Luke Massey
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Wildlife photographer/cameraman turned agriwilder & nature guide. ‘Wild Finca’, an agriwilding project in Asturias, Spain. Tales from WF & beyond.
Asturias
Joined October 2009
What with people jumping ship (I’m staying), and not wanting to get anymore social media pages. Check out Wild Finca on Instagram for updates if your Twitter days are over…
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RT @WilboRose: Who’s looking forward to @GlobalBirdfair ?.Grab yourself an Albatross cap I designed for Leica. All proceeds going to the @o….
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It worked! Very cooperative nightjar. You even see it fly in to perch.
Going to see if I can livestream a churning European Nightjar live from Wild Finca!
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Going to see if I can livestream a churning European Nightjar live from Wild Finca!
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At 11am BST/12 CEST. We’ll be doing our first, Inside Wild Finca. If you can’t watch live it’ll be available as a recording too. It’s a dive into what’s been happening here, and what’s coming up. Join the Zoom here:.
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Back home after a week away and this was what greeted me on the evening rounds. Perfect welcome back present!
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Mediterranean surprise. We just had this, which I think is a Mobula ray, come right by us. Close to shore. Is this normal? We had seen some Common stingray earlier on.
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Heading off for a week but luckily there was a calling Red backed Shrike this morning! Dodged my camera though.
Worryingly the Red backed shrikes are late arriving but hopefully imminent. A quite welcome compensation is a couple of calling Wrynecks for the past couple of days. Hope they stick around!
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Worryingly the Red backed shrikes are late arriving but hopefully imminent. A quite welcome compensation is a couple of calling Wrynecks for the past couple of days. Hope they stick around!
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Can you imagine taking part in such a past time, with such an obvious decline, and still participating. And sometimes even complaining about the decline but still catching and killing adults. Just bizarre.
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Extinction Live. Something I’ll never understand. This year c.4000 salmon fishing licenses were issued in Asturias. The season has been open for 3 weeks, with only 5 salmon caught in that time. All harvested, not catch & release.
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RT @herdyshepherd1: And none of this is a betrayal of farming… it’s farming better . We’ve done all this whilst working on a brilliant (for….
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This was/is a ‘controlled’ burn. The amount of nests it has likely destroyed, reptiles toasted, and a town full of smoke. Incredible. In the midst of Spring.
Bienvenidos al paraíso. Una quema controlada en primavera. Cuando las aves anidan, los reptiles se asolean. Ahora Arriondas está llena de humo. Ignorancia ecológica. Pero al menos la montaña está limpia. @TurismoAsturias @Geotrupes_
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Supongo que se realizó una evaluación ecológica exhaustiva con antelación. Dado que en la ladera que nos rodea anidan aves como la Buscarla Pintoja y la Tarabilla, supongo que allí ocurre lo mismo.
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Y por cierto, el cerro ha sido pastoreado por ganado y cabras durante meses, y también fue parcialmente quemado en marzo. Todos los niños de la escuela ahora juegan afuera en una ciudad llena de humo.
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Bienvenidos al paraíso. Una quema controlada en primavera. Cuando las aves anidan, los reptiles se asolean. Ahora Arriondas está llena de humo. Ignorancia ecológica. Pero al menos la montaña está limpia. @TurismoAsturias @Geotrupes_
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A new orchid for us today. I think it’s Sombre Bee Orchid (Orphrys fusca). Anyone able to confirm? Usually Woodcock (O.scolopax) are the usual ones we get.
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Thanks to @AbrehartEco it’s a Mole. I thought not much ate moles due to their taste. Must have been hungry that night!.
Found in a Barn Owl pellet with a school group this morning. Could it be a Weasel skull?
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Found in a Barn Owl pellet with a school group this morning. Could it be a Weasel skull?
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Hagamos cuentas. 1,5 millones en daños. Vale. Pero veamos cuánto vale un lobo vivo. Supongo que hay entre 1500 y 3000 turistas por naturaleza que visitan la zona cada año. Pagan entre €800 y 1000 por persona, quizá más….
🔹La población estimada es de 345 ejemplares, el año pasado se registraron ataques a 3.257 reses y la consejería abonó más de 1,5 millones en indemnizaciones. 🐗El @Gobierno aprueba el baremo de daños de la fauna, que incluye bonificaciones y un aumento del 30% del lucro cesante.
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So the European Commission have said it can be hunted once more. Bonkers.
European Turtle Dove has shown signs of an extraordinary population recovery in western Europe, with a 40% increase reported in breeding pairs between 2021 and 2024:
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