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Steve Preddy @stevepreddy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Does anyone know of a reliable means of making contact with the team behind AviList? Messages sent via the Contact Us form on the website don’t appear to be reaching them and I don’t think they have a social media presence. Thanks.

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Steve Preddy @stevepreddy.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Updated accounts (with maps including all records to the end of 2025) for all 34 species of Odonata in Monmouthshire, including two new species (Willow Emerald & Scarce Chaser), are now online at the British Dragonfly Society’s website. british-dragonflies.org.uk/monmouthshir... All records map:

A map showing all records of Odonata contributed to the British Dragonfly Society’s recording scheme & Monmouthshire atlas project to the end of 225

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Steve Dudley @stevedudley.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Please help to end the senseless harvesting of Gannets. It’s a ‘tradition’ that needs stopping. Please sign the petition which is already over 80,000 and I’m told the highest signed petition ever for a Scottish Parliament petition. #birdingScotland

petitions.parliament.scot

Petition: Stop the Guga Hunt

Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to amend Section 16 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 to remove the power to grant licences for taking Gannets on Sula Sgeir.

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

A correction for the ages (from The Guardian's review of 'Melania'):

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Steve Preddy @stevepreddy.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

@andymears.bsky.social and @robertkelsh.bsky.social celebrating yesterday evening after seeing a much-wanted Amazon-dwelling heron species.

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Steve Preddy @stevepreddy.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

@andymears.bsky.social, @robertkelsh.bsky.social and I started the day here in Ecuador on the east Andean slope with Barred Antthrush, showing well (these things are relative), and finished it with Andean Potoo and Rufous-banded Owl, with a whole lot else sandwiched between.

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Steve Preddy @stevepreddy.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

The Ecuadorian rainforest, today. Sapayoa, two showing well. With @andymears.bsky.social & @robertkelsh.bsky.social My 3rd of a possible 4 new bird families for the trip, after Oilbird & Dusky-faced Tanager (Mitrospingidae, not a true tanager). #birdsthatphoebedidntsee #whatsabroadbilldoinghere

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Steve Preddy @stevepreddy.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

After an 0030h arrival via Miami yesterday, I was a little shattered … but not too shattered to spend the day enjoying the old city of Quito. @andyfmears.bsky.social and @robertkelsh.bsky.social are en route, ready for a three-and-a-bit-week exploration of N Ecuador’s birding hotspots.

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Steve Preddy @stevepreddy.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

The latest Monmouthshire dragonfly newsletter, a Willow Emerald special edition, is now in your inbox if you’re on the mailing list. If you’re not, and would like to be, please message me or drop a reply below. @britishdragonflies.bsky.social #gwentdragonflies

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Steve Preddy @stevepreddy.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

A Purple Sandpiper this afternoon at Peterstone Pill with a Dunlin flock then flew southwest (also the female Scaup still). #gwentbirds

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Steve Preddy @stevepreddy.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Hi @churchartnature.bsky.social feel free to DM me here, I’m not using X any more.

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 10/11/2025

Breaking News! Code UFB!!! The three-year running mean for the global surface temperature anomaly now exceeds 1.50°C over the pre-industrial baseline, as of November 8, 2025. Are you there, COP 30? It's me, the Paris Agreement.

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Hugh Harrop @hughharrop.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Desperately seeking three French hens and a partridge in a pear tree to join these two Oriental Turtle Doves. Yes, it was back to the drawing board overnight and a retrospective ID on one of the 'turtle' doves we'd already retrospectively identified yesterday. A thread...

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Steve Preddy @stevepreddy.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

I thought it worth copying (with a few small edits) my short thread here from 2021 from the platform which shall not be named, on why there are perfectly valid grammar-based reasons for supporting Graeme’s view on this. 1/8

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

[Scene is the entrance cabin to a NATIONAL TRUST PROPERTY AND GARDENS]

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NATIONAL TRUST EMPLOYEE [inside cabin]:

Hello there

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[A young family - two parents two kids - have arrived at the front desk].

DAD:

Hi - do you have an activity trail, for the kids?

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NT EMPLOYEE:

Of course – you’re just in time for the Autumn Gammon Trail!

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MUM:
That sounds fun, doesn’t it kids?

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NT EMPLOYEE [handing an activity sheet and pencils to the kids]:

Every autumn, the Reform Trust gammons flock back to the National Trust for the AGM. Just follow the trail round the grounds, and see how many you can spot!

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NT EMPLOYEE [hearing something in the gardens]:

Listen - that's their call

[Calls emanating from the landscape]:

tut-tut
woke-woke

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NT EMPLOYEE [showing the family an apparently empty fenced enclosure with some bushes in]:

They are extremely sensitive and fragile...
But you can bring them out of hiding if you put a little sign down mentioning slavery.

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KIDS [pointing]:
There they are!

[Some little red faced PEOPLE wearing Barbour jackets and gilets emerge cautiously from the bushes. They are creeping towards a TINY SIGN in the middle of the enclosure].

[Little people noises]:
woke-woke
tut-tut
woke-woke

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[Close-up of the TINY SIGN - we can read that it says]:

Slavery had a bit to do with building this massive house.

[Noises from the little people again as they inspect the tiny sign]:

tut-tut
woke-woke

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MUM [pointing]:
What's that one doing there?

NT EMPLOYEE:
Oh, that's so sweet…

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[We see that one of the people is sat on a rock, with a little laptop open on a tree stump, and they are furiously typing away].

NT EMPLOYEE:
I think he's writing a column for the Daily Telegraph…

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[We see close up to the little person’s screen, it is a word document reading]:

Are National Trust scones secretly WOKE?

