I have a few gigs on over the next couple of weeks;
On Wednesday (20 Jan) I am talking to what will probably be mostly a bunch of undergraduates in Cambridge – the Cambridge Nature Society – in the new David Attenborough Building, Room 1.25 A+B at 7pm (about life in general and driven grouse shooting in particular).
On Thursday (21 Jan) I will be talking to my local RSPB group in the Saxon Hall, Raunds, about Passenger Pigeons and, yes, driven grouse shooting, at 7.30pm. And this is the evening the e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting closes, at midnight, so I will be attempting to wring the last few signatures out of a local audience.
Then next week it’s another mostly undergraduate audience in Cornwall on Wednesday and Rainham Marshes RSPB reserve on Friday. But I’ll remind you nearer the time.
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Hi Mark
I was totally inspired by your book Message from Martha and have based a whole project at college on it. I’m a mature student doing art foundation at Strode College in Street Somerset. I’m hoping to go and see a stuffed male passenger pigeon in the Natural History museum at Tring soon. I’m so grateful to you for awakening this interest. I’m still not sure what sound they made. Do you think they cooed like doves? Do you think they did any kind of murmurating like starlings, despite not having to avoid predators. Are you going to be talking in my area at all? Many many thanks.
Caroline – thank you very much for a lovely comment. I’m talking in Somerset on 24 March – about grouse shooting and hen harriers though, not passenger pigeons. See events tab on this site for details.