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Welcome to The Self Isolating Bird Club 🐦
In these uncertain times, birdwatching & reconnecting with nature can be a real escape for those self-isolating. We want this channel to be a safe space to share sightings and engage with each other during
#COVID19
Tweet us your 📷&📹
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The rumours are true! After a short hiatus with the wonderful
@BBCSpringwatch
we are BACK on The Self-Isolating Bird Club for good 🥳🐦
Join us this Friday @ 9am for the first of a two-part LIVE special here or at 💛
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The story of how
@DaniConnorWild
became a mum to four baby red squirrels in North Sweden & their rise to global fame online 🇸🇪🐿️
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Here's the magical moment
@MeganMcCubbin
released the juvenile goshawk that had crash-landed in the garden a few weeks back, on this morning's broadcast with
@HawkConservancy
🤩✨
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Calling nature nerds! Have you seen something cool recently?!
We want to see your wild finds on
#8outof10bats
- share your photos and videos with us!
Here's something amazing to kick off... a FLAME SHELL 🔥a mollusc with bright orange tentacles, isn't it fabulous?!
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If you listen to this 18 second clip of a Skylark bursting into song I can guarantee it will lift your mood whilst you’re stuck in self-isolation this morning ! 📈🐦🎶
📷
@Emma_Verdin
#BreakfastBirdwatch
@Natures_Voice
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Something to cheer you up during self-isolation taken just the other day...
A Long-tailed tit can use as many as 2,000 feathers to stitch together its intricate nest 💛
📷
@JWentomologist
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Are you seeing any cool fungi? Send us your photos using
#8OutOf10Bats
, the wackier the better!
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We're so back 🦇🍂
8 Out Of 10 Bats starts October 23rd at 7.30pm, live for two weeks and free to watch, only on YouTube.
Get involved at
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We're back under a new name! Introducing 8 Out Of 10 Bats... a new wildlife magazine show coming to your digital screens soon 🦇
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Watch out, there's a new wildlife show on the block!
Introducing
@8OutOf10Bats
, coming this autumn to a digital screen near you 🦇🍂
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A good morning from
@MeganMcCubbin
@fabianharrison_
@CateCrocker
and
@ChrisGPackham
just to say we feel weird not broadcasting today but that you can catch us tomorrow at noon on
@BBCSpringwatch
. Please keep posting !
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And there’s your first show! Many thanks to all our wonderful contributors, we couldn't do it without you. Tune in again tomorrow, 7:30pm on YouTube, where we'll bringing you more from
@VisitDundreggan
. Can’t wait to see you there!
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In spring the sun was shining, the days were longer, but now winter is creeping in and our collective mood is low ❄️🍂
That's why The SIBC is officially BACK 🥳 Sundays @ 6pm GMT on , our brand new channel.
See you there 👋
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And that’s it for
#8OutOf10Bats
! Big thank you to everyone at
@BWCtweets
and
@VisitDundreggan
and all our wonderful contributors and presenters over the last two weeks. We’re going to retreat into our setts and sleep now - we hope you’ve enjoyed it, thanks for watching!
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“When there are too many deer, everything will get eaten or trampled. When the deer numbers come down, the pressure comes down, and the habitat responds and recovers.” Brilliant film from
@CairngormsCo
Deer Stalker Jack Ward. This stuff is SO important
#8OutOf10Bats
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Something is coming 👀
Introducing
#8OutOf10Bats
, a new wildlife show coming this autumn to a digital screen near you 🦇🍂
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How many pied wagtails does it take to decorate a Christmas tree? 🎄❄️
📌 Bridgend, UK (
@npaulroberts
)
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A HUGE thank you to everyone at
@VisitDundreggan
for making us so welcome. What a fantastic time we had filming the first week of
@8outof10bats
....!
We are now officially south and prepping for week 2, coming Monday at 19:30 🦇
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Phwoarrr! The golden stare of a fierce Goshawk. There's more where that came from. We're live 23rd October 7:30pm on Youtube, don't miss it!
#8OutOf10Bats
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Staying sane during self-isolation... here's what
@KauloftheWildUK
is getting up to whilst stuck at home! 🐸🐦🌳
#WildMorningswithChris
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This gentle giant gracefully gliding through the water. Aren't Basking Sharks incredible?! Many more incredible animals to show on
#8OutOf10Bats
23rd October 7:30pm on Youtube!
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Final episode of
#8OutOf10Bats
tonight! We’re going out with a bang so you’re getting an extra 15 MINUTES live show tonight! Featuring bird migration, badgers, botany & much more from here at
@BWCtweets
, plus some amazing films from around the country.
We can’t wait! So see you
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Adventures with little plants in a temperate rainforest? It moss be
@leifbersweden
of course! Weren't those mosses and liverworts just *heaven*?!
