Recently retired from Limagrain. Author of Country Eye https://teapawt.net/t.co/GIpSsTSFVw and columnist for The Stamford Mercury on nature notes. All views are my own.
Lincolnshire UK
Joined November 2015
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Ian Misselbrook retweeted
Great news! @BBCFOUR4 will be marking Bill Oddie's unique wildlife TV career on the evening of Sunday 16th August: starting at 7pm with The Best of Bill Oddie Goes Wild, followed by Birding with Bill Oddie: Bill’s Beginnings, and finally Bill Oddie’s Top Ten Birds. Please RT!
The winter edition of Country Eye is now on line as well as all the earlier columns. To view go to country eye.org.uk
Wild Goose chase. Tongue End near Bourne, Lincs 1 Snow Goose, 3 Tundra Bean Geese, 14 White-fronted Geese c 180 Whooper Swans, 8 Bewicks and a Goosander.
Labour are backtracking on a plan to help save birds: by blocking a new rule that would make developers put a £35 nest brick in every new home. They think it'll help win them votes - we need to show it would do the opposite. Sign the petition 38d.gs/pa9y
Good bbs with quarry now no longer being worked. 26 birds and 4 mammals. My first garden warbler for the site in a scrubby area of a wood replanted after felling a few years ago. @Lincsbirding @_BTO @BTOLiincs
Drax Biomass Power Station is burning the equivalent of 27 million trees a year and getting paid public money to do it! Tell the UK government to stop subsidising forest destruction. act.gp/3CNWh2h
Due to difficulties with this , my old “Twitter “ I have opened an account on X as @IanMisselbrook. I hope to see you there!
Finally caught up with a Hawfinch today. Inevitably I did not have my camera with me as I was just walking up to the post office in Rippingale but did have my travel binoculars. @Lincsbirding @SLArchive @lincsbirders @BTO_Lincs
Peter Levy is the worst interviewer on the BBC. He does not listen to the interviewees and clearly has an objective to score points rather than listen to reasoned arguments.
Furthermore when is he going to realise that X replaced Twitter many months ago?!!
@peter_levy
4 species of shrike in Lesvos today including 3 Masked. Also Roller Bee eaters 2 each of Montague’s and Marsh Harrier Little Gull and 4 Slender billed Gulls. Also 4 Night Herons
Opal OCUGroup the contractors for Quickline are a bunch of cowboys. When installing fibre broadband in our street they cut off the water supply to our house and wrecked the grass verges. Despite numerous emails letters phone calls no compensation has been forthcoming.
It was good to catch up with some of South Lincolnshire’s rarer breeding birds today. I listened to purring Turtle Doves, rattling Lesser Whitethroats and got good views of Grey Partridges and this delightful Spotted Flycatcher.
The latest edition of Country Eye features fixes, a rare Bonaparte’s Gull, butterflies and flowers. To view go to countryeye.org.uk
