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Lady Birder 🦋 🌱 💚 🦊 🦡 🦉

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Keen birdwatching nature lover out & about with two dogs in the Surrey Hills. Puffins should be prescribed on the NHS. All photos posted are my own. Always stop, listen & look up. If you care about the planet #govegan. Etsy shop via www.ceeceevintage.co.uk

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Lady Birder 🦋 🌱 💚 🦊 🦡 🦉 @thisisladybirder.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
First 2 singing Chiffchaffs of the year today. Spring is springing, at last. #surreybirds
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Lady Birder 🦋 🌱 💚 🦊 🦡 🦉 @thisisladybirder.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
First @btobirds.bsky.social WiBS on my local transect in the Surrey Hills. Beautiful morning, lots of birds including Crossbill, Bullfinch, Firecrest, Siskin, Treecreeper & Marsh Tit. #surreybirds
View at Newlands Corner in the Surrey Hills.
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Lady Birder 🦋 🌱 💚 🦊 🦡 🦉 @thisisladybirder.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
I'm lucky to have had a pair of Firecrests in my Surrey garden this year, possibly even breeding. But this little beauty flew into a window & was stunned for about 10 minutes, before thankfully flying off to its mate (singing in background). What a stunner! #firecrest #gardenbirds #surreybirds #bgbw
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West Midlands Hunt Saboteurs @westmidshuntsabs.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Two foxes were hunted by the Warwickshire Hunt on Thursday at Burton Dassett Read more here www.facebook.com/WestMidsHunt...
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Lady Birder 🦋 🌱 💚 🦊 🦡 🦉 @thisisladybirder.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Definitely an increasingly common bird in the Newlands Corner area of Surrey. Saw 2 flying Ravens then this one perched close to St Martha’s Church this morning. 10s of House Martins darting about above it. Lovely to see. #surreybirds #surreyhills #ravens
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
There. Is. No. Such. Thing. Cattle ranching is among the most destructive of all the world's industries. "Regenerative" cattle ranching is simply greenwash.
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Spam Ayres @squirlykat.eurosky.social · 16/09/2025
“They’re perfectly capable of breeding & recolonising their former range, over a relatively short space of time, IF, and only IF, their survival isn’t curtailed by grouse moor gamekeepers shooting, trapping and poisoning them, pulling off their heads and legs, or stamping on their eggs and chicks.”
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Dr Emma Garnett @emmagarnett.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
It is so so SO refreshing to hear a UK farmer say simply we need to eat less meat. This whole interview with Guy Watson-Singh is excellent. I also completely agree we need to spend more on food and much much less on rent. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Just eat less meat’
Singh-Watson may believe he has softened. But for many years he has been an iconoclastic voice among farmers. Take meat: most British farmers reject calls to eat less red meat to reduce damage to the environment and people’s health. Singh-Watson says eat good meat but less often: just 5% of what Riverford sells is meat. He had shared an organic chicken with eight people the previous evening: “I probably won’t buy another one for a month.”
“I spent a lot of time looking at the evidence on [the impact of meat] and it was overwhelming,” he says. “Ten billion people can’t live sustainably on this planet if we are eating anything like the level of meat consumed in a western diet. The only answer is we just eat less meat, dairy and eggs.”
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League Against Cruel Sports @leagueacs.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
We’re proud to stand with @animalaid.org.uk‬ in calling for an end to greyhound racing. From cradle to grave, greyhounds suffer unimaginable cruelty for the sake of entertainment. Show your support and sign the petition today leagueacs.co.uk/6b3EG #EndGreyhoundRacing
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Folly Wildlife Rescue @follywildlife.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Did you know #badgers LOVE water? One of our cubs decided to cool off in the pool. The message from our cubs is Stay Cool! 😎 Please ensure wildlife has constant access to water in hot weather #waterforwildlife @badgertrust.bsky.social @badgerlandcouk.bsky.social @kentwildlife.bsky.social
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
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Lady Birder 🦋 🌱 💚 🦊 🦡 🦉 @thisisladybirder.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
West Surrey Badger Group is ALWAYS looking for new members (membership only £10!) and/or volunteers for a range of vital activities protecting, rescuing and rehabiliting badgers in the area. Please get in contact via their website: www.wsbg.co.uk The badgers thank you! 🦡 @badgertrust.bsky.social
wokingnewsandmail.co.uk
Dig for victory: Badger group from Woking show off their skill-sett
A badger protection group based in Woking has sett the standard for engineering after relocating a family in a nearby town.
