WHY ARE WHEATEARS SO ICONIC. 💥🦆

Brambling bullets bombarding their way out of the beeches over the beaches and into the big blue. Migration magic 🪄

Spring Sandwort (Minuartia verna) flowering now at St Abbs Head. Little belter 💥

This bat 🦇 was sunning itself at the mire loch at St Abbs Head today - any experts able to help with an ID?

It flew off strongly after around 20 mins and was flying regular loops seemingly catching insects in broad daylight!

BREAKING: National Trust for Scotland, RSPB Scotland, Scottish Seabird Centre & Scottish Wildlife Trust have joined forces in a call for ministers to reject a renewables development that could wreak unacceptable levels of ecological damage off Scotland's east coast. > brnw.ch/21wHAcU

#ForTheLoveOfScotland

BREAKING NEWS: Part-time gamekeeper Timothy Hall & his son Lewis Hall avoid custodial sentence for illegal laundering of wild peregrines they'd stolen from sites across southern Scotland.

Unbelievable ⬇️⬇️
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2024/02/12/par…

Come and join an exciting and growing NTS seabird team making waves in conservation. 🌊 🦆

Highly pathogenic avian influenza causes mass mortality in Sandwich Tern Thalasseus sandvicensis breeding colonies across north-western Europe
doi.org/10.1017/S09592…

Finally out! HPAIV outbreak triggers short-term colony connectivity in a seabird metapopulation. Read here: nature.com/articles/s4159…
with Jason Matthiopoulos Steve Votier Jude Lane Maggie Sheddan Keith Hamer Ruedi Nager Dominic McCafferty Sarah Wanless & Bob Furness
short story 🧵below..

Rocky shore survey up the Berwickshire coast today 🦆

Massive news for seabirds 🦆💥

A much debated point. But they are native birds, recovering from persecution, with fewer than 10,000 pairs. 50 *million* non-native Pheasants are released annually, well served by artificial food. They also eat red-listed reptiles, amphibians and inverts. Now that’s unnatural.

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If you want to listen to me chattin to Jackie Bird about seals and all things wild 👇 🦭🦆

SATURDAY 11|11|23

EAST OF SCOTLAND FOOTBALL SPECIAL

TWEEDMOUTH V EDINBURGH SOUTH

Entrance, Beer, Pie
Only £10

BAR OPEN 1pm
KICK OFF 14:30pm

Kids Go Free

Wintering Barnacle Geese and some big waves on the west side of Barra today.