Anna Hughes
@diybirder.bsky.social
Leftie birder retired Brit lives rural France
Do Euro butterflies and moths also an artist. Cycling follower. Please don't follow unless naturalist or personal friend as I really do BLOCK strangers
Do Euro butterflies and moths also an artist. Cycling follower. Please don't follow unless naturalist or personal friend as I really do BLOCK strangers
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Anna Hughes
@diybirder.bsky.social
· Mar 25
I keep forgetting to post here in order to get some momentum. For all nature lovers this beautiful plant was by a roadside in Andalusia. SPANISH fritillary. #wildflora
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Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks:
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
November 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Breaking: An Epstein survivor just silenced press conference attendees when she delivered the following remarks:
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
“Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government belongs to the American people, or to those who prey on them.”
Nice to see new Art ## so better post something Art#
November 16, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Nice to see new Art ## so better post something Art#
Some time ago we read about a similar micro to Rusty Dot Pearl. Can anyone give us a name as being in France we may get it but can't find it's name. Thanks. #teammoth
November 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Some time ago we read about a similar micro to Rusty Dot Pearl. Can anyone give us a name as being in France we may get it but can't find it's name. Thanks. #teammoth
Pleasantly rare Southern Brindled Green today in trap of about 8 moths altogether We’ve had it before though. See atlas published some 8 years ago #teammoth
November 2, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Pleasantly rare Southern Brindled Green today in trap of about 8 moths altogether We’ve had it before though. See atlas published some 8 years ago #teammoth
After four weeks away noticed this newt swimming in empty jam jar just outside the back door. Think it’s a smooth newt lots of orange underneath and it seemed very active and healthy. However longs it been there and how on earth did it get there ?Released to near the pond. #amphibians #newts
October 27, 2025 at 3:31 PM
After four weeks away noticed this newt swimming in empty jam jar just outside the back door. Think it’s a smooth newt lots of orange underneath and it seemed very active and healthy. However longs it been there and how on earth did it get there ?Released to near the pond. #amphibians #newts
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This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.
October 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.
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Watch this.
Open your eyes to this brutality.
ICE beats up, drags & abducts this disabled visually impaired man.
Now share this.
Everyone must see the brutality of this administration & ask themselves what they are doing to push back.
You have power.
Even sharing this video exerts that power.
Open your eyes to this brutality.
ICE beats up, drags & abducts this disabled visually impaired man.
Now share this.
Everyone must see the brutality of this administration & ask themselves what they are doing to push back.
You have power.
Even sharing this video exerts that power.
October 24, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Watch this.
Open your eyes to this brutality.
ICE beats up, drags & abducts this disabled visually impaired man.
Now share this.
Everyone must see the brutality of this administration & ask themselves what they are doing to push back.
You have power.
Even sharing this video exerts that power.
Open your eyes to this brutality.
ICE beats up, drags & abducts this disabled visually impaired man.
Now share this.
Everyone must see the brutality of this administration & ask themselves what they are doing to push back.
You have power.
Even sharing this video exerts that power.
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It all kicked off yesterday afternoon on North Ron with a Radde’s Warbler trapped at the obs! And then a Northern Bullfinch caught at HH
I didn’t think it could get any better until Alison and I found this Black-throated Thrush in a net during the roost catch!
#BirdingScotland
#OrkneyBirding
I didn’t think it could get any better until Alison and I found this Black-throated Thrush in a net during the roost catch!
#BirdingScotland
#OrkneyBirding
October 24, 2025 at 6:39 AM
It all kicked off yesterday afternoon on North Ron with a Radde’s Warbler trapped at the obs! And then a Northern Bullfinch caught at HH
I didn’t think it could get any better until Alison and I found this Black-throated Thrush in a net during the roost catch!
#BirdingScotland
#OrkneyBirding
I didn’t think it could get any better until Alison and I found this Black-throated Thrush in a net during the roost catch!