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Let me find the world’s tiniest violin… Time to end this elite Victorian indulgence and chart a more vibrant, nature-rich future for Britain’s uplands
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Lady Birder 🦋 🌱 💚 🦊 🦡 🦉 @thisisladybirder.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
PLEASE add your voice objecting to this terrible planning application in Surrey Hills AONB. Home to many Red & Amber listed breeding birds, dormice, badgers, bats. It's ancient woodland too! @chrisgpackham.bsky.social An unsustainable development of 32 "Eco-cabins" that will ruin a wildlife haven.
publicaccess.guildford.gov.uk
25/P/00967 | Proposed mixed-use forestry and sustainable eco-retreat comprising of 32 tourist cabin accommodations with associated facilities, landscaping, parking and access. | Netherlands Wood, Albury Estate, Guildford, GU5 9TE
To view this comment please refer to the Documents list.
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Lady Birder 🦋 🌱 💚 🦊 🦡 🦉 @thisisladybirder.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
PLEASE add your voice objecting to this terrible planning application in Surrey Hills AONB. Home to many Red & Amber listed breeding birds, dormice, badgers, bats. It's ancient woodland too! @chrisgpackham.bsky.social An unsustainable development of 32 "Eco-cabins" that will ruin a wildlife haven.
publicaccess.guildford.gov.uk
25/P/00967 | Proposed mixed-use forestry and sustainable eco-retreat comprising of 32 tourist cabin accommodations with associated facilities, landscaping, parking and access. | Netherlands Wood, Albury Estate, Guildford, GU5 9TE
To view this comment please refer to the Documents list.
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Lady Birder 🦋 🌱 💚 🦊 🦡 🦉 @thisisladybirder.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Not sure what this young bird is. Thought possibly Bullfinch but not quite right. Any help appreciated.
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Lady Birder 🦋 🌱 💚 🦊 🦡 🦉 @thisisladybirder.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
If you shop at the Co-op supermarket and believe it to be an ethical retailer, have another think. They are still refusing to stop selling "Frankenchickens" despite their members overwhelmingly voting to do so, 2 years ago! Have a watch ...
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Can Chris Packham get the Co-op board to listen?
YouTube video by The Humane League UK
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Lady Birder 🦋 🌱 💚 🦊 🦡 🦉 @thisisladybirder.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Genuinely upset to hear this. Lucky enough to be at the Royal Festival Hall performance of Smile in 2004 which was absolutely off the scale, one of the most outstanding live concerts I've ever seen (and I was at Live Aid!). RIP Brian Wilson. #brianwilson
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Brian Wilson obituary: Genius behind many of The Beach Boys' hits
One of the most innovative and creative music artists of the 20th century.
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Lady Birder 🦋 🌱 💚 🦊 🦡 🦉 @thisisladybirder.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
If you care about animals and the environment, please don't be a hypocrite #govegan. And sign this petition! Thank you.
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Promote plant-based foods over meat and dairy for a healthier Britain
To help protect planetary and human health, the Government must promote plant-based foods like fruits, vegetables, wholegrains, and legumes, and end any support for campaigns promoting meat and dairy....
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Lady Birder 🦋 🌱 💚 🦊 🦡 🦉 @thisisladybirder.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Late @btobirds.bsky.social BBS completed this morning at Albury Downs. Another bumper crop of birds - all heard & seen by me as well as Merlin! Who on Earth would want to ruin this wonderful habitat? #surreybirds
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Lady Birder 🦋 🌱 💚 🦊 🦡 🦉 @thisisladybirder.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
"Natural England has failed to safeguard badgers & is perpetuating a Badger Blame Game. For too long, successive governments have used badgers as scapegoats, ignoring the fact that an overwhelming 94% of bTB transmission occurs from cattle to cattle." 😡 Write to your MP, urge them to end the cull!
badgertrust.org.uk
Natural England Fails Badgers Again
Over 10,000 Badgers Killed in 2024 Cull Despite Chief Scientist’s Advice
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Dominic Dyer @dom70.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Dear Women’s Weekly we have a cost of living crisis & shelters full of unwanted dogs that people can no longer after to keep & your advocating breeding puppies as nice little earner on the side. This is shameful
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Badger Trust @badgertrust.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
We’re putting MPs on notice. Voters are watching—and demanding better. Accountability starts now. Visit our website for more info: www.badgertrust.org.uk/space-for-ba...
