So … I’ve had enough of this miserable platform. The Nazi salute was the final straw. I’m over at the other place. @stevepreddy.bsky.social I’ll keep this account for now as an archive of past interactions, but won’t check in often, so best to contact me in other ways. 👋🏻

The Booted Eagle has just flown in down the valley towards the line of pines #Cornwallbirds

Read these slides.

42 years ago today, Fraggle Rock debuted. The theme song will always be a banger.

After an FOI dispute lasting 18 months I've finally obtained the official reasons Boris Johnson gave for peerages of Charlotte Owen & Ross Kempsell. The reasons cited for Owen seem thin, inadequate & lacking in evidence, leaving her peerage as a mystery rather than justifying it.

Happy New Year! We had a campaign break over Christmas & New Year but now we are back with over 2,500 signatures today, so far, on our petition to ban driven grouse shooting. Plz consider signing it: https://t.co/8HCNtw8Xrc

There’s an opportunity to bring about a ban on lead shot in the next few weeks. You can support a ban by emailing Steve Reed, the environment secretary, at the page below. Please also share here and on other social media. Thanks. https://t.co/H9SsBT5rEm #gwentbirds

A new petition to end the Badger cull has been launched just moments ago. Please, if you care about wildlife, about decency, science, democracy, sign and repost this petition. We can’t sit by and allow tens of thousands more Badgers to be slaughtered ✍️

NEW: Huge poll by More in Common finds the public support assisted dying by 5 to 1. Massive week for Parliament as it grapples with what could be the biggest social change in a generation.

Nearly 10K signatures on day 1! It's about time we binned off Driven Grouse Shooting, isn't it? Please add your name and share with others: https://t.co/fNZw7eHElZ

The latest Monmouthshire dragonfly recording newsletter is now available, including updates on various species including… small red damselflies. If you’re not on the mailing list but would like to be, drop me a message. #gwentdragonflies

The latest Monmouthshire dragonfly recording newsletter is now available, including updates on various species including… small red damselflies. If you’re not on the mailing list but would like to be, drop me a message. #gwentdragonflies

Ok, dragonfly people, now the sun’s reappeared, a competition: find the latest Monmouthshire dragonfly of 2024. @GmusicV had a Southern Hawker yesterday: can you beat that? Reply with details below. A pack of Mr Kipling Christmas Slices to the winner on 31 Dec. #gwentdragonflies

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

Can anyone put me in touch with any of the following, who I’d like to talk to for a project I’m doing for the British Dragonfly Society? Rod Belringer and Leon Truscott (Cornwall?) David Ferguson (Bucks?) Alan Kydd (Derbyshire/Yorkshire?) Thanks

To all British birders: 502 Pine Grosbeaks were counted flying WEST on the coast of SW Norway yesterday. Just saying😉 https://t.co/R3UJzTj3KX

One of these things is not like the others

Thanks @Wildwood_photos @SiMackie @AllanChard @MartinEast3 for photos from Waldegrave Pool. Much appreciated, all uploaded to the BDS database. If anyone has photos of Common Hawker (or other moorland pool specialties) from other Mendip sites, please get in touch. Thanks.

Following on from my earlier request, for a thing I’m doing for the British Dragonfly Society, does anyone have photos of Common Hawker (Aeshna juncea) taken in any of the following counties: Dorset, Hampshire, Wiltshire, Berkshire, Sussex, Orlkney and Dunbartonshire. Thanks.

Apparently at WH Smith station bookshop at Milton Keynes Central ... Fine work, people. Fine work.