The despair of a Sumatran #orangutan trying to protect his home. Time to protect the planet and everything on it. #ActOnClimate #ClimateEmergency #climateaction #deforestation #nature

An essential read about Louise Lancaster, a 58 year old former special needs worker who has been sent to prison for 4 years for renting a room for the Just Stop Oil protesters to stay in before their protest

well that was a short season on the Ouse Washes - the climate change scenario of increased storminess was right!!! Cambs Bird Club

Worryingly deep flooding for the time of year- approx 60million cubic meters sat on Ouse washes today + just took a further 40mm rain + northlies + high tides #speechless

Note for Ouse washes hard core that the reserve access will be closed from tomorrow to c16 Oct as the road is being fixed ⁦Cambs Bird Club⁩ ps colour photo taken today!

another perspective looking south from Welney Suspension Bridge illustrating the immensity of the #ousewashes - currently Englands largest man-made body of fresh water covering approx 18 square km - a bit larger than Rutland (12.58km2) stated as largest reservoir in England!

Ouse washes late afternoon near railway viaduct 87 cranes, 2 white fronts and 65 pink footed geese. Levels now rising again following recent lows! Cambs Bird Club

1500 pink footed geese feeding ⁦WWT Welney⁩ on lady fen. Birds reacting to less sugar beet grown in Norfolk this year? Would be lovely if they became regular in the Fens again

Just learned from a Norfolk farmer that the whole sugar beet is now harvested leaving no “tops” plus instant ploughing may be having this displacement effect

So final total of 3500 pinks roosted on Ouse Washes north of Welney road including 1500 that arrived from Cambs Cambs Bird Club WWT Welney

Absolutely sensational on the Ouse Washes at dusk today!! Ducks, Geese, Gulls, Waders, Swans…and then the Cranes came. I think 87, arriving together, flying straight towards me calling and then circling. One of the best things I’ve seen! 🤩 Cambs Bird Club

One of the last jobs of the year - skylark plots Use 0.3% of the field to establish the plots &increase skylark productivity by 50% Skylarks are red list &declined >50% nationally The plots are the most profitable part of any wheat crop Who's putting some in their SFI?#nobrainer

315 Bewick’s around the Ouse washes in this weeks big count and a Nene/Ouse/Lakenheath total of 440 Cambs Bird Club BirdGuides

Drake Smew from Rickwood hide #rspbousewashes Cambs Bird Club

RBMerganser at Bainton pits today. This bird has been in the area for over 3 weeks but is elusive with apparently multiple roost and feeding locations in Lincs and Cambs ⁦Cambs Bird Club⁩

20! Hawfinch at Barnack this morning feeding in Yews on southern boundary of Walcott Hall Cambs Bird Club

Female Ring Necked Duck finally located from Cadbury Hide at 17:00 along with drake Smew Cambs Bird Club #rspbousewashes

...so, the Ouse Washes. What a fantastic reserve. After the flyover White Stork, we saw maybe 25 Great Egrets, 2 Common Cranes, ♂️ Garganey, a mass of wildfowl, Marsh Harriers, 100s of Icelandic Blkwits & double figures of my all-time favourites, the L3, nominate limosa 🙂

Wood sand @ Cadbury hide and 4 Black terns further north @ Dicks pool #rspbousewashes Cambs Bird Club

Red F falcon female between Cadbury and Cottier hides #rspbousewashes Cambs Bird Club