#8OutOf10Bats
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You may have heard murmurs... 👀🐦
Introducing
@8OutOf10Bats
, a live (free!) wildlife show, coming this autumn to a digital screen near you 🦇🍂
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We've heard rumours going around that
@DrAmirKhanGP
is coming on tomorrows SIBC broadcast to dance off with
@ChrisGPackham
– whatever the outcome, it's worth tuning in 💃🕺
Watch @ 9am GMT 👉
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We couldn't have dreamt up a better ending to
@SIBirdClub
than this– what a banger 🤩
@HarbourBirds
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Check out those colours! 🔴⚡️
It's been just over 24hrs since we launched and we've been inundated with your wonderful pictures & videos. Keep them coming!
#SolaceinNature
📷
@teagunn
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Happy
#Halloween
from The SIBC 👻🕸️
This superb video was filmed by
@jwentomologist
in Devon and shows a Minotaur Beetle feasting on Devil's Fingers Fungus – you don't get much more spoooky than that 🤯😱
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And that’s the end of Week 1 of
#8OutOf10Bats
!
So grateful to
@VisitDundreggan
@treesforlifeuk
and to
@cgsinclair22
and
@GreeneIndy
who’ve been utterly FAB! Next week we’ll be at
@BWCtweets
, joined by
@citygirlnature
and
@GreenFGeorge
.
See you on Monday!
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We’ve arrived at the
@BWCtweets
ready for week 2 of
#8OutOf10Bats
! Lots more incredible stories of wildlife, people and planet. You don’t want to miss it! Starting again Monday 7:30pm on YouTube.
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Recently some new residents moved to Ealing, London. Beavers are excellent ecosystem engineers and play a key role in the health of our wetland landscapes. Kabir (
@kaulofthewilduk
) went to see them move into their new homes…
@CitizenZoo
@BeaverTrust
#8OutofBats
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30 minutes and then we’re live! Will you be watching?
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Get ready for it! 🍂🦇💻
We're back with
#8OutOf10Bats
– a brand new wildlife magazine show coming this autumn, available to watch for free online.
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Hello SIBC!
Chris and Meg here from a very drizzly New Forest. We're excited to say we'll be back on your screens tonight with
#Autumnwatch
at 8pm on BBC Two. 🍁🦡🍁
We’ve missed our Friday mornings with you all and look forward to coming back soon 🤩
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The best finish to
#8OutOf10Bats
last night, courtesy of
@StornowayBand
with 'Boom Went The Bittern'
👋🦇
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Happy birthday to us!! 🥳🎂
The SIBC is now 1 year old... who remembers joining us for our first lockdown lives this time last year?
Watch where it all began →
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One of the best ways to kick off
#8Outof10Bats
with this adorable pantaloon bee. They get their name as females, like this, have exaggerated pollen brushes on their hind legs. Huge thank you to
@whistling_joe
for the footage and to
@GoWildForBees
for voicing the story!
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8 Out Of 10 Bats starts Oct 23 @ 7.30pm – powered exclusively by Lentil Chips® *
* not really, but we couldn't resist.
#NotAnAd
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Very excited to be joined by two brilliant new presenters this coming week,
@citygirlnature
and
@GreenFGeorge
! We have some amazing wildlife to bring you, so tune in live on YouTube at 7:30pm Monday-Thursday!
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If you aren’t watching live, you absolutely MUST go back and watch this piece about eco-anxiety from
@KatieMonk21
– Katie beautifully articulates what so many of us are feeling at the moment - so powerful (plus she’s an actual Wildlife Whisperer)
#8OutOf10Bats
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And that’s it for Day 2! We hope you enjoyed it, tune in again tomorrow at 7:30pm, on YouTube, for yet more from
@cgsinclair22
,
@GreeneIndy
,
@ChrisGPackham
,
@MeganMcCubbin
and the gang at
@VisitDundreggan
@treesdforlifeuk
#8OutOf10Bats
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Hello from Chris and Megs , Sid and Nancy . . . and a long gone Grass Snake ! Hope you are all well - keep your ideas coming in for the evolution of
@SIBirdClub
and catch us weekdays at 12 on
@BBCSpringwatch
and don’t miss the show starting Tuesday at 8pm on
@BBCTwo
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A belated very happy birthday to
@DrAmirKhanGP
from The SIBC 🎂🎈
Hopefully he can help Chris level up his moves when he comes on in a few weeks time 🕺💃
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Recording the SIBC Christmas special earlier! 🎄☃️
Watch the premiere at 10am on Christmas Day (Friday) –– only at
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Coming up tomorrow @ 9am BST... it's a Women in STEM special with
@MeganMcCubbin
🥳
👩🔬 We meet
@Hood_Naturalist
, co-founder of
#BlackBirdersWeek
and a passionate conservationist
👩🔬
@Lindsey_Chapman
will be showing your pics
👩🔬
#SkomerLive
's
@LizzieRDaly
gives an island update
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The Northern Ireland badger cull has been ruled unlawful, huge well done to
@WildJustice_org
and everyone involved for this HUGE win for wildlife
#8OutOf10Bats
Sign up to the
@WildJustice_org
newsletter here:
Read about it here:
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Tune in to part two of our SIBC LIVE special this Friday @ 9am to hear from
@DaniConnorWild
about her wonderful red squirrel family that’s been taking the internet by storm 🧡
I put my microphone in front of a 7 week old baby red squirrel.
