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Bit of birding sandwiched between family visits added Black-tailed Godwit and this 2nd-winter Caspian Gull to the year’s efforts today. #lowcarbonbirding

Local authority through their ‘Advance Green Futures’ BNG vehicle are working on a 350ha site that covers one of my local patches. It’s always been an interesting area with some decent birds over the years such as Glossy Ibis, Crane, Great Egret, passage Whinchat & Wheatear etc (1/2)

The Internet Cuckoos are arriving, Spring is here.

Woke up to a Green Spring arriving, all sorts of hopes spread out from here. Well done @zackpolanski.bsky.social and the Green Party.

Ringers, bit of help needed. Washed up colour ring with no corpse on tideline, three alpha code (SDI), dark green ring white letters, ring diameter 18mm. Options appear to be Great Egret, Herring Gull, White Stork or Griffon Vulture. (HG most likely?) any insight?

The Blyth White-billed Diver had clearly had enough of the assorted beards and camo today so it decided to steam upriver and took a while to re-find. Fittingly for a bird built like a battleship it was in the aptly named Battleship Wharf.

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Plus ca change..

Loose group of five adult Little Gulls in a short patch seawatch early afternoon.

Last Winter Bird Survey visit for @btobirds.bsky.social was a quiet affair though a flock of 40 Yellowhammers was decent. Strange sight of a large mystery golden orb in the sky, hope it doesn’t result in local airspace closures. #winterbirdsurvey

Dashed out to Newbiggin to catch up with a Bean Goose found earlier in the day. My first Tundra since 2011 there (I’ve missed a few) the wait for Taiga goes on… #nland2025 #lowcarbonbirding

You have to admire Dunnocks, minutes after the rain stops and they’re shagging.

We’re letting this guy’s companies into the heart of our government and NHS. fortune.com/2026/02/04/p...

Peter Thiel warns the Antichrist and apocalypse are linked to the ‘end of modernity’ currently happening—and cites Greta Thunberg as a driving example | FortuneThe Gen Z Swedish climate activist is a legionnaire of the Antichrist, Thiel claims, a “Luddite” who wants to halt technological progress in its tracks.fortune.com

Unprecedented flock of up to 38 Common Cranes in Northumberland this afternoon. From the continent? Cambridgeshire birds flooded out? Only managed 30 of 38 on show, t*at of the day award to landowner who refused permission to park safely off-road on hardcore field entrance.

Lovely dry day walk up at Boulmer/Longhoughton Steel/Sugar Sands today with Suzanne. Quiet bird-wise with a confiding juv Merlin a bonus, lots of Rock Pipits and the ever-evocative sound of calling Curlews whilst picking our way through a Cuttlefish-apocalypse.

“For the authoritarian, culture is the enemy. The uncultured and ignorant and tyrannical don’t like it. And they take steps against it, which we see every day.” (Salman Rushdie)

First Chinstrap Penguin for Greenland (if it wasn’t AI Junk). President of the supposed greatest country on earth 🤯🤦🏼‍♂️

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence. “I was alive and profoundly inspired.”