Fantastic Plastic

Bigging up the non-native birds, escapes and hybrids of Britain and Ireland

[Fantastic Plastic @ftasticplastic]

Lovely hybrid from the US

[Brooklyn Bird Alert @BirdBrklyn]

The most beautiful goose of all of North America has returned to Brooklyn for the umpteenth winter. A Snow Goose x Brant Hybrid at Canarsie Pier today. Note that the pier is closed to cars but open to people. Video by Gus Keri.

[Fantastic Plastic @ftasticplastic]

@brianthebirder @Bucktonbirder Was the barolo in UK waters please or elsewhere brian?

[Fantastic Plastic @ftasticplastic]

@JacobsSnacks Is there a classier way to eat cheesits?

[Fantastic Plastic @ftasticplastic]

@AlisaPomeroy Rightly or wrongly Go Back has got people talking, but can we please have a C4 doc about what life is like for refugees once they get to the UK? There's still far too much misinformation out there including a total lack of understanding of Recourse to Public Funds

[Kurt Schrader @kurt]

@ScooterCasterNY “We’ve interviewed Scrooge McDuck who thinks it’s especially unfair that he’ll now need to pay $9 to drive the 18 blocks to swim in his pool full of gold doubloons”

[Full Cast and Crew Podcast @fullcastandcrew]

@ScooterCasterNY ‘There’s no way for me to go uptown without paying 9 dollars’….except there is: the subway and the bus.

[Alexander McCoy @AlexanderMcCoy4]

@ScooterCasterNY Wow that’s crazy!

If only there was another option!

[GaiusDeer @FE, CFz, FurEh, Aurawra @GaiusGuy]

@ScooterCasterNY How will he EVER see his children again?!

[Fantastic Plastic @ftasticplastic]

The real story here: why are Americans so lazy that they won't walk or cycle 18 blocks to visit their own children?

[Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 @ScooterCasterNY]

CONGESTION PRICING: Upper East Side resident Andrew lives on 61st street and 5th Avenue, in Congestion "Relief" zone, the second he moves his car, he’s hit with a toll.
His kids live on 79th street and he will have to pay congestion price every time he goes to see them.

[Andrew Wappat @AndrewWappat]

Stockton’s very own red-crested pochard, Ropner Park before the heavens opened. As many have noted, bonnier with every passing day. A splash of colour as the weather turned gloomy. @teesbirds1 @DurhamBirdClub @NatureUk @Natures_Voice @ftasticplastic

[Fantastic Plastic @ftasticplastic]

@thomasknox RE your griping article in The Spectator over the 'death' of London's nightlife, wouldn't it be better if cities stopped tying their cultural ecosystems to people's drinking habits? - sincerely, one of those joyless teetotallers you take issue with in said article

[Heather Green @HeatherGreen15]

Otmoor this afternoon.

[Simon @TheRockinBirder]

Interesting looking mixture of goose on the Dorchester WMs @SwannerySteve

[Stan Davis @stanleyd__]

Absolutely elated to see the Canvasback as it was confirmed at Abberton today! Well done Howard for finding it. (I’m not actually sure if this image is the bird) @EssexBirdNews

[Howard Vaughan @ELBF2010]

A fantastic day in Essex with friends with an adult Bonaparte's Gull overhead at Goldhanger trumped by finding a drake Canvasback @EssexWildlife Abberton Reservoir in the afternoon. Please donate if visiting tomorrow. @EssexBirdNews
Good luck!

[Fantastic Plastic @ftasticplastic]

Oh lord....

[Portland Bird Observatory @PortlandBirdObs]

The vagrancy's getting extreme - Budgie trapped at the Obs

[Thomas Wildlife Videos @VideosWildlife]

@TSbirding @AlanDaviesbirds @RSPBFrampton @NoahBai14527125 @RareBirdAlertUK @BirdGuides @BTO_Lincs @Lincsbirding @LincsWildlife @lincsbirders You would’ve loved it in Pembrokeshire 😉😂

[Fantastic Plastic @ftasticplastic]

Invasion!!

[Christine Weaver @thatsweavernews]

3 of 4 wood ducks that are currently at Newburgh Priory #plasticfantastic #plasticbirding @nybirdnews

[Tom Lowe @saloplarus]

@KaneBrides Nunavut 😜

[Kane Brides @KaneBrides]

Farmoor's feral Snow Geese - just been chatting to Ben about these, just where do 90+ big, white, obvious birds disappear to when they leave Farmoor for a few months?!