Both Botham and the RSPB are wrong

Ian Botham talks rubbish a lot of the time, it seems to me (see here, here and here) and clearly  I am not alone as Birdwatch readers voted in droves for YFTB, for whom Ian Botham has spoken in public, in last year’s ‘Guano awards’ (see here, and see here for this year’s contenders).  One…

Tim Melling – Marsh Fritillary

  Tim writes: This butterfly is declining right across its European range and Britain has not bucked the trend.  This individual was photographed at Finglandrigg National Nature Reserve in North Cumbria.  It typically occurs on marshy grassland where its foodplant Devil’s-bit Scabious occurs, but some colonies occur on chalk downland in the south.  The plant…

Good film

I wrote about this film back in May 2016 when I saw it at The Barbican. Quite a lot of it has stuck in my mind ever since. And now it is going on tour in the UK to: Nottingham tomorrow Sat 28 Oct, Oswestry Tues 31 Oct, Liverpool Sun 26 Nov, Aldeburgh Sun 3 Dec,…