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Chris Foster @hatbirder
Joined March 2011
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Chris Foster@hatbirder
6 Nov 2024
I've enjoyed most of the last 13 years or so in this mad place. Alternative social media in my profile - take care of yourselves and I hope to reconnect sometime somewhere down the road.
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Also note @UKLabour are going to raise the fare for this excellent service another 4.6% in the new year, because nothing says 'we support working people' like making it more expensive to get to work
Chris Foster@hatbirder
4 Nov 2024
I quit cycling through central Reading - too dangerous - now I go to @UniofReading via Earley station which means changing. This morning @GWRHelp conjured yet another 10 minute delay out of nothing, another missed connection and 30 mins wasted. And we wonder why everyone drives.
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I quit cycling through central Reading - too dangerous - now I go to @UniofReading via Earley station which means changing. This morning @GWRHelp conjured yet another 10 minute delay out of nothing, another missed connection and 30 mins wasted. And we wonder why everyone drives.
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Alex Lees@Alexander_Lees
2 Nov 2024
It's that time of year when around one million Redwings are arriving into the UK, their 'tseep' calls overhead drowned out by constant fireworks with their unknown lethal and sublethal impacts on migrant birds.
Alex Lees@Alexander_Lees
31 Dec 2021
The detonation of hundreds of thousands of tonnes of #fireworks to mark the #NewYear brings joy to millions whilst simultaneously contributing to atmospheric pollution, killing wildlife and causing considerable suffering to many people and their domestic animals. Thread🧵1/

ALT Fireworks Fourth Of July GIF

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Nicola Chester@nicolawriting
30 Oct 2024
We protested in the 90s, warning of this. We’ve come to accept ‘a month’s worth of rain fell in a few hours’ as new normal. A year’s worth of rain fell in 8 hours in #Valencia, killing people, wrecking lives. Everything we do now must powerfully include Climate, Justice, Nature..
Dave Throup@DaveThroup
30 Oct 2024
As the waters recede it’s not hard to see why so many have lost their lives in and around Valencia. Recovery will take years and cost billions.
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My favourite Halloween 'tradition' is sitting in a dark room pretending not to be home and not answering the door.
UoR BioSci@ReadingBioSci
24 Oct 2024
👻Its #SpookySeason, are you looking forward to Halloween next week? 🍬This #ThrowbackThursday we are showing you some ghostly picks from 2023 🎃Share your favourite Halloween tradition in the comments below #Halloween #GhostlyPicks #SpookyVibes #October31 @UniofReading
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Morning @reading_buses, would be helpful for the driver to let us know *before* getting on and tapping card that the bus isn't leaving for 15 minutes (Reading station just now). Thanks!
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Carys Cunningham@Carys_Cunn
18 Oct 2024
Super excited to announce that I passed my PhD viva this morning with minor corrections 🥳 massive thanks to my examiners @hatbirder and @jennycdunn for a really interesting discussion, and to my supervisors including @woodlandbirder @RobWJackson for the last five years! #PhDone
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Ah, that time of year when it's 16 degrees and super humid before 8am but because it was cold a couple of days ok all the trains and commercial buildings have the heating cranked up 🥵
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That'll be the same Dale Vince who told a crowd in London this summer (I know because I was there) that climate change is not a cause of biodiversity loss. If you have enough money you can buy your way onto a platform to speak as much nonsense as you like.
George Monbiot
@GeorgeMonbiot
12 Oct 2024
. @DaleVince is pushing Daily Mail-type falsehoods about heat pumps while promoting a much worse alternative: his highly damaging, ecologically illiterate attempt to turn millions of acres of the UK into biogas fields. I hope the government ignores him. theguardian.com/environment/…
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Started the day chatting with BBC local radio for @BerksBirdClub, now off to @UniofReading @ReadingBioSci open day. Then I shall need a break from being effusive and knowledgeable (it's all an act I tell you!)
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My other office at @UniofReading @ReadingBioSci with this year's @UniRdg_Ento MSc group. Field trips from our front door!
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Accidentally stumbled on this Steppe Grey Shrike (subsp of Great Grey) in Dunbar, Scotland last month, saw the cluster of lenses then the bird! Unlikely I'd have deliberately twitched this sad lost individual but getting this close to a wild shrike was rather cool.
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Nicola Chester@nicolawriting
2 Oct 2024
How much does it cost to buy here? It costs diverse, supportive, happy communities: priced out by weekenders & once-a-monthers of 2nd/3rd homes & AirBnBs who rarely contribute to community; schools closing & struggling, pubs, shops closing. Rolling hills full of pheasants & guns.
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Another 35% or so in just the last hour!
Chris Foster@hatbirder
26 Sep 2024
From @UniRdg_Met observatory data - Reading currently at 239% of average September rainfall with more to come met.reading.ac.uk/weatherdat…
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From @UniRdg_Met observatory data - Reading currently at 239% of average September rainfall with more to come met.reading.ac.uk/weatherdat…
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Meanwhile back in Berkshire
Chris Foster@hatbirder
19 Sep 2024
Who needs the Costa del Sol when you have the North Sea in September?
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Am on the east coast with an easterly wind in autumn for the first time in 14 years. So, where's all them rare birds? 🤔
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The answer is....not here
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