The first four weeks

Gavin Gamble’s e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting passed 10,000 signatures on Friday. This, importantly, will trigger a response from Defra – a valuable insight into whether the government is still in denial about wildlife crime or whether the message is getting through. Here are the leading constituencies so far – many of them are…

Blue Planet 2 – what did you think?

On the basis that ‘Dog bites Man is not news, but Man bites Dog is news’ then I can understand why we saw Giant Trevally fish gobbling up young Sooty Terns. Did you see them? Quite something when a nearly 6-foot fish jumps out of the water to catch a tern in flight. And, above,…

Oscar Dewhurst – Black-tailed Godwit

Oscar writes: During the summer I found myself in Suffolk for a few days, so spent an early morning in Minsmere’s East Hide in the hope of photographing some of the waders that were there. A couple of summer plumaged Black-tailed Godwits were feeding close to the hide, and their colours looked fantastic in the…

Wild food (10) – Amethyst Deceiver by Ian Carter

This is a very common species in the autumn and early winter in deciduous woodland, mostly under Beech trees in my part of the country. It provides an excellent example of the concept of ‘search image’ whereby things become much easier to find once you have got your eye in. You wouldn’t think that vivid…