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Lady Birder 🦋 🌱 💚 🦊 🦡 🦉 @thisisladybirder.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Wet dog walk this morning, but came across a new family of noisy Treecreepers. Babies demanding food and one gets a tasty mouthful. Lovely to see! #surreybirds #treecreepers #springwatch
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Lady Birder 🦋 🌱 💚 🦊 🦡 🦉 @thisisladybirder.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Not often I see a Peregrine Falcon on my evening dog walk but just had one zooming about just above Guildford Golf clubhouse. Likely to be one of the Woking Peregrine adults hunting as it's only a short flight from there. Exciting anyway! #peregrines #surreybirds #wokingperegrines
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Lady Birder 🦋 🌱 💚 🦊 🦡 🦉 @thisisladybirder.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
I believe this is White Helleborine, seen today on Guildford Golf Course in quite a vulnerable position (could easily be mown or trampled). I've emailed Surrey WT but any advice welcome @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social Thank you.
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Lady Birder 🦋 🌱 💚 🦊 🦡 🦉 @thisisladybirder.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Looking for an ID of this plant that is invading my flower beds. Absolute bugger to remove - long tuber root. Has never had flowers on it. Any ideas @wildflowerhour.bsky.social ? Thank you.
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Lady Birder 🦋 🌱 💚 🦊 🦡 🦉 @thisisladybirder.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Early BBS at Albury Downs (Surrey) gave me my first #cuckoo of the year. Also LOTS of Firecrests, Blackcap & Garden Warblers. Beautiful morning for it! @bbs-birds.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social #surreybirds #surreyhills
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Lady Birder 🦋 🌱 💚 🦊 🦡 🦉 @thisisladybirder.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
😱😡 this morning to see a couple with their toddler & dog attempting to set this off in the middle of chalk grassland below Newlands Corner. They'd disturbed nesting Skylarks from the ground of this protected, nationally important habitat. 🤬 (@surreycc.gov.uk #surreybirds @visitsurrey.bsky.social)
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Lady Birder 🦋 🌱 💚 🦊 🦡 🦉 @thisisladybirder.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Bumble Bee in the garden with singing Firecrest in the background (and my daughter offering me a cuppa 😍). Happy days ☀️ 🌺 🐝!
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Lady Birder 🦋 🌱 💚 🦊 🦡 🦉 @thisisladybirder.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Oh no 🥺. Possible knock-on effect of bird flu in seabird populations is affecting Peregrines. Interesting, if worrying, article.
theguardian.com
Decades after peregrines came back from the brink, a new threat emerges
DDT use nearly wiped out the raptor by the 1970s. Now peregrine numbers are collapsing again in many countries and no one is quite sure why
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Lady Birder 🦋 🌱 💚 🦊 🦡 🦉 @thisisladybirder.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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Lady Birder 🦋 🌱 💚 🦊 🦡 🦉 @thisisladybirder.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Still good numbers of #hawfinches (50+) in Merrow Downs' woods - in a different area of Silver Birch towards 3rd green of Guildford Golf club. At least 5 singing Firecrests, Green Woodpecker & the white rump of a Bullfinch. Plus an unexpected encounter with a very sweet Dutch lady poet! #surreywalks
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Scorched earth, charred gorse and dead trees: some of the impacts of recent moorland burning (‘swaling’) on Dartmoor. This is on Spitchwick Commons near Poundsgate. It’s legal but ecologically crackers: the gorse is a nursery for trees that eventually shade out the scrub, but now the trees are dead.
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Lady Birder 🦋 🌱 💚 🦊 🦡 🦉 @thisisladybirder.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... I'm not crying, you're crying 🥹. What a good boy 🐾 🐻.
