Richard du Feu

Networker, Bird ringer, colour ring reader and data collector/mangler. Good data for good decisions.

Being a follower is not necessarily an endorsement!

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@paulsanders87 @g__j Plug and charge and a universal app/card like the electroverse one is getting closer to doing this. It's great rocking up to a charger, plugging in and not having to do anything.

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@ilynnathaniel @AmericanAir @aairwaves Son's of Maxwell have set a great example of what to do when airlines (united) break guitars.

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@s3phyca @TracketPacer Yes. It's a shared EU/UK standard.

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@deeestuary I had 2 in a flock of 350 today. Both new to Leighton Moss even though one is getting on a bit.

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@g__j Can you get my electricity bill down by crediting me my £400 of export since November please?

Anyway, zonal pricing great however a missed chance by not going for it.

What octopus have done like no one else is made energy interesting rather than a just another bill.

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... After a bit of thought and checking I wasn't being silly it became clear it was an adult Lesser Yellowlegs which is still around today. I think that's the first rarity I've found.

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On Monday evening I had a trip to @RSPBLeightonM to look for colour rings on waders. It wasn't terribly successful however this Redshank is one from the Solent and has a previous history at Leighton. While trying to get this one sorted I noticed the bird behind was very odd...

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Mike's a great speaker about climate and changes needed to achieve a sustainable world. If you're in the great city of Bradford then there are many worse ways to spend a couple of hours.

[Mike Berners-Lee @MikeBernersLee]

Looking forward to talking about A Climate of Truth in Bradford tomorrow (Sat 28th). There are still seats left.

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(Anything I put on X is also on Bluesky, which has not yet been used to corrupt democragy for the personal gain of a billioraire own)

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@JustZant @NatureDan2007 @El_Zantboer @GinaZantboer @robbiedm3 @suffolkwildlife @SuffolkBirdGrp @BTO_Suffolk @_BTO @vikingoptical @ScrubUpBritain When we caught a Hungarian Knot on the Wash in 1999 it was only the second record of any species from Hungary to the UK. The first was a gull.

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@Foulshaw2 It must be time for stick balancing soon.

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@Foulshaw2 @cumbriawildlife You have 2 interlopers at the moment.

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If there is one individual bird that highlights how important colour ringing and reading is it's this Redshank at @RSPBLeightonM this morning. I see it every spring. I also see it every September in Lincolnshire where it moults.

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@r_green24 @_amwphotos Get some knot plastic found in Tdf!

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Recognition of my pyromaniac tendencies!

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@TracketPacer If I were a poet I'd write a SONET about some different PHYs but as I'm not I'll go back to networking.

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@ProfRayWills This still feels wrong. Very roughly 5K cars, 20K miles per year, 20 years, 40mpg average, 30 gallons of petrol/diesel mix per barrel of crude works out at 1.67 million barrels of crude oil. Or just under 1 VLCC full.

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This is an incredible effort to get such great survival data of waders.

[Wash Wader RG @WashWader]

Nov weekend success! Our team managed over 290 resightings of over 130 individual Curlews, Turnstone and Bar-tailed Godwits. This included birds marked by WWRG in the #WashNNR and by projects elsewhere. Fantastically, this included 17 headstarted Curlews (yellow-leg flags)!

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I found this poster today. 30 years ago the entire UK academic connection to European universities was 2Mbps.

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No doubt this will be the worst shot of Knot from Snettisham today however it's my first colour ringed one of the autumn. From the Netherlands.