Mac
@scarpermac.bsky.social
East Yorkshire (VC61)-based Wildlife botherer: Birds and Moths in particular; Pan-Species Lister; music obsessed; Dad & Partner; No expert in all the above, working on it.
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A crypto investor just donated £9 million to the Reform Party. Right now, billionaires can pour unlimited money into our elections, effectively buying our democracy. Think that's wrong? Add your name to call for a cap on donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
Take Big Money Out of Our Politics
British politics is awash with money from super rich donors. In 2023, two-thirds of all private donations came from just 19 people. These so-called ‘mega donors’ enjoy privileged access to political p...
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December 8, 2025 at 8:28 PM
A crypto investor just donated £9 million to the Reform Party. Right now, billionaires can pour unlimited money into our elections, effectively buying our democracy. Think that's wrong? Add your name to call for a cap on donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
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📣Please share: We are looking for a field assistant to join our team in studying #ruffs on coastal meadows at Botnian Bay in Finland. The job will provide fantastic insights into lekking behaviour and provide essential skills in field ornithology. Details here www.bi.mpg.de/2790786/2512...
December 8, 2025 at 4:25 PM
📣Please share: We are looking for a field assistant to join our team in studying #ruffs on coastal meadows at Botnian Bay in Finland. The job will provide fantastic insights into lekking behaviour and provide essential skills in field ornithology. Details here www.bi.mpg.de/2790786/2512...
actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sal... End peat sales. A petition. Thankyou.
Sign the petition to end peat sales!
No more delays: Let's get peat out of gardens once and for all. The time for uncertainty has ended.
actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk
December 8, 2025 at 6:01 AM
actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sal... End peat sales. A petition. Thankyou.
A pretty quiet @webs-gsmp.bsky.social count. I'd hoped for more wildfowl or geese other than a notable increase in Coot, not much movement at all. Good ecent rainfall raised lake levels. Water Rail & Kingfisher not regularly seen so nice for the count #YorkshireBirding app.bto.org/birdtrack/pu...
Share your BirdTrack records with others over social media
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December 7, 2025 at 11:28 AM
A pretty quiet @webs-gsmp.bsky.social count. I'd hoped for more wildfowl or geese other than a notable increase in Coot, not much movement at all. Good ecent rainfall raised lake levels. Water Rail & Kingfisher not regularly seen so nice for the count #YorkshireBirding app.bto.org/birdtrack/pu...
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This Sunday is the December Priority Core Count! Did you know that in the 2023/24 WeBS year, December was the peak month for Brent Geese in Great Britain? You can find out more ➡️http://bto.org/webs-reporting
December 5, 2025 at 10:37 AM
This Sunday is the December Priority Core Count! Did you know that in the 2023/24 WeBS year, December was the peak month for Brent Geese in Great Britain? You can find out more ➡️http://bto.org/webs-reporting
A good post week courtesy of @joe-solo.bsky.social and Boss Tuneage
December 6, 2025 at 9:47 AM
A good post week courtesy of @joe-solo.bsky.social and Boss Tuneage
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FIFA just destroyed any last shreds of credibility it had and now stands fully exposed as a corrupt organisation prepared to suck up to anyone with power and money
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
Donald Trump: US president named inaugural Fifa Peace Prize winner
US President Donald Trump receives the inaugural Fifa Peace Prize before the draw for the 2026 Fifa World Cup.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 6, 2025 at 8:11 AM
FIFA just destroyed any last shreds of credibility it had and now stands fully exposed as a corrupt organisation prepared to suck up to anyone with power and money
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
Stood in the back garden this morning to listen to a Song Thrush singing and thought I heard a Redpoll. Stuck Merlin on to check. Think it's been at the whiskey !? #YorkshireBirding Hooded Crow AND American Robin 🤔
December 6, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Stood in the back garden this morning to listen to a Song Thrush singing and thought I heard a Redpoll. Stuck Merlin on to check. Think it's been at the whiskey !? #YorkshireBirding Hooded Crow AND American Robin 🤔
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We need immigration. 🚨
“For decades, nurses and midwives from around the world have brought invaluable skills to the NHS. It would be a disaster to lose that contribution to vital services."
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/05/collapse-in-number-of-overseas-nurses-coming-to-uk
“For decades, nurses and midwives from around the world have brought invaluable skills to the NHS. It would be a disaster to lose that contribution to vital services."
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/05/collapse-in-number-of-overseas-nurses-coming-to-uk
Rising racism blamed for collapse in number of foreign nurses coming to UK
Number of overseas nurses and midwives registered between April and September was half that of a year ago
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:16 PM
We need immigration. 🚨
“For decades, nurses and midwives from around the world have brought invaluable skills to the NHS. It would be a disaster to lose that contribution to vital services."
