Seabird rescue: latest pictures
Hundreds of sea birds are feared dead as many are washed up along the south coast. Covered in oil - there are concerns hundreds more could die over the coming days.
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Staff at inland nature reserve 'relaxed' about seal's arrival
Staff at an RSPB nature reserve in Cambridgeshire have said they are "relaxed" about the arrival of a seal which is believed to have swam 50 miles inland through floodwater.
The seal has taken up residence in a lake at Fen Drayton Lakes Reserve in Swavesey where it was filmed trying to clear a flood defence earlier.
– Graham Elliott, RSPBIt is perfectly happy in the lake with plenty of food to sustain it.
It is not a threat to any other wildlife and hopefully it will find its way out the same way it came in.
Two men convicted of stealing birds' eggs
Two men have been convicted of stealing rare birds' eggs from nests in Devon and Cornwall.
Marcus Betteridge and Seymour Crang admitted stealing the eggs of the Dartford warbler.
Both men were fined £1,000 and ordered to pay £200 costs.
For more on the two year police investigation into their crimes visit ITV Westcountry.
Swifts suffer 'disastrous' breeding season due to weather
The arrival of warm, sunny conditions has come too late to help one of the UK's most well-known summer birds, the swift, which has been hit by this year's miserable weather.
Flocks of swifts are already starting to head back to Africa, where they spend the winter, following a "disastrous" breeding season, conservationists said.
The wettest April to June on record have meant fewer flying insects for swifts and their chicks to eat, leaving the birds struggling to rear their young.
Adults have even been pushing eggs out of their nests because a lack of food has meant they have not been able to feed themselves, as well as incubate eggs and feed chicks.
The RSPB has said the poor weather in spring was "the last thing" the species needed.The birds have been struggling in recent years, with numbers falling by almost a third between 1995 and 2009, and conservationists say they expect to see falls in the breeding figures for this year.