Labour blocks proposal for ‘swift bricks’ in all new homes MPs had previously backed Conservative amendment to ask developers to provide hollow bricks for endangered birds

So Labour say they won't install swift bricks because they are moving away from specific species mitigations to landscape level ones.

But swifts nest IN BUILDINGS. So how is landscape-level compensation supposed to help? Just ecologically illiterate nonsense 🤦‍♀️

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Resolute 1850’: Reform UK Ltd’s MAGA plan to turn Britain into Little America Right-wing US interests are pushing a plan to bend the UK to their will, ‘DOGE’-style – in Farage’s Reform UK they have an eager little helper

"In December last year, Resolute 1850 Ltd was incorporated in the UK.

With a thinktank soon to be launched and funds from MAGA, American Big Tech and the US religious right already pledged, it seeks to use Reform as a vessel to bring Project 2025-style policies to the UK." 🤬

Gaza will be concentration camp, declares Netanyahu His colleague, meanwhile, says Gaza will be destroyed. Genocide in plain sight

Israel has announced Gaza's survivors will be driven into a concentration camp.

They will be left with a choice: leave Gaza, or die.

No genocide was so documented or confessed to as it actually happened 👇

www.owenjones.news/p/gaza-will-...

A screenshot of the Bluesky header for The Birder's Store with an image showing two birdwatchers looking through binoculars, with a spotting scope beside them, against a backdrop of green mountains.

The #BirdingGear feed is a great idea by @stevedudley.bsky.social

Is it worth including companies that offer great service to birders?

Steve has spoken highly of www.trekitt.co.uk

The Birder’s Store have always been brilliant for me. Great advice, prices and service. @birdersstore.bsky.social

A rather smart bird with black, white and gold speckled back, a lovely black neck and head and white ear patch is shouting in a sea of orange flowers. This is a spectacular image, taken by my lovely wife!

Just orange flowers. Thousands of them!

Next stop was Namaqualand NP where this photo sums up the #birds & flowers well: stunning! The Southern Black Korhaan was croaking his 'song' in a sea of Namaqualand Daisies. While searching shows there's a diversity of flowers to be found up, superabundance in the disturbed areas is spectacular! 🌿

It was great 👍

Spurn Migration Festival 2024 - Birdwatching weekend at Kilnsea YouTube video by Things to do in Yorkshire

It was a great #MigFest24 @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social this year, with brilliant bird sightings and a friendly atmosphere. Take a look at this video to discover what #MigFest is all about. 🐦 We hope you'll join us next year! 😃

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XZf...