Hannah Blackmore 🌈

Lover of old buildings and all things history. FdSc Historic Building Conservation and currently studying for my BSc. Slightly eccentric. She/Her 🏳️‍🌈

[Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature]

I'm fuming to read this! 🤬
Year in and year out this kind of crap happens in the summer, when most birds are already breeding, not just with Swifts, but with all birds! 😒
Birds and their nests are protected by law, but the law is clearly inadequate and is riddled with loopholes that councils, builders, farmers... anyone really, can exploit. 😡
Yet still some wonder why the UK is the most nature depleted place on earth...

https://t.co/q2grIPa3g5

[Dr Elaine Cox 🍃 💚 🍃🌽🥬🐦‍⬛🐌🇬🇧 @ElaineCox11]

Uncut grass keeps the ground at around 19.5°C
Grass cut to 10 cm raises the ground temperature to about 24.5°C
Bare ground in the middle of summer rises to over 40°C
It's important to raise awareness #NoMowMay

[Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature]

This is what entitlement looks like! 🤬
There are nesting waterbirds on this pond on Hampstead Heath... there are also big 'No Swimming' signs, all being totally ignored! 🤬
Pure selfishness... 😒🤬🤬

(Shared from Instagr*m with permission from 'swansofhampsteadheath')

[leilani dowding 🌸🚜 ☮️ @LeilaniDowding]

This is horrific @coopuk You need to sack this driver… there is no excuse. He knew they were there. I hope you follow through with your findings

[Dr. Cathryn Wilson @cathrynwilson]

Hi National Grid. It’s May! I find it extremely difficult to believe that there are no active nests in these oak trees and hedges. Why are you breaking the law? @nationalgriduk @gridcustomersuk
@jcartlidgemp @suffolkwildlife @PylonsEAnglia

[Rosie P 🦇 🦎 🕷️ 🦭 🐌 🍃🌳🚲💧 @RosieP4]

National Grid really hates nature.

Here’s more destruction along the Bramford to Twinstead pylons route. In nesting season.

[Rosie P 🦇 🦎 🕷️ 🦭 🐌 🍃🌳🚲💧 @RosieP4]

Today contractors from National Grid turned up at this farm ready to clear all of this vegetation, including the four oaks, without the required dawn bird survey.

It is only because the land owner was on his toes and challenged them that they left.

Plus National Grid has not explained why it is ‘not practicable’ to uphold their DCO obligation to avoid nesting season.

They were not even able to explain why the oaks need to be felled for a bell mouth when they do not cause visibility issues.

This is a horrific disregard for nature.

(This is Bramford to Twinstead, ‘only’ 30km long. Imagine the destruction if Norwich to Tilbury at 180km goes ahead as proposed. We seek underground HVDC laid by cable ploughs for N2T)

[Moorland Association @MoorlandAssoc]

🪶 A dog doesn't need to make contact to kill a brood.

A hen pheasant freezes when threatened, trusting her drab plumage to keep her invisible. It works against the predators she co-evolved with. It doesn't work against a curious dog moving back and forth across her patch of grass.

In high-footfall areas, dogs off leads are now one of the greatest threats to ground-nesting birds. Flushing a hen, scattering chicks, or repeated disturbance during brooding is enough to end a breeding attempt.

Under the CRoW Act, a short lead is the law on much of the moor.

Short lead. Big difference.

🎞️ Courtesy of Peak District Moorland Group

[Rosie P 🦇 🦎 🕷️ 🦭 🐌 🍃🌳🚲💧 @RosieP4]

Watch as @nationalgriduk chomps through a hedge. In nesting season. Despite its DCO stating “”In accordance with good practice measure B02, vegetation with the potential to support breeding birds will be programmed to be removed outside of breeding bird season (March to August inclusive) where practicable”. So why was it not practicable not to do it in this instance?The ecologist found nothing (what a surprise) but there is no way a hedge like this does not have nesting birds.
(This is Bramford to Twinstead, not Norwich to Tilbury)

@PylonsEAnglia

[Steve Perkins @Perky_43]

🚨 WILDLIFE ABUSE SKELMERDALE

Were your daughters down at Greenhill Community Centre?

Again, people disgust me. Police report to follow.

I’m absolutely disgusted to introduce one of today’s admissions, as he has been attacked by kids 😡

In the park at Greenhill Community Hub (Skelmerdale) three girls around 10-12 years old were observed throwing the hedgehog down the slide and also throwing him up in the air dropping to the floor, before deciding to bury him alive! 😠

What breaks my heart even more is that judging by his body temperature and the fact he has flystrike near his tail, it indicates to me that Hedgy was out during the day because he was feeling unwell. And instead of finding kind humans to help him, he was instead thrown around like a toy. What’s even worse is that if he was very unwell, he would not have been able to curl into a ball to defend himself. Spines also work as shock absorbers when they curl up, and without this protection who knows what damage these girls have caused.

A young boy saw some of this cruelty and told his friend as he knew his friends mum would help. They walked to the park immediately and saw the girls walking/running away as they tended to the hoggie who they could see was still breathing under the soil in a plant pot.

I’m beyond outraged, heartbroken, and disgusted by the actions of those girls. This will be a police matter; I will be filing a report tomorrow morning and I WILL push this as far as I can to find justice.

