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I go birding and been all over but not away much these days except Europe and UK. Suffolk is always a focus but will be out and about more 2025. Love sea-watching, when conditions are right. I have local Mid Suffolk inland patch.

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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 30/09/2026
It is hard to believe Guardiola was not aware of City’s cheating — his legacy is tainted by revelation the ‘magic’ was performed not by him but by accountants
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Greatest manager of all time? No, Pep is either a fraud or myopic
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Wheatear9 @wheatear9.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
8m peanuts to them?
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Wheatear9 @wheatear9.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#AndyBurnham convincing speech? Beats #Farages damp sqib fireworks and divisive nonesense?
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Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Where's Kazakhstan? The tale of a rare bird, donations from delighted twitchers and where the money went markavery.info/2026/09/28/w... @birdguides.bsky.social #cotswolds #shrike #twitch 📷 Dave Collins/BirdGuides
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Wheatear9 @wheatear9.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#patch a few Jays moving west along with many Starlings this morning works are now spreading to all parts of the site!
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Wheatear9 @wheatear9.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#Reform #Suffolk Oh dear! Our local invisible Reform councillor has resigned! Question is did he ever exist? Lets get the Greens in!
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Wheatear9 @wheatear9.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Nice to see Choughs again and prospering along the Pembrokshire coast. Sea a bit dead today where I was like a mill pond!
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Wheatear9 @wheatear9.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Seawatching today Pembrokshire Strumble Head bit different to Suffolk! 2 Sabines the best in 2hrs
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Wheatear9 @wheatear9.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
At Thorpness again am Merlin chasing Meadow Pipits 2 Arctic 2 Great Sku 2 Velvet Scoter the best no Gannets today!
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Wheatear9 @wheatear9.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
#ManchesterDerby despite the controversitie(s) best team won we were lacking in precision finishing throughout the game!
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Wheatear9 @wheatear9.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
#ManchesterDerby Taxi for #Foden
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Wheatear9 @wheatear9.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Finally a good seawatch today! 6 LT Skua 2 Great Skua 2 Manx 6 Arctic Skua and 100s of Gannets out there! Few Meadow Pipits coming in and a lone Hobby appeared to come in off
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Wheatear9 @wheatear9.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
#patch interesting times Tarmac have started renovation of the west pit to a nature reserve heavy equipment on site this week! Wonder if they will implement my suggestions???
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Wheatear9 @wheatear9.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Not the best conditions for a seawatch 3.5hrs very little on the move. Managed to see a Pomarine Skua and 2 Little Gulls both going N
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Wheatear9 @wheatear9.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Early rain clearing on the coast time for a walkaround and a seawatch I guess!
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Wheatear9 @wheatear9.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Want Chaos vote Reform?
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Wheatear9 @wheatear9.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
#patch Nuthatch used to be a site rare in the last few years regular every year just had one in the garden today
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Wheatear9 @wheatear9.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Bruno Bruno Bruno!
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Wheatear9 @wheatear9.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
#patch 2 Whinchat 1 Wheatear Green Sand and Ringed Plover overhead this morning.Nice to see water in the river!
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Wheatear9 @wheatear9.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Love this! Crippling!
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Why was Wigan Council paying businesses controlled by one of its own councillors while his register records no outstanding council contracts?
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Wheatear9 @wheatear9.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
#patch do do land hardly any water now tho surprisingly river was up a bit today. Nothing of note at all!
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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
If only someone had warned us... #GlobalBoiling
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Protect the Wild @protectthewild.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Wildlife is returning to Dunwich Heath in Suffolk, weeks after a huge wildfire destroyed 370 acres. A National Trust spokesperson said: "We're hearing from staff on the ground that they've seen muntjacs, rabbits, butterflies, birds and some reptiles."
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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Excellent, pugnacious piece by new Environment Secretary @angelaeagle1.bsky.social on defending England from climate impacts by rewilding & restoring nature - explicitly rejecting the arsonists on the hard right & the grouse moor owners who just want to burn more: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Extract from Angela Eagle’s Guardian piece: “But some, including the Conservatives, have made the argument that rewilding lowers resilience to fire and that we should reverse restrictions on burning heather on our moors and peatlands. The exact opposite is true.

The evidence clearly shows that wetter, healthy peatlands hold more water and are less likely to develop species that are vulnerable to fires. The damage that has been done to these vital habitats by decades of burning has made them more vulnerable to wildfires in the long term, not less.

The solution to raging wildfires is not more burning of our countryside. It is to restore and better manage our environment.

