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Excited to create a poster for this wonderful event. @caughtbytheriver.bsky.social weekend at Elmley Nature Reserve. What a combination 🌿🌿🌿
Tickets on sale on Monday

Spring is Go!
The @btobirds.bsky.social Green spaces app coming this spring. Have you taken a look at the starter pack? Sign up to be the first to hear about the new app for recording birds in our Green spaces. Loved designing this.
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This made my day…. All of the Peregrine nest cams around the country in one epic thread! Hats off mate! bsky.app/profile/matt...

Dion Dublin???

A contender for sure!

Photo of the Week: 23 February-1 March 2026 Mike Warburton wins this Monday's award for his outstanding Eurasian Goshawk portrait.

Mike Warburton wins today's Photo of the Week for his outstanding Eurasian Goshawk portrait:

Here are a couple of jaunty Guillemots to start your week.

(Etching by Robert Gillings)

👏 very true

Very nice reference Mike! Love that logo (and a lot of their output!)

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Yup!

All the ones with teeth are canny!

Indeed! Gets points for the whole nesting in trees trunks carry on though.

Bit fancy 😜

Up in the wilds of Northumberland- displaying with Goldeneye no less! 😍

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Forgive me! What was I thinking!

A drake smew

Best duck in the world.

Given the news about a certain nature writer’s new book, my brief discussion of truth in non-fiction here seems rather timely.

🎶 I'll protect you from the Hooded Crow
Keep the vampire bats from your door 🎶

Petition: Stop the Guga Hunt Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to amend Section 16 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 to remove the power to grant licences for taking Gannets on Sula Sgeir.

Sign here to voice your disgust at the annual Guga slaughter. Gannets are magnificent and this old ‘tradition’ needs to end.

petitions.parliament.scot/petitions/PE...

Let’s get as many signatures as possible to end the Guga hunt before Wednesday!

It was a great and very memorable day out!
Still can’t believe we didn’t find LTT though!

Incoming whiteout at Budle Bay

Bagging Little Auk at Birling Carrs

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My car, with a busted boot and bumper courtesy of an over enthusiastic Range Rover driver who rear-ended me by the A1

The toughest winter bird race I’ve ever done, with frequent blizzards and treacherous roads - we got rear-ended by a Range Rover and had to limp home to change cars - but excellent company from @yolobirder.bsky.social @dlangstonbirder.bsky.social @shoremark.bsky.social & Sam 🐕.

Three satellite-tagged White-tailed Eagles disappear in suspicious circumstances in England, Wales & Scotland – two tags had been cut off Press release from Forestry England (17 December 2025) THREE WHITE-TAILED EAGLES DISAPPEAR IN SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES The public are being asked to help the police investigate the suspicious disap…

THREE satellite-tagged White-tailed Eagles disappear in suspicious circumstances in England, Wales & Scotland - two tags had been cut off.

Press release from Isle of Wight WTE Project Team & additional commentary from me ⬇️⬇️

#RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime

raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/12/17/t...

Cheers Matt and all the best to you too!

No new designs this year I’m afraid, but maybe we will be more productive in 2026!

BBC Tweet of the Day audiobook cover on Spotify

Picture of the 3 chapters that o re I order for BBC Radio 4 many years ago. The Redwing, Waxwing and Peregrine.

Well what a nice surprise! I was genuinely listening to this and then some doofus with a microphone shows up. Still can’t believe they let me do this.