Standing up for Nature
I sometimes think that this blog only writes about banning driven grouse shooting – important though that is to me, it is not the only thing in the world. But looking back over the year and the blogs I have written myself, there is a fair amount of variety. Here are some blogs, one from…
Thanks to Ian Carter, this blog has reviewed more books than ever in 2017 – I think there were 37 in all. For a change I have simply chosen my favourite three books of the year here. A favourite book is a very personal choice. These then are my personal choices but I have expanded…
Tim writes: Although Little Owls look totally at home in Britain they are a nineteenth century introduction that had never been recorded here historically (not even as bones or fossils). The first attempt at establishing Little Owls in Britain was actually in Yorkshire at Walton Park near Wakefield in 1834 when Charles Waterton released five…
Thank you to Paul Thomas for providing a regular weekly cartoon on the Unreliable History of Birdwatching here this year. Here are just a few of my favourites. This is Paul’s website.
The Daily Telegraph today. Findlay Wilde’s blog of 4 December. Well done Findlay! You have made it to ‘activist’ in the national press – only a couple of steps to go to get to ‘eco-zealot’. An unnamed MP – what odds would you give that it was Simon Hart (ex chief exec and well-paid…