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Simon Mitchell

@perilsofbirding.bsky.social
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Birder, Ecological surveyor, Bird tour leader, Academic Researcher and Conservationist

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Reform UK wants to shut this down. If it did so, it would throw a million people out of work. Why? because it is beholden to the fossil fuel industry. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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UK’s growing green economy worth more than £100bn a year, research finds
Net zero industry accounts for more than a million jobs and benefits whole country, according to CBI Economics
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Simon Mitchell @perilsofbirding.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
So Lammy and Starmer lied to the British people that UK reconnoissance flights were being used to inform the indiscriminate bombing of civilians in Gaza. Now they’ve let slip that we’ve effectively gone to war with Iran.
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Simon Mitchell @perilsofbirding.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Since he’s been cheerleading US & Israeli bombing in Iran (which resulted in 150 dead at a girls primary school today), I thought now would be a good time to out @zootherabirding.bsky.social as the virulent racist that he is. Wouldn’t be caught in a million miles of a Zoothera birding tour!
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Chris Green @chrisbirder.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I'm not exaggerating, almost every dog owner I know would be just fine with this. When I suggest they should consider wildlife when out walking their dog they look at me as though I'm mad.
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Simon Mitchell @perilsofbirding.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
A dapper wintering Bluetail at @wendlingbeck.bsky.social continues to show on & off today. Bird on private land & owners are keen for birders to be help not hinderance to the community. Therefore, I've been asked to organise a donation pot for St Mary's Church upkeep. ko-fi.com/simonleomitc...
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Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
We are going to irreversibly degrade the biosphere for the sake of people asking 'Grok' to explain simple memes and/or generating pictures of cats that look like Hitler.
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Simon Mitchell @perilsofbirding.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Incredible a'noon at Caister. First a Pallas's flitting through in a huge tit flock. Then another glimpsed warbler, silent & elusive. After a heard only bird at Thornham y'day I wondered if I just hallucinate Hume's Warblers. Till it popped up calling. And a Dusky calling too!
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Simon Mitchell @perilsofbirding.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Yomping the Norfolk coast. Blackbirds everywhere; 'tseeping' from under every hedge. Woodcocks errupting at my feet. A Short-eared Owl winging in over brown waves at Cart Gap. Then in the gathering gloom a glowing rump and seven illuminated stripes. What late autumn is all about.
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Simon Mitchell @perilsofbirding.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Very happy to find this Pallid Swift at Cromer this a'noon - a typical chameleon in different light conditions, it gradually shifted towards East Runton after being repeatedly mobbed by a Pied Wag(!) Also marks my most-wanted birding milestone - my 300th species self-found in Britain and Ireland!
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
"The Treasury....plans to gut green rules with amendments to its planning and infrastructure bill – ditching the precautionary principle, slashing species protections and curbing legal challenges" Indefensible This must be fought tooth and nail www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The Guardian view on Labour targeting nature: the problem isn’t snails, but a broken housing model | Editorial
Editorial: Rachel Reeves’s drive to speed up development is beginning to treat wildlife and the environment as expendable. Voters want homes built, but not at any cost
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EcoFriendly West @ecofriendlywest.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Global pet food emissions rival those of a small country. Switching dogs to plant-based foods could slash emissions tenfold—without sacrificing nutrition.
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Researchers compare the footprint of meat vs. plant-based dog foods. The differences were staggering.
Global pet food emissions rival those of a small country. A new UK study reveals that switching dogs to plant-based foods could slash emissions tenfold—without sacrificing nutrition.
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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
A great thread dismantling the latest 'conservation populism' to be floated in Britain. With funding available for species recovery, this is business for some. We'll see more of this pitching for commercial projects that scientists & species experts think is useless. #ornithology #ukbirding
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Simon Mitchell @perilsofbirding.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Interesting set of conditions for displacing migrants across NE North America over the last few days serve as a potential insight into the extend that ‘initial conditions’ vs ‘conveyance conditions’ impact vagrancy of American land birds - thread.
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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
'Following the science' is fundamental to uphold, whether combatting climate change denial by populist political parties, or ecological denial by populist 'conservation' groups, both of which have coincidentally right wing backers. Rejecting science & expertise seems integral to the world view.
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John Cantelo @johncantelo.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I've just finished revising my free Birding Cadiz Guide (but donations via my Just Giving page to Alzheimer's Society are very welcome). No major changes, just minor updates (corrections are also posted on my blog - birdingcadizprovince.weebly.com/cadiz-birdin...)
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Joe Stockwell @joestockwell.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Yellow-browed Bunting trapped, ringed and released at the Swannery. It's flown to the hedge which runs alongside the Swannery grounds and the bird may be viewable from the permissive path heading west from Grove Lane.
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Simon Mitchell @perilsofbirding.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
After 25+ miles walked in better conditions along the Norfolk coast this month it felt sort of ironic that the first bird I lifted my bins for on a family outing at Happisburgh this afternoon was this lovely 1w Isabelline (Daurian) Shrike.
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Simon Mitchell @perilsofbirding.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
One of a brace of nice obvious 2cy Caspian Gulls on Norwich Waterworks this morning @rarebirder.bsky.social
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Simon Mitchell @perilsofbirding.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Didnt expect my (long overdue), self found Glossy Ibis to be a flock of 22 which took off from a hidden ditch at Buckenham! Terrible phone photo as they headed SSE over the Yare
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Simon Mitchell @perilsofbirding.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Gonna tell my kids this is what Ross’s Gulls looked like
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