Hedgy is on some nice painkillers, being warmed up in an incubator. I’m awake every two hours for the hoglet, so I will be keeping a very close eye on him and if he seems in pain (he’s out cold right now) I will take him to the emergency vet. Otherwise I’ll try and stabilise him overnight and take him for x-rays tomorrow at the Rescue’s normal vet surgery.

I’m extremely grateful to the boys involved in getting Hedgy to safety and help 💜

PLEASE SHARE THIS POST so that hopefully any witnesses can contact me with further information. I will be contacting the Greenville Community Hub tomorrow to check for CCTV. It is not fair that an animal has been treated this way 💔

Haydock Hedgehog Helpers Rescue.

#HaydockHedgehogHelpersRescue #HaydockHedgehogHelpers #hedgehog #wildanimals #skemersdale #wildlifecrime

[Christina Hespe @HespeChris34466]

Just as I expected, Sheffield City Council @SheffCouncil are back to cut the verges. In the middle of May. Caught in the act of vandalising nature this time. Which part of biodiversity crisis are they not understanding? 😢 @GeoffreyLean @alextomo @PeterGilbertUK

[Roe Deer Diary @RoeDeerDiary]

⚠️PLEASE REPOST⚠️

Roe deer are currently giving birth. They leave their kids hidden in long grass or undergrowth for several hours.

Babies haven't been abandoned and DON'T NEED RESCUING, MUM WILL RETURN.

DON'T BE TEMPTED, BACK OFF & ADMIRE AT DISTANCE 🙏🦌

#RoeDeerDiary

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

Please Be Kind To Moles.

They are beneficial to soil health, acting as natural aerators and pest control by consuming lawn-damaging grubs, beetles, and larvae.

They do not eat plants, and their removal often leads to new moles occupying the vacant tunnel system, making it a futile effort.

Apart from that, it is CRUEL!

[Amelea Teckel @AmeleaTeckel]

IMPORTANT.
Please put⚽️football nets away safety after use.
This poor cub was well & truly trapped.
Some #animals die from shock when trapped in nets; sometimes they are not noticed & die a slow, awful death ~ or struggle so much they cause themselves great harm.
#badgermonday🦡

[Josh @JoshAlexCairo]

The UK public celebrates a genuine national treasure on his centenary, which coincides with a landslide of council votes for a political party that rejects net zero, wants to defund the institutions that Attenborough's life has enriched, and doesn't care about nature. Go figure.

[Glevum glass eels @leerust1966]

“Dying in Silence:” The Glass Eel Crisis in the River Severn

A critical wildlife crisis is unfolding along the River Severn, where endangered glass eels are becoming stranded and dying in large numbers—threatening an already vulnerable species.

Human inactivity and lack of intervention are allowing this to continue. Active removal and relocation of stranded eels can help support their recovery.

Like and repost to raise awareness. These creatures don’t have a voice—so we must use ours.

@EnvAgency @DefraGovUK
@NaturalEngland @WildlifeTrusts @RSPBEngland @WWF_UK@Ofwat

[Hannah Bourne-Taylor @WriterHannahBT]

BREAKING NEWS: Network Rail unblocked the swift homes because of the strength of feeling shown by THOUSANDS of people, led by @DeborahPitman. Thanks to ⁦@GreenJennyJones⁩ ⁦@ZacGoldsmith⁩ ⁦@DeborahMeaden⁩ ⁦@PamAyres & Transport Minister Lord Hendy

[Antony Wren @BeachHutBirder]

Unbelievably another in the same spot today.... Seriously, why would nan be having a nice time "up there" when you're putting the lives of animals in jeopardy. This beach will soon host breeding Terns, Plovers and Oystercatchers. This. Must. Stop!

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

A "dove release" at a wedding or funeral is a death sentence for the birds.

The white "doves" sold for releases aren't doves. They're domestic pigeons bred to be small and white, and they have no survival skills outside a coop.

DIY releasers often buy white Ringneck Doves or King Pigeons, which have zero ability to navigate home. Nearly all of them die.

Even professional releases with trained homing pigeons kill birds. Hawks take them in the air. Cars hit them when they land exhausted. They collide with windows. They get lost and starve.

Rehabbers pull them in with broken wings, broken legs, raging trichomoniasis, and bodies so emaciated the birds can barely stand.

One rehabber described treating a white pigeon from a release whose throat infection had hardened so completely it distorted the shape of his skull.

There is no version of this tradition where the birds "fly away and live happily ever after." That's the marketing story. The reality is that you paid to traumatize and usually kill a domestic animal for a 15-second photo moment.

If someone you know is planning a dove release for a wedding, funeral, or celebration, tell them. Bubbles, sparklers, dried flower petals, or ribbon throws all photograph beautifully and don't kill anything.

The birds are not props, they are live animals that need proper care.

[Hannah Bourne-Taylor @WriterHannahBT]

9 days ago #NetworkRail agreed to removing the mortar to unblock the swifts nesting sites. NOTHING HAS BEEN DONE YET meanwhile swifts are returning home earlier than normal. 📧email CEO Jeremy Westlake asking him to unblock them: [email protected] #SaveOurSwifts