I like to call this slide ‘why a barrage across the Wash is a spectacularly dumb idea’.

First look at advanced copies of my new book: The Marsh Tit and the Willow Tit, a Poyser monograph from Bloomsbury Wildlife Bloomsbury Wildlife Production looks fantastic; hardback, flexiback & Ebook. Released 5 December, available now for pre-order: bloomsbury.com/uk/marsh-tit-a… #ornithology

Evidence of a twofold ecological trap driven by agricultural change causing a priority farmland bird population crash | conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… | Conservation Science and Practice | #ornithology

A moody sunset by the pond today. Have a good night one and all 🦆

Large white in autumn sunshine at Pensthorpe today

BROAD-BILLED SANDPIPER - Watercolour on Arches paper for an upcoming publication. Wader Quest

My walk home from the gym this evening 🌸 Wishing you all good things this weekend 🌸

Drew is a GREAT guide to the birds of RSPB Strumpshaw Fen. Go see harriers with him!

As the sun dropped low in the sky, this Avocet fed on the RSPB Titchwell Marsh fresh marsh in the beautiful end of day soft light.

Thank you Tom 🪿🪿

Voluntary self-regulation of shooting is still failing - with more than two-thirds of mallards illegally shot (lead Pb shot) and problem worse for shoots of farmed released birds.

Sign of the times

Caught the bus to Norfolk Wildlife Trust Sweet Briar Marshes in Norwich and shared this marbled orb-weaver, this female common darter, this stunning pink yarrow and far more with staff from our project partner Aviva plc

Love this ❤️

Sunset on the Colne, Shelducks Wings & Water exhibition at Old Grocery, Wivenhoe 20-25 Sept, PV 19th 6-8 EBwS Bird News Suffolk Bird Group Painters-Online SWLA SWAROVSKI OPTIK Essex Wildlife Trust The Suffolk Coast

Chough Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax feasting on swarming Ivy Bees Colletes hederae. Devil's Hole, Jersey

A lovely Dotterel Charadrius morinellus showing well amongst the faded heather on heathland at Les Landes Jersey

The birds so approve of Stephen’s biographies that they flock to them ☺️

These breathtaking beings let me sit in their garden over lunch

This brainless scheme would be a catastrophe for the globally important biodiversity and ecosystem services of The Wash. As a result, it would also be the end of the traditional ways of life of the people of The Wash coast. It must be stopped. At all costs it must be stopped.