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You heard the doctor 👨⚕️🫵
8 Out Of 10 Bats is hitting your screens on Oct 23 @ 7.30pm, only on YouTube.
Get involved at
@DrAmirKhanGP
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How has the wildlife been faring during the corona crisis in New Delhi, India?
@Amansha24
shows us some of the birds he's been observing from his own backyard! 🌳🦜🕊️
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🚨 ICYMI 🚨
We're LIVE every Friday @ 9am now with
@ChrisGPackham
@MeganMcCubbin
and special guests on the Self-Isolating Bird Club!
Coming up on tomorrow's show 👇
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Set yourself a reminder for our SIBC Broadcast tomorrow (Sunday) at 6pm UK time . You can hit subscribe to our channel and click on the bell for notifications .
In the meantime - enjoy these fantastic kestrels filmed by Denis Stretton .
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TOMORROW ON THE SIBC 👀🦔
@Lindsey_Chapman
joins
@ChrisGPackham
&
@MeganMcCubbin
for our final show before we go on hiatus for a while (we'll be back though!)
Join us at 9am @
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As you know Winter watch is starting again from next week and tonight at 6pm UK time we have our own broadcast with very special guest
@michaelastracha
and a beautiful film by Alicia Hayden .
Please use the YouTube link here to join us at 6 !
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Let's all celebrate
#BonfireNight
with wildlife in mind this year.
1⃣ If you're having a bonfire, rebuild it ahead of tonight
2⃣ Check, check & check again for 🦔🐸🐁
3⃣ Don't buy fireworks! ❌🎆
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Morning! 🌄🏞
While we all start to self-isolate, nature can’t skip a beat. Can we say it... ?
Spring is here! 🌱🤩
📷
@RADY_Louise
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Coming up tomorrow 7:30pm on YouTube 8 Out Of 10 bats live! We’ve got so many incredible films, stories, and people to show you, don’t miss it!
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Starting to feel the cold? Not to worry, in under a week you can cosy up to watch to watch 8 Out Of 10 Bats live on Youtube! Monday 23rd October at 7:30pm, hot chocolates at the ready!
#8outof10bats
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On tomorrows broadcast 🌄
🌱
@MeganMcCubbin
discusses the fears women face accessing the outdoors
🌱
@DrAmirKhanGP
joins us LIVE from his garden (☀️ permitting)
🌱
@GiloMatt
tells us about his app which can identify the song of 4k+ birds
LIVE @ 9am 👉
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The SIBC will be on slightly later tonight at 7pm ⏰
Tune in at with special guest
@GreeneIndy
and a new film from
@Lotty_ONeill
.
🦡🦉🦔🐦
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That’s it for episode 3! Some fantastic content this evening, thanks so much to all our wonderful contributors! Can't wait to see you back on YouTube tomorrow night, 7:30pm on the dot, for another LIVE episode of
#8OutOf10Bats
from
@VisitDundreggan
@treesforlifeuk
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Recently we sent our nocturnal mammal correspondent
@MrRyanJDalton
to meet with Griff the Bat to talk about a new wildlife show on the block… 🦇
#8OutOf10Bats
starts Oct 23 @ 7.30pm, only on YouTube.
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And that's your lot for tonight! Hugely grateful to all our contributors, we couldn't do it without you. It's our final episode tomorrow, so we look forward to seeing you live on YouTube at 7:30pm - thanks for watching!
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And the winner is... Captain Tom 🎉🎉
Pulling in a whopping 60% , Captain Tom (named after top bloke
@CaptainTomMoore
) has been selected as the name for Chris & Megan's new lamb! 🐑
#WildMorningswithChris
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Here are
@ChrisGPackham
's Books of The Day! The theme today was centred around Climate Breakdown and features ‘Earth’, ‘Hothouse Earth’ and ‘How to Blow up a Pipeline’.
#8Outof10Bats
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Amazing Osprey stories with
@LivCooper23
and the team at
@harbourbirds
– how extraordinary was that?! Keep up with their amazing work here:
#8OutOf10Bats
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We are thrilled to say that SIBC won the Conservation Hero of the Year award with - we couldn't have done it without you taking time to vote for us !
Thank you ! We are looking forward to ' seeing ' you soon for our next broadcast - Dates TBC . . .
