wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 16hIt was a lovely day for a sail - or a spot of birdwatching around Festival Gardens and the Southern Grasslands 🌞 Highlights: house sparrow (my 1st here), Cetti's, chiffchaff, song thrush having a bath, flock of goldfinch mobbing the kestrel, flyover grey heron, and the grey wag again 🪶 050
wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Lots of bird activity this morning, inc. skein of pinkies over city centre & marina, more pinkies & flocks of jackdaw over Festival Gardens, grey wag, finch & tit flocks, singing Cetti's & chiffchaff there, & chiffchaff, grey wag & more pinkies at #allotment 🪶 Been out all day - need a rest now! 0110
wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Another lovely morning at Festival Gardens. Highlights: a kestrel flew into a nearby tree serenaded by a Cetti's, a skein of pinkies overhead, quite a few goldcrest, and fungi popping up all over 🪶 🍄 140
wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Calling strongly from dense reeds but not seen. 100
wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Spent a lovely morning at Festival Gardens with @birderjack.bsky.social - the highlight was definitely the NFY water rail. Also, Cetti’s singing briefly, buzzard, flocks of goldfinch and tits, and a group of 5 jays, etc. 🪶 280
wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 04/10/2026😍 I saw the view from mine and wondered if you'd post a stunner 🧡 110
wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 04/10/2026@marburybirds.bsky.social Saw this and thought of you 🖤🖤 130
wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Delighted to share part of a beautiful morning with a pair of ravens, which were 'knocking' and 'spelunking' away and owning the sky, to the displeasure of other corvids 🖤🪶 191
wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Great to see a grey wagtail at the entrance to Festival Gardens earlier. All in all, it was a lovely morning with lots of foraging birds including a jay with a beak full of green acorns, mixed tit flocks, goldcrest, robins, GSW, and moorhen pair, with blackcap and chiffchaff still present, too 🪶 0100
wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 22/09/2026A game of two halves at Festival Gardens today: a misty morning where the birds were mostly only identifiable by sound (esp the skein of pinkies!), then a sunny afternoon with a stunning pale buzzard, sparrowhawk, 3 pairs of common (?) darter ovipositing and a female emperor (?) the highlights. 080
Reposted by @wordsanddeeds.bsky.socialDr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Sunrise song. You'll want the volume up for this one, but not too high. Every coyote within a half kilometre radius decided to make themselves known this morning while I was enjoying the sunrise from the kayak. A truly magical moment. #mammals 🌿 43561154
wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Love the gadwall photo - great capture 👌 010
wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Managed to catch up with the bar-tailed godwit by The Britannia Inn this morning; it was feeding with a couple of blackwits (as is very clear in the video 🙄). Buzzard and sparrowhawk the highlights at Festival Gardens 🪶 070
wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 17/09/2026No luck with the bar-tailed godwit near The Britannia Inn this morning, although the blackwit was there, as were curlew, redshank and turnstone 🪶 Festival Gardens was all about the fungi - IDs welcome - and a pretty pink cyclamen 🌸 060
wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Lovely video. I tried twice this morning but only saw the blackwit (and other waders but no barwit). 010
wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Hi Pete. Thanks for letting me know - for some reason I wasn't following you here, so I didn't know about the barwit. Will try tomorrow. 010
wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Duetting (or duelling!) robins 🪶 150
wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Sunshine and showers at Festival Gardens this morning, with kestrel, goldcrest, chiffchaff, lots of singing robins, singing Cetti's and skeins of pinkies the highlights 🪶 180
wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Juvenile magpie before the tail has grown? 110
wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Lots of birds were drawn to this pond & surrounding trees at Festival Gardens this morning, both bathers & foragers: juvenile blackbird, m & f blackcap, blue tit & great tit, chiffchaff, dunnock, robin, woodpigeon, wren and - my 1st ever - a juvenile bullfinch (took a few long moments to ID it 😂) 🪶 060
wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Delighted to hear my 1st pinkies of the autumn, over the #allotment this morning 🪶 3120
wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 08/09/2026All the streams and ponds in Festival Gardens are holding some water again, which is great to see after they completely dried out over the summer. Birding highlights: flyover raven pair and a party of foraging LTTs 🪶 050
Reposted by @wordsanddeeds.bsky.socialAlchemic Kitchen CIC @alchemickitchen.bsky.social · 08/09/2026We’ve just collected some stunningly fresh organic produce from @kindlingtrust.bsky.social farm, ready to sell on the Queenofgreens.co.uk @feedingliverpool.org @sustainweb.org @betterfoodtraders.bsky.social @foodrise.bsky.social 1103
wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 06/09/2026The ecologists went off to conduct the monthly butterfly survey and I came home to find a peacock in the hallway 🦋 060
wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Traps for the farm's Small Mammals Survey this morning held five wood mice (inc. juvs) and a field vole. Barn owl pellet dissection added evidence of the farm's 1st shrew. Birding highlights: hobby hunting hirundines, sparrowhawk, kestrel, buzzard, covey of 9 grey partridge, and chiffchaff 🪶 180
wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I would say gadwall as well - looks like a white wing bar showing on the lower bird. And also possibly marsh harrier for the raptor. 130
wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Something different for volunteering weekend at the farm this time: picking, processing and pickling various amazing organic produce for the winter 💚 060
wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Then went upstairs to sit with the amazing Pre-Raphaelites for a while 🎨 040
wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Visited the Vivienne Westwood exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery this morning - some fabulous designs on show 🧷 160
Reposted by @wordsanddeeds.bsky.socialc0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 12/02/2025'Safety first' when sacking Rome. 7556841143
