This week I will mostly be birding in Menorca while being full of cold. Here’s a Nightingale singing in a flower filled meadow at sunset. Absolute bliss ☺️

What an utterly brilliant way to present the 2023 sewage dumping data. Just enter you postcode. 👋👋👋

Deserving of an award me thinks.

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Our latest call for people to demand better for Beddington Farmlands - deadline now noon 19th January

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The new proposals for Beddington Farm Nature Reserve were announced before Xmas until today. A suspiciously short & inconvenient consultation period. Various public feedback has been submitted. Here is the response from the Beddington Farm Bird Group. beddingtonfarmlands.wordpress.com/beddington-far…

It hardly rose above freezing today and I kept on breaking the ice in the #GwylltHollow pool pond. Lots of visitors drinking and bathing. I just love watching the interactions between the species. Keeping an area free from ice in this cold weather is essential for wildlife. 🥶❄️

'Tyger Tyger burning bright, in the forests of the night' To us Humans, with trichromatic vision, Tigers appear orange. But to a Deer, Boar or ungulate, with Dichromatic eye receptors, they probably appear green. And that...is a scary thought : ) iflscience.com/we-now-know-wh…

Delightfully minimal and spontaneous...beautifully observed little water colour sketches from John.