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Birds, conifers and some green & pro-European politics. No access to DMs, so any sent, won't be read.

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Beth W @doodlebeth.com · 1h
Are there any active groups/resources for disabled birders in the UK? I'm trying to improve access at our local reserve (Portbury Wharf) and to get funding we have to show that people will actually use it (not just me). I have created a map to show how accessible it is so far #UKBirding
a map of Portbury Wharf Nature Reserve showing all the different path surfaces, ramps, gates & inclines.
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dr alex concorde @doctoralex.bsky.social · 9h
SPACE X draining an entire town's water m.facebook.com/joshhelfgott1/
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 6h
Knowingly doing crime to develop your product.
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Doug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Latest announcement from Tory shadow chancellor strongly suggests a party stuck in an idealogical rut, unable to learn 1. Scrapping regulations on low carbon home building - was done in 2015 by Tory govt, ended up costing UK many ££ billions in fuel & retrofit www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England
Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Revealed: Government quietly dropped plan to prepare England for wildfires I discovered via an FOI request that DEFRA’s commitment in the National Adaptation Programme to run a “wildfire risk programme” since 2023 “was not brought into effect”. #ClimateCrisis www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Revealed: Government quietly dropped plan to prepare England for wildfires
FOI request shows wildfire risk scheme scrapped, as data highlights many fire services lack proper protective gear
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Why stop there? Scrap the treasury to make the national debt go away Scrap the NHS and cure cancer Scrap the MOD and lo: world peace www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England
Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Reform UK are foxes looking after the chickens "Reform councillor James Sawkins—who was literally IN CHARGE of "Safer and Stronger Communities"—forced to STEP DOWN after appearing in COURT over Class A drugs and illegal medicine charges! ..." www.facebook.com/politicsinth... via Politics in the U.K
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In July 2024 the ICJ found that Israel is an apartheid state, stating its legislation & measures constitute a breach of article 3 of the convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination
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ClimateHope @climatehope.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Toxic Tories pledge to destroy nature. Vile, disgusting lot of fossil fuel shills. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England
Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth
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Paul French @nomadbirder.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
So the Tories want to directly axe 16,000 jobs, plus get rid of the huge number of associated jobs in related industries in order to please a small number of Tory donors who will get larger profits by building slightly cheaper and passing on increased long-term costs to us all. Same old Tories.
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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
September 2026 was the 2nd warmest September on record (2023 was the warmest). 20% of the Earth had their single warmest September on record (since 1940). This is twice the area that was record warm in 2023 (10.1%).
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
IT’S A GENOCIDE This Jewish woman was arrested under the Terrorism Act outside the Labour Party conference in Liverpool for peacefully holding a sign. Her sign stated “I oppose genocide - I support Palestine Action”.
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 05/10/2026
Yes, it’s 5th October 🍂 No, it doesn’t exactly feel like it. Here’s how temperatures compare with the October average 👇
A map to show temperatures against the average with widely above for October in the UK
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The Final Report @firehorse249791.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Spain is reeling from a violent storm system that has unleashed deadly floods and landslides russpain.com/news/deadly-... #FossilFuels #Meat #Dairy #Collapse #Climate #Europe
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Deadly floods hit Spain as storms trigger chaos in multiple provinces
Spain is reeling from a violent storm system that has unleashed deadly floods and landslides.
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Alberta Claw @albertonykus.bsky.social · 22h
Fossil eggshells that apparently belong to large flightless birds are known from the Pliocene of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. Could the birds have gotten there by rafting? A new study investigates: link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🪶🧪 (📷Lécuyer et al.)
Map showing the northwestern coast of Africa and the Canary Islands, along with the trajectories of the Canary Current and Lanzarote Passage.
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Serene Doomer @serenaribena.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
'Palestinians and activists report an increased use of drones in the occupied West Bank, particularly by the army and settlers, to whom the government supplies the drones directly. The drones are used to intimidate, monitor, demolish and make daily life unbearable.' www.france24.com/en/middle-ea...
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West Bank: Palestinians ‘harassed’ by settlers’ increasing use of drones
Palestinians and activists report an increased use of drones in the occupied West Bank, particularly by the army and settlers, to whom the government supplies the drones directly. The drones are used…
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Flight Free UK @flightfreeuk.bsky.social · 23h
Yikes @bumprints.bsky.social! You've nailed it. We don't need to jet set to care. We don't need to burn carbon to connect with nature. National Geographic inspires us to protect the planet then flies us there on private jets. 😬
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BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social · 20h
Job Alert! 🔉 We're looking for two part-time Field Surveyors for the Winter survey season from November - March to conduct wintering bird surveys. To discover more and apply visit ➡️ www.bto.org/jobs 📍 Survey areas: Yorkshire Dales & the Fens. 📝 Deadline for applications: Sunday 18 October 2026.
