Up in the crags looking down on everything tonight. When the wind, rain, sleet or hail aren’t horizontal there are definitely worse places to watch the sun set. #curlew

It’s time. #seatrout

Planning to visit our reservoirs? Unauthorised access is dangerous and can be fatal. Please remember: ❌ No unauthorised swimming ❌ No unauthorised water sport activities ❌ No inflatables Reservoir Safety: dwrcymru.com/reservoirsafety

I want this to work, and to be a success. I sincerely hope it doesn't become another distortion of reality where (for example) 'all squirrel lives matter'. theguardian.com/education/20…

On this day in 2021, I wrote: "British Curlew need to fledge 10,000 more youngsters - every year", based on survival/productivity figures in what was then a new paper. More here: wadertales.wordpress.com/202… The figure has been much quoted (and not disputed) #ornithology

Again this year we see no shortage of gulls visiting our moors to predate on the chicks. In the background you can hear curlews and lapwings in distress, trying to chase the gulls off. Unfortunately they are outnumbered. 🎞️ Courtesy of Calderdale Moorland Group

🌳Help gather evidence on grey squirrel bark stripping🌳 🥜UK Squirrel Accord is asking landowners, woodland managers and volunteers to take part in its survey to help build a clearer national picture of bark stripping damage. Read more 👉 basc.org.uk/help-gather-evid…

Dental rare achievement unlocked - appointment to fix a chipped tooth next Tuesday at …. wait for it …..2:30 (tooth hurty!) 😆

I see there's quite the hoo haa at Foryd lately @GethinJones123 😝

Does anyone know where I can get a canvas dummy for this old-school launcher? Dad never had a dog, so just used it to launch cans to shoot at.

"Welsh Water faces £44.7m 'enforcement package' for sewage failings." The most abhorrent part in all of all of this is that Ofwat has just admitted that since 1994 when the sewage treatment regulations were introduced Welsh Water, like every other sewage company in the UK have been breaking the law. That's 37 years of illegal activity, 37 years of incompetence, 37 years of failure, 37 years of the gross, violent, decimation of our rivers and beaches. Where's the justice for them, where's the justice for bill players, where's the accountability, why aren't Ofwat's board now being prosecuted for misconduct in public office? thisismoney.co.uk/money/mark…

I'm generally supportive of MA but I think the handling of this is poor TBH. All species licence applications need alternative methods tried before a licence is even considered, or clarification on why they aren't practical. Shoot to scare is, for example, part of the alternative methods required for a FEB (fish-eating birds) licence application. It really isn't difficult to use a gun in the general proximity of a schedule 1 raptor without putting it in any danger whatsoever. It is advised so the sound of the gun will move the bird on - it doesn't mean shoot *towards* the bird.

‘Right to routes’, ie joining up existing disjointed rights of way and restoring ‘lost ways’, seems a sensible suggestion. No right to roam but better public access around private land etc. 🦮🚶🏻‍♂️🌳 #RightToRoutes #RightToRoam #R2R

This greeted a North Pennines keeper in private woodland - habitat the estate manages for the Red-listed Spotted Flycatcher. Bags of rubbish. Discarded kit. No respect for the land or the people who look after it. We're told keepers are too quick to move campers on. This is what they're left to clear up. Can't take your litter home? Then you've no business in the countryside. 🎞️ Courtesy of Northern Pennines Moorland Group

One of the most appalling things I've ever had the misfortune to watch. @HantsPolice this is utterly shameful.

True! 😂

A gamekeeper has found one of his legal traps illegally damaged - and the timing could not be worse. We are at the most sensitive point of the year for ground-nesting birds. Across our moors and farmland, waders and other red-listed species are laying eggs, incubating, or already rearing chicks. Predator control divides opinion, and we understand that. But the evidence is clear: the targeted, lawful work of gamekeepers, farmers and conservation organisations is the main reason our estates remain strongholds for curlew, lapwing, golden plover and other threatened birds that choose to breed here. Damaging or interfering with a legally set trap is a criminal offence. Every incident is reported to the police, and traps and snares are replaced within 24 hours. Gamekeepers work hard to give every ground-nesting species a fair chance to hatch and raise their young. Sabotage doesn't just cost estates time and money, it costs chicks their lives, and it sets back the recovery of some of our most threatened birds. Please leave legal predator control alone. The future of our red-listed waders depends on it. 🎞️ Courtesy of Calderdale Moorland Group

All the best work parties end up like this 😃

Getting stuff ready. Soon be time ..