This blog’s books of 2017

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 Melling – Little Owl

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…

Some of my favourite Paul Thomas cartoons

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.  

Telegraph gets ‘exclusive’ by reading month-old blog

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…

Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill

Many thanks to Ralph Underhill for scores of cartoons through 2017.  Here is today’s and a few more of my favourites from early in the year.     From 7 January From 14 January From 28 January From 4 March From 18 March