Dara McAnulty

For those of your outside of Ireland - Birdsong is still available to view online for a little while, as is the live Q&A we did after the online screening! It was a really lovely chat.

We've just published our latest report: COLLATERAL DAMAGE, highlighting the widespread poisoning of birds of prey in England by the misuse & abuse of rodenticides.

Govt scheme to reduce exposure has failed.

Read the report: wildjustice.org.uk/general/coll...

Limits to Growth reports vindicated as Earth faces overshoot and collapse The critical lesson of the Limits to Growth reports – that there is no such thing as infinite growth on a tiny, fragile, finite planet – has escaped our consciousness

"We don’t need astronauts to tell us that there is no such thing as infinite growth on a (tiny, fragile) finite planet. [Yet] we march on, lemming-like, towards overshoot and collapse."

Great @irishtimes.bsky.social piece by Sadhbh O'Neill.
www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

I read once that she starts each day with a cartwheel and I can attest that it is a wonderful way to start the day - a little breathless and very smiley - without much effort 🤣

Thank you 😊

I will truly miss the depth, contours and ever changing landscape of Co Down when I return to horizontal Cambridge this week. It’s always so hard to leave but 2nd year student life awaits after crossing the sea on the Stena Line & the long drive to Queens’ College. Bittersweet yet very exciting 🌿

A woman (me) in sunglasses and a fleece holding up a section of a permafrost core.

Here is a brief primer on permafrost carbon. Permafrost (frozen soil) stores a HUGE amount of carbon because ancient life took up carbon dioxide, built biomass, then died. These organisms' organic matter (~50% C) slowly accrued in Earth's best freezer for 1000s of yrs. 1/

Ach, I was nearly there in person this year…alas, too close to going back to Cambridge!

Thank you 🪶

Ah, thank you!

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Hey I made a quick welcome guide to BlueSky :)

There's tons more, but I think these few steps will get you up and enjoying it quickly.

They are so special! Last year I went on a walk with writer Rob Macfarlane and we found an entire Jay wing! We shared the feathers between us but I have given quite a few to people :)

A sunken lane or Holloway with dappled autumn light

Happy Autumn Equinox! I prefer the shadows to the intense glare of summer, dodging between darkness and light until winter comes: when I enter my most contented state. Surely I mustn’t be alone in this?!

On some walks you just get really, really lucky. A gorgeous Jay Feather. Incandescent joy! 🪶#birds #nature #walking

I do like it here but it has got an air of being in jail.
You’re a bit isolated, always on the lookout for trouble and the people you love only turn up once every couple of months.

Hello! Lovely to see you over here 👋

A narrow tarmac road in winter. Bare trees either side of the road make a tunnel, sunlight streaming through.

Cumbria, as winter truly bit.

Ah, hello Bob! Lovely to see you too!

Exactly that!

I honestly don’t have a clue what people like to see here, so just testing the air.

‘So many precious things were lost’: Rhodes after the fires – photo essay The photographer Gideon Mendel travelled to Rhodes a month after the fires, seeking to document the impact on lives and landscapes

"I come every day to our burned house to water the trees that either died or partially survived."

Heartbreaking and extraordinary images and interviews of life in the aftermath of the terrible wildfires that swept across Rhodes in July. #climatecrisis

www.theguardian.com/world/2023/s...

This BBC radio documentary is a thing of beauty. It’s about a sound recordist in the primeval Polish forest, Białoweiza. Listen to it in the bath. Listen to it in the car alone, with the windows wound up. Turn up the volume. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

Now you’ve reminded us all! 😖

Dara McAnulty is holding a copy of his book A Wild Child’s Book of Birds there is an elm tree in the background

My recent children’s book has been long-listed for the 2024 UK Literacy Association Awards!! Chuffed to bits!

ukla.org/news/outstan...

Phew! Thank you 😊

Night Time Economy is the title of Floodgate's next collection of original writing to be published in June next year and you could be part of it. Send unpublished fiction and creative non-fiction that uses this title as a stimulus to: floodgatepress.co.uk/submissions

Fantastic. What a bird! Blue tits can squeeze in through the tinniest space!

Lucky lucky!!

I feel like I’ve walked from an dangerously unfriendly bar in a western movie to a very nice welcoming establishment, happy to leave the Twitter doors swinging on their hinges 👋 (no offence to western movies obvs - so no pile-ons - do people do this here?)