Edge of Kent birder, twitcher 477 (LTShrike), singer and carer. Birding is breathing 🔭🎤❤
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Post mortems suggest five Hen Harrier chicks found dead in nest on grouse moor in northern England had injuries consistent with being stabbed.
New blog (warning - contains distressing info) ⬇️
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Fiona G 💙♿🔭 retweeted
Accessible space award winner blocked from stage
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm62… @ChambersOf4994 #PeterboroughPresents
The administration at the ACCA @ACCANews is shocking. 16 years I've lived at my address. 16 years I've been telling ACCA that the lady aged 89 when she sold me the house had moved. 5+ years I've been telling ACCA she died. Again today I got her voting form! She'd be 105 now!
Well if you'd have asked me what Friday after work birding would be this week I would never have suggested long-finned pilot whales off Gravesend!
Lucky weekend's birding. Early start to Dungeness Saturday morning, arrived to no sign of the RN Phalarope and no other watchers. Persevered and it popped out way over the back. Call to go home as A got his hospital escape permit so I wasn't around for the Brown Booby. 1of3
2of3 A Kent Brown Booby wd've been fab but still having A is better. Saw the BB at South Gare. Settled A home sore but well🤞. Sunday had an appt lunchtime so didn't think there was much birding time. But Wryneck at Swalecliffe showing well... it wd've been rude not to! BoC pic
With my brother in for another operation today, all I can say is THANK YOU ALL. If we were in America we'd have had to sell the house for all the treatment he's needed to stay alive 16 years after end stage kidney failure. He's still fighting 💙
Fiona G 💙♿🔭 retweeted
Penrhos was created as a nature reserve in the early 1970s . The then Prince Charles actually officially opened Penrhos as a nature reserve ,local
People and visitors alike have walked around taking in the #beauty and wildlife enjoying the #tranquillity of the #woods and the #beaches truly enjoying #nature but now Penrhos is under threat!
There is planning permission to destroy this beautiful haven and make it another generic holiday camp “with all mod cons”at The huge cost of destroying acres of land that is home to some of our rarest #wildlife !
You can still oppose the planning application if you believe nature deserves a chance ! #SavePenrhos #AchubPenrhos
@ProtectTheWild_ @WildJustice_org @domdyer70 @BenGoldsmith @michaelastracha
📸 David Jones and Shirley Blease ,
White-winged Black Tern with ID assistance from local DBO expert TYVM 😇 Dungeness RSPB. Slowed down clip shows why they are so hard to track with a camera! Bonuses of Little Gull and 2 Little Stints were very welcome too
Fiona G 💙♿🔭 retweeted
"Water companies in England and Wales explore ‘surge pricing’ during drought"
1.27 trillion litres of water per year are lost through leaking pipes in the UK. Yet they want to charge us more when supplies run low.
There are no depths they won't plunge.
theguardian.com/business/202…
Fiona G 💙♿🔭 retweeted
Donkey Rides on Great Yarmouth beach during a horrendous heat wave. This is cruel & dangerous the Council should shut this down
Fiona G 💙♿🔭 retweeted
Yay 🙌 well done you 👏👏👏👏 I keep informing people that the contract to make appointments is Face to Face, Phone or on line. Patients need to exert their rights 😄👍
Fiona G 💙♿🔭 retweeted
I took my mum to the drs to pick up her prescription. She wanted to make an appointment. Receptionist told her to make an appointment online. I piped up "under the NHS contract, you can also do it for her".
The air went cold. She icily replied, yes she could the triage.
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Took train yesterday with @AvantiWestCoast to @networkrail Birmingham new street. Was put in a different carriage to our app assigned seats. Another passenger had booked seats by wheelchair space so had to help them relocate ourselves. Then because Euston somehow/1
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How would the wheelchair users who would have been tipped over and potentially trapped under their very heavy power chairs have managed, I wonder.
Probably ok if they had the actual wheelchair space designed for this scenario but they are often FULL OF LUGGAGE INSTEAD 🤷🏻♀️
Fiona G 💙♿🔭 retweeted
12/8/26 11:00am - Yesterday our team attended two small additional fires on the Forest caused by abandoned campfires. Our rangers also attended an incident this morning where the use of a BBQ on the Forest had started a fire...
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Hen Harrier persecution on UK grouse moors - new research suggests only 0.5 - 10% of incidents are detected.
New blog ⬇️
#Inglorious12th
raptorpersecutionuk.org/2026…
Made it round the M25 before Thorpe Park fire and Heathrow traffic disaster. Got to Stonehenge just in time to watch the sun with a bite out devoured by the moon to a 🌙. Magical! Proper lens filter turned up on Monday! Cutting it close 👌 #eclipse2026
