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Support for people in Ukraine 🇺🇦

March 5, 2022March 4, 2022 Daniel GreenwoodLeave a comment

Some ways to feel less helpless about Putin’s war-crimes/terrorism/illegal attacks in Ukraine:

If you can afford it, please donate generously to the Disasters Emergency Committee: https://www.dec.org.uk/
If you want to help with Open Source investigate journalism check out the Bellingcat Twitter feed
Sign-up for the Bellingcat email newsletter for more info about online microvolunteering to identify evidence of Putin’s war crimes in Ukraine (they have been monitoring Putin’s atrocities for years): https://www.bellingcat.com/
Guidance from the BBC
Use your social media channels to amplify accurate accounts of events in Ukraine – this is a war being fought online, it’s not the time to worry if people will unfollow you
Donate to support protected landscapes organisations in Ukraine
If you’re in the UK contact your MP to ask why the Government are failing to sanction Russian oligarchs who may have links to Putin: https://www.writetothem.com/
Also ask why the Conservative party have accepted so much money from people with links to Vladimir Putin
You could also question why the Government has such a toxic standpoint regarding refugees fleeing war zones
Join a march or protest in direct support of expat Ukrainians

Thanks. Stop the War. Solidarity with the people of Ukraine.

Elder tree, Ivinghoe Beacon

March 24, 2016April 2, 2016 Daniel GreenwoodLeave a comment

Nightingale singing at Blean Woods, Kent, Monday 6th May 2013

May 6, 2013February 15, 2016 Daniel Greenwood2 Comments

First time I’ve heard this iconic and declining bird. Listen for the machine gun fire of drips and drops. Also the ‘whee-whee-wheeee’ wheezy call. There are a few warblers in the background which might confuse things.

The habitat you can see is coppiced birch trees with a few maturing sessile oaks in the background. Birch trees can be cut right down to the base on a cycle of between 7-12 years or so and they will grow back vigorously. This creates the dense vegetation that the naturally elusive – to the eyes – nightingale depends on to breed. Blean also holds one of England’s few colonies of heath fritillary butterfly which will benefit from the sunlight reaped by coppicing.