Swifts and Us: The Life of the Bird that Sleeps in the Sky @WmCollinsBooks.
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Swifts are the wildest of birds, almost supernaturally adapted to an aerial life, they eat, sleep, mate and catch their nesting material in the air. #worldswiftday 1/8
What an honour to have our wedding celebration written up so beautifully by Guardian Country Diarist @DrPaulEvans1 theguardian.com/environment/…
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A day for thinking about Swifts, reading about Swifts and taking photos of Swifts - happy #WorldSwiftDay folks. #WSD2024 @swiftsweek Thanks @WindsweptSarah for a lovely read with my coffee. ❤️📚🐦 #mybirdinglife #birdsuniteourworld #Swifts #30dayswild
Photos:- @ClimateActionNE
'These birds, they are still coming. And it gives us hope'. theguardian.com/environment/…
Much looking forward to this.
I'm organising a Swift Talk with the fabulous @WindsweptSarah over at @RSPBLakeVyrnwy in June. @VibrantVyrnwy #lakevyrnwy #swifts #swiftsandus @_BTO @BTO_Shropshire @RSPBCymru
Two swifts over my garden! Just yesterday Countryile star Hayley Garrod installed six integral nest boxes in my loft and the call system is now on!
I was in my local post office today when a pigeon flew in. A big guy in a hi-viz jacket very gently cornered it, picked it up and took it back outside. So nice to see this done so calmly. "I didn't want it to get hurt," he said.
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Still two months before swifts return to the UK but in Egypt, where spring comes early, they're back already. Video taken in Tahir Square by my son.
The Lough Neagh fly is the key insect prey for many of Northern Ireland's swifts and house martins - now look what's happened. theguardian.com/uk-news/2023…
Stinking hellebore smelling sweet to this enormous queen bumblebee in the Oswestry hills today. #wildflowerhour
Every morning I'm out in my garden at 7ish & I've been hearing a little more birdsong ever day. This morning I heard the wonderful sound of a whole chorus of blackbirds for the first time this year.
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Sarah Gibson retweeted
The @Conservatives have changed PM multiple times without calling a General Election on the basis that in the UK we "elect the party, not the individual".
Ok, fair enough. Sort of.
But, voters elected the party on the basis of their 2019 Manifesto which promised "the most ambitious environmental programme of any country on earth".
So @RishiSunak has zero democratic mandate to deviate from this promise.
To do a 180 degree about turn is fundamentally anti-democratic.
theguardian.com/politics/202…
Kronk! First thing, seven ravens flew over my town garden, off to somewhere craggier and a bit wilder.
Tseeeep! Redwings are back overhead. Chiffchaff singing in the garden, the seasons' crossing point
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