This Redshank was colour ringed on the Isle of Sheppey in September 2025 and shot Baie de Somme 2 days ago. A sad end for Amber listed species. Shame still hunted in France @wadertales.bsky.social @waderstudy.bsky.social @waderquest.bsky.social
Brian Watmough
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Birder for 60+ years, ringer, Swale Wader Group, WeBS counter and organiser The Swale.
Swale Ringing Group ringing and flagging head-started Curlew at Elmley
GB News is trying to gut the BBC. Their radical plan would force shows like Strictly and The Traitors to be axed or hidden behind a Netflix-style paywall. Sign the petition to say NO to a BBC subscription model:
Nothing says getting out into nature and wanting to conserve it, than driving an hour or two in a metal box chucking out CO2, parking as close as humanly possible to see a species occurring due to a warming climate, watching them a bit & then driving off somewhere else to do it again. 🤣🙄🤷♂️
More genocidal actions by Israel. Guess we’ll never see anyone in The Hague for these war crimes and those perpetrated against the Palestinians.
Al Jazeera English@aljazeera.com · 3mo agoAccording to the Lebanese National News Agency, these panels supply the town with electricity, which is needed for its water supply, and Israel destroyed homes, roads and olive trees as well.
Unbelievable. King Charles is STILL set to fly to the US to celebrate with Trump in April. With everything Trump is saying and doing right now - and the hate and chaos he's spreading - this trip must be cancelled. Agree? Add your name to the petition today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ca...
Call off the King’s visit to the US for the 250th anniversary of America's independence
With the current political chaos in the US and Trump’s failure to adhere to international norms, and given his apparent obsession with the Monarchy, calling off this visit would send a powerful messag...
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Preparing for monitoring beach nesting birds at Shellness, Kent
🚨 The Treasury is threatening our national parks. Dartmoor, the Lake District & wild places could be bulldozed for development. Once gone, they're gone for ever. Join me and sign now to protect them: 38d.gs/rezg
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I wonder if the different coloured Oystercatcher egg is a result of egg dumping
6/6 Please share my story and, when it's published, the petition, which I will also post here on BlueSky. Please help protect one of the Mediterraneans' last unexploited river deltas and its extraordinary wild creatures. Thank you so much. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/t...
The Latest Battleground for Luxury Tourism: Albania’s Adriatic Coast
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First Ringed Plover fledge from unusual nest hidden under a shingle bank N Kent
Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...
Looks like Oystercatcher appreciate nest platforms away from hedgehogs. The Swale Kent
youtu.be/pvT3aQjLxdE Here's a 🎶 twist on Coldplay's thumping #VivaLaVida we're calling "Puppets on a Kremlin String?" It reflects on the grotesque media spectacle hosted by #Trump & #Vance yesterday at the White House. In solidarity with Zelensky & Ukraine. #SlavaUkraini #Dontabandonthem
"Puppets on a Kremlin String?" - Marsh Family adaptation of Coldplay's "Viva la Vida" on Trump/Vance
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