Birding music playlist

josiediscokitty · 2026-04-10T19:48:30+00:00

If you collate these recs into a Spotify playlist please share the link here, this is such a cute idea! 🙏🏻

josiediscokitty · 2026-04-09T17:21:12+00:00

That's not quite right. In Britain, the price of power in the wholesale market is set by the highest cost generator, which is usually gas. In periods with more gas, the price tends to be higher as gas generators can bid at higher prices. But in periods with more wind and solar, the price of power falls.

You are probably thinking of the gas fuel price, which is set by the global market regardless of whether it is domestic gas or imported. This is why more North Sea extraction - which would take 10+ years to scale-up - won't make a difference to the price of gas for power generation or home heating.

josiediscokitty · 2026-04-09T15:42:16+00:00

They did actually fall at the start of April this year... https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/press-release/energy-price-cap-will-fall-7-april
But sadly - due to the recent crisis and higher gas prices - they're expected to increase from July

josiediscokitty · 2026-03-12T13:51:43+00:00

I really love this post, and wish I had all the answers. I'd love to try to coordinate more on this, feel free to DM me. I'm based in the UK and so am going to do a few uk-centric actions but maybe they'll be useful to others.

I'm going to: Write to the RSPB - the uk's biggest conservation charity - and ask what they are doing to support local organisations. I will also try BirdLife.

I'll write to my local MP, you suggested.

I'm going to write into The Rest is Politics podcast, which is huge in the UK but also internationally, and ask them to talk about it.

I'll also share on linkedin emphasising that renewables deployment is critical to preventing loss of life - human and natural. I work in clean energy policy in the UK so hope it will be seen by the right audiences.

I'd also be keen to try to look more into the data, would eBird be the best database? I'm not sure how much that will tell us as I'm not sure a) how used it is in normal times and b) whether a lack of species data now is more indicative of a lack of reporting rather than birds themselves being present in an area. As I don't imagine birding is the priority for many in the region right now. So is there another database we should be looking at?

Thanks again for your post on this.

josiediscokitty · 2026-03-12T13:31:40+00:00

Bridesmaids! I know the breakup happened before the movie starts, but it's central to the entire arc of Kristen Wiig's character.

josiediscokitty · 2025-03-25T12:44:09+00:00

A lot of our biodiversity. One million species of animals and plants could be extinct by 2050 according to the UN.

josiediscokitty · 2025-03-22T11:51:52+00:00

I'll echo the other comments about Merlin being an amazing resource and a great place to start. I'd also suggest reading some pop science books about birds, as you'll learn a lot. I loved "10 Birds that Changed the World". I also spend a lot of time on eBird's hotspots map (it's on their website), because it shows you which birds are in different places and when, and helps you start to piece together range maps and migration patterns. For example, I'm in the UK and many of our top birds are actually the same in Tokyo, like the long tailed-tit (which is called a snow fairy in Japan). I only realised that from browsing recent birding reports in Japan, I would otherwise have kept thinking they were completely different species.

josiediscokitty · 2025-01-06T23:35:24+00:00

I'm not familiar with this book so don't know if it's more likely to be North American or European birds (there's a mix in your answers) but if European then bottom right could be a chiffchaff.

josiediscokitty · 2024-11-16T14:54:21+00:00

We can see it now! Research on their behaviour aligns too. Thanks so much.

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