Claire Laila Dines

Today's #BirdOfTheDay alt theme is #StandingInWater.

On a cold day in February, this Great Blue Heron tries its best to ward off the chill of winter.

#birds 🪶 #Nature #wildlife #BirdPhotography #photography #EastCoastKin #nikon

Media must stop normalizing the far right Every uncritical mention of far-right rhetoric is an editorial decision with political consequences.

OPINION: Every uncritical mention of far-right rhetoric is an editorial choice with political consequences.

Here’s how some media outlets are no longer just covering these forces — but amplifying them.

Snow Bunting

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #StandingInWater and there are some lovely images being posted, here’s my contribution, a beautifully coloured Snow Bunting on Clee Hill, South Shropshire #birds #thegardenjungle #wildlifephotography #birdwatching #shropshire #UKwildlife #birdphotography #canon

Red on the Cuillins, by Pam Carter, Tanzania-born painter of Scottish landscapes.

In retrospect I shouldn't have expected roaring applause for George Monbiot's excellent & comprehensive response .. really I shouldn't if I'd taken into account a probable audience bias towards Farage's narrow & fake British history BS with zero tolerance for truth-telling abt some Churchill acts.

Yes also true but I think starting young with unsupervised closeness to nature have longterm & often deep positive connectedness to nature as the person grows into an adult & in this case Eoghan was asked by @museumofchildhood.bsky.social to relate his childhood experience with nature.

Little Egret stands in shallow water

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme from @robcrank68.bsky.social is #StandingInWater any bird standing in water
Egret
#Birds #Birdwatching #Birdphotography
#Nature
#EastCoastKin

I could try and say something relevant, topical, profound even on the general state of everything. However what I feel I need is a small, purple, Sea Lavender Weevil. So here it is. #Nature

Phengaris teleius (Scarce Large Blue) in a French meadow. One of the 17 species in the European Grassland Butterfly Index. Photo: Martin Warren)

The latest European Grassland Butterfly Indicator is out. It shows that grassland butterflies have declined by 47% since 1991, indicating a huge loss of grassland biodiversity. The data come from 16,150 transects & 15,000 volunteers. We are calling for urgent action. www.bc-europe.eu/documents/69...

For starters the UK could help by restoring/reverting our chalk lands now disastrously under hungry/thirsty crop regimes back to chalk grasslands that are such rare & important ecosystems for butterflies & many other insects!

Super (old) news but way past time!
"Well done the BBC" voiced in a monotone emotionless tone.

That dinner menu in full as President Trump entertains Mr Farage at Mar-a-Lago:

Porn Cocktail.

Jizz Pancakes with salted Clacton Cream.

Small sausages & wrinkled chestnuts in a dry rub.

Burnt Chicken Kyiv.

Spotted Dick with a 30p Lee Syrup.

Coffee, Liqueurs & Nappies.
🤮

And here's the clip, thanks to James: bsky.app/profile/jame...

Thanks Rob!
You do a grand job!

Today's #BirdoftheDay theme is #StandinginWater and I have another swan today (I photograph lot of them) I took this in a flooded car park in Callander, Scotland. This guy didn't seem bothered that he was in a car park.
#swans #birds #photography

A female Pintail snoozing among the Bog bean #Green as that's exactly what I feel like doing after a sleepless night 🙄
#BirdOfTheDay
#EastCoastKin
#Birds

Ta very much Rob!

#StandingInWater from Rob today which is a good theme as is the Alt #Green as in bird photo with Green included.
So here are two HGs having a puddle chat on the Hove promenade.
#BirdOfTheDay
#EastCoastKin
#birds

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #StandingInWater, any bird standing in water, the Alt Them is #Green, any bird/photo with Green included.
Here's a Oystercatcher, Lapwing & Mallard #StandingInWater and a Reed Bunting with a #Green branch.

#birds #EastCoastKin #CanonR5mkii @rspb.bsky.social #ukbirding

"Access to unsupervised time in wild nature is one of the most essential things we can give to any child"
So spot on Eoghan!

Yes and also many different ones .. and he or she sometimes get hopping mad .. maybe just telling me to quit the photo shoot alive while 😜

Night folks 🖐️

My suffragette-era great-aunt caused raised eyebrows and mutterings when seen 'riding astride a bicycle' in Cramond.

We have come so far.
We can achieve so much more.

#Women #Cycle

Huge congratulations James! So few urban Floras have been published this will be momentous. Can’t wait to get a copy and devour every page #UrbanFlora #UrbanPlants

Last year Jessica's son got ill after playing in the River Thames. Her message to Environment Minister? Don't let our children get ill. Stop the illegal sewage.

If you agree sign our petition: vist.ly/4txpt

Pumped-up poo protest in High Wycombe over water pollution A sewage campaign, with inflatable reminders of what waste water contains, goes to Buckinghamshire.

Pumped-up poo protest over water pollution

#Bedfordshire #BedsBucksHerts

🔗: https://www.bbc.com/news/arti...

"Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it."
~ Mary Shelley

Great News in Oxford!

mud glorious mud though and an open supermarket for Redshank😊 and the contrast really works in this image

Jackdaw
Grey hood blue eye black tie
Stepping out in rain
cool and full of grace
putting us to shame
slumped fed and dry
in our cushioned base
#Jackdaw 🖤