A Fieldfare is amongst frosty grass. Wording above reads: We’re hiring! Field Surveyors - LandSpAES Project.
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The Mediterranean is getting warmer, and marine heatwaves are a defining feature of that change. In 2024, it recorded its highest number of MHW days in two decades. Mean SSTs reached 1.23°C above the 1982–2024 baseline, rising at 0.32 ± 0.01°C per decade. eu-space.europa.eu/components/e...
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Kevin Thornton @lowcarbonkev.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A birding thread. Last week Kent's major Fb group admin has (again) rewritten migration understanding: "we are now past the main migration period.." WTAF? Every year. Oct Diurnal migration dismissed? Was going to give a few Oct examples, but made mistake of going down rabbit hole of Mipits..
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Kevin Thornton @lowcarbonkev.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Back to Mipits. Why do we birders cling on to hopes of big movements in Sep? Well, some, based on obligate timing, still happen for some spp (the mid-Sep hirundine movements) and, for a sp. like Meadow Pipit, we remember the days when the UK pop'n was big enough to pick up ..
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Kevin Thornton @lowcarbonkev.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Our Mipits may be in freefall. Here's the kicker for me. BWP vol V p 366: "Breeds.. within rather narrow temperature range of 10-20°c.." (Are we getting it yet?)
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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Food for thought🤔...
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Steve Gale @stevewg.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
UMA Day 34 Canons Farm, Surrey. High pressure, blue skies, unseasonal warmth. Empty fields, empty hedgerows and silent heavens. T-shirt and shorts. Sun hat and squinting eyes. Remembering the leaf fall, chill and bird-filled Octobers of my youth. Please come back! Not moaning, just reporting.
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Kevin Thornton @lowcarbonkev.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Hail, welcome to the war on cars. Actually, looks more like the war on everything. We getting it yet?
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The Final Report @firehorse249791.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
02.10.2026 'This is Madrigueras, Albacete, Spain, where severe flooding has struck following intense rainfall. The country has experienced devastating floods in previous years as well, highlighting the continuing challenges of protecting communities from extreme weather.' WeatherMonitors [x]
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LU Fluxes - Lund University Flux Measurement Group @lufluxes.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Exciting new Science paper from colleagues in Lund: Sweden’s primary forests store ~72% more carbon than managed ones. The gap is way bigger than anyone thought — especially in soils. Big implication for climate policies @lund-university.bsky.social
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Higher carbon storage in primary than secondary boreal forests in Sweden
Boreal forests provide considerable global land carbon storage and uptake, but they are being rapidly transformed to managed secondary forests, with poorly quantified implications for ecosystem carbon...
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Kevin Thornton @lowcarbonkev.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
TIL DANA = Spanish acronym for Depresión Aislada en Niveles Altos, or "Isolated Depression at High Levels" (what meteorologists call a "cut-off low"). And, yes, UK does experience cut-off low-pressure systems (often associated with "blocked" weather patterns). Tick tock.
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Caolan Robertson @caolanrob.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just a reminder that there is a city in Europe where Russian drones hunt civilians 24/7.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 04/10/2026
Your 'doom quote' for today: "2024 was the hottest year ever by a considerable margin, smashing for the first time through the 1.5°C temperature barrier that the world had set as a red line just eight years earlier at the Paris climate accords." www.thriftbooks.com/w/here-comes...
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Here Comes the Sun book by Bill McKibben
Buy a cheap copy of Here Comes the Sun book by Bill McKibben. Our climate, and our democracy, are melting down. But Bill McKibben, one of the first to sound the alarm about the climate crisis, insists...
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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
That's a wrap on 25th year of the intensive Marsh Tit study at Monks Wood. @martamaziarz.bsky.social & I colour-ringed all new juvs, we think. Adult survival good but recruitment low, likely related to drought/heatwaves. Extreme hot/dry or wet/cold weather in spring-summer seems to hit juvs badly.
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 04/10/2026
Drone delivery and air taxi use are expanding rapidly. A Comment article in Nature Reviews Biodiversity discusses how ecological safeguards for the airspace shared between drones and flying wildlife are scarce. go.nature.com/3TOyI4y #econsky 🌎🧪
This is figure 1, which shows the low-altitude economy and aerial biodiversity.
