Russell Boland

Field studies of Avocets at a superb looking @Barnsleybsg @RSPB_OldMoor Wombwell Ings this morning. Been trying to nail these birds for years! I think there's a bit of improvement here, but It's probably futile to think I'll ever get 'em right! Cheers

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Saunders’s Gull, Yangkou, Rudong Provence, China, May 2011.Whilst out on the mudflats scanning for Shorebirds I noticed a small group of these stunning Gulls fly in close and drop down right in front of me just as the incoming tide was about to push me back to the sea wall

Absolute state of this. The world is in turmoil, the country grinding to a halt. We are forced to live in the most febrile atmosphere. What else? The obscene cover-up of the grooming gangs. London: a filthy and failing country within a filthy and failing country, both altered beyond recognition. For Christ’s sake, there’s an Islamophobia tsar and a blasphemy law. Little by little, we are losing what meagre freedoms we once enjoyed. And in the post is perhaps the biggest recession since the 1930s. But guess what? The stupid twats at the BBC are outraged by a Bob Monkhouse gag. Scum. Utter and unrelenting scum.

Wind and rain in Italy…followed by wind and rain in England.....

@saunt_mick Was up at the coast yesterday and popped in to pay homage…40 years on👍

The world's largest colony of Audouin's Gull has become established in southern Portugal, with more than 7,000 nests recorded in 2024 within the Ria Formosa Natural Park in the Algarve: bit.ly/4cRZNLt

Great Britain

These retellings of classic tales are just getting out of hand now! Whats happened to Lady Bird publications?

Recent wander at Newbiggin

@sudswatcher @BarnsleyFC Palm trees in Blyth? Whatever next! 😲

@RussBoland @BarnsleyFC Let’s just say it’s sombre

Goalless at the break.

@sudswatcher @BarnsleyFC Drowning yer sorrows, pal? 😭

@RussBoland @BarnsleyFC “Soccerball”

My warning about the dire threat to Britain posed by Zack Polanski's cabaret grotesque. PLEASE watch, like and share the Youtube video. We have to get serious about mass immigration, Islamism and identity politics.👇 youtube.com/watch?v=bEkVb5…

Great White Egret Just flown over @Barnsleybsg Broadway towards the Worsbro' Valley at 08.15. House tick! 😀

I will not be wishing anybody Eid Mubarak, I won’t be visiting a mosque or wearing a veil. I will not fall for this assimilation crap which seeks to undermine the very fabric of this country and put Jews in harm’s way. Wake up! 🙄

Criminally Negligent. Andrew Neil's Words. Britain's Reality. Andrew Neil does not use language carelessly. Writing in the Daily Mail this morning, he describes Britain as stuck in an energy emergency with an oil and gas policy bordering on the criminally negligent, delivered by a bunch of clueless inadequates at the tiller. He is not reaching for effect. He is delivering a verdict. And the evidence he marshals is unanswerable. The Strait of Hormuz has been closed for the first time in history. Oil is heading toward two hundred dollars a barrel. Britain is facing the worst energy crisis since the Yom Kippur War of 1973. The International Energy Agency has described the supply disruption as the largest in history. And the government overseeing this catastrophe has spent the past year doing everything in its power to ensure Britain would be maximally exposed when it arrived. It closed North Sea oil and gas production. It borrowed against already strained public finances. It built an economic strategy on OBR forecasts that the energy crisis has already rendered obsolete. And it put the man most responsible for Britain's energy vulnerability, Ed Miliband, in charge of the response. The Miliband contradiction has been hiding in plain sight for months. He stood at the despatch box during the energy debate last year and warned that Britain was a price taker not a price maker in international fossil fuel markets, leaving it exposed to their volatility. He was right. He was also the man who ensured that exposure would be as severe as possible by closing down the domestic production that could have cushioned the blow. The North Sea fields that could have been producing. The coal beds that remain untouched. The nuclear capacity that was decommissioned in pursuit of net zero targets that now look like a luxury policy designed for a world that no longer exists. Miliband diagnosed the disease and administered the poison. Rachel Reeves now faces the consequences. The fiscal headroom she has been defending against every request for defence spending, every demand from the Treasury and every warning from military chiefs, is being wiped out not by defence costs alone but by the energy price shock her own government's choices made inevitable. Her foundations, as Neil puts it, are built on quicksand. The borrowing costs are rising at the fastest pace since the Liz Truss mini-budget. Foreign creditors are watching. The bond markets are watching. And the Chancellor is discovering that the numbers she has been citing as proof of fiscal responsibility were always dependent on a stable world that this government's foreign policy paralysis helped to destabilise. Neil makes one observation that connects the economic catastrophe to the political one with surgical precision. A stronger Prime Minister would have fired Miliband. He is right. The man who led the Cabinet revolt against supporting America, who blocked the use of Diego Garcia, who has spent a year dismantling Britain's energy independence and who stood at the despatch box admitting British households would pay the price, is still in his post. Still in the Cabinet. Still in the room. The reason Starmer has not fired him is the same reason he needed a drone on his own runway before he would act, the same reason he consulted his team on minesweepers and the same reason Britain is now a diminished, exposed and strategically paralysed country being described in its own press as a nation of clueless inadequates. He cannot afford to. The coalition that put him in power will not allow it. And so the inadequates remain at the tiller while Britain heads for the rocks. "Miliband diagnosed the disease and administered the poison. [...]. Rachel Reeves now faces the consequences."

@footballheaven @BBCSheffield No thanks. I'd rather listen to next door's fuckin dog yapping at 3 am.

🗣️ “If there’s moans and groans around top six and promotion, then there’s going to be loads of unrest and disconnect” 🔴 Barnsley head coach Conor Hourihane on fans frustrations after the 1-0 home defeat to Doncaster. 🎧👉 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0… #BarnsleyFC | @BBCSheffield

@AndyRobbins3 @BarnsleyFC 😀

@RussBoland @BarnsleyFC That 50 inch tv

@BarnsleyFC A complete embarrassment of a club. Awful ownership, shocking management team, rank bad squad. I said at the start of the season 12th to 15th and the fact that this may be optimistic is absolutely disgusting in this dog dirt division. Total rebuild required

@antclare78 Aye. As we stare longingly up at the likes of Stockport, Stevenage and Wycombe. Big clubs.

Seasons over. Thank god.

@dougokane88 We knew LG One survival would be the objective next season. He's just confirmed that.

CH on mid-table: "I'm absolutely fine with saying it. But we've got to be really realistic about where we are. I completely understand that we want to go for play-offs..but it's where we are as a football club right now and the size of squad and lot of youngsters and Davo leaving