Jim Higham

#Kingfisher , grey heron & grey wagtail on the river Stour. A busy bridge by a public car park in central Canterbury. #kingfisher #birds @rspb.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social @kentwildlife.bsky.social @bbcspringwatch.bsky.social

#kingfisher in central Canterbury this afternoon, as people walk by oblivious to his presence (yes it’s a male). #birds @rspb.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social @kentwildlife.bsky.social

Big day today for ending centuries of secrecy about who owns our land! A new government consultation will propose revealing who owns the vast majority of England and Wales. To get this over the line, I’ll need your help to send in supportive evidence! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Oooh, some actual fact-checking from El Torygrapho - what a strange world we now live in www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fi...

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Bolsonaro's loss is not just a loss for Bolsonaro. It's a loss for Trump. For Musk. For Milei. For Netanyahu. For Farage. For Meta and Zuckerberg. For the meat barons, the fossil fuel corporations, and the rest of the neocolonial looters. And it is a massive win for humanity and the living planet.

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

Reform and Tories have pledged to reverse ULEZ repeatedly.

Young fly agaric mushroom 🍄 in @rspb.bsky.social Blean woods reserve near Canterbury @rspbengland.bsky.social @naturalengland.bsky.social @kentwildlife.bsky.social

Great to see on the front of the Mail, Telegraph, Express, Sun.* 'The no. of young people admitted to London hospitals after knife attacks is down 55% since Sadiq Khan launched a Violence Reduction Unit, with London falling faster than the rest of England.' *Joke www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/y...

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And true to form, Farage and the Tories (Philp) respond by being totally dishonest about it… Freedom of movement with the EU requires EU citizenship. Immigration requires visas. Talk of ‘betrayal’ and ‘uncontrolled migration’ is the mark of a liar or a fool. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Our Saturday afternoon selection is a set of shots in landscape-mode taken around Finland. Photos shared on IG by kuopionkaupunki, katlinwildframes, hemul75, and andhorner: www.instagram.com/p/De4B8MMDrcU/

In his Daily Mail column today, describing Trump as "toast," Richard Littlejohn mocks the President's attempted annexation of Greenland as being mad, using the phrase "nurse!" Here's what Littlejohn wrote about it when Trump first suggested it

A misty morning at Elmley NNR on Monday #birds @naturalengland.bsky.social @kentwildlife.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social

Jared’s father, Charles Kushner, pleaded guilty to 18 counts of tax evasion and witness tampering. He hired a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law, videotaped it, and mailed the tape to his sister. Trump pardoned him and made him Ambassador to France and Monaco. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles...

Reminds of that Jeremy Hardy line, "I didn't go to boarding school; my parents quite liked me."

Who could have ever guessed that an organisation led by Toby Young would be absolutely riddled with misogyny and bigotry www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Dozens. Probably all of them actually.

Welcoming in the weekend with a Friday afternoon selection of stunning aurora shots from around Finland. 2 photos from 10, shared on IG by AuroraHunting and OriginalLapland: www.instagram.com/p/De1hFLmDmcE/ Guide to seeing the Northern Lights in Finland: www.discoveringfinland.com/blog/the-nor...

The grouse moor industry continue to plead their pathetic case to keep burning moorland (because it maintains their heather monoculture, boosting numbers of grouse for shooting). You don't fight fire with fire, you fight it with water - as the government recognise bsky.app/profile/moor...

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One fascinating characteristic about nationalists is that they invariably know sweet fa about their own nation's history. In fact, Poland has one of the oldest continuously existing Muslim minorities in Europe, with Muslims living there since the 14th century.

A good #hare day on Monday at Elmley NNR #brownhare @mammalsocietyyouth.bsky.social @naturalengland.bsky.social @kentwildlife.bsky.social

Nature bounces back: 5,000 butterflies appear at chalk grassland restoration project at Halnaker Hill in Sussex, two years after its reversion from arable land I’ll be talking lots about chalk grassland restoration in my next book THE GHOSTS OF CHALK COUNTRY… www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Let’s eradicate our life support systems – that’ll teach the liberals! It's not just about giving destructive industries what they want, important as this is. The likes of Trump and Bolsonaro will kill the planet out of a vengeful desire to hurt. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Still some clouded yellow butterflies about including this one on Monday at Elmley NNR in Kent, UK. @naturalengland.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social

And that sort of payout would destroy the BBC and damage the global standing and influence of Britain - very much to Putin’s satisfaction.

Jenrick: “No one has done more than Nigel Farage to stand up against racism and the far right” Farage has exploded a brexity, anti-immigration, small boats, mass-deportations, ICE-style cruelty, riots and racism bomb on the UK and now stands back and tells us only he can fix the damage he’s caused.

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I feel media will notice the fall in net migration when stat on 27/11/26 is lowest since 1997! Its already a fact, not a prediction, that net migration in 2026 lowest this century I am predicting Nov 27th ONS headline stat will confirm [year to June 2026] but public visa data already entails this.

In addition to her confusion about France, UK net migration is already plunging. She surely knows this. RW populist lying about migration is so fucking tiresome.

Early pre dawn #barnowl at Elmley NNR. Very high ISO despite only using 1/100s so very rough, and lots of mist. #birds @rspb.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social @naturalengland.bsky.social @kentwildlife.bsky.social

The campaign to tell Remainers that they couldn’t call Brexiters stupid or racist was one of the most effective in recent years.

The reticence of people in the media and in politics over the decades to call Farage far right when we *all* knew it is part of the reason we’re in such a sorry state.

Among Keir Starmer's worst deeds were his legislative and rhetorical attacks on nature protection. In those two wasted years, we spiralled backwards, even from the Tory legacy. At this week's biodiversity summit, the Burnham govt should pledge to turn that round. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The apparent eagerness in the media for this to spread elsewhere and especially here is strange and noticeable

Autumn misty morning at Elmley NNR yesterday morning @naturalengland.bsky.social

The idea that it's just a few bad apples in Reform is such bollocks. You get every impression that the whole fucking orchard needs to be condemned.

Patient #kingfisher at Stodmarsh NNR #birds

This is how to respond to a prejudiced question from a bigot.

Since 1284, the wealth of Wales has been used to enrich English oligarchs, leaving Wales in poverty. And you can see the legacy today: six of the ten poorest boroughs in Britain are in South Wales - and all of them are places that generated massive wealth.

Whilst there are billionaires, there should not be another penny extracted from poor people

Who amongst us hasn't been provoked into saying black people are animals and the King is a secret Muslim who should be decapitated?

Putin and Trump. Enemies of peace. Enemies of Ukraine. Enemies of the west. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Join us at Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve this October half term for a morning of autumnal crafts, seasonal wildlife and a cosy campfire. 📍 Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve 🎃 27 October, 10.30am - 12pm / 1pm - 2.30pm 🎟️ Find out more and book at kentwildlifetrust.org.uk/events