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/05/collapse-in-number-of-overseas-nurses-coming-to-uk
“For decades, nurses and midwives from around the world have brought invaluable skills to the NHS. It would be a disaster to lose that contribution to vital services."
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/05/collapse-in-number-of-overseas-nurses-coming-to-uk
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1/ The UK Biodiversity Indicators, some using BTO data, have been updated by Defra and @jncc.bsky.social ➡️ jncc.gov.uk/our-work/uk-...
Here’s how BTO contributes to these indicators, which show the state of #biodiversity, its pressures and conservation responses. ⬇️
Here’s how BTO contributes to these indicators, which show the state of #biodiversity, its pressures and conservation responses. ⬇️
December 2, 2025 at 7:12 PM
1/ The UK Biodiversity Indicators, some using BTO data, have been updated by Defra and @jncc.bsky.social ➡️ jncc.gov.uk/our-work/uk-...
Here’s how BTO contributes to these indicators, which show the state of #biodiversity, its pressures and conservation responses. ⬇️
Here’s how BTO contributes to these indicators, which show the state of #biodiversity, its pressures and conservation responses. ⬇️
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Build it & they will come!
Fundraising effort to install more nestboxes for Pied Flycatchers in north Sheffield - an initiaitive which has already shown great success
Can you help Wharncliffe Heath Trust get their appeal over the line this winter?
www.justgiving.com/campaign/pie...
#ukbirding
Fundraising effort to install more nestboxes for Pied Flycatchers in north Sheffield - an initiaitive which has already shown great success
Can you help Wharncliffe Heath Trust get their appeal over the line this winter?
www.justgiving.com/campaign/pie...
#ukbirding
Pied Flycatcher Box Appeal
Our reserve currently supports the highest number of pied flycatcher territories recorded at any site in South Yorkshire! We’re aiming to raise £600 to purchase 20 new bird boxes for our nest box sche...
www.justgiving.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Build it & they will come!
Fundraising effort to install more nestboxes for Pied Flycatchers in north Sheffield - an initiaitive which has already shown great success
Can you help Wharncliffe Heath Trust get their appeal over the line this winter?
www.justgiving.com/campaign/pie...
#ukbirding
Fundraising effort to install more nestboxes for Pied Flycatchers in north Sheffield - an initiaitive which has already shown great success
Can you help Wharncliffe Heath Trust get their appeal over the line this winter?
www.justgiving.com/campaign/pie...
#ukbirding
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LIMITED OFFER, FOLKS!!
Just 10 of these due to stock levels, but you can bag 'SONGS & VERSES' plus six of the children's books created Kevin Pearson and meself, for a bargain price of £20 all going to Pauline Town to help our PubHub through the winter.
joesolomusic.bandcamp.com/merch/songs-...
Just 10 of these due to stock levels, but you can bag 'SONGS & VERSES' plus six of the children's books created Kevin Pearson and meself, for a bargain price of £20 all going to Pauline Town to help our PubHub through the winter.
joesolomusic.bandcamp.com/merch/songs-...
November 30, 2025 at 10:24 AM
LIMITED OFFER, FOLKS!!
Just 10 of these due to stock levels, but you can bag 'SONGS & VERSES' plus six of the children's books created Kevin Pearson and meself, for a bargain price of £20 all going to Pauline Town to help our PubHub through the winter.
joesolomusic.bandcamp.com/merch/songs-...
Just 10 of these due to stock levels, but you can bag 'SONGS & VERSES' plus six of the children's books created Kevin Pearson and meself, for a bargain price of £20 all going to Pauline Town to help our PubHub through the winter.
joesolomusic.bandcamp.com/merch/songs-...
act.38degrees.org.uk/act/sack-rob...
Be good for us all if you'd sign 😁
Be good for us all if you'd sign 😁
Sack Sir Robbie Gibb from the BBC board
Robbie Gibb said if he doesn't get his way, he'll blow the BBC up. It's ridiculous that a man like that has a spot on the BBC's board. Our public broadcaster MUST be independent. Agree? Sign to get Gi...
act.38degrees.org.uk
November 26, 2025 at 4:15 PM
act.38degrees.org.uk/act/sack-rob...
Be good for us all if you'd sign 😁
Be good for us all if you'd sign 😁
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1/ 📢Looking for counters for the International Swan Census (ISC) on the weekend of 17th-18th January 2026 in Northumberland.
Please visit the vacant site map to request a site near you: app.bto.org/gsmp/public/...
#Ornithology #UKBirding
Please visit the vacant site map to request a site near you: app.bto.org/gsmp/public/...
#Ornithology #UKBirding
November 26, 2025 at 9:37 AM
1/ 📢Looking for counters for the International Swan Census (ISC) on the weekend of 17th-18th January 2026 in Northumberland.
Please visit the vacant site map to request a site near you: app.bto.org/gsmp/public/...