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Just 1 week to go until
#8OutOf10Bats
hits your screens 💻🦇
Starts Oct 23 @ 7.30pm, only on YouTube.
Get involved at
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51 broadcasts, 33 hours, 132,000 comments & 7.7 million views later...
Thanks for joining us each morning during self-isolation for these past 8 weeks, we hope you've enjoyed the broadcasts as much as we have! 💛
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We battled through the South African rolling blackouts this evening to get
@michaelastracha
on the broadcast... well, half of her! 🇿🇦⚡️
Thanks for bearing with us this evening, we'll be back again next week at 6pm GMT only at
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Bird feeder in the last 1/2 hour . Green , Gold and Chaff , Blue , Great and Marsh , Long-tailed , Dunnock , Robin , Jay . . .
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Join us tomorrow morning @ 9am for another hour-long
@SIBirdClub
special! 🤩
We'll be talking
#BlackBirdersWeek
with
@Gillians_Voice
, Damsels and Dragons with
@Lucy_Lapwing
& LIVE (fingers crossed) Red Squirrels with
@DaniConnorWild
🤞💛
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.
@ChrisGPackham
&
@MeganMcCubbin
speak candidly about the level of access children in the UK have to nature & the lack of equal-opportunity for all.
Watch more at
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We're back! Join
@ChrisGPackham
@MeganMcCubbin
@Lindsey_Chapman
now for the first of a two-part LIVE SIBC special. We've got lots to catch up on today...
#WildMorningswithChris
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Do you need a mental health boost ? Join
@MeganMcCubbin
and
@ChrisGPackham
from 6pm this evening . We have
@silverpebble
as our LIVE guest and a fantastic foxy film from
@MattMaranPhoto
.
Use the link below to join us this evening .
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It’s the first day of many new lockdown measures across the world & so this morning we wanted to share this superb Dawn Chorus by
@jparrylrc
in Derbyshire, 🇬🇧 with you.
How many different bird species can you hear? 🎶🐦
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Week 2 of
#8OutOf10Bats
off to a wonderful start, thanks so much to all our contributors! See you tomorrow, live at 7:30pm on YouTube once again for more from Chris, Megs, Kwesia and George! Thanks for watching!
@ChrisGPackham
@MeganMcCubbin
@citygirlnature
@GreenFGeorge
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Thank you to everyone involved tonight! A technical glitch meant we couldn’t run the credits, but here they are!
#8OutOf10Bats
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Research shows that when children learn outside they get more exercise than they do if they learn inside with PE sessions.
Chris & Megan talking about the
#NaturePremium
campaign from
@FSAForestSchool
this morning. Learn more at
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Coming up tomorrow at the revised time of 10am BST on the SIBC...
🏞️ We've got a LIVE release of the goshawk that crash-landed in Chris & Megan's garden
🏞️
@michaelastracha
joins us live for an update from SA🇿🇦
🏞️ A wonderful film from
@TheLovelyEggs
& much more
👇👇👇
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Here's
@James_Shooter
, filmmaker and host of The Rewild Podcast, who recently embarked on a big adventure with his family. They hit the road to explore and learn more about rewilding across Europe. It’s great to hear his insights into how nature and people can work together to
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LIVE at 6pm today with the fantastic
@michaelastracha
- no really this time! Join
@ChrisGPackham
and
@MeganMcCubbin
using this direct link below:
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Amazing story of the local community standing up for nature at
@WarrenFarmNR
. Sign the petition to protect it here: and keep up with their work here: . Thanks to the wonderful
@Kaulofthewilduk
for presenting this one!
#8OutOf10Bats
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Tune in this Sunday @ 9am BST for our final SIBC show 😢
It's going to be jam packed ... we might even have good news for 'our' CJ7 🦅
@HarbourBirds
Watch live 👉
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A message from David Attenborough during these troubling times.
📷 via
@WeeMissBea
#COVID_19
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We asked
@GreeneIndy
to talk to
@DrAmirKhanGP
about how he thinks we can deal with the stress and fear of eco-anxiety
#8OutOf10Bats
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A reminder that it is the *LAST* SIBC live show tomorrow @ 9am BST 😲
Tune in for ospreys updates, predatory insect action 🐝🕷️ and so much more... 🦊🦉
Watch 👉
📸
@_TCartz
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BIRDSONG ! From 6 different Countries at 7am this morning with
@ChrisGPackham
and
@MeganMcCubbin
- join us here LIVE !
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Here’s the answer to today’s question from Judi Dench – “What does psithurism mean?” - a gentle rustling, like the beautiful sound of the wind moving through the trees. Thanks Judi!
#8OutOf10Bats
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Our rivers are in SUCH a state here in the UK. Today's soapbox segment comes from
@jaowallace
from the
@RiverActionUK
. Watch live here -
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