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…
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An Unreliable History of Birdwatching (31) by Paul Thomas
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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,…
Dr Coffey’s reading list (12)
Dr Therese Coffey is the junior minister at Defra. When Gavin Gamble’s e-petition in favour of banning driven grouse shooting passes 10,000 signatures (and it stands at over 9800) then Dr Coffey will need to sign off a government response. It looks to me as though ‘drafting a response’ will be in Dr Coffey’s civil…