#Ornithology #UKBirding
Please visit the vacant site map to request a site near you: app.bto.org/gsmp/public/...
#Ornithology #UKBirding
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Exclusive: The BBC has issued an apology after one of its presenters failed to challenge a climate-sceptic lobbyist who runs a group that has received funding from fossil-fuel interests
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
BBC Apologises for Failing to Challenge 'Dark Money' Climate-Denial Lobbyist
EXCLUSIVE: BBC faces fresh allegations of bias after corporation admits interview with ‘Net Zero Watch’ lobbying chief Andrew Montford 'fell below usual standards'
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Exclusive: The BBC has issued an apology after one of its presenters failed to challenge a climate-sceptic lobbyist who runs a group that has received funding from fossil-fuel interests
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
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This must end. Please sign the petition 👇
November 25, 2025 at 10:20 PM
This must end. Please sign the petition 👇
I've just emailed my MP to tell them what nature means to me and that I want it to stay protected. Will you take action too?
action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/...
action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/...
Tell the UK Government they must do better for nature!
I've just emailed my MP to tell them what nature means to me and that I want it to stay protected. Will you take action too?
action.rspb.org.uk
November 26, 2025 at 6:22 AM
I've just emailed my MP to tell them what nature means to me and that I want it to stay protected. Will you take action too?
action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/...
action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/...
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🔴Reform UK’s ‘Cost Cutting’ Council Prepares to Raise Taxes After Presiding Over £46 Million Overspend
Nigel Farage’s flagship council, which promised to “reduce waste and cut your taxes” is set to raise bills after spending tens of millions of pounds over its budget
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/24/r...
Nigel Farage’s flagship council, which promised to “reduce waste and cut your taxes” is set to raise bills after spending tens of millions of pounds over its budget
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/24/r...
Reform UK's 'Cost Cutting' Council Prepares to Raise Taxes After Presiding Over £46 Million Overspend
Nigel Farage's flagship Kent County Council, which promised to "reduce waste and cut your taxes" is set to raise bills on local taxpayers, after spending tens of millions of pounds over its budget
bylinetimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
🔴Reform UK’s ‘Cost Cutting’ Council Prepares to Raise Taxes After Presiding Over £46 Million Overspend
Nigel Farage’s flagship council, which promised to “reduce waste and cut your taxes” is set to raise bills after spending tens of millions of pounds over its budget
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/24/r...
Nigel Farage’s flagship council, which promised to “reduce waste and cut your taxes” is set to raise bills after spending tens of millions of pounds over its budget
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/24/r...
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NEW: This is worth your time.
@thenerve_news has the receipts.
A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.
Please read & share.
@thenerve_news has the receipts.
A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.
Please read & share.
November 23, 2025 at 2:44 PM
NEW: This is worth your time.
@thenerve_news has the receipts.
A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.
Please read & share.
@thenerve_news has the receipts.
A comprehensive timeline of Nathan Gill & Nigel Farage’s pro-Kremlin influencing activities & 2 other MEPs, David Cobourn & Jonathan Arnott.
Please read & share.
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Not sure what to get for Christmas….then maybe a gift voucher would be ideal. It can be used to purchase one of our Birding Discovery Days or even a Seabirds and whales adventure. Head to our website www.yorkshirecoastnature.co.uk/products/cat...
Christmas sorted ✔️ 🎅 🎄
Christmas sorted ✔️ 🎅 🎄
November 22, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Not sure what to get for Christmas….then maybe a gift voucher would be ideal. It can be used to purchase one of our Birding Discovery Days or even a Seabirds and whales adventure. Head to our website www.yorkshirecoastnature.co.uk/products/cat...
Christmas sorted ✔️ 🎅 🎄
Christmas sorted ✔️ 🎅 🎄
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Farage, the UK "patriot" that "resides" in Belgium....
November 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Farage, the UK "patriot" that "resides" in Belgium....
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Appeal: I am looking for high quality photos of female and 1W Greater Scaup for a ID article. Can anyone help? PM me if you can. #ukbirding #vc55birds
November 21, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Appeal: I am looking for high quality photos of female and 1W Greater Scaup for a ID article. Can anyone help? PM me if you can. #ukbirding #vc55birds
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Turn Black Friday Green! Richards book helps Turtle Doves in North Yorkshire. 5% of sales go directly to our campaign www.gofundme.com/f/drinking-p... Buy here: www.yorkshirecoastnature.co.uk/products/139... Please share and help #TurtleDoves @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social @flamboroughbird.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Turn Black Friday Green! Richards book helps Turtle Doves in North Yorkshire. 5% of sales go directly to our campaign www.gofundme.com/f/drinking-p... Buy here: www.yorkshirecoastnature.co.uk/products/139... Please share and help #TurtleDoves @spurnbirdobs.bsky.social @flamboroughbird.bsky.social