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@JayinKyiv Oh for a 🤣button instead of the ♥️

The Russian dictator hurries off stage into a waiting vehicle, after the shortest May 9th parade on record, with no military vehicles, and no world leaders of consequence AFTER begging Zelensky to allow it.

@CarlBovisNature The best birds have arrived 🎉

A gorgeous Swallow at Combwich in Somerset this afternnoon! 😍 Fantastic to have them back! 😀🐦

@SamaHoole True. I have a cardigan I knitted in 1990, age 21, with wool from the Isle of Skye. It’s in excellent condition, is wonderfully warm and I will probably be able to continue wearing it every winter for the rest of my life. Not a single man-made yarn has lasted well past 10 years.

A wool jumper, made in 1985, washed in cold water once a month, worn through three decades of British winters, would currently be sitting in someone's wardrobe doing fine. A polyester fleece, made in 2026, machine-washed weekly, will start to lose its structural integrity within three to five years, shed an estimated 700,000 microfibres per wash into the water system, and end its life in landfill where it will persist for approximately 200 years. The wool jumper: - Came from a sheep - Required grass and rain - Will biodegrade entirely within three years of being buried - Will keep you warm when wet - Will not melt if exposed to a flame - Will probably outlive you - Cost £80 in 1985, which is £230 today, and represents the entire jumper budget for the next forty years The polyester fleece: - Came from an oil refinery in Texas - Required hexane extraction, polymerisation and dyeing in three different factories on three different continents - Will not biodegrade in any human timeframe - Will get cold and clammy when wet - Will melt against your skin if exposed to a flame - Will be in landfill within five years - Cost £40 in 2026, which means you'll buy ten of them across the next forty years for a total of £400, and the planet will still be eating the residue in the year 2226 But yes. The sheep is the problem. The sheep, standing in a field in mid-Wales, growing a renewable fibre from grass and rain. The sheep is the problem.

@CarlBovisNature Quite a while ago, but I heard one from my back garden recently

When did you last see a Kingfisher? 😍🐦

@CarlBovisNature I’ve never seen one in my garden but the Merlin app thinks they are around

If you see this photo, please leave a comment! This is a beautiful Greenfinch.😍 Greenfinches have suffered a huge decline in the UK in recent years due to Trichomonosis, a fatal disease spread via contaminated food, water & bird feeders. When did you last see a Geenfinch?🐦

@SamaHoole Does Steve not know that goats can scale vertical surfaces? Clearly, Keith scaled the gate.

To: Dave Re: Keith (ongoing) Subject: Horticultural damages, behavioural patterns, and what I can only describe as premeditation Dave, I have now counted the damage to my ground elder across three separate occasions. The ground elder was established. I was managing the ground elder. The ground elder is gone. I did not ask for this outcome. I was not consulted. I also wish to raise the matter of Keith's expression when I found him on my property on Tuesday. I am not a person who attributes complex emotional states to livestock. I am a reasonable man. However the way he looked at me when I opened the back door was not the expression of an animal that was surprised to be discovered. It was the expression of an animal that was finishing. There is a difference. I would also like to formally request an explanation for the following: Tuesday 7:04am, my gate was latched. Tuesday 7:09am, Keith was in my garden. Tuesday 7:19am, Keith was gone and my gate was latched again. This should not be possible. I have looked up Anglo-Nubian goat cognition. I am now more concerned, not less. Please advise. Steve Dave did not advise. Dave added a column. The column is labelled: Steve. The column already has nine entries.

@KemiBadenoch @Conservatives This is a parody account, surely. There’s no other explanation for such laughable nonsense.

I will ban resident doctors and consultants from going on strike – as we already do for the Police and Armed Forces. Labour has chosen the unions over patients. The @Conservatives choose patients, because only we are serious about getting Britain working again.

@mrdeathbunny @spidercorns @nocontextmemes that’s the crux of the issue. It matters internally to you but not to us outside USA. It’s insufficient for international orders. For an order without your country in the address, I’d have to waste time to find out cos all I’d know is that it’s not a domestic order.

@spidercorns @nocontextmemes Many people here have never ordered international. The U.S is so damn big that our states might as well be their own countries. I live in one of the huge ones, and it takes almost 10 hours to cross by car. My point is mostly that what state you live in is what matters most here

@frontlinekit It’s beyond imagination for the majority of us who have never experienced war at first hand. Here’s a little video of a robin who has built a new nest in my work studio. I hope it gives you a little bit to smile about. Volume up to hear it sing as it comes in the window.

This week has been shit. This month has been shit. This year has been even worse. I can't wait until the fucking war is over, I feel just like Tosiya here. A heavy head, droopy eyes and wanting to fall asleep, but no, because the russians haven't fucked off yet!! 😤

@urbanponds101 Ooo is this from this year? Surely not yet 😮. My robin friend has brought his partner to visit my garden studio and she’s built a nest inside. 🤞 for babies

I suspect a tricky ‘can you ID this bird’ today ?

@TheKentAcorn One is always first by a good week or 2, which fascinates me because they are only a metre apart and the same age. They were probably teenagers when we moved here 26 years ago

@swallowmosaics Soon 🙂🌳

HOLD ON TO YOUR HATS, THE OAKS ARE AWAKE 🥳🌳🌳

@urbanponds101 Fabulous. Dead trees are great. I kept part of my dead sumac because the birds use it as a landing pad

So glad I propped my dead tree back up.....

@OrdnanceSurvey I always thought it should be rotated by 1.4 degrees

Today we’re thrilled to announce a trial of Adaptive Grid North - a rotated Grid North to future‑proof OS maps. To try it now, simply tilt your map (or your head). Dr Polly Axis says this may cut navigational ambiguity by 0.00003%. If you get lost, it’s now science-approved!

@frontlinekit Haha you had me for a second there

📢 We're moving to DUBAI 🥳 A huge thank you to everyone who has been with us throughout our four-year journey here in 🇺🇦 Ukraine. His Royal Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has invited me to lead 🇦🇪 Dubai's Anti-Drone Air Force. See you later, alligators 👋

Me, determined to get my coffee despite the air raid alert:

@urbanponds101 Sparrowhawk in my garden August 2025. She wasn’t very happy but managed to fly off eventually. Nearby we have kestrels nesting and I occasionally see a red kite in the air

When was the last time you saw a Bird of Prey, what was it? (Bonus points for pictures and/or video)

@NatalkaKyiv Opposed??? Stupid autoguess. Poised!!

@NatalkaKyiv Opposed, ready to click that “follow” button 🐈 (no lynx emoji so emergency cat instead)

I just emailed Kyiv Zoo asking them to create an account for Stepan the lynx on this platform. I think we could all use more Stepan content and learn about the other animals in the zoo too. Am I right, fellas?

@urbanponds101 One of the most gorgeous creatures in existence. Immortalised in my mosaic of Stanley the Stagbeetle all dressed up for the Bug Ball

How do we feel about Stag Beetles !?!