Alan Stewart MBE is a retired police inspector with a wealth of experience in investigating wildlife crime. This is his fourth book on the subject. Here is a quote from the author’s introduction ‘On driven grouse moors there is little evidence of change. While the licensing of shoots may help, the only real solution…
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Tim Melling – Common Blue
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Tim writes: this is a male Common Blue resting in a sea of Bird’s-foot Trefoil, which is also its larval foodplant. This is a second brood individual photographed in late August, which is the offspring of the generation that was on the wing in June. I took the photograph at the RSPB’s new reserve…
An Unreliable History of Birding (39) by Paul Thomas
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Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
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In this occasional series of links to other interesting blog posts, here are some more blogs that have caught my eye: Grantham ecology – the wildflower year around Grantham the Hoopoe blog by NHBS – an interview with Keith Betton and Mark Avery Jeff Ollerton – the holly, the mistletoe and the pollinators Raptor Persecution…