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Stuff, mostly bird related, from the Isle of Rum in Scotland. #isleofrum
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Thank you to the RSPB @rspb.bsky.social for your recent support for our petition to ban driven grouse shooting. Our stances on this subject differ, but we agree that illegal killing of birds of prey & burning of peatland need to stop. This support helped us cross 60k signatures. Thank you! 1/3

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

Can’t sleep either? Why not sign @wildjustice.bsky.social Petition to ban driven grouse shooting and help end persecution of uk wildlife and landscape degradation. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

Have a lie down or a sit down where the beautiful River Ness meets the sea in Inverness!

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Highland Bird Report 2023 now available free to download #BirdingScotland #birds www.highlandbirds.scot/highland-bir...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

We're, 50,000 of us, half way to a Westminster Hall debate on the future of driven grouse shooting. Thank you to those who have signed and those organisations who have shared and promoted this petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

It's that time of year again @isleofrum.bsky.social #Isleofrum #burnsnight #burnssupper

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: The Scottish Government has declared that the whole of Scotland is now under an avian flu prevention zone The announcement follows an exclusion zone being established in Aberdeen earlier this month following an outbreak of avian flu www.thenational.scot/news/2488477...

submitted 31 days ago • 7 comments

That’s the first 50,000 signatures for petition to ban driven grouse shooting. Let’s double that score to get parliamentary debate petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... Thank you!

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Please report all sightings of dead birds for possible testing for Avian Influenza. 📌In England, Wales & Scotland: www.gov.uk/guidance/... 📌In Northern Ireland: www.daera-ni.gov.uk/... 📌In Republic of Ireland: aviancheck.apps.serv... #Ornithology #UKBirding

submitted 32 days ago • 3 comments

Seemingly sustained hurricane force winds off SW Ireland earth.nullschool.net#2025/01/24/0...

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

"It was found that 85% of the tracked dogs were walked off-lead in the breeding season despite signage requesting owners not to let their pets run free due to ground-nesting birds. At Snelsmore Common, Berkshire, more than 90% of the site was disturbed by dogs, reducing its conservation value"

submitted 34 days ago • 5 comments

Microplastics recently found in Amazonian frogs www.nature.com/articles/s41... @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social 🌎

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

Our petition passed 48,000 signatures today. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

A deeply disappointing government response to @wildjustice.bsky.social’s petition on banning driven grouse shooting, that even cites bullshit stats from the shooting industry Please sign the petition, let’s get it to 100k and force a proper debate: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

submitted 39 days ago • 16 comments

A tracking study has found that dogs walked off-lead cause significantly more disturbance on lowland heaths than pets kept on the lead:

submitted 34 days ago • 2 comments

What we think of government response to our 'Ban driven grouse shooting petition' wildjustice.org.uk/general/an-a... We've written to Petitions Committee asking them to instruct Defra to remove false information from government response to petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

submitted 34 days ago • 3 comments

The two bodies have been sent to the Wildlife Incident Investigation Scheme (WIIS) for post mortems. #RaptorResearch #BirdingWales #WildlifeCrime raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/01/22/t...

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

47,000 signatures to ban driven grouse shooting. Plz sign petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70... if you would like to see this. Need 100k signs in 4 more months to get parliamentary debate.

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

Rum Dark Sky Sanctuary launch event now. Village Hall @isleofrum.bsky.social #darkskies

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Glaucous Gull Loch Scresort @isleofrum.bsky.social Kinloch and Loch Scresort on 18/01/2025, 10:38 - 13:29. View my #BirdTrack list: app.bto.org/birdtrack/pu... #BirdingScotland #birds

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

A conversation on here earlier reminded me of a thing that I’ve always loved and occasionally bang on about. It’s the care taken by Mackenzie Crook to specify which bird species we can hear in the background for many scenes in Detectorists.

submitted 43 days ago • 15 comments

Welcome to Bluesky! A few tips: • Blocking works. Use it! • There's no algorithm. Repost things you want seen. • Turn on the alt-text reminder in settings. • Set the NSFW filters to your comfort. • Check your sources before you post! • Try and leave bad habits from other social media behind.

submitted 47 days ago • 3 comments

Event on Saturday 18 January to celebrate Rum becoming Scotland’s first Dark Sky Sanctuary #isleofrum @isleofrum.bsky.social #darkskies

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Our final total for the @scottishbirding.bsky.social SOC Highland bird race is 38 species including this grey wagtail. We were hoping for 40 but 38 is quite respectable for a day around Kinloch on Rum in January #birds #ScottishBirding @isleofrum.bsky.social #isleofrum

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments