I expect that many of the readers of this blog feel a bit of nagging guilt about the impact of their lifestyle on the planet, and not just the planet but on the people with whom we share it. What we eat, what we wear, where we travel etc etc – all those things have…
Year: 2017
Murmuration
Poor pictures (taken on my ‘phone) but they give you an impression of the murmuration of Starlings near to my home, at Summer Leys nature reserve yesterday evening. They didn’t put on a spectacular show, not much wheeling around, but there were quite a few of them – 6000? And against the setting sun they…
The first four weeks
Gavin Gamble’s e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting passed 10,000 signatures on Friday. This, importantly, will trigger a response from Defra – a valuable insight into whether the government is still in denial about wildlife crime or whether the message is getting through. Here are the leading constituencies so far – many of them are…
Blue Planet 2 – what did you think?
On the basis that ‘Dog bites Man is not news, but Man bites Dog is news’ then I can understand why we saw Giant Trevally fish gobbling up young Sooty Terns. Did you see them? Quite something when a nearly 6-foot fish jumps out of the water to catch a tern in flight. And, above,…
Oscar Dewhurst – Black-tailed Godwit
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Oscar writes: During the summer I found myself in Suffolk for a few days, so spent an early morning in Minsmere’s East Hide in the hope of photographing some of the waders that were there. A couple of summer plumaged Black-tailed Godwits were feeding close to the hide, and their colours looked fantastic in the…