Vibrant street art in Limerick, Ireland. A standard street bollard is painted as a bright blue octopus head, with its tentacles sprawled playfully across the pavement for a local scavenger hunt.
🐙 Painted Octopus — By Lumen Street Theatre in Limerick 🇮🇪 This Is Clever (14 Photos): streetartutopia.com/2026/04/17/c...
Sarnie Terns on Brownsea, crowded on one of the new Islands on Brownsea 💚 @harbourbirds.bsky.social @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @nationaltrust.org.uk @rspb.bsky.social
We made it through another week, fellow bird enthusiasts! Be sure to get outside and enjoy those spring migrants this weekend. 🐦️
I was lucky enough to witness these Pardosa wolf spiders yesterday, engaged in a very cautious and lengthy courtship dance. They both ultimately disappeared into the grass, so I’ll never know the outcome. But I’m told the females very rarely eat the males, so🤞🕷️
Heat pump orders up 2x in a month. Solar panel inquiries up 250%. EV leases up 85%.
The Iran crisis has made energy security feel personal.
I understand why: I have solar panels, a heat pump & EV on a flexible tariff. When gas prices spike, my bills barely move.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
We acknowledge that more than 90% of the heat from global warming has gone into the ocean but then act surprised when this happens.
For International Dark Skies Week -and every week, every night- know that light pollution is a significant contributor to biodiversity declines and animal populations, especially insects.
Especially the insects.
"Rahmstorf, who has studied the Amoc for 35 years, has said a collapse must be avoided 'at all costs'. 'I argued this when we thought the chance of an Amoc shutdown was maybe 5%, and even then we were saying that risk is too high, given the massive impacts. Now it looks like it’s more than 50%.'"
Guess who's winning the war? "The world’s top 100 oil and gas companies banked more than $30m every hour in unearned profit in the first month of the US-Israeli war in Iran..."
Ridiculous!
A sobering story from Science News: Emperor Penguins have been moved up to "Endangered" status on the IUCN Red List. #ornithology
Blood in the streets = money in the bank for some
Blood in the streets = money in the bank for some
“I now am increasingly worried that we may well pass that Amoc shutdown tipping point, where it becomes inevitable, in the middle of this century, which is quite close.”
Moth meets butterfly on the one of the crowning glories in the chalk grasslands of the South Downs
#ButterflyWeek
#6-spotBurnetMoth
#CommonBlueButterfly
#GreaterKnapweed
#chalkgrassland
Wow, after 8 birds arrived on the 12th of April, 57 more arrived on the 13th! I've not seen an 'arrival-explosion' like it. The birds seem excited about it too, wasting no time between arrival, courtship and the start of 'nest building'.
Photo of Waterston House and below is the text: "We're Hiring! / ASSISTANT DEVELOPMENT OFFICER / To apply by 10 May at 5pm and learn more about the position, visit the link in our bio!"
JOB OPPORTUNITY - Assistant Development Officer
We're seeking an ADO to lead on our bird camp youth initiative, our winter talks programme and support our Scotland-wide network of local branches and volunteers.
Details of the vacancy and how to apply can be found at goodmoves.org/vacancy/a4sP...
“I now am increasingly worried that we may well pass that Amoc shutdown tipping point, where it becomes inevitable, in the middle of this century, which is quite close.”
When we talk about fisheries, it’s our last wild food source that we consume on the regular. And this is not farming. It is going out into the wilderness and bulldozing wildlife.
vancouversun.com/news/bottom-...
@projectseahorse.bsky.social
How big oil is cashing in from consumers thanks to the Iran war
Video, with me
#energycrisis #climatecrisis
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYG4...
Green Sandpiper in its breeding plumage - more distinctly white spotted.
From a Pett Level trail camera on 10th April.
@sussexornitholo.bsky.social
#sandpiper
Semafor graphic of China's wind industry dominance
All those red lines in the graph?
#China 's 2025 wind farm installs by manufacturer
#Egypt is a big beneficiary of this growth, as one of the countries most vulnerable to natural gas price spikes from the #Iran war, @timmcdonnell.bsky.social reports at @semafor.com, www.semafor.com/article/04/1...
bUt wHy sHOulD we dO nEt zERo wHeN INdIa aNd CHiNa dONT
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Great to have played a small part in this exciting new paper. Huge thanks to all volunteers who undertake common bird monitoring and contribute to national schemes.
In Essex’s Blackwater Estuary,an innovative coastal adaptation plan is already underway,working with nature to protect landscapes crucial to climate change mitigation,rather than against it
oceanographicmagazine.com/news/into-th...
Native seabird populations are making a remarkable recovery on Wake Atoll in the North Pacific Ocean, one year on from the removal of invasive rats from the islets.Sixteen species of nesting native birds are reappearing and increasing in numbers. oceanographicmagazine.com/news/rat-era...
Around *1/5* of all the species that live in a natural forest need dead wood.
So no, it's not 'wasted' or 'untidy'. Even in your garden, spare a thought and leave it for them.
The graphic displays a Puffin covering half the page and a Cormorant covering the other half. The title reads 'Survey Start Dates' with the dates '30th of April' for Puffins and '1st of May' for Cormorants, the start dates of the recommended colony count survey periods for these species in SMP.
Some important SMP dates are approaching!
Soon, the recommended colony count period for Puffins and Cormorants starts. Keep an eye out for more posts over the next couple of weeks looking at these species and their survey methods! #seabirds @btobirds.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social
