⚽️🏏 Hate animal cruelty. Gardener for wildlife. Very amateur photographer of birds & nature. Birder. Board member @canariestrust. Views very much my own.
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I feel very privileged to be working at the club during this time! What a fantastic night.
Who needs a 'Happy Halloween' foil balloon?
Found in a coastal park where there is so much wildlife is present 🤬
Lo Taylor 🦊🐝🐾🦔🐦📷 retweeted
I am so sick of seeing our precious wildlife being harmed in some sort of sadistic game. Parents - teach your children to love wildlife, to respect it, not taunt and torture it. If you raise a child to be so cruel, it is on you! Sort it out!
Not sure if any connection with all the fireworks going off tonight, but a dog from a few roads away has escaped, absolutely terrified and was last seen running down an unlit road. My neighbour stopped her car and was trying to warn other drivers whilst others trying to catch it.
This ⬇️
Pumpkins:
Halloween is one night.
Tonight.
If you have to waste a food item (and I strongly suggest you don't), please put it out for that one night, then safely dispose of it.
Please DO NOT put it out for the wildlife.
Once you've handled it, cut it, left it out in the open, unrefrigerated, it will not be hygienic or safe for anyone to eat.
Pumpkins are a low-acid vegetable, so once they are cut and left at room temperature, pathogens will rapidly grow on the flesh, producing mould spores.
Our precious wildlife do not have any magical properties that protect them against food poisoning.
Additionally, this time of year there are baby hedgehogs around, born too late to find natural food, desperate to eat anything to stop the pain of starvation.
Pumpkin has a laxative affect so it would be particularly cruel to leave it out for starving wildlife to eat in desperation, causing them to lose precious fluids that may make the difference between life and death.
So no matter what you read elsewhere, please DO NOT put your discarded decoration out for the birds or any other wildlife.
Please DO NOT compost them either, as a composting pumpkin can produce highly toxic tremorgenic mycotoxins, which will be deadly if the compost bin is not properly secured and is accessible to wildlife (or pets).
Many hedgehogs, seeking the warmth of a compost bin, die this way every year.
Once you've used the pumpkin as decoration it's waste, fit only for the bin.
Please help get this vital message spread far and wide, to save precious lives and prevent suffering.
Lo Taylor 🦊🐝🐾🦔🐦📷 retweeted
The daily reminder not to respond to anything from my old account @RobinNCST. If the scammers think they’ve shut me down by blocking me they’re mistaken. Happy to repost this every day until X shuts their scummy activities down!
RIP Sir Patrick 💔
Legendary actor Sir Patrick Stewart, famous for roles in Star Trek and X-Men, dies aged 86 bbc.in/4igot2s
Lo Taylor 🦊🐝🐾🦔🐦📷 retweeted
The real horror of Halloween.
Artificial cobweb: a bit of fake fun for you, but a very real and terrifying death for them.
If you see your neighbours using it, it's possible they don't know the danger so please print out this simple leaflet and pop it through their door:
tinyurl.com/HalloweenHedgeho…
The fine, strong synthetic fibres of this lethal 'web' are difficult for animals to see at dusk and can quickly wrap around their legs, wings, and neck, trapping and killing birds, insects and mammals.
When Eden the hedgehog struggled to free herself the web tightened, cutting off circulation and causing deep wounds.
Can you imagine the pain and sheer terror?
And then seeing dawn approach, while hanging there, tightly bound and helpless, only an inch above the ground but suffering slow strangulation.
Aside from being stressed, dehydrated, starving and exhausted, she also had horrific bite/peck wounds to her face, where she had been held there, helpless, unable to curl and defend herself, while a predator tried to eat her alive.
Tragically her constriction injuries were too severe to survive, and poor Eden had to be put to sleep.
If you have used this deadly cruel trap to 'decorate' your garden, I beg you - take it down now.
Please spread this vital information, and help save lives.
ALT Eden, a patient admitted to Hedgehog Cabin, the multi award winning hedgehog hospital.
Lo Taylor 🦊🐝🐾🦔🐦📷 retweeted
Millions of pumpkins are discarded each year without being eaten – an awful waste, especially as the flesh and seeds are nutritious and delicious! So instead of throwing away your Halloween pumpkin, try making soup, pie or risotto. Recipes and ideas:
littlegreenspace.org.uk/feat…
ALT Orange pumpkin and dark green squash
Mindless vandalism. Half term. 🤔
So many feral humans about these days.
Vandals smash bird hide windows at flagship nature reserve ift.tt/kT6JNV9
