Honey Buzzard (adult male) from earlier this summer. This is one of the most immaculate HBs I’ve seen.

Saw my first Whimbrel of the autumn at the Huntspill seawall in Somerset a couple of nights ago.... this was one of about 5 or 6 birds. 😀🐦

England’s nature-friendly farming budget to be cut by £100m | Farming | The Guardian. This is a deeply shocking move. It will dent and deplete the confidence of those that want to do good and entrench the bad ways that destroy forever. It must be opposed. theguardian.com/environment/ar…

Swallows - Migration Fever Rises The weather front moving across Dorset has unsettled the Swallows and they are now massing in large numbers on the farm. They are feeding continuously around the cattle. Will they depart imminently? - only the flock instinct knows. Mark Eaton

I've been waiting months to say this, but: THE WILDLIFE TRUSTS ARE BUYING SKIDDAW! THE WILDLIFE TRUSTS ARE BUYING SKIDDAW! THE WILDLIFE TRUSTS ARE BUYING SKIDDAW! Please help CumbriaWildlifeTrust with this most brilliant endeavour! wildlifetrusts.org/news/cumbria-w… The Wildlife Trusts

We've been keeping this one under wraps for a while but today's the day to go public! Book by Wendy Wendy Pratt and our lovely Blackbird sitting on the cover.

"Repressed ecological grief is damaging, it is real, it is tangible, and it is painful - we need to address it." From an article I wrote in British Wildlife. I'll be speaking on ecological grief and how to overcome it in Perth. www-tmp.thenational.scot/news/24535339.…

Anyone who doesn't feel this, just isn't listening.

"The moon and the curlew are old friends" A beautiful, framed and inscribed woodcut is available on the Curlew Action fundraising site for £300. Up to £250 is match funded, so the charity gets £550. Thanks to Hilary Kington for her generous donation 🙏🐦 avivacommunityfund.co.uk/p/curlew-heads…

Wed 11th Sept I'm chairing a special debate. Does conservation use social science enough? Are we good enough "people" people? Could we be better? Join me with author Charles Foster, social scientist Beth Brockett and ecologist Barry McMahon . It's free! eventbrite.co.uk/e/curlews-and-…

ALERT. 130 white sided dolphins killed in the Faroe Islands. Follow us on Instagram for more info as this develops. Sea Shepherd US

Other work by the Ladybird artists ‘Downland Hare ’ (1949) Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

Michael Bell Jeroen Reneerkens SCANNERMAN Frankie Macrow, CheddarBirder Neil Bennett Parula Tim Scott LynnColli 〓〓 david butler Mary Colwell Like most #waders, adult Sanderling leave their chicks behind. Two blogs about juvenile settlement: Black-tailed Godwits wadertales.wordpress.com/2019/07/29/gen… Oystercatchers wadertales.wordpress.com/2021/02/02/oys…

This sounds interesting...

Rapid decline in Black-tailed Godwits: wadertales.wordpress.com/2017/01/27/dut… 'Limosa' Black-tailed Godwits spend huge amount of time on rice fields (Portugal, Spain, Senegal etc.). Californian paper on managing rice fields for #shorebirds may be useful: wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/… #ornithology

Nice opportunity to compare juvenile (left) and adult Curlews at Connah's Quay in the rain yesterday. A few are now starting to feed on the sheep-grazed pasture adjoining the estuary, as well as on the mudflats. Mary Colwell Welsh Ornithological Society 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Dr. Rachel C. Taylor is taking commissions

I was sent these publications from 1990, full of great information and ideas. Yet we still don’t have nature in education. Fieldwork forms a large part. ⁦Department for Education⁩ ⁦Caroline Lucas⁩

Very much looking forward to this. Do join us if you can.

In parts of coastal East Africa the whimbrel is known as the “wind-caller”. I love that. 📷 by Hugh Harrop.

Steven Quinn was released from Brixton prison today as part of the government's early release scheme to free up space in UK jails. In total, he says he's spent 27 years of his life in the prison system and he has little hope that he will be able to stay out again this time.