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Somewhere in the wilderness
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Andy Paton @andypaton.bsky.social retweeted
Catching wild fish to feed farmed fish. Who pays the price?
Ian Urbina’s Food for Feed investigation exposes overfishing, pollution and labour abuses behind aquaculture’s feed supply chains.
“Sustainable” deserves scrutiny.
foodforfeed.theoutlawocean.c…
Andy Paton @andypaton.bsky.social retweeted
Big jump in Woodcock observations on @BirdTrack this week.
New arrivals will melt into the British & Irish landscape, feeding at night in fields and woodland.
Lots more birds still to come, I reckon.
More here:
wadertales.wordpress.com/201…
#ornithology
FY Marco. Please investigate @SecRubio
Why is Trump making so many concessions to Russia now?
I think it's three things.
#HighStakes
Andy Paton @andypaton.bsky.social retweeted
David shares his thoughts on the recent news that post-mortems of five Hen Harrier chicks in Co Durham suggested they were stabbed to death, and his wider feelings on driven grouse shooting.
What do you think?
Andy Paton @andypaton.bsky.social retweeted
By me, having just come back from the beautiful but barren west of Ireland.
'The Myth of the Emerald Isle'
spectator.com/article/the-my…
Andy Paton @andypaton.bsky.social retweeted
He denied doing this literally a week ago. Pathetic
Musk says he was behind Starlink’s slowdown in Ukraine
thehill.com/policy/internati…
Andy Paton @andypaton.bsky.social retweeted
Remarkable how confiding and totally oblivious the CHESTNUT BUNTING has gradually become through the week. Initially working full circuit of the walled yards of farm, often disappearing for long periods but now very settled in its favoured areas Filmed on my phon @SwarovskiOptik
"Historic incompetence" @realDonaldTrump @SecRubio @SecWar cc @HouseGOP @SenateGOP @wsj @nypost @FT @Telegraph
Breaking News: Barack Obama forcefully criticized President Trump at a midterm rally, accusing him of historic “incompetence” in Washington. nyti.ms/3VUal6r
Andy Paton @andypaton.bsky.social retweeted
Went to check out the Desert Finch that was found yesterday in Paphos (5th record for Cyprus). Showed down to a few meters with the local Greenfinch.
#cyprusbirds
Andy Paton @andypaton.bsky.social retweeted
Four more WaderTales blogs are on the way:
1️⃣ Knot at night
2️⃣ When to mow (or graze) a meadow
3️⃣ Right vegetation for Curlew chicks
4️⃣ The eggs that don't hatch
There are already 160 wader/shorebird blogs in the catalogue:
wadertales.wordpress.com/abo…
#ornithology
📷 Hatching Curlew
Andy Paton @andypaton.bsky.social retweeted
By the time I got to the #Nutcracker twitch in #Mundesley #NorthNorfolk the bird had taken to a birch tree right at the bottom of the back garden of 22a, some 50 metres away, but I was still very happy and lucky to see it 😀
How is Donald Trump’s criticism of President Zelensky interpreted in Moscow? “Moscow perceives these words as a mandate to continue military pressure,” writes one Russian paper. I ask Muscovites to name one word that’s important to them, & read what Russian schoolkids are taught about “defence of the Motherland.” #ReadingRussia
Andy Paton @andypaton.bsky.social retweeted
It is now 37 years ago that the last episode of #Blackadder Goes Forth was screened. This TV gold concluded 3 hrs of unmatched of comedy to many of us. But there was a deeper message throughout encapsulated in this moving final scene.
Vid: BlackadderQtes
“Russia invaded Ukraine, committed atrocities in the territories it occupied, and when it failed to force the government to fall or achieve its aims on the battlefield, began targeting civilians, seeking to terrorize the population into accepting Russian domination. The first Trump Administration shook off the Obama Administration’s reticence to assist and admirably sent both weapons and military trainers to help Ukraine. After the full-scale invasion in 2022, the Biden Administration orchestrated a herculean international effort to assist Ukraine, which the Trump Administration has abandoned.”-@KoriSchake @AEI aei.org/foreign-and-defense-…
