Simon Wicks

@CaptainSensible You called out the 'hairy cornflake ' too, as I recall.

Yes, I called out #AndrewMountbattenWindsor in that song back in 1982 but I don't have any particularly perceptive powers.. it was just fairly obvious at the time that the bloke was a wrongun. 🤮

@FavColour_Green So depressing

Couldn't be more disappointed

@CaptainSensible @thedamned Ah, looks like Teignmouth to me 👍🏻

Just time for a days trainspotting in the West Country before heading to Worksop for the last June @thedamned show. JUN 22 Stone Valley, Midlands AUG 8 Aylesbury AUG 10 Stone Valley, Durham AUG 11 Bludfest AUG 16 Beautiful Days fest AUG 17 Belfast

@andyrumming @curlewcalls Henry Titcombe

I bought this old (1973) unopened map for 50p. Not only is it one of my favourite areas of the country, the cover is fabulous. Anyone know the artist “HT” #curlew @curlewcalls

@WeHaveWaysPod Hi folks, old boy brought this up the pub last night (not his). Can't find any references on the Internet. Am I assuming it's a Dieppe veterans pin? Is the crab a reference to Sherman flail tanks? It was small about 1cm across. Thanks

@RingersWm @SuttonParkNNR @BASCnews @ScarecrowNeste1 @upstarts1979 @john31804964 @NWNfkStonechats @Natures_Voice Looks like Hedgehog

Our Stonechat nests this year, we’ve had 2 predated. ZK’s nest was checked yesterday as birds should have fledged a few days earlier and unfortunately found all birds predated, with only their legs and rings left. We think the bottom left picture is poo, can anyone identify it?

@James1940 @JLewisStempel @Natures_Voice Yes, Nightingale!

I think this is a nightingale. Can anyone confirm?? ⁦@JLewisStempel⁩ ⁦@Natures_Voice⁩

@Sherriffs_UK Wtf!!?

What the hell is this sh*t?!

@bobp556 @mattthesparrow @WiltsBirdClub @RichBond11 @Sarahseeksbirds A nice female too!

The Salisbury Plain did it again. We ringed 240 birds including not 1 but 2 Nightjars! Also, the first Nightingale for a few years, Redstart, Tree Pipit, 3 Grasshopper Warblers, 40 Willow Warblers & 10 Garden Warblers. Brilliantly topped off with my first ever Brown Hairstreak.

@TheFlash53 @IoloWilliams2 @ChrisGPackham Juvenile Starling.

@_anna_field_ @thewholetree @WoodlandTrust Is it just on one side Anna? Can be genetic, or distortions due to exposure to winds.

@kevin_rushby @mattthesparrow Yes, responds well to coppicing and pollarding.

@mattthesparrow Black alder is the one. Grows fast too.

Hi folks, In our area Siskins & Redpolls feed on larch but the larch is being felled due to disease. I want to encourage planting to replace larch. Those of you who live where Siskins, Redpoll & Crossbills are numerous can you please advise what trees these birds are feeding on?

@isabella_tree @NaturalEngland @KneppSafaris Dropping the word 'scrub' would be a good start. Diverse/mixed shrubland could be an improvement. 'Scrub' has negative connotations for some that they just can't get over.

Under the new DEFRA metric brambles, ragwort and thorny scrub indicate degraded land. Much of Knepp would barely register for biodiversity. Something wrong there. @NaturalEngland @KneppSafaris

@guywalters Female Slow Worm

Who knows their snakes?

@NSluman @SwindonWS Both appeared at Swindon Lagoons along with Oystercatcher this afternoon.

Patch ticked Greylag Goose at Mouldon Hill this morning amongst 45 species. Also lots of song now with 18 Chiffchaff, 30 Robin, 21 Dunnock, 31 Blackbird & 28 Wren @SwindonWS #wiltsbirds

@nigel_pleass @SteveMayhem08 @WiltsBirdNews @BTO_Wilts A pair over the Lagoons a couple of years ago.

@SteveMayhem08 @WiltsBirdNews @BTO_Wilts Had hoped it would of departed by now😒Just hope it doesn't find a mate🤞scarce bird in Herts a few years ago, they now have 800+ birds roosting in Welwyn Garden City🙄

Ring-necked Parakeet on Shaw Ridge Swindon 16:10 on Christmas Day. I have seen or heard one 3 times this last week @WiltsBirdNews @BTO_Wilts

@KayeTatton @pinstripedline Yes, whilst using a photo depicting the 10th 'Irish' Division at Gallipoli in the summer of 1915..

@pinstripedline They’re going for the ‘it was worse in the trenches in 1914’ line.

As we find ourselves cut off from the world, isolated and standing alone, isn't it strange just how quiet all the 'back in 1940 we stood alone against the world and it was awesome' brigade are...

@MatthewOates76 I'm not sure Prince Leszek I, the High Duke of Poland, would agree. He got bumped off at a ducal gathering at Gasawa that year.

Saturn directly above a much brighter Jupiter low, in the SW sky this early evening. Tomorrow they'll almost merge (if it's not raining and there's not buildings etc. blocking the view), the closest conjunction since 1226. Don't worry nothing happened in 1227

@ScrubUpBritain Great work!

It's that time of year when we reminisce on the work we have carried out over previous winters. All in aid of scrubland creation & creating thicker, denser & impenetrable scrub! A stark, shaded & ecologically poor area of woodland = transformed into a rich, bright wildlife haven!