Retired Man of Kent living in Herts. Bird both counties but mostly N. Kent, Hoo Peninsula. Avid BTO surveyor, on KOS & HBC Committees. Love real ale & pubs!
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Murray Orchard retweeted
I warned the Office for Environmental Protection that polluters were paying cash to trash nature and potentially breaching the law.
The @OfficeforEP has echoed my concerns that the first scheme under the new Planning Act risks worse outcomes for nature.
This must not go ahead.
Murray Orchard retweeted
You can read much more at rbbp.org.uk/2024-report-over… including a species-by-species summary table, and species’ trends tables for the UK, England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Murray Orchard retweeted
Cheers to Faversham! 🍻
Our brewery’s hometown has been named the fourth-best destination in Europe for beer lovers, and the highest-ranked in the UK! 👏
Discover what makes Faversham so special in the latest @Kent_Online article.
Murray Orchard retweeted
Thursday’s talk at Sandwich Bay Bird Obs is by Barry Wright - all welcome
#SBBOT #kentbirding
Murray Orchard retweeted
The latest Rare Breeding Birds Panel report confirms that Blyth’s Reed Warbler has bred in the UK for the first time, the first Temminck’s Stint chicks since 1993 and the return of breeding Montagu’s Harriers.
Read now: britishbirds.co.uk/journal/a…
Fantastic to see how our rarer breeding birds are doing. Some amazing and surprising trends, and worrying ones too.
Only possible if birders take time to submit meaningful records, with breeding evidence🙏 Without that…..?
Good to see Kent’s contribution in perspective. Thanks.
The Rare Breeding Birds Panel’s new report, ‘Rare Breeding Birds in the UK in 2024’, is out now in @britishbirds #ornithology #birds
ALT Front cover of the November issue of British Birds, featuring a displaying male Goldeneye
Yippee…this is the one I’ve been waiting for - UK RBBP report!😊
The latest edition of British Birds journal is now available to read online!
Packed with fascinating content, including reviews, reports, news and comment section.
Read the latest edition digitally now at: britishbirds.co.uk
📸Cover by David Tipling
Halloween walk around Standon this afternoon. Calm and sunny….but shockingly bird-less. Did see 120 Starlings, a Kestrel and a pair of Egyptian Geese🙄
Not a winter thrush in sight!?
Be glad when I can drive again!
(recent eye op, so out of action for a few weeks😩).
Murray Orchard retweeted
Scottish Ministers have rejected a second proposal to build an 18-hole golf course at Coul Links, one of Scotland's most important coastal wildlife sites, following a public inquiry that recommended refusal: bit.ly/4sMZY0F
Murray Orchard retweeted
Birders around the world are being encouraged to take part in the 13th Wader Conservation World Watch on 31 October and 1 November, recording the waders they see and celebrating those working to conserve them: bit.ly/3UkuQZi
N Herts. A stunning autumn day today😊 Our local chalk stream, the River Rib, still flowing. Others have suffered this year. Not sure of water quality, but a dashing Kingfisher flew under the bridge, so hopefully fairly healthy. Skylark overhead and young Buzzard still calling.
Murray Orchard retweeted
A remarkable birding achievement: all 19 species of raptors and owls that breed in England have been recorded at Wild Ken Hill in Norfolk this year!
Read more: britishbirds.co.uk/news/all-…
📸David Tipling
I just signed the open letter calling for an independent commission to scrutinise tidal energy generation in the Mersey Estuary. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/… @CheshireWT
Murray Orchard retweeted
The amount Jackdaw will cut bills: £0
The number of jobs it will support: 27
The net cost of Jackdaw & Rosebank to our economy: at least £90 billion.
Life's too short to pretend that calls to drill baby drill are anything other but a fast track for us all to burn baby burn.
Murray Orchard retweeted
KOS Weekly Highlights: an excellent and very busy week in Kent, with Pied Wheatear, Pallid Harrier, Hume’s Warbler, Cory’s Shearwater, confiding Lapland Buntings and much more! See full report on kentos.org.uk. #kentbirding
Murray Orchard retweeted
I wrote to the Government with cross-party MPs last night opposing this decision.
Rosebank and Jackdaw won’t cut bills they'll just boost profits of fossil fuel giants.
If every country pursues its own deluded self interest the costs of climate breakdown will be unbearable.
Energy Secretary @Miatsf has agreed that the regulator can grant consent for gas to be produced at the licensed Jackdaw field.
Gas from Jackdaw is expected to start reaching British homes and businesses as early as the end of this month.
ALT Jackdaw gas field gets green light to begin production
Murray Orchard retweeted
The Planning Act promised a win-win for nature and housing.
But the first scheme under these new rules now risks killing chalk streams and appears to breach the law.
The Office for Environmental Protection must step in before a "pay cash to trash" precedent is set.
