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- Goldcliff Pools, late morning: 15 Whitefronts (14 adults, 1 1st-winter). #gwentbirding
- Is ‘Whimbrel déjà vu’ a thing? I think ‘Whimbrel déjà vu’ may be a thing. #birding
- Had a Woodcock fly over the M4 (between J32 and J33) this morning,… which was nice.
- Good to see the Democrats finally giving ‘MAGA Goebbels’ the respect he deserves.
- Llandegfedd Res: quick look from the dam produced 50 Wigeon but little else. Llantarnam Ponds: 5 Goosander. #gwentbirding
- Up to Cwmcarn along the canal this morning: 3 Goosander, 92 Moorhen, 368 Mallard, and 1 domestic duck. #quack #gwentbirding #lowcarbonbirding #birdingbybike
- Reposted by DarrylAn across-government technical assessment published today recognises that "nature is the foundation of national security" and that "every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse". A rational response to this would be to get very serious about nature recovery. www.gov.uk/government/p...
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- Goldcliff Pools: adult female Hen Harrier, 4 Whitefronts and a Chiffchaff. #gwentbirding
- I do hope my MP @ruthjoneslabour.bsky.social is supporting this bill.
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- Reposted by DarrylUPDATED – Factcheck: How ‘scary-sounding numbers’ are being used to mislead the UK about net-zero | @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/Be7nHfA
- There’s running a half marathon or marathon for a good cause, and then there’s running the Spine, all 268 gruelling upland miles of it. Well worth a few of your hard earned quid. 👇 #curlews #running #ukbirding
- Bishton: 400 Lapwing and 40 Snipe. #gwentbirding
- Collister Pill: several thousand calidrids, almost all in the air throughout my visit. Little else of note. The disturbance seemed to be caused by wildfowlers up towards West Pill. Why is any shooting allowed within the SPA? I mean, WTF does the P in SPA stand for? #gwentbirding
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- Ynysyfro: 5 male Pochard. #gwentbirding
- Hi @ruthjoneslabour.bsky.social, quick query from a constituent,… have you ditched X yet?
- At least 7 Hawfinch at Rhiwderin now, in trees near the ‘swimming pond’ at c.ST263868. Also 15+ Greenfinch, Treecreeper, etc. #gwentbirding #lowcarbonbirding #footit
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- Very quiet in the hills today, a Woodcock provided a moment of interest, otherwise just a lot of nival-gazing. ❄️ #seewhatIdidthere? ❄️ #snow ❄️
- Ynysyfro: 3 male Pochard. #gwentbirding
- Starting a ‘Books read in 2026’ thread to shame myself into reading an acceptable number of books for a reasonably well-educated adult human, so,…
- A potter round produced a goody. Hawfinch(!) at Rhiwderin, initially flying around with a small flock of Chaffinch near the ‘swimming pond’ at c.ST263868 (adjacent to the Yellowthroat site), later sat up for high quality handheld phone-scoping shenanigans. #gwentbirding #lowcarbonbirding #footit
- A light dusting of snow and a female Blackcap out back. ❄️ #gwentbirding #nippy
- Female Blackcap in the garden. #gwentbirding #gardensafari
- Uskmouth: every shade of dog shit bag plus Woodcock, Water Pipit, 8+ Snipe and a few Redpoll. Goldcliff Pools: 11 Whitefronts, 4 Golden Plover, Black Redstart, Pintail, Chiffchaff, Common Scoter feeding off the point, 28 Grey Plover and 16 Turnstone on the foreshore. #gwentbirding #birdingWales
- Ynysyfro: Pochard. #gwentbirding #brevity
- Quick spin round the local waterbodies, nowt much at Cwm Hedd or Pant-yr-Eos, 5 Pochard at Ynysyfro. #gwentbirding #lowcarbonbirding #birdingbybike
- A gaping chasm in my graphic non-fiction collection was filled over Xmas. A stone cold classic of the genre. #Persepolis #comics #graphicnonfiction #sequentialart
- Does anyone monitor the bycatch of shore netting? cc @rspbcymru.bsky.social @btocymru.bsky.social
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- Goldcliff Pools: 2 Whitefronts, 9 Golden Plover amongst c.1,600 Lapwing, Black Redstart at the ‘dump’, Common Scoter feeding off the point, 3 Grey Plover and 32 Turnstone on the pill. 1/2 #gwentbirding #birdingwales
- Heads up! #gwentbirding
- This is all *perfectly* normal. Happy Christmas everybody! 🎄🥵🎄
- Oooh, looks like the Caerleon/Llandegfedd Whitefronts were part of a broader movement. Yay for nippy easterlies. #gwentbirding
- Yeah, we should definitely be handing Jim Ratcliffe £70M of government funding. This is the sort of development this country needs. #pollution #health #billionaire #taxdodging #Brexitclown globalspark.news/world/enviro... cc @antoniabance.bsky.social
- Reposted by DarrylMore detail about the missing White-tailed Eagle in mid-Wales. Not the first investigation into raptor persecution in this area. Press release from Dyfed-Powys Police & commentary from me 🔽 #RaptorResearch #WildlifeCrime @iolowilliams.bsky.social raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/12/19/m...
- “On 13 Sept, a satellite tag belonging to a white-tailed eagle was recovered near Gwgia Reservoir, Tregynon, … police … are asking anyone who was at or around the reservoir between 11am and 1pm or on access land near Bryn y Fawnog between noon and 3pm on 13 Sept to come forward.” #birdingWales
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- Reposted by DarrylWe (@crossdale.bsky.social, Christina Pantazis, @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social, Tiê Franco Brotto and I) present the first academic peer-reviewed article, studying the criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest as a global phenomenon. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Scops Owl bagged. Didn’t exactly rush down to Copperopolis but seemed rude not to pop in and say ‘hello’. #birdingWales
- Goldcliff Pools: Black Redstart briefly at ‘the dump’, little else of note. #gwentbirding
