Standing up for Nature
In this occasional series (weekly so far – but this is only Week 3) of links to other interesting blog posts, here are some more blogs that have caught my eye: One Kind: Why we’re backing Hen Harrier Day Joyce Hopewell: A Hen Harrier’s tale Fiona Bell, Butterfly Conservation: Butterflies and sunburn – life as…
I very much enjoyed David Cobham’s previous book on raptors, A Sparrowhawk’s Lament. This new, slim offering has many of the same features that made that book such a pleasure to read; a love of raptors, a selection of anecdotes and a range of snippets of conversations with others involved in the subject. But this…
Tim writes: In 1897 two German Ornithologists (Ernst Hartert and Otto Kleinschmidt) were looking through a series of Marsh Tits in the British Museum when they spotted a couple of Willow Tits that had been wrongly labelled. The same year some fresh specimens were collected in Coalfell Wood, Finchley and three years later Willow…
Previous episodes: An Unreliable History of Birdwatching by Paul Thomas (1) An Unreliable History of Birdwatching by Paul Thomas (5) An Unreliable History of Birdwatching by Paul Thomas (6) An Unreliable History of Birdwatching by Paul Thomas (13) An Unreliable History of Birdwatching by Paul Thomas (15) Paul’s website
Ralph has had hundreds of cartoons on this site since April 2013. What do you think of them overall?