Where rewilding has been prioritised, as at the National Trust’s Holnicote estate, you can clearly see the stark difference that it makes to the ability to withstand extreme weather. In areas where rivers and wetlands have been restored, the plants are green and blooming. Elsewhere, the ground is brown and dry.”
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Wheatear9 @wheatear9.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
#testmatch Crickets going well! Eruhm!
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Wheatear9 @wheatear9.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Up on Stannage Edge Derbys yesterday Mill Stones all over the place! They have an interesting back story too! Did not see any Ring Ouzels tho my time was limited and lots of disturbance
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Wheatear9 @wheatear9.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Up in Derbyshire so popped over to Redmires to see the R n Phalarope good views of it dipping about on the reserviour I didnt dip this time!
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Wheatear9 @wheatear9.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
#testmatch back to usual summer cricket rain stopped play!
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Wheatear9 @wheatear9.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
#testmatch 1st ball wicket!
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Wheatear9 @wheatear9.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
#englandvpakistan chuck that white ball away! Proper cricket starts today
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 18/08/2026
Rebecca Hendin on Richard Tice and the climate crisis – cartoon
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Rebecca Hendin on Richard Tice and the climate crisis – cartoon
Reform’s deputy leader has urged British people to enjoy the warmth of the recent heatwaves
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Wheatear9 @wheatear9.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
#patch search for Whinchat and Wheatear but none! (Usual here at this time) Best 4 Snipe Hobby and 1 Clouded Yellow
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Wheatear9 @wheatear9.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
#Clacton tonight whatever happens a clown on the stage with a bunch of other clowns and a bin! Beyond the realms of comedy
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Wheatear9 @wheatear9.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A Level results in the family today excellent and straight into Loughborough. Tho I always hear Mark Twain ringing in my ears at these times "Father don't let your sons schooling get in the way of their education"
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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Looking forward to tomorrow's partial eclipse...
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
What a damning reflection of the pitifully low priority currently given to climate adaptation - yet building local & national resilience to increasingly damaging impacts is vital to keeping people safe & building support for more ambitious emission cuts
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Just 20 of 6,600 Defra staff working on climate adaptation amid drought and wildfires
Exclusive: England ‘desperately unprepared’ for effects of crisis including water shortages and heatwaves
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 11/08/2026
🌳 🌺 🦇 A 12-year study by Suffolk Wildlife Trust at Broxted Solar Farm showed renewable energy generation improving biodiversity, with e.g. meadow pipit numbers doubling. Over time, 41% biodiversity net gain was recorded under the solar panels. www.suffolkwildlifetrust.org/news/new-rep...
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New report of Suffolk solar farm showcases ecological best practice | Suffolk Wildlife Trust
Pioneering 12-year study carried out by Suffolk Wildlife Trust at Broxted Estate & Solar Farm Suffolk demonstrates how renewable energy generation and biodiversity restoration can be achieved together...
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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
When it comes to our new policy of sending people to El Salvador, Reform is very fortunate in having our own expert with first hand experience of paying £290 million to send four people to Rwanda.
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Wheatear9 @wheatear9.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Therefore: It is the best possible thing to do?
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10/08/2026
Martin Rowson on the drought and Britain’s water companies – cartoon
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Martin Rowson on the drought and Britain’s water companies – cartoon
While the hot summer and hosepipe bans continue, bosses at many utilities firms are receiving pay rises
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Steve Dudley @stevedudley.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Whatever could have caused this? 🤔 I wonder how many more times shit like this will be breaking news? 🙄 I’m bored of the ignorance and hypocrisy of it all already. Breaking news! It’s just gonna keep getting worse you morons.
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Craig Bennett @craigbennett3.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
After plenty of fictional works written about the #Dunwich fire in certain other publications, it's great to read this excellent piece of #NonFiction by @patrickbarkham.bsky.social and @pippaneill.bsky.social at @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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‘These are human fires, not wildfires’: Dunwich reflects on the devastation
As residents, nature wardens and experts consider the damage to the heathland and how to restore it, the climate crisis is foremost in their minds
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Wheatear9 @wheatear9.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
I dearly wish it was here not seen a drop for months!
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BirdGuides @birdguides.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
France's recovering population of Bonelli's Eagle has enjoyed its most successful breeding season on record, with a provisional total of 44 young fledging during 2026:
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Record number of Bonelli's Eagle chicks fledge in France
A record 44 young Bonelli's Eagles have fledged in France this year, marking another milestone in the recovery of one of the country's rarest breeding raptors.
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BirdGuides @birdguides.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Zitting Cisticola has bred successfully in Britain for a second consecutive year, with at least seven juveniles from three broods recorded at Walberswick NNR, Suffolk, this summer:
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Zitting Cisticola nests in Suffolk for second year running
Zitting Cisticola has bred once again at Walberswick NNR this summer, with two pairs raising three broods.
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Wheatear9 @wheatear9.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Me too!
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Maybe vertical drinking is a crucial aspect of British life, and it's appropriate for Downing Street to intervene. In the meantime, however, Number 10's howling silence about the climate emergency - amidst drought, fire and crop failure - continues. #Priorities www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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‘It is British life’: No 10 vows to stop councils trying to limit standing in pubs
Westminster council has recommended banning ‘vertical drinking’ or ordering at the bar in new draft licensing policy
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BirdGuides @birdguides.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The Sound Approach to Birding (second edition) review This ultimate guide will genuinely alter how people experience birds in the field, enthuses David Campbell: f.mtr.cool/zlbmyszaxc
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