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WRI Climate @wriclimate.bsky.social · 19h

What does crossing 1.5°C really mean for our planet, our economies, and our lives? And why is it still possible to change course? 🌡️🌍

Watch this quick explainer — then dive deeper into the data and pathways forward. Read the full breakdown: go.wri.org/criticalwarm...

#WRIExplains

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Chris Hassall @katatrepsis.bsky.social · 17h

I have a #PhD project advertised on "Hacking Urban Habitability: A Data-Driven Network Approach to Build Thriving Cities for All Species" led by @rogercre.bsky.social. It should be a LOT of fund and would suit a creative graduate who can think in space and systems yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/hac...

Hacking Urban Habitability: A Data-Driven Network Approach to Build Thriving Cities for All Species - Yorkshire Environmental Sciences • Doctoral Training Network

Reimagine our cities as thriving, equitable ecosystems for all life, pioneer a novel network-driven framework for urban habitability at the critical interface of ecological resilience and human wellbe...

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wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 7d

Watching the antics of the mute swans, I noticed a lovely female wheatear (barely discernible in video) catching insects amongst the vegetation. The marina's 2nd of autumn, briefly joined by a grey wagtail.
Once again, the council not spraying here ATM has paid off for the wildlife.
#UKbirding

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wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 8d

Peregrine, ravens, kestrel, curlews, little egrets, LTTs, lots of mipits and singing robins the highlights during a brief visit to Hale Marsh at high tide.
#UKbirding

A very grey sky and river with a yacht going past the Runcorn Bridge.

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wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 8d

Wow!
It's cloudy here now, but there was a nice reflection on the water at Liverpool Marina earlier. No moondogs, though.

(📸 - through glass)

The full moon shining in a dark sky and reflected in the dark water of a marina, with boardwalks and boats surrounding it.

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wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 11d

Liverpool Marina mute swans enjoying a brisk bathe. The two cygnets have been practising their wing flapping 🤍🤍
#UKbirding

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wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 12d

I love a challenge, so I had a look and found it for sale here, if that's any help:
www.whatsinastory.co.uk/shop

Shop | What's in a story?

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UK Wild Otter Trust 🦦 @ukwildottertrust.bsky.social · 13d

This morning, our Founder and CEO Dave Webb is sharing some difficult news.

“On September 18th, we were given four months’ notice to leave our home and six months' notice to dismantle and move all otter centre materials, animals, and associated equipment.

Save Our Charity: Statement from CEO Dave Webb - UK Wild Otter Trust

“I’m sharing difficult news on behalf of the UK Wild Otter Trust – news that has left me and our volunteers devastated. As some supporters know, my wife and I […]

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wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 19d

The kingfisher is having a good morning at Liverpool Marina.
Pity the video doesn't do him justice!
#UKbirding

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wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 20d

Great to have my expert guide by my side 🤗

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wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 20d

Had a great morning at Speke & Garston Coastal Reserve with @birderjack.bsky.social 🌞
Walked 3 miles for 1st time since accident in May (am exhausted now!)
Birding highlights: kestrel, buzzards, sparrowhawk, stonechats, mipits, chiffchaff, swallows, ringed plover, golden plover, etc.
#UKbirding

Blue sky and fluffy white clouds above the Mersey Estuary, with an inlet cutting through grasslands.

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wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 20d

Gave an informal talk on autumn bird migration to the UK to the Stroke and Brain Injury Group at Growing Sudley last week, and was given these lovely home-grown dahlias in return 💐

A sheet containing 6 photos of birds that migrate to the UK in the autumn.

Various dahlias in a vase on a tiled surface.

A woven raised Hugel bed full of plants, with trees behind.

A woven raised Hugel bed containing plants, with trees behind.

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Julian Hughes @penrhynbirder.bsky.social · 21d

Interesting read about timing and distance of migration by Common Scoters.

Also confirms important role of Irish Sea/Liverpool Bay for Icelandic breeding population as well as those from eastern Europe that are vismigged across northern England each spring and autumn.

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wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 21d

Me: "Ah, how peaceful it is here."
Canada geese: "We'll see about that."

Also, Cetti's, 2 ravens, 6 buzzards, kestrel, little egrets, dunlin and redshank flocks, etc., and my first pinkies of the autumn.
Down Within Way.
#UKbirding

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wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 25d

My dad, too - plus the whistling!

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wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 25d

Thanks 😊
I look every day from the beginning of September, as one usually turns up for the winter, and today was the day 🩵

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wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 25d

Kingfisher (and mallard) at Liverpool Marina this morning 😊
#UKbirding

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wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · 29d

Decided on a whim to walk up to Fairy Glen rather than round Sefton Park lake, and was lucky enough to see the kingfisher 🩵
(Obviously not in the photo, but there is a grey heron lurking in an unusual place!)
Lots of swallows and house martins hunting over the fields, too.
#UKbirding

Trees and shrubs under a pale sky. A grey heron lurks somewhere in the scene.

Russet autumn leaves on a green field, with trees around it. Swallows and house martins hunt overhead, out of shot.

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wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · Sep 13

Thanks for the clarification 👍

wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · Sep 13

Not a great photo, but when I saw the bird I was convinced it was a feral pigeon-woodpigeon hybrid based on the the head, beak and bulk. A quick Google suggests such interbreeding doesn't occur, though.
Any thoughts @willjsmith.bsky.social
#UKbirding

A bird that looks like a cross between a feral pigeon and a woodpigeon; it has a large, reddish body, white wing tips and tail, and a woodpigeon's face and beak.

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wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · Sep 12

Spent a lovely few hours on the #allotment, mainly sitting and taking it all in. Singing chiffchaff, sparrowhawk chased by a crow, screeching jay, GSW, blue and great tits, blackbird, robin; still lots of pollinators enjoying the field scabious; butterflies and dragonfly 💚

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Emma Cameron @ecameron.bsky.social · Sep 10

Butterflies need our help.
If you’re in the UK please sign and share.
🦋
@savebutterflies.bsky.social
#pesticides
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wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · Sep 11

Sounds fascinating 👌

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Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · Sep 10

I have another #buyastrangerabook day offer to tell you about.

@61jab.bsky.social is offering to buy a book for a child, up to £10!

So if there's something you have in mind (anything at all, not just what's on my website), get in touch!

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Big Green Books (Simon) @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · Sep 10

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It's #buyastrangerabook day.

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I'll give out TWO books.

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If you'd like one, let me know.

Also, if you'd like to #BuyAStrangerABook too, let me know.

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wordsanddeeds.bsky.social @wordsanddeeds.bsky.social · Sep 8

Limped down Within Way to the dogleg and back this morning, and was lucky enough to see a male marsh harrier 🌞
Other highlights: kestrel, buzzard, raven, grey partridge family, swallows and house martins.

Blue sky and fluffy white clouds, a distant estuary, and a grassy field.

Blue sky and fluffy white clouds, trees, gravestones.

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