#BirdingScotland
#OrkneyBirding
October 21, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Another final sundown on Scilly looking out at the harbour of St Marys’ now 40 Octobers here wow how lucky we birders are #ukbirding
October 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Another final sundown on Scilly looking out at the harbour of St Marys’ now 40 Octobers here wow how lucky we birders are #ukbirding
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Enjoyed a lunchtime visit to the bottom of Dengemarsh Gully, Dungeness for a gorgeous Pallas’s Warbler found by Stephen Message…
Even I was able to capture the bird in a wonderful ‘habitat shot’ and the classic ‘hovering yellow rump’ shot 🫣
#kentbirding
#rarebirdsuk
Even I was able to capture the bird in a wonderful ‘habitat shot’ and the classic ‘hovering yellow rump’ shot 🫣
#kentbirding
#rarebirdsuk
October 17, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Enjoyed a lunchtime visit to the bottom of Dengemarsh Gully, Dungeness for a gorgeous Pallas’s Warbler found by Stephen Message…
Even I was able to capture the bird in a wonderful ‘habitat shot’ and the classic ‘hovering yellow rump’ shot 🫣
#kentbirding
#rarebirdsuk
Even I was able to capture the bird in a wonderful ‘habitat shot’ and the classic ‘hovering yellow rump’ shot 🫣
#kentbirding
#rarebirdsuk
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Government U-turns on support for bird-friendly swift bricks in new homes
Government U-turns on support for bird-friendly swift bricks in new homes
Steve Reed previously said he was in favour of requiring one hollow brick for cavity-nesting creatures in every new-build
The government is refusing to support a new amendment to install a swift brick in every new home, in a U-turn for Steve Reed after becoming housing secretary.
As environment secretary, Reed told campaigner Hannah Bourne-Taylor she was “pushing at an open door” and he and others had wanted to add to the party’s manifesto her proposal that developers must include a £35 hollow brick in every new home. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 17, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Government U-turns on support for bird-friendly swift bricks in new homes
September 21, 2025 at 9:35 AM
What a lot of rubbish poor Starmer keeping a straight face
September 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
What a lot of rubbish poor Starmer keeping a straight face
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Why are Israeli arms dealers being given permission to set up stall in London?
Surely there must be some sort of licensing law that could be used to stop the exhibitors from attending if the will were there? And if so, and it's not being used, that's deliberate.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Surely there must be some sort of licensing law that could be used to stop the exhibitors from attending if the will were there? And if so, and it's not being used, that's deliberate.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
September 9, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Why are Israeli arms dealers being given permission to set up stall in London?
Surely there must be some sort of licensing law that could be used to stop the exhibitors from attending if the will were there? And if so, and it's not being used, that's deliberate.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Surely there must be some sort of licensing law that could be used to stop the exhibitors from attending if the will were there? And if so, and it's not being used, that's deliberate.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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There is, as of right now, no coverage of this protest on the WaPo website or in their @washingtonpost.com feed.
So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.
So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.
People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC
September 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
There is, as of right now, no coverage of this protest on the WaPo website or in their @washingtonpost.com feed.
So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.
So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.
At last today a Radfords flame shoulder here in Normandy …all that peering at other peoples’ on Scilly paid off as immediately recognised possibly first for our Dept certainly first for here. Await recorders view but white hairs seen ! #teammoth
September 3, 2025 at 1:45 PM
At last today a Radfords flame shoulder here in Normandy …all that peering at other peoples’ on Scilly paid off as immediately recognised possibly first for our Dept certainly first for here. Await recorders view but white hairs seen ! #teammoth
Annually now here in Normandy the everlasting pea attracts a long tailed blue . This years one or ones are very skittish and now seem gone #butterflies
September 2, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Annually now here in Normandy the everlasting pea attracts a long tailed blue . This years one or ones are very skittish and now seem gone #butterflies
Some butterflies from near Mende
False and tree Grayling on a find of wild chives #eurobutterflies
False and tree Grayling on a find of wild chives #eurobutterflies
August 26, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Some butterflies from near Mende
False and tree Grayling on a find of wild chives #eurobutterflies
False and tree Grayling on a find of wild chives #eurobutterflies
The garden has produced two different butterflies this week
At last a long tailed blue this year on the especially planted everlasting peas and a very tatty silver washed Fritillary #eurobutterflies
At last a long tailed blue this year on the especially planted everlasting peas and a very tatty silver washed Fritillary #eurobutterflies
August 17, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The garden has produced two different butterflies this week
At last a long tailed blue this year on the especially planted everlasting peas and a very tatty silver washed Fritillary #eurobutterflies
At last a long tailed blue this year on the especially planted everlasting peas and a very tatty silver washed Fritillary #eurobutterflies
