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Tough one today!
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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.

So close to 100,000 signatures! Let's END THE GUGA HUNT!

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HNY Mark! Some are really quite a challenge 🤔

Happy New Year Chris. Keep shouting above the noise!

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Birdle 🇬🇧 31/12/2025

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Thankfully couldn't be further away, up in the Cairngorms. Chilly but dry here 👍

Hen Harrier found poisoned on a grouse moor in North Yorkshire I’ve blogged recently about a number of illegally-killed Hen Harriers whose deaths have not been publicised by the authorities (Hen Harrier ‘Susie’ who was found dead with gunshot…

Hen Harrier found poisoned on a grouse moor in North Yorkshire.

Once again, details have only come to light through scrutiny of a spreadsheet - where's the publicity from the Police? This is supposed to be a national wildlife crime priority!

#RaptorResearch

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Nominate Protect the Wild to share £1,500,000 Each year we give £300,000 in grants based on your votes

Vote for FREE! We're currently #1 in the UK, help us stay there!

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Not sure which was louder, the thunder or the screams from the kids in the school playground. Both scared me! 😂

The most important news from today's reshuffle:

Crikey 13!! Happy Birthday R 🥳 x

It's the Inglorious 12th. The start of the Red Grouse shooting season.

Grouse shooting: an expensive niche hobby of shooting birds for fun, based on environmentally damaging burning of our uplands and underpinned by crime against wildlife.

Shame!

Grey Wagtail taking a butterfly in flight and feeding 2 chicks, on River Sett.

RIP Ozzy Osbourne the Prince of Darkness. True rock legend 🤘 🖤

@tomsprints.bsky.social thought you might be interested in this, if not already aware.

Yes I saw it but too late I'm afraid, just as I joined the queue.

At least it's a nice evening to be sat on the m60 for over 2 hours, just 3 miles from home 😔

Sounds good, glad you didn't have to work!

Happy Birthday @gailthefragle.bsky.social Have a great day matey 🥳 🎂 🍾 🥂 🐦

❗BREAKING NEWS❗️

The Scottish Government's nature agency, Nature Scot, has approved the killing of up to 500 baby gannets on Sula Sgeir off Lewis, expected to take place in August.

“The guga hunt is a grisly story from history that should be left in books or a museum." - Jason Rose, OneKind.

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Gail's pondering on a visit, I said you'd got a ticket.

Have fun! Unfortunately I'm not going this year, I've got an ORCA survey that werkend 🐬

Just started in Chadd ☔

Those 3 weeks of #springwatch passed far too fast! Can't believe I didn't make it over to Longshaw whilst the @bbcspringwatch.bsky.social team were there 😔

Catching up with last night's #springwatch. Did you forget you'd been to @rspbleightonmoss.bsky.social ? It wasn't on your map of previous locations! How could you forget that cake @chrisgpackham.bsky.social?
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Baby lobster 🦐 #springwatch

Watching multicam. Random thought - I'd prefer to be in the Dipper nest - looks nice & cosy and protected from the weather. #springwatch

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Lots at @rspb.bsky.social Leighton Moss yesterday.