[ends]

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Josh Luke Davis 🏳️‍🌈 @joshlukedavis.com · 01/10/2025

I will take no further questions

Screen grab of a 2010 news article with the headline and stand first: "Sausage-addicted kookaburra too fat to fly
BIRD became so obese from barbecue handouts she was unable to escape mauling."

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Steve Preddy @stevepreddy.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Monmouthshire dragonfly newsletter number 12 is now available, with news on Willow Emeralds, Scarce Chaser, Lesser Emperors, Red-veined Darters, Common Hawker and Hairy Dragonfly. DM me if you’re not on the mailing list but would like to be. #gwentdragonflies cc @britishdragonflies.bsky.social

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Steve Preddy @stevepreddy.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Six juv Sabine’s Gulls and 2 Grey Phals off the end of Jackstone’s pier, Aberavon currently. w3w.co/escape.unrea...

w3w.co

///escape.unrealistic.silly

This is the what3words address for a 3 metre square location near Port Talbot, Neath Port Talbot.

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Chris Darby @chrisddarby.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Zitting cisticola Walberswick, Suffolk, 23/08/2025 I thought I was having a good day with an image of one of the juveniles from the 1st recorded breeding of Zitting cisticola in the UK. On review I found four juveniles and the adult female🤯 @suffolkbirdgroup.bsky.social #suffolkbirding #ukbirding

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Steve Preddy @stevepreddy.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Glos B-w Kite showing on & off this am, up to c1km N & c500m S of Splatt Bridge. Unlikely to be visible from Slimbridge hides when perched though gets quite high when flying so may be visible from estuary tower / summer walkway, but for now, Frampton’s the better bet. Cc @glosterbirder.bsky.social

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Steve Preddy @stevepreddy.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

A Lesser Emperor at Wentwood reservoir this evening along the west shore. #gwentdragonflies

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Steve Preddy @stevepreddy.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

A male Scarce Chaser was seen and photographed on Tuesday just southwest of Magor Marsh: a first record for the county. #gwentdragonflies

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Steve Preddy @stevepreddy.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

The highlight of a day of dragonflying on the Gwent Levels today was a copulating pair of Variable Damselfly on Pont-y-cw-cw reen near West Usk lighthouse, a new site for this species. w3w.co/scrubbing.ru... #gwentdragonflies

w3w.co

///scrubbing.rules.joins

This is the what3words address for a 3 metre square location near Nash, Newport.

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Steve Preddy @stevepreddy.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Botany peeps: it’s way too early for Fairy Flax (Linum catharticum) to be flowering, isn’t it? If so, I’ve got some head scratching to do over a plant that I’ve found by the River Usk in Newport this afternoon.

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Steve Preddy @stevepreddy.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

The first Monmouthshire dragonfly newsletter of the year is now in your inbox if you’re on the mailing list. If you’re not, and would like to be, please get in touch.

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Steve Preddy @stevepreddy.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Green Hellebores (Helleborus viridis) in flower in woodland near Lower Kilcott in the Cotswolds in South Gloucestershire yesterday.

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Alexander Lees @alexanderlees.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

"U.S. democracy will likely break down during the second Trump administration, in the sense that it will cease to meet standard criteria for liberal democracy: full adult suffrage, free and fair elections, and broad protection of civil liberties" www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

foreignaffairs.com

The Path to American Authoritarianism

What comes after democratic breakdown.

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Steve Preddy @stevepreddy.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

There’s an opportunity to bring about a ban on lead shot in the next few weeks. You can support a ban by emailing Steve Reed, the environment secretary, at the page below. Please also share here and on other social media. Thanks. act.wwt.org.uk/page/160992/...

act.wwt.org.uk

Help make lead history

Lead has been poisoning our wildlife and communities for decades – but now we have a chance to turn things around. With a crucial review into lead ammunition finally at an end, will you join me in c...

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Steve Preddy @stevepreddy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

The latest Monmouthshire dragonfly recording newsletter is now available, including updates on various species including… small red damselflies. If you’re not on the mailing list but would like to be, drop me a message. #gwentdragonflies

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Steve Preddy @stevepreddy.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

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Steve Preddy @stevepreddy.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

A Firecrest at Fourteen Locks, Newport just now ///chefs.blaze.first #gwentbirds

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Steve Preddy @stevepreddy.bsky.social · 12/10/2024

For a thing I’m doing for the British Dragonfly Society, does anyone have photos of Common Hawker (Aeshna juncea) taken in any of the following counties: Dorset, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Berkshire, Sussex, Orkney and Dunbartonshire. Thanks in advance.

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Steve Preddy @stevepreddy.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

I’m watching a male Southern Hawker & a male Common Hawker in territorial squabbles over a pond at Cleddon Bog. This is the only known site in the eastern half of Monmouthshire/Gwent for Common Hawker. Thanks to Barbara Heys for re-finding after an 8-year gap #gwentdragonflies

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Steve Preddy @stevepreddy.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

Can anyone help me track down any of the following? I’ve received records from them and need more info before I can add them to the British Dragonfly Society database. Thanks. Steve (Monmouthshire county recorder) Stephen Axe Simon Bowles Jennifer Earl Jon Thobroe Paul Treen

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Steve Preddy @stevepreddy.bsky.social · 11/08/2024

I spent some time this afternoon at an excellent dragonfly site near Ebbw Vale. It’s a pond called The Cardi, and it’s not far from Waun-y-pound but I think it’s an even better site. ///moon.flagpole.eruptions #gwentdragonflies 1/3

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Steve Preddy @stevepreddy.bsky.social · 10/08/2024

Just arrived here from the other place. So you know it’s the real me, I like beer and footie and Liz Truss was the best prime minister ever … are the words I would use if ever I’m taken hostage so that you know I’m being made to say things against my will.

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