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It wasn't recorded north of the Humber until 1999 and was first detected in Cleveland around 2010, so it's a very recent arrival though it's now reached southern Scotland.

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 17h

Water Stick-insect was abundant today among emergent vegetation in lake at Cowpen Bewley Country Park nr Billingham. Other rapidly-expanding southern insects included Saucer Bug & Migrant Hawker dragonfly. None of these were present when I surveyed the lake in early 2000s. @teesbirds.bsky.social

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 18h

In Europe we are seeing rapid changes in migration patterns driven by climate change. Many Scandinavian and subarctic birds which used to migrate to Britain in winter are now rare visitors. Storks, raptors and hirundines which once wintered in sub-Saharan Africa now linger in the Mediterranean.

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 18h

American ISIS. MAGA are simply jihadists with a different religious affiliation.

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 19h

Hegseth Snuff Videos Inc, a subsidiary of MAGA Enterprises.

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The mood at the Restore Britain post-count party was somewhat deflated.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error. Same error amplified by right-wing think-tanks, press It suited their ideological leanings. Future historians might say - planet earth and human life was shattered by a spreadsheet error.

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Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error

Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Did Liz Truss do the spreadsheet?

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The Zionism motion is itself symptomatic of GPEW's inability to resist entryism. Its proponents are mostly members of various Leninist groupuscules who have an intensely sectarian mentality. Few have any long-term record of environmental activism. They will tear GP apart then leave.

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Some pools and runnels are at last holding a little water. This grassy rill on Seaton Common produced the Nationally Scarce scavenger water beetle Helophorus strigifrons. This seems to be the first Cleveland record. A species of seasonal pool systems in long-established fens and grazing marshes.

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NatureBureau @naturebureau.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Fenland Flora by Owen Mountford & Jon Graham (with 300 photos & over 1000 maps). This 1400-page, 2-volume set has now gone to print. Pre-pub offer ends 31 Oct 2026 -visit naturebureau.co.uk/bookshop now & SAVE £25 on published price @bsbibotany.bsky.social @plantlife.bsky.social

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Hartlepool Headland 8.20-12.20: 4 Arctic Skuas, 1 Great Skua, 10 Little Gulls, 7 Manx Shearwaters, 240 Pinkfeet. @teesbirds.bsky.social

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Hartlepool Headland 8.40-12.00: 38 Whooper Swans, 404 Pinkfeet, 4 Brent Geese, 178 Common Scoter, 27 Red-throated Divers, 2 Arctic Skuas, 15 Little Gulls, single Scaup, Grey Plover, Whimbrel. @teesbirds.bsky.social

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Goldcrest, Chiffchaff, Brambling in Borough Hall Gardens 17.30.

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hartlepool Headland 15.00-17.00: 16 Little Gulls, 2 Mediterranean Gulls, 2 Manx Shearwaters, ca 10 Bottle-nosed Dolphins. Large numbers of auks still moving (all or predominantly Razorbills); 290+ counted in 10 mins. @teesbirds.bsky.social

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Well said Andy. It's quite possible to oppose Netanyahu's war crimes without resorting to dog-whistle rhetoric. Unfortunately, GPEW is too easily influenced by entryists and well-organised fringe groups.

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Hartlepool Headland: promising 40 min seawatch before rain set in - highlights Pomarine Skua & Scaup (thanks to @geofficeton.bsky.social) with large skeins of Pinkfeet offshore. Yellow-browed Warbler moving round Borough Hall/Croft Gardens late AM but seen only fleetingly. @teesbirds.bsky.social

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Esbardu. A lovely Asturian word meaning bear cub. Some 370 brown bears now live in the Cantabrian mountains, on a steady path to recovery after a a nadir at the turn of the century. Photo. Fundación Oso Pardo

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is inevitable if GPEW leaves itself so open to capture by bad-faith entryists. Great, constructive, well considered policies will get buried by all the fringe Students Union hubub.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“Zionism is racism” is not a policy but a slogan. It compresses a complex history, going back millennia, and a very wide set of beliefs into one narrow meaning. The answer to genocide is not discrimination. We don't fight racism with racism. I’m gutted to see this motion adopted by the Green Party.

