Our dowitcher is reddening up nicely as he moults into breeding plumage. Last spring he remained here at Cley until 5th May.

He was removed as PM for lying to his own Ministers and he removed himself as an MP for lying to Parliament.

And Nadine removed herself as an MP and subsequently from all contact with reality.

Even though birds are already nesting let’s keep setting fire to our uplands for grouse shooting. What biodiversity and climate crisis?

Do you feed the birds? If yes, check out this thread ⬇️

Yeah. This would all be more convincing if you hadn't unlawfully suspended parliament. There's a cost to that sort of thing. And it's being able to play the elder statesman when you've left office.

Vid of the day …

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🐺In 2018, wolves returned to Belgium with…

Half a billion quid later ….

On a bus.

To present a petition.

To talk to the press.

To save a flood meadow.

To save an ancient wood.

To save a bat.

The brilliant MattStaniek, Feargal Sharkey and the #SaveWindermere community 👏👏👏campaigning to save Lake Windermere from being destroyed by sewage pollution. ⬇️ #riverchampions #sewagescandal

When I need to call out a plumber I’m grateful to pay £40/h because I don’t have the first clue how to fix my boiler, or the skills to fix a burst pipe

Doctors are asking for half of that, to fix your kids

In life we get the health services we pay for

'It's being poisoned by sewage.'

Feargal Sharkey explains why he's supporting the Save Windermere Campaign.

It should probably be national news and there should be action to fix it, without Feargal Sharkey having to go there

Something of a tern-fest on the Strait today: 11 Sandwich Terns fishing Gwynedd side on hi tide a.m. Then 20+ off Moel y don Anglesey later in afternoon together w my 1st Arctic of year. Also 2 Kittiwakes, presumably wind-blown! , heading S Anglesey Bird News

If you are in doubt about the state of healthcare in the UK this tells you everything
All countries experienced the pandemic, the one in red has had the least support from Govt
As a GP, prior to 2010 NHS, waiting times were minimal, none of my patients asked about private options

My first proper birding so far while on family hols in Thailand and it was quite something. Wandering around amongst Red-necked Stints, Terek Sands, Grey-tailed Tattler and both Greater and Tibetan Sand Plovers at Laem Pakarang thanks to some great gen from Norfolk Bird Records

According to international Human Rights Watch the UK could soon make the list of countries that abuse rather than protect human rights thanks to this governments outright onslaught on the rights of its own citizens - is that a Government you want to trust with your human rights?

Jack Straw, 'Things have gone far too far in Israel and Gaza, and there isn't, in my view, any doubt at all that Israel is breaching international law'

'You can just see it on the ground in Gaza, and it's a tragedy for Israel as well, because they've lost the moral high ground…

The House of Lords needs reform....oh yes....more than ever.

Follow Transparency International UK who've found that 1/4 of all party nominations since 2013 were for political donors who'd handed over £58 million indonations.

We need an absolute overhaul in both House of Commons and Lords 😡

'Great British Bake Off village is deluged with sewage spewing from drains onto its once-idyllic streets.'

The River Lambourn as featured in the GBBO is a chalk stream, 1 of only 225 in the entire world. This is what Thames Water 💧 thinks of it.

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