Reposted by @wordsanddeeds.bsky.socialWelsh_Nature_Lady 🏴 @welshnaturelady.bsky.social · 28/08/2026It’s shocking how water companies have gotten away with polluting our waterways with sewage. A petition is being handed in next week, can you add your signature? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...you.38degrees.org.ukEnd the sewage pollution scandalIt’s shocking how water companies have gotten away with polluting our waterways with sewage. That’s why more than 319,000 of us have signed the petition demanding an end to the sewage scandal. We’re... 283
Reposted by @wordsanddeeds.bsky.socialAnthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 26/08/2026I became a hater by doing precisely those things AI cannot do: reading and understanding human language; thinking and reasoning about ideas; considering the meaning of my words and their context; loving people, making art, living in my body with its flaws and feelings and life. 26014
Reposted by @wordsanddeeds.bsky.socialBig Green Books @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · 26/08/2026It's Wednesday! It's "Buy A Stranger a Book" day! Today, to celebrate & honour Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, i'll give out 5 books FOR FREE. If there's a book you want let me know. If YOU want to #buyastrangerabook too, get in touch! www.biggreenbookshop.com/stuff-you-mi... UK only.biggreenbookshop.comBuy A Stranger A Book. #buyastrangerabook - Stuff you might like... - Big Green Bookshop. @biggreenbooks on Twitter. Cheese fan. My Mum says hi.The Big Green Bookshop an independent online bookshop in selling awesome titles by awesome authors to awesome people 87839
wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 16/08/2026static.klipy.comThe Simpsons Title Sequence: Homer, Bart, Marge, Lisa, MaggieAlt: The Simpsons Title Sequence: Homer, Bart, Marge, Lisa, Maggie 120
wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 14/08/2026🤞 this beautiful bird survives here - and visits Liverpool Marina 💛 www.birdguides.com/news/first-b...birdguides.comFirst British Yellow-throated Warbler docks at LiverpoolA Yellow-throated Warbler was photographed at Liverpool Docks, Lancashire, on 13 August 2026, potentially representing the first British record of this North American songbird. 061
wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Please sign Cheshire Wildlife Trust's petition calling for an independent commissioner to scrutinise tidal energy generation in the Mersey Estuary: actionnetwork.org/petitions/we...actionnetwork.orgWe need an independent commission to scrutinise tidal energy generation in the Mersey Estuary.A planned tidal barrage could soon potentially sever the River Mersey from the sea with very little public scrutiny. It doesn’t have to be that way. Sign our letter calling for greater independence an... 021
Reposted by @wordsanddeeds.bsky.socialMet4Cast @met4cast.net · 08/08/2026The solar eclipse on Wednesday will be the most lunar coverage since 1999, and won’t be repeated until 2081! Here are the times and totality % you can expect across the country. Great graphic by the @metoffice.gov.uk 25534
Reposted by @wordsanddeeds.bsky.socialCarl Sayer @carlsayer.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Proud to present this book with Hilary Birks & @informed-enviro.bsky.social focused on the use & importantly identification of aquatic plant seeds & fruits. 10 yrs of work! Major uses in palaeoecology, archaeobotany, seed bank & diet studies @bsbibotany.bsky.social link.springer.com/book/10.1007...link.springer.comSeeds and Fruits of Aquatic Plants of Northern Europe - A HandbookThis book offers essential insights for identifying aquatic plant remains, enhancing research in palaeoecology and freshwater biology. 01510
wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 07/08/2026For us, autumn through to early spring is the best time to see them because they move from inland areas to the coast or canals and parks - places where the water is less likely to freeze - so keep your eyes peeled 🤞 010
wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Kingfisher at Liverpool Marina just now 🩵 🧡 #UKbirding 190
Reposted by @wordsanddeeds.bsky.socialBloomsbury Wildlife @chiffchat.bsky.social · 06/08/2026You don't need to travel far for great birding. 🐦 The Complete Guide to Patch Birding by Ed Stubbs shows how your local park, woodland or coastline can become a source of discovery all year round. Out today! 2399
wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Not just cheese, either: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukFarmers installing vending machines for 24/7 sales boostFarmers are installing vending machines to sell milk, meat and ice cream directly to the public 24/7. 110
wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 06/08/2026A massive plastic pellet spill is threatening North Sea wildlife 🌊 Coastal communities are stepping up, but we need action. Join us and ask @andyburnham.bsky.social to launch an emergency response & hold polluters accountable! #NurdleSpill #StopPollution action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/tyn...action.friendsoftheearth.ukTell Andy Burnham: Save the North Sea from plastic pellet disasterOne of the UK's biggest spills of plastic pellets (or “nurdles”) is flooding the North East’s coastline. It could harm wildlife in the North Sea for decades. Thousands of volunteers – including Friend... 000
Reposted by @wordsanddeeds.bsky.socialVictoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 04/08/2026'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups) 7866612393
wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Microsoft wants to build three massive AI data centres in Leeds. It’ll drain thousands of litres of water from the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop the council's final sign-off, but we need more voices. Add your name: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...you.38degrees.org.ukStop the Microsoft AI megasite in Leeds!Microsoft want to build three huge AI data centres at Skelton Grange. It would drain the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop it - add your name to the petition. 031
Reposted by @wordsanddeeds.bsky.socialHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/07/2026“…the same mechanisms that drive people to grow wary of — and hostile toward — friends, co-workers and family members with different political beliefs are beginning to shape attitudes toward AI.”bloomberg.comAI Adoption Is Dividing Friends, Families and Co-WorkersAs artificial intelligence becomes ingrained in daily life, disagreements over the technology are increasingly becoming disagreements over values. 710825
wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Great to watch Andrea Ku 🐝 perform some climate catastrophe comedy (stealthily engaging people with the topic through bee facts and humour) at Squash Nutrition this evening - and to see Kindling Farm produce for sale 🥒 030