Leeds Birder
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Birder and #phonescoping fanatic. Working to conserve and share Leeds and Bradford #Peregrine Falcons. Currently birding down under. #kowa ambassador.
Leeds, UK
Joined March 2014
I tried to keep loving Twitter after Musk took over but it didn’t love me. Join me over at Bluesky instead (same username) or on Insta as “Phonescoping”.
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Another attempt at slow motion branch photography ruined. This time photobombed by a juvenile Kārearea / New Zealand Falcon 🙄. Phonescoped on an iPhone15pro with a @KowaOptics TSN55 scope and Smartscope Vario adapter #phonescoping #falcon
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RT @RaptorPersUK: UK Governments must decide on lead ammunition restrictions by March 2025 - you can have your say to help bring about a ba…
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RT @RSPBbirders: What’s happening to the UK’s Hen Harriers? To answer this, the RSPB has been satellite tagging Hen Harriers to follow thei…
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@JimSmar98556729 @RaptorPersUK Most raptor persecution happens on remote moors and isn’t discovered. When it is, 75% of convictions are of game shooters
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@quallerz @RuthTingay 75% convictions for bird of prey persecution are of game shooters. Jog on.
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RT @CropstonBirder: Couldn't believe my eyes when reviewing @LeicsPeregrines video from 9th December @LeicsCathedral Juvenile XRF, still…
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@lardlikesdogs @bbctms @RoostWeather @eddy_weather @Schafernaker Mate, first time I’ve seen England play abroad. I was here on Friday - fantastic day of cricket 🙂
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Close encounter with a Kārearea, or New Zealand Falcon. Phonescoped on #Kowa TSN55 scope with Smartscope Vario adapter and iPhone15pro. Filmed at 240 frames per second. @KowaOptics
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@RipCentrum You criticise my sources that reference actual evidence and then quote someone who is literally a paid lobbyist 😆. Just posting this again as it confirms 75% of convictions for raptor persecution are due to game shooting. Mainly gamekeepers.
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Grouse shooting apologist steals stock photos from the internet of captive birds to try and make it look like he saw lots of wildlife on a grouse moor. The only defence of this unsustainable “sport” is a fraudulent one. Another reason to sign this petition
@ScarecrowNeste1 @PaulGri29126854 Stealing a bunch of someone else’s stock photos off the internet doesn’t prove you saw these birds on a moor. It makes you a fraud and a laughing stock (laughing *stock*, geddit?). @Shutterstock says that Merlin is captive and not even a wild bird! #busted
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@RipCentrum The report lists each conviction with links to media stories. So pretty conclusive I’m afraid.
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@RipCentrum Sadly it’s true, despite your carefully argued and evidenced tweet 🙄. 75% of people convicted of raptor persecution are gamekeepers or related. *From RSPB Birdcrime Report 2023
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@PaulGri29126854 Not a lot of grouse shooting in Sussex. I think you must have got a bit lost. Perhaps you took a wrong turn at Relevance, and proceeded on to Whataboutery.
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@ScarecrowNeste1 @PaulGri29126854 Stealing a bunch of someone else’s stock photos off the internet doesn’t prove you saw these birds on a moor. It makes you a fraud and a laughing stock (laughing *stock*, geddit?). @Shutterstock says that Merlin is captive and not even a wild bird! #busted
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