbirding #warksbirding
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Matthew Pollock @mattp1975.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Pretty sure I've never been this close to a Wheatear before. Mancetter Hills, N.Warks this evening. Nothing else of note, Ring Ouzel seen yesterday so I was told by another birder #warksbirding #PWC2026
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