Nigel Witham

Pigeons Post Apocalypse Feral pigeons nesting beneath the Eastgate Centre, Inverness. I found it sad.

@admired_art A Cassowary who let me live to tell

Dropping the Weekend Challenge a bit early! Let’s see our avian friends and all their vibrant glory.

This is what we’re fighting for ❤️🦊

BREAKING NEWS - We did it! 📢🦋 The use of neonicotinoid pesticides has been refused for this year. Thank you to the 42,601 supporters of the #ButterflyEmergency who helped make this happen. (1/4)

‘@WildJustice_org challenges Dartmoor Commoners’ Council in High Court to tackle deterioration of wildlife habitats’👏 Our national parks are wrecked by a tiny few whose ‘common’ grazing rights allow them continually to raze whole landscapes with their sheep. It would be easy for those with grazing rights in our national parks to transition away from highly destructive sheep ranching to a gentler, more traditional way of farming with native cattle, as was the case for centuries until just three or four generations ago. Being non native, the sheep themselves are miserable, dying in their droves from exposure and disease each year; nobody makes any money from sheep monocultures – it’s a hopeless business model; and the result for the rest of us is that our national parks are not worthy of the label. A wilder approach to farming in our national parks with native cattle instead of sheep, and an emphasis on nature recovery, is the best and only pathway to economic and social renewal in these remoter landscapes. Society is more than willing generously to support farmers in this transition under the new Environmental Land Management scheme. Change cannot come soon enough. Nothing ever changed in the past because of an endless flow of taxpayer-funded subsidies for the status quo. And as history shows over and over, an industry which lives for decades on an opioid drip of subsidy grows incapable of innovation. So we’re now told monocultures of sheep are the last and only ‘culture’ we can have in our national parks, forever, with no change countenanced. Forget the diverse, vibrant past of common land, the cutting of turf, collecting of fuel, honey, fruit and nuts, the domestic ponies, the ‘pannage’ putting out of pigs in the autumn - all gone, never to return. All we can have now is sheep in our national parks, in their tens of millions, forensically munching every last sprig of nature that emerges. Stuff that. The Commoners’ Councils are taking the rest of us for fools. If it takes a High Court action by one brave little NGO to move things along, so be it. wildjustice.org.uk/sssis/wild-jus…

A wild male Cassowary in Far North Queensland Self evidently he let me go

NEWS: Red kites and buzzards are being killed by misuse of rat poisons ☠️ Our new report, Collateral Damage, shows a Government scheme isn't working for wildlife. Today it's reported in @newscientist Read it here: newscientist.com/article/245564… @ChrisGPackham @RuthTingay @MarkAvery

@morrisonMSK @susie_dent Hillaryless :)

@susie_dent “Ruth rode on a motorbike Right in back of me I hit a bump at 65 And rode on ruthlessly”

Word of the day is a reminder of the lost positive ‘ruthful’ (13th century), in which ‘ruth’ means ‘compassion’.

Goodbye climate change 🌍 Hello superabundance 🚀 Here's how to eliminate 90% of greenhouse gas emissions in 15 years: hubs.li/Q02XsSGY0

QP/Share a photo of a squirrel in honor of "Peanut" the squirrel, euthanized by NYC for being a squirrel. #PeanutTheSquirrel

At the mouth of The River Conon at the end of Cromarty Firth just after sunup. Scotland is such a delight

@georgecmcgavin @DefraGovUK @DefraNature @Keir_Starmer For those with asthma or other breathing difficulties this is tantamount to an assault

@admired_art Singular Squirrel

Post a photo of one single object. Still standing… Here is mine

@admired_art Fine Balance

Got any reflection or symmetry photo? (Took this photo at a red light, from my car 😄)

@junctionbutte @admired_art No

@NigelWitham @admired_art A ninety degree rotation (counter clockwise) might be an interesting option for presentation Nigel.

Weekend Challenge: Share a photo that includes water – anything from oceans and rivers to rain. If you come across a photo you admire, take a moment to let the photographer know. A kind word can go a long way.

@admired_art @BrendleJosie Arrow Slit at Scotland’s End

Time for another ‘Shutter Spotlight,’ where I highlight a photographer to help them gain more exposure. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Photo by: @BrendleJosie Theme: Abandoned ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Show us what you’ve got 🙏 Don’t forget to engage and follow each other, and @BrendleJosie!

RT if you agree!

Ban driven grouse shooting - a Victorian sport that has transformed vast swathes of Britain’s ecosystems for the worse:

Anyway, here’s a gratuitous squirrel.