Gone and forgotten?

‘Farmland birds in Europe fall to lowest levels‘ is a terribly sad headline.  And we should be raging that things have got so bad. The grey (or ‘English’) partridge is in free-fall right across Europe with a decline of two thirds in numbers since 1990, and of 82% since 1980 according to the European Bird…

Reach for the round up!

Sparrow Survival, a wholly mythical NGO, reacted calmly to the news revealed in the erudite Sun ‘newspaper’ that one whole blue tit was eaten by a carnivorous plant, with the following statement: ‘We love plants but they’ll all have to die.  This is proof-positive that plants are the cause of all songbird declines and they’ll just…