Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 5h13.30 ca 250 Pinkfeet S over Cowbar. @teesbirds.bsky.social 1121
Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026YBW Borough Hall gardens, Hartlepool Headland 11.20 @teesbirds.bsky.social 0141
Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Hartlepool Headland 8.00-10.30: 31 Little Gulls, 6 Manx Shearwaters, 1 Arctic Skua. Harbour Porpoise, Grey & Harbour Seals @teesbirds.bsky.social 0161
Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Hartlepool Headland 8.30-11.30: 27 Red-throated Divers, 1 Great Crested Grebe, 215 Common Scoter, 7 dark-bellied Brent Geese, 15 Arctic Skuas, 1 Long-tailed Skua, 2 Little Gulls, 4 Manx Shearwaters, large numbers of Razorbills. @teesbirds.bsky.social 1232
Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The offshore wind installation vessel Wind Ally entering the Tees yesterday. Wind is currently producing nearly half GB's electricity needs. Much of the remainder is solar or low-carbon imports, with gas accounting for only 6.8%. Only idiots want to increase our reliance on fossil fuels. 291
Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Hartlepool Headland 8.15-11.15: 2 Great Northern Divers N, 24 Red-throated Divers, 41 Common Scoter, 2+2 Little Egrets, c. 70 Pinkfeet, 5 Arctic Skuas, 37 Little Gulls, Bottle-nosed Dolphins. @teesbirds.bsky.social 0181
Reposted by PalustrisAlex Prendergast @bramblebotanist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This is the ‘Grandfather Tree’, a Yew grove comprised of a single phoenix tree self layered for five generations. The youngest finger-wide stems left of pic, the oldest a dead hulk on the right probably saw aurochs and druids 1242
Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Many ponds here are still dry. This one at Hartburn didn't look too promising, choked with invasive Curly Waterweed, but it was full of dragonfly larvae. At this time of year these are predominantly hawkers (Aeshnidae), which have multi-year life-cycles. @teesbirds.bsky.social 2505
Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Hartlepool Headland 8.30-11.30: 436 Pinkfeet, 2 immature swan sp (presumably Whoopers but distant), 33 Common Scoter, 18 Red-throated Divers, 7 Arctic Skuas, 1 Great Skua, 1 Manx Shearwater, 3 Little Gulls, 1 Marsh Harrier in/off. @teesbirds.bsky.social 0181
Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Hartlepool Headland 17.00-18.45: I missed the best of this afternoon's seabirds but numerous Arctic Skuas and Manx Shearwaters, 2 Great Skuas, 1 Long-tailed Skua, 2 Sooty Shearwaters, 1 Little Gull. @teesbirds.bsky.social 1211
Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026From X, Danny Tommo being the **** whose thugs harassed the RNLI 🤣🤣🤣 092
Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Collected seed from the re-introduced Greater Water-parsnip colony at Coatham Marsh today. Some populations of this endangered plant only produce viable seeds intermittently but these look promising. Like most umbellifers, seeds of Greater Water-parsnip tend to germinate after over-wintering. 1171
Reposted by PalustrisWePlanet @weplanetint.bsky.social · 16/09/2026In this video, @georgemonbiot.bsky.social and @marklynas.bsky.social go an adventure to watch bluefin tuna. George explains how Atlantic bluefin tuna were fished to near-extinction — but now, are in recovery Tell the UK Government: Defend bluefin tuna! Sign the petition: shorturl.at/fTY80 6221116
Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Bad phone photo on a rainy, windy autumn PM doesn't do it justice but this patch of Purple Moor-grass fen-meadow @nosterfieldnr.bsky.social is full of Devilsbit Scabious and orchid seedheads. A remarkably good example of a rare plant community but it's only 8 years old, established from local seed. 1445
Reposted by PalustrisDr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 13/09/2026"And that, fundamentally, is the prospect that terrifies end times fascists more than anything else... What keeps these men up at night is … us. It’s the possibility that a popular and vigorous movement will rise up and defend this planet and the many life-forms who call it home."theguardian.comThe end times fascists are plotting their escape from our world. Our mission is clear | Naomi Klein and Astra TaylorAn unholy alliance is working toward an apocalyptic future from which only a chosen few will emerge unscathed. It’s becoming clear how we stop them 14013
Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Hartlepool Headland 8.45-10.45: Quiet. Single Great & Arctic Skuas, 8 Red-throated Divers, 15 Common Scoter. Commic and Sandwich Terns still passing by in modest numbers. @teesbirds.bsky.social 0181
Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Seed heads of Branched Bur-reed in a dried-up pond at Pickering. 0151
Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Veteran Apple in old, species-rich hedgerow nr Pickering. This tree has been recorded previously as a Crab Apple but I'm not entirely convinced. The field has broad, deep, sinuous ridge-and-furrow typical of medieval open field cultivation so I suspect this was an early (C16/17th) enclosure hedge. 4374
Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Swedish Whitebeam (Sorbus intermedia) seems to be producing a prodigious crop of berries this year. Noticing it everywhere at the moment, mostly as a planted street tree but also in some semi-wild places where it's presumably bird-sown. 2190
Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Hartlepool Headland 9-11 quiet; 4 Arctic Skuas, 11 Red-throated Divers. @teesbirds.bsky.social 1172
Reposted by PalustrisCaroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The way British democracy is being bought by crypto billionaires is simply obscene - and a direct result of Labour’s unforgivable inactiontheguardian.comBurnham drops support for political funding cap aimed at curbing mega-donorsPM said he would set bar at £500k, but trade unions say funding reforms could undermine their ability to donate to Labour 641266474
Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 11/09/2026It's not just about climate: rapid acceleration of renewables and electrification is a strategic necessity. Politicians who want to keep us locked into global gas and oil markets are saboteurs and a threat to our national interests. 141
Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Northern North York Moors this aft: Ravens (pair), Hen Harrier, Red Kite and of course Britain's only endemic bird. Also ca. 70 Pinkfeet high overhead. @teesbirds.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social 0333
Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Hartlepool Headland 7-11: 29 Red-throated Divers, 2 GC Grebes, 12 Brent Geese, 6 Little Gulls, 4 Arctic Skuas, 5 Great Skuas, 4 Manx Shearwaters @teesbirds.bsky.social 0171
Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 08/09/2026One of at least two immature Grey Herons from the small heronry at Locke Park, Redcar. @teesbirds.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social 0173
Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Hartlepool Headland 9-11: 13 Little Gulls (missed larger movement earlier), 1 ad Roseate Tern, 3 Arctic Skuas, 10 Red-throated Divers, 18 Common Scoter. @teesbirds.bsky.social 0211
Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Removal of nature protections is fundamental to the far-right's agenda: anything which might constrain corporate profits must go. This follows hot on heels of steps to reduce protection of wetlands and many similar measures. They'll do same here if they ever get chance. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukTrump signs order to remove endangered species status for grey wolvesThe US president says the move will help ranchers, but conservationists say it could derail efforts to recover populations. 24920
Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 05/09/2026The Corixidae or lesser water-boatmen is the most speciose family of water bugs with nearly 40 British species. Most show distinct preferences in terms of water chemistry and habitat structure. This is Sigara stagnalis, a brackish-water species. Cowpen Marsh, North Tees. @britishbugs.bsky.social 1372
Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Fascinating juxtaposition of wetland plants in Tilery Wood, Wynyard: species of base-rich fen (Tufted Sedge, Long-stalked Yellow Sedge, Blunt-flowered Rush) growing in close proximity to indicators of acidity (Bog Pondweed, Bulbous Rush, Ling). Thanks to @botanicalmartin.bsky.social for info. 1262
Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Cowpen Marsh 15.40: Black-tailed Godwits, Ruff, 5 Whimbrel but can't locate any small waders and the terns have all left. @teesbirds.bsky.social 0101
Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 03/09/2026A foreign influence operation hellbent on imposing the will of the transnational super-rich on the UK. 140
Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 03/09/2026This small urban pond at Middle Marsh NR, North Ormesby, surpassed expectations with plenty of water beetles, bugs, Odonata larvae and Smooth Newt tadpoles. Beds of stonewort provide habitat for the algivorous water beetle Haliplus obliquus, with its distinct chequer-board markings. 2251
Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Even after recent rain there's more mud than water at Margrove Pond, an ironstone mining subsidence lake nr Guisborough. But the mineral-rich water is a dense soup of Cladocerans ('water fleas') & Ostracods (seed shrimps). These algal-feeding plankton in turn provide food for filter-feeding birds. 1182
Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I surveyed this pond on an old (early C20th) brownfield site in E Cleveland 15 yrs ago. It had all 3 newts, rich invertebrate assemblage and diverse flora including Shoreweed. Now 3/4 scrubbed over with small remaining open area covered by invasive Crassula. On a site supposedly managed for nature! 2161
Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Willow Tit seen and heard at Margrove Ponds NR 14.00; female Mandarin among the tame Mallards. @teesbirds.bsky.social 1151
Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Another productive ditch on the North Tees Marshes, with abundant Caspian Whirligig. This is a characteristic whirligig beetle of ditches and borrow pits on coastal grazing marshes, where it tends to be found amongst emergent vegetation rather than on the open water surface. 0161
Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Old hemp or flax retting ponds can still be found here and there in Britain too, often on remnants of common land away from settlements. Soaking the crop to separate the fibre was an intensely polluting activity, forbidden in or near village water supplies. 2237
Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Holme Fleet, Cowpen Marsh 18.00: Greenshank, Ruff, Wood Sandpiper, Dunlin, Little Stint (4), Yellow Wagtail. @teesbirds.bsky.social 0121
Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Holme Fleet, Cowpen Marsh 06:50: minimum 11 Little Stints, 10 Dunlin, 2 Ruff; 1 Greenshank. @teesbirds.bsky.social 0161
Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 29/08/202618.20 Holme Fleet (Cowpen Marsh) 9 Black-tailed Godwits, 2 Ruff, 1 Greenshank, 1 Curlew Sandpiper, several Dunlin and up to 14 v small waders assumed to be Little Stints but distant in poor light. 2 Whimbrel flew through. Yellow Wagtail. Water Rail feeding in open. @teesbirds.bsky.social 1141
Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Most ditches on N Tees Marshes hold no more than puddles of water but carpets of hook-moss (Drepanocladus aduncus) provide refugia for aquatic insects. Nationally Scarce spp here included algivorous water beetle Haliplus apicalis (abundant) & small numbers of scavenger water beetle Enochrus bicolor. 0211
Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Gang violence in Boro has made headlines but tonight hundreds of men will still be snorting coke in pubs and clubs all over Teesside - and it's the cocaine trade that's turning council estates into war zones. How about hitting the a*holes who fund the gangs? www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...independent.co.ukSeven more men arrested amid organised crime investigation after A66 crashThe A66 crash killed seven people, including two police officers 150
Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Up to 5 Pied Flycatchers in Borough Hall Gardens/Croft Gardens, H'pool Headland 10.45. Little else. @teesbirds.bsky.social 0121
Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Interesting saltmarsh community developing on part of Seaton Common (North Tees). Reddish plant is Purple Glasswort (Salicornia ramosissima), which favours upper saltmarsh rather than inter-tidal mud. Twite are specialist feeders on Salicornia seeds so may use this habitat. @teesbirds.bsky.social 2463
Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Increasing water-margin habitat by cutting shelves (berms) in the banks of steep-sided agricultural drains can dramatically increase the conservation quality of wetland beetle assemblages without sacrificing land or impeding drainage functionality. Note from Latissimus 62, just published. 0164
Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Seaton Common 12.20: Whinchat on golf course boundary fence parallel to dunes, towards ZWR end. 3 Whimbrel on NNR field. @teesbirds.bsky.social 0181
Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Hartlepool Headland 8.45-10.45 quiet again: single Arctic Skua, Manx Shearwater, Red-throated Diver, Peregrine; 82 Common Scoter. @teesbirds.bsky.social 0171
Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Hartlepool Headland 17:40-18:50 v quiet, 1 Arctic Skua, not a single shearwater. Modest movement of Common Terns S. @teesbirds.bsky.social 0101
Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Hartlepool Headland 17.30-19.30: Arctic Skuas constantly harrying terns & Kittiwakes as well as passing straight through, perhaps 12 different birds seen; 2 Great Skuas; 16 Manx Shearwaters; 1 Shoveler. @teesbirds.bsky.social 0161