Rich Andrews

@chefodegeorgio @IOSTravelupdate @IOSTravel @AmeliaMills1 @IOSPS1 @scillygigs 🤢

Here she comes folks !!! Old faithful is at it again,what a vessel she’s been!⁦⁦@IOSTravelupdate⁩ ⁦@IOSTravel⁩ ❤️❤️⁦@AmeliaMills1⁩ ⁦@IOSPS1⁩ ⁦@scillygigs⁩

44 - Roy Hodgson today won his first game as Bristol City boss in 44 years and 35 days, since a 3-1 win over Preston in February 1982. Overdue.

@GlenOrioleglen @Jake_Gearty Died from blunt force trauma to the abdomen. Possibly flew into pipework/fencing on Newton Brook

@Jake_Gearty Seems it may have eaten a rat which may have been poisoned either along the river or in the Allotments, Jake. 😔

Very enjoyable afternoon ‘twitch’ just 30 mins from my place, point-to-point! Night Heron showed superbly well, so went back for another look this evening and re-found it down by the canal. Not fussed by our presence….and hoping it’s well enough to survive this cold spell. 🤞🏻

Sadly the BC night heron in Bath has been found dead this morning

It’s that time of year - folks asking us about #bumblebees - WHY THEY’RE SEEING THEM ON THE GROUND - so here’s a thread to explain. Please #retweet! Every queen that survives means a new colony that gets to exist & produce queen #bees for next year! So important to #share! 1/9

A Danish scientist counted bugs on the same windshield, same road, same conditions, every year for 20 years. By year 20, 80% of the insects were gone. In Germany, a group of volunteer bug scientists did something even bigger. They set traps in 63 nature reserves, not farms, protected land, and weighed everything they caught. Same traps, same method, 27 years straight. The total weight of flying bugs dropped 76%. In midsummer, when insects should be peaking, it was 82% gone. A follow-up in 2020 and 2021 checked again. No recovery. In the UK, they literally ask drivers to count splats on their license plates after a trip. The 2024 count came back 63% lower than just 2021. Three years. A 2020 study pulled together 166 surveys from 1,676 locations around the world. Land insects are disappearing at roughly 9% every ten years. Here’s where it hits your plate. About 75% of the food crops we grow depend on insects to pollinate them, everything from apples to almonds to coffee. One 2025 study modeled what a full pollinator collapse would look like: food prices jump 30%, the global economy takes a $729 billion hit, and the world loses 8% of its Vitamin A supply. Birds are already feeling it. North America has lost 2.9 billion birds since 1970. A study from just weeks ago found half of 261 bird species on the continent are now in serious decline, and the losses are speeding up in farming regions. The birds that eat insects lost 2.9 billion. The birds that don’t eat insects? They gained 26 million. That ratio tells the whole story. One of the German researchers behind the 27-year study drives a Land Rover. He says it has the aerodynamics of a refrigerator. It stays clean now.

Kamchatka Gull #5 Plus a couple of birds past Cape Nosappu

Kamchatka Gull #4

Obviously the highlight of any trip to Japan is the chance to see Kamchatka Gull. We found a small group on the Notsuke peninsula. As there doesn't seem to be many pics of this taxon on X, a few to follow for those interested in such frippery...

@bri66thomp no

@CVLbirding Is the 4th pic the Cheddar bird🤔🤣🤣

For those who might be interested in such things, a few P. g. holbollii that I photographed recently

Currently in Japan on important thrush-business with @Juddhunt1 @PortlyLeader

@AllanConlin @Juddhunt1 That's less than he usually leaves behind 😄

@Juddhunt1 🤣🍑

Messrs Elliot , Humphreys , McKee & me celebrating the end of my 25/26 #Antarctica season. Negotiating BA traffic and 33'C heat with cases and a hangover not recommended 😉🥴 Great to have them on board and good look to them as they cross to the North Atlantic . 🌊🌊🌊

@AllanConlin 🐧🐧🐧

Some extra ordinary summer time weather here in #Antarctica at the moment. Flat calm seas creating mirror like conditions . 🐧🐧🐧

Final batch of the Antarctic cruise, only a year after I took them I still have all the Falklands and Argentina stuff to do 🙃 flickr.com/photos/richand…

Still going at it with the Antarctica pics... flickr.com/photos/richand…

Amazing to think you used to be able to catch a train to Portland! youtube.com/watch?v=ZF_GIG…

@sophiegreenart Somebody else did that too... youtube.com/watch?v=yEYRoX…

What is it about cats that DEMAND you sing songs about them. I sing riddles, rhymes, rhapsodies about her triangular ears, her toe beans, her chonky cheeks. I sing to her while she sleeps, I sing about her when she’s not even in the house. I think she likes it.