An electronic platform display board with spikes protruding from the top. A pigeon is sitting on a nest of twigs which it has built around the spikes.

This pigeon has built its nest on the spikes designed to stop the pigeons. Birds:1 - Humans:0 (photo taken through a train window) #nature #birds

First bird of my day: four herring gulls drifting in the air, their wings barely moving as they tackle the strong onshore wind. #FirstBirdOfMyDay

Beautiful!

It's a monk parakeet, not parrot.

First bird of my day: a screeching flock of monk parrots flying over the hotel into the park (according to the Merlin app). Apparently they are native to South America but invasive colonies are spreading across Spain and Italy. #FirstBirdOfMyDay

Happy Earth Day! 🌎 🌍 🌏

To mark this special day, we’re tuning in to Sen, the world’s first continuous 4K video livestream from space.

Sen’s cameras are hosted on our Columbus module of the ISS, with data delivered via the Airbus platform.

Watch Earth from above, just like an astronaut

📹 Sen

The world order is under sustained attack.

War. Greed. Apathy. Impunity. The growing assumption that rules can be ignored.

The UN wasn't built for the easy moments. It was built for moments like this.

Thank you @chathamhouse.org for hosting this discussion.

Blue sea, blue sky and a tiny white dot of a yacht on the horizon.

Italian blue. #Trani

Wishing you a speedy recovery.

First bird of my day: a serin singing away on a telegraph wire on my last morning in Monopoli. #FirstBirdOfMyDay

It's the first time I've seen or heard a serin. They sound like an excited goldfinch!

First bird of my day: a serin trilling high up in a tree and swifts circling in the Italian sky above. #FirstBirdOfMyDay

First bird of my day: two swifts swirling above the hotel in the clear blue sky. #FirstBirdOfMyDay

A view of the ornate white stone façade of the church, with people milling about in front and blue sky above.

I'm absolutely blown away by the façade of the Basilica di Santa Croce in Lecce, Italy. There is so much detail to see if you zoom in. I've put a couple of my favourites in the comments. What do you like? #phonepics #baroquearchitecture #churches

I saw them in Lancaster. Best production of Macbeth I've ever seen.

First bird of my day: swifts! Twisting and turning in the wind in a cloudless Italian sky. #FirstBirdOfMyDay

Record number of homes in Great Britain turn to green energy as fuel prices soar Iran war drives demand for solar panels, heat pumps and EVs, with energy bills expected to rise 18% from July

Iran war drives demand for solar panels, heat pumps and EVs, with energy bills expected to rise 18% from July.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Prague just opened the new Dvorecký Bridge. It's exclusively for trams, buses, bikes, and pedestrians. Private cars are completely banned.

First bird of my day: an Italian house sparrow perching on the hotel fire escape as I looked through the breakfast room window. #FirstBirdOfMyDay

First bird of my day: an Italian feral pigeon perched on a balcony. #FirstBirdOfMyDay

I needed this.

Yes, lots of birds that I haven't seen before!

Sadly it was just a quick stop there. We're on our way to Italy now. I hadn't heard of Campione until coming to Lugano.

Sorry! Hadn't noticed the autocorrect had changed it! Yes, black redstart!

Sounds like the dynamic duo!

First bird of my day: a blackbird restart singing on a rooftop in Lugano, swifts circling overhead. #FirstBirdOfMyDay

First bird of my day: a Strasbourg woodpigeon. I was hoping it would be one of the storks nesting in the neighbouring street, but it wasn't to be! #FirstBirdzofMyDay

You, too!