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Very well said, George. It's also crazy to choose a term so widely used as a code-word by Anti-semites. Sad that people with extreme fringe views have been able to capture the Green Party.

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It reflects an underlying amateurism and gullibility which permeates GPEW. There is a long history of bad-faith entryism damaging the party but it never learns.

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The GP has been torn apart by bad-faith entryists before but has learned nothing. These people will have f*cked off back to the SWP or the latest Galloway front in a year or two but the Greens will be permanently damaged. The general gullibility that permeates the party enables this to happen.

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Netanyahu is a fascist and war criminal but the "Anti-Zionists" had strangely little to say when Erdogan was razing Kurdish cities, when 99% of the Karabakh Armenians had to flee their ancestral homeland or when 300K people were forced into refugee camps after jihadists occupied Afrin. Hypocrites.

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yes, I've booked the rest of the week off work.

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

North-westerlies forecast Tuesday to Thursday

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

From what I've seen, the opposite is true. The higher up the ladder you are, the less your productivity is monitored, the more leeway you get to do personal stuff in work time, the less accountable you are when things go wrong - in addition to the greater material rewards and better T&Cs.

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Not forgetting the time he was sacked by TalkTV and their security staff had to remove him from the building.

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

84 more SW over S Gare 14.35

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

All Brits are mixed race. 'White' people only arrived here in the Bronze Age, c. 4K years ago. The original Mesolithic population, who appeared ca 11,700 yrs ago, had very dark skin. Later, olive-skinned Neolithic colonists were of Near Eastern ancestry. www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

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The Beaker people: a new population for ancient Britain | Natural History Museum

Ancient DNA reveals that the British population was all but wiped out and replaced roughly 4,400 years ago as the Bronze Age Beaker culture moved into Britain.

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Self-hate runs through far-right politics like the lettering in a stick of rock.

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

YBW Borough Hall gardens, Hartlepool Headland 11.20 @teesbirds.bsky.social

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hartlepool Headland 8.00-10.30: 31 Little Gulls, 6 Manx Shearwaters, 1 Arctic Skua. Harbour Porpoise, Grey & Harbour Seals @teesbirds.bsky.social

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You heard! Yes, shutters still down.

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

She's about to write a terrible Country & Western song called "Choosin' Skeggy", telling how her lover opted for a shuttered-up Butlins resort on the North Sea coast over her Arabian boudoir.

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We're starting to get more wildfowl movement now, which is less dependent on wind direction than the shearwaters and skuas.

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Lyke Wake Walk is a 40 mile route across the North York Moors supposedly following old coffin routes. They wouldn't have had as many refreshment stops though!

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hartlepool 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

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Crataegus nigra most likely - east European species

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The 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.

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Hartlepool 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

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Most ponds in this part of the world tend to be surface water bodies, i.e. fed by rainfall and drainage from a small catchment with an impermeable bed (either natural clay or imported material). The aquifers tend to be below the glacial drift though there are some groundwater ponds.

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Alex Prendergast @bramblebotanist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This 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

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Several aquatic insects in this pond were almost unknown in North-east England before the turn of the century: Emperor Dragonfly, Screech Beetle (📷), the backswimmer Notonecta viridis & tiny water bug Plea minutissima. This demonstrates the rapid impact of climate change on our local wildlife.

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Many 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

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

...it's just tipped on the surface and allowed to oxidise, releasing all the carbon back into the atmosphere. Some of this stuff is shipped internationally to get rid of it, or it gets carted long distances by lorries.

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Palustris @palustris.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There is an international market in disposing of substandard municipal compost which can't be used as a soil improver where food is grown or where livestock entering the food chain will be grazed, because it contains too much plastic or metal. A lot goes to phony 'land reclamation' schemes where...

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