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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
With the acorn crop seemingly non-existent in much of England this year (following the huge masting event last year) it's not surprising that hungry Jays are turning up at the coast as they run out of road in the search & competition for food.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Russia is working on bio-weapons in Siberia.
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Nearly 200 People Under Observation After Irkutsk Lab Worker Dies From Plague - The Moscow Times
Health authorities in Siberia’s Irkutsk region have placed nearly 200 people under medical observation after a laboratory worker died from plague, according to media reports and a statement by a regio...
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The centuries-old democratic principle of trial by a jury of one’s peers is not an attempt to “game the system”. It is a safeguard that puts the moral intuition of ordinary people into the heart of the criminal justice system. Support us: defendourjuries.net
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Home - Defend Our Juries
Jurors have an absolute right to acquit a defendant according to their conscience Juries put the moral intuition of ordinary people into the heart of the criminal justice system. Over the last few yea...
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Burnham’s government loathes democratic process. “courts will have the final say over where cases should be heard, preventing criminals accused of relatively minor crimes trying to game the system by electing a jury trial in an attempt to avoid prison" www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Justice reforms to be rolled out faster as Justice Secretary sets out changes to Courts Bill
Victims will get the fast and fair justice they deserve under changes to court reforms, the Justice Secretary has announced today.
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Labour just don't get it. They don't get how scared people are with extreme weather becoming our new normal. We need voices in parliament that will force them to take wildfires seriously, not quietly shirk responsibility.
Revealed: government quietly dropped plan to orepare England for wildfires
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Cable Street 1936-2026: Not Then Not Now roughtradebooks.com/products/cab...
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TG42Birder🇵🇸 @tg42birder.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Marsh Tit is going the way of Willow Tit. With very little mention. #ukbirding 🤔
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Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Likely same driver - increased competition www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... although also some evidence for loss of important ancient woodland in the 20thC.
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Feeding birds in our gardens is a joy – but it may be harming weaker species | Alexander C Lees
By boosting dominant species such as great tits, human-provided food can make life harder for many woodland birds, says conservationist Alexander C Lees
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Endless corruption.
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Serene Doomer @serenaribena.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
'While people in 🇫🇷 have grown accustomed over the past four years to localized outbreaks of chikungunya & dengue (with 125 & 6 locally contracted cases respectively as of Sept 30), they now face the highest No of West Nile virus infections ever recorded in country.' www.lemonde.fr/en/environme...
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West Nile virus surges in France, reaching a record 145 human cases
High summer temperatures and the return of thunderstorms are fueling the spread of the virus, which is transmitted from birds to humans by common mosquitoes.
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The Orkney News @theorkneynews.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Uncovering of the #Gaza Genocide theorkneynews.scot/2026/10/03/t...
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The Uncovering of the #Gaza Genocide
This week Google Earth updated its images of Gaza. Razed to the ground – but under all that rubble bodies are being uncovered – now emerging to show the world the genocide that has been…
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TG42Birder🇵🇸 @tg42birder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Drone footage reveals scale of Spain floods
Spanish media reported the death of a 102-year-old woman after heavy rain caused severe flooding in the eastern Spanish region of Castile-La Mancha.
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
BREAKING📢 Crack team of climate scientists show "it is no longer defensible for companies proposing new or extended fossil fuel projects to claim the climate harms will be negligible. Our research shows the harms are, in fact, tangible and quantifiable – and no project is too small to matter"
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For the first time, we linked a new fossil fuel project to hundreds of deaths. Here’s the impact of Woodside’s Scarborough gas project
The results challenge claims that the climate risks posed by an individual fossil fuel project are negligible or cannot be quantified.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 03/10/2026
The WHO's representative in Palestine calls on Israeli authorities to 'release the pressure on medical supplies'.
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WHO warns of ‘devastating consequences' due to delayed aid entry into Gaza
The WHO's representative in Palestine calls on Israeli authorities to 'release the pressure on medical supplies'.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
You're gonna need a bigger chart
Chart showing the daily sea surface temperature for the Nino region of the Pacific, with a red line for 2026 shooting off above every other year in record-setting territory, with the latest spot right at the top of the chart
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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The scope and magnitude of climate extremes across Europe this past summer is frightening.
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Europe’s Extreme Summer Triggered Cascading Climate Shocks - Inside Climate News
A summer of record heat, severe drought and compounding impacts tested Europe's infrastructure and resilience.
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TG42Birder🇵🇸 @tg42birder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Markedly declined in east Norfolk and also across the UK. Both breeding and wintering populations are in long-term declining, probably due to a northerly retreat as the planet warms.
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