The BAWC fundraiser – to tag raptors in persecution hotspots – is now very close to £15,000. Thank you to all who have contributed so far. I understand that field testing continues, tags are being ordered and lots of forms are being filled in. If you’d like to support BAWC’s first full field project then…
Year: 2017
Sad news: Eric Meek 1947-2017
Dewilding Scotland
Mountaineering Scotland are looking for a safe route down from the ledge onto which they have jumped. Finding themselves cuddling up to the Scottish Gamekeepers Association on an exposed overhang with a big drop below them, they are looking to clamber to safety. The bit of a row is about Mountaineering Scotland choosing (because I…
Oscar Dewhurst – Fox
Oscar writes: Another winter looks like it will go by without me getting the chance to photograph anything in the snow. The last time I did was at the start of 2013, when I was working on some local foxes. Here is one taken just as the snow was getting going. School had been cancelled…
Sunday book review – Birding in the Bristol region (edited by William Earp)
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The Bristol Ornithological Club is 50 years old and this book is a celebration of its first half century. I was a member from 1970-76 and so my memories are mostly from its early years when I was a schoolboy and starting (mad) keen birding. This is a friendly warm book which sketches the…