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A curlew feeding in the cottongrass.

Curlew standing on drystone wall, above, another curlew in flight, wings and primaries spread.

#WorldCurlewDay, a day when the curlew stands for all species caught in the climate and biodiversity crisis. I will take a walk on the moor after lunch and be grateful for their presence.

Look forward to it😎

Good luck
It’s good to see some good news stories how ever small
PS Don’t dis downland insects always a fun time to be had

certainly looks like one.

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... bring it on @flackoweasel :-) #bioacoustics

Ash dieback is having some odd disturbance effects in ancient woodland. The extra light under dying ash canopy is allowing these wild roses to go crazy, scrambling up the tree trunks to heights of 7 m, forming these funky columns.

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Arrived early for the @batconservation.bsky.social SW 🦇 Conference. PippyG left on the front of the van last night. Greater Horseshoe and Barbastelle bats using the hedgerow of the campsite is a nice bonus.

Israel’s “Black Wednesday” Massacre Leaves Lebanese Families Giving DNA to ID Loved Ones’ Remains In Lebanon, an unprecedented campaign of DNA tests is being used to identify mangled bodies left trapped under rubble by Israel’s blitz.

theintercept.com/2026/04/17/l...

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Pic from last week's day down at Kearsney, showing Old Park Hill and old binoculars dusted off. (If a member of Medway RSPB, pls visit yr group's Facebook page for details.)

Kearsney Railway Satation

Old weir, Kearsney Abbey gardens.

General view of downland under restoration, Old Park Hill.

Me w/ 'bins? Last wk scouted trip I'm assisting on.

Kent Community Rail Partnership heard of my 'Birding n+e Kent by Train talk' and kindly offered Medway RSPB Group a free 'Try the Train' event👏

We're off #LowCarbonBirding (and more) down at Kearsney next month👍

Thank you KCRP. I'm 'chuffed' ☺️

A hoary bat with a buff coloured face, cinnamon coloured fur with frosted tips - looking a lot like the moth pictured in this thread.

I challenge your Buff Tip Moth with a buff-tipped bat who would eat your Buff Tip Moth! (honestly hadn't thought of their faces mimicking the ends of sticks but maybe that's the trick).🦇

As barbed wire blocks kids from class, Palestinians stage ‘Freedom School’

As barbed wire blocks kids from class, Palestinians stage ‘Freedom School’ https://aje.news/ifed7j

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Alliaria petiolata, Garlic Mustard, invert associates
69 species of herbivorous inverts, at least 24 of which coleopterans.
Biennial or monocarpic, of disturbed woodland margins, rides & clearings, shady hedge banks, river-banks, wall bases, road verges.
📷 CAM Lindeman Bilder ur Nordens Flora
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And the first 🦇 records from this 1km square were predictably Common Pips and the only species last week
1130pm motorbikes in the wood last sat were a reason why I probs won’t do any in person recordings here Bit too wild west even though it’s east coast

Hibernating Brandt’s bats in a leadmine

Thought we’d be carrying out our last hibernation survey of the season today, but the Brandt’s are still in torpor. Tonight we’re surveying for spring swarming Brown Long Eared and Natterer’s bats🦇 down at valley level.

Don’t blame the shopping trolley for all the new burning but there’s been a lot more this week since it returned #justsaying

Horden news Always good to get the Audiomoth back in one piece especially with all the burning Lesser Whitethroat and Orange tip new for year A lot of excitement from sand martins around the cliffs Subdued song from many blackcaps

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Statement by UNICEF on the killing of two water truck drivers in the Gaza Strip

Statement: UNICEF is outraged by the killing of two drivers of trucks contracted by UNICEF to provide clean water to families in the Gaza Strip. www.unicef.org/press-releas...

A poster with two flies, stating "Fly Week, like shark week, but with flies, April 30th- May 6th, Post your favorite two-winged wonders using the hashtag #FlyWeek, Brought to you by @teamdiptera"

Raise your wings and mark your calendars for Fly Week! It's coming up in two weeks, from April 30th- May 6th! #FlyWeek 👀

composite photo of an eastern red bat (Lasiurus borealis) flying horizontally across the screen against a vegetation background. Below the bat is a spectrogram showing the bat's echolocation calls over time

Happy 🦇 day to the bats!

truly what would we do without them

How a UK arms shipment to Israel was seized in Belgium An investigation has been launched after we discovered a suspicious military transfer from Britain to Israel.

We're supplying military equipment to Israel. And Labour cares so little about it that Belgium has to step in and stop the shipments. I guess Labour's too busy arresting protestors against the genocide?

I feel we should be talking a lot more about Israel government 's influence on the Labour Party & how Labour Friends of Israel wants to align our security & defence policies ( spending more money on weapons & surveillance ) with a nation currently engaged in genocide .

It's great to see this brood of Dunnock growing well! Monitored for the @btobirds.bsky.social #NestRecordScheme. @wildbarley.bsky.social

🦇 Today we celebrate these remarkable mammals and the vital role they play in the balance of life on Earth.

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