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[sally mees @salgmees]

@CarlBovisNature Yes, on the Isle of May in June. I just love them.

[sally mees @salgmees]

@CarlBovisNature Fabulous. I went to the Isle of May this year & saw these wonderful birds with beaks so full, just like your photo.

[Scottish Poetry Library @ByLeavesWeLive]

Scotland's Makar @KathleenJamie reads 'This Is It' by @BillyLetford #GiesAScotsPoemDay #MacaroniPie

[sally mees @salgmees]

@smart_worldwide I love my smart forfour EQ but am extremely disappointed that the app is no longer working as it runs on 3G only! Basically I have purchased a car that “does not do ,what it says on the tin” what’s the solution?

[Little Green Space 🦋 @LGSpace]

Please help bees, butterflies and birds by reducing the mowing this year! By leaving a patch of grass in your garden to flower you'll be helping wildlife while reducing effort, cost and carbon emissions. Cartoon courtesy @sepponet
#Nature #ClimateAction⁠ ⁠#biodiversity

[Carl Bovis @CarlBovisNature]

Portrait of a male House Sparrow. 😍
Taken last week at RSPB Greylake in Somerset. 🐦

[Little Green Space 🦋 @LGSpace]

With a few simple actions you can turn your garden or community space into a haven for bees:
🐝 Say no to weedkillers and pesticides
🐝 Make a bee bowl
🐝 Let wildflowers grow
🐝 Don’t over-tidy
🐝 Grow nectar-rich flowers
🐝 More https://t.co/cB3TCMVxTE
#SaveTheBees

[Lindsay Lennie @historicshops]

The thing that I find really irritating about ‘shrinkflation’ is the idea that somehow we won’t notice the changes. i.e. same price (pretty much) and significantly less food.
Almost identical Lurpak packs but 100g less and weight now not on the front of pack

[Robert E Fuller @RobertEFuller]

A portrait of a nuthatch 🎨🖌
🛒👉https://t.co/1YlqV5Kr87

#nuthatch #birdart #birdartist #robertefuller

[sally mees @salgmees]

Had the most wonderful time at @JerseyZoo

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

It will be the most important 3 minutes and 20 seconds you spend today. 👇

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

WHY ARE ENERGY STANDING CHARGES SO HIGH?
The high energy standing (daily) charges are a moral hazard and should be reduced. It is outrageous that people have to pay £300/yr just for the facility of having gas & electricity even if they use none.

While energy price cap & bills drop an avg 17% this Sat, that ISN'T equal for all:-

- Standing charges remain unchanged
- Elec unit rate is dropping roughly 10%
- Gas unit rate is dropping roughly 25%

So higher users, especially with gas will see a bigger than 17% drop. Lower users, especially electricity only, will see a lower than 17% drop.

Keeping the standing charge high means lower users can save proportionately less and less by reducing usage - that disempowers them.

I have long campaigned for lower standing charges. MSE is submitting a consultation on this about shifting some of the cost the the unit rates.

The reason Ofgem mandates firms to have high standing charges in the price cap is because they use it to pay for the 'fixed costs' of energy (distribution, transmission etc) - which it believes should be mostly shared equally.

It is especially loaded onto the electricity standing charge as that is 'more universal'.

I think a more progressive split would be better, by putting a bigger proportion of the cost on the unit rate. And in past polls I've done on here the huge majority agree.

One stumbling block is the argument from Citizens Advice, an organisation I have great respect for. Its concern is that if you shift the burden, some vulnerable people with disabilities and medical issues that make them high users will suffer.

Of course the correct solution to that is lower the standing charge but give them separate support. Yet that would involve an energy market that wasn't broken and the regulator and government to operate in concert.

So we're in a chicken and egg situation. Still on balance I think the fair thing to do is lower the standing charge (and campaign for help for the high using vulnerable at the same time). Yet I wanted to bash this out quickly as I saw much debate on it after my earlier tweets, and I wanted to explain some of the bigger picture.

[Richard Dowling 🐝 @DowlingWildlife]

Yet another neighbour asking for Artificial Grass installer recommendations. I'm still using my trusty graphic to change hearts and minds away from @Shitlawns and towards repairing soils and relaying a real one.

[sally mees @salgmees]

@CarlBovisNature #MyBirdPhoto is our lovely resident Robin

[sally mees @salgmees]

I saw this wee duck swimming along with this great crested grebe (I think) but am not sure what the wee one is. Can anyone identify it.@BBCSpringwatch thanks @ChrisGPackham

[Kathleen Jamie @KathleenJamie]

Swifts! Anyone yet to sign, please do...

[Paisley Museum @PaisleyMuseum]

The Leonid meteor shower peaks on November 17 & 18. This year up to 300 meteors per hour might be seen from a dark sky location.
More info on the Leonids at: https://t.co/VgAmVF0jbW

[BBC Weather @bbcweather]

✨🌌 Stargazers: Jupiter will make its closest approach to Earth in 59 years tonight! A good pair of binoculars should be enough to catch some details. Views should be pretty good across central and E parts of UK, cloud thicker towards N and W but still some breaks likely.

[Arran Coast @ArranCoast]

#COAST launched a grassroots campaign to establish Scotland’s first #NoTakeZone (NTZ) in #LamlashBay. Today we celebrate 🥳 14 years of its designation. The video below, captured by @howardlwood shows the wealth of life in the #NTZ last week. 🦞🦀🐟

[Truth About Plastic @PlasticsCrisis]

We made a little film to highlight the everyday menace that is eating away at those forgotten ecosystems: our back gardens! Let’s not carpet the outdoors in plastic like we have the indoors😱#ToxicTurf #plasticpollution #ClimateEmergency #Sleazigrass