theguardian.com
Experience: My dog found a missing person and saved his life
He suddenly stopped dead, focused on a spot in front of him, then dragged me towards the undergrowth
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Lady Birder 🦋 🌱 💚 🦊 🦡 🦉 @thisisladybirder.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
First patch Chiffchaff heard today - a week early (has been 13th March for the last few years), more Hawfinches and at least 3 Firecrests (a pair and a single male). Still got one in my garden too! Long may this gorgeous weather continue 😎💚🪶. #surreybirds #hawfinches #signsofspring
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Lady Birder 🦋 🌱 💚 🦊 🦡 🦉 @thisisladybirder.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Spent 5 hours in the garden today & was accompanied by a singing Firecrest for most of it. Such a treat. Goldcrest too. Plenty of Hawfinches and a Treecreeper on my morning dog walk. #surreybirds #surreyhills #surreylife
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Lady Birder 🦋 🌱 💚 🦊 🦡 🦉 @thisisladybirder.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Today I've had the best views & seen the highest numbers (70-100?) of #hawfinches since 2017/18 influx. They were EVERYWHERE, just stood beneath them listening to their gentle "tick" calls. They are stonking birds to see. Also saw a Firecrest, multiple Bullfinches & a Raven flew over. #surreyhills
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Lady Birder 🦋 🌱 💚 🦊 🦡 🦉 @thisisladybirder.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
First singing Firecrest of the year, two Bullfinches in plain sight and more happy customers from @rspbguildford.bsky.social (& friends), finding them a large flock of #hawfinches in the ancient Yews of Merrow Downs' woods. A splendid start to the week. #surreybirds #surreyhills
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Dave Goulson @davegoulson.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Why have @brighton-hove.gov.uk gone on a spree of felling hundreds of trees in multiple parks across the city? This is supposedly being done to prevent spread of ash dieback, but this goes directly against Forestry Commission advice:
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Lady Birder 🦋 🌱 💚 🦊 🦡 🦉 @thisisladybirder.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Good encounters with 20+ #hawfinches seen this morning in an area of Merrow Downs' woods: TQ0376849488. Not far from Yew Project boardwalk. V vocal flock, flitting in & out of a large oak tree. Took @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social Merlin app over 3.5 minutes to identify them though (I was testing it)!
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall @hughfw.bsky.social takes on Nandos "Nandos make claims on their website that they're an environmentally responsible ethical brand" "They're buying huge amount of chicken from farms on the River Wye that are destroying life on the river"
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Lady Birder 🦋 🌱 💚 🦊 🦡 🦉 @thisisladybirder.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Hawfinch numbers are growing in & around Newlands Corner (Surrey Hills) - at least 40 (50?) in a highly mobile flock around the Yew Tree boardwalk again (follow signs down from main car park). Open area opposite is where I've consistently seen them, in tops of Yews, Oaks & Silver Birch. #hawfinches
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Lady Birder 🦋 🌱 💚 🦊 🦡 🦉 @thisisladybirder.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Hawfinches again today, but in a slightly different location here TQ 04128 49987 in Wild Wood near Newlands Corner (Surrey Hills AONB). A small flock of 4-5 in a dense Yew patch. A beautiful, sunny day and some warmth in the sun! Lovely. #surreybirds #hawfinches #surreyhills
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Lady Birder 🦋 🌱 💚 🦊 🦡 🦉 @thisisladybirder.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
I've had a dilemma - a rat has recently been visiting my bird feeders. I haven't minded too much & certainly didn't want to do anything nasty to it. We have foxes in our garden so I thought I'd let nature takes its course. Well, 2 Crows are now feeding on its carcass on the lawn! Circle of life. 😬🌍🐀
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Lady Birder 🦋 🌱 💚 🦊 🦡 🦉 @thisisladybirder.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Just completed my @rspb.bsky.social #birdgardenbirdwatch and it was just dire! Weather is terrible & my usual flock of ever-present tits was almost entirely absent. But, I did get a Song Thrush 👏 and the Goldfinches are continuing to enjoy the uncut lavender. Ho hum 😐.
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Lady Birder 🦋 🌱 💚 🦊 🦡 🦉 @thisisladybirder.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUg5... Nice start to the day. Just watched this with my muesli.
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The 10 funniest animal photos of the year | BBC Global
YouTube video by BBC Global
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Lady Birder 🦋 🌱 💚 🦊 🦡 🦉 @thisisladybirder.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
At least 6 Hawfinches seen & heard in Merrow Downs’ woods this morning. Not far from the Yew Tree boardwalk. Yay! #hawfinches #surreybirds
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Just Stop Oil @just-stopoil.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
🚨 BREAKING: GAIE RECALLED TO PRISON FOR CHRISTMAS Gaie Delap, a 77 year old retired teacher, has been arrested and taken to a prison in Bristol after being told her wrists were too small for an electronic tag.
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