I’m grateful to the PDNP for coming back to me, a member of the public, very quickly with information on the retrospective invalid planning application for the track pictured above and written about back in May. This is now an enforcement matter and therefore not in the public domain, but I’ll be checking regularly to…
Author: Mark
Born Bristol, UK
Educated: Cleeve House School Bristol, Bristol Grammar School and Downing College Cambridge
Ph.D. University of Aberdeen, Winter activity of pipistrelle bats.
NERC post-doctoral Research Fellow, Edward Grey Institute, Oxford University
Former Conservation Director of the RSPB, 1989-2011
On the right track?
It’s good to hear that various statutory agencies are jumping around and paying attention following the publication of some photos here on Wednesday of the condition of a public right of way and a designated site. Well done Bob Berzins for highlighting this issue and bringing it to the attention of those who ought to…
Guest blog – ‘I would teach them to shoot’ by Brian Watmough
Brian writes: I started birding in the 1960s watching pink-footed geese on the Lancashire mosses. Today I watch Brent Geese on the Kent coast, in between I have been lucky to enjoy birds in many places. “I would teach them to shoot and handle a gun,”Bob answered. We were three baby boomers sitting round…
Ho! ho! ho! HOT wishes you a meddling merry Christmas!
It’s so lovely that the Hawk and Owl Trust trustees have sent us all a Christmas message. And I see that the HOT have gained one Henry Robinson as a trustee. Could this be (I think it could) the past president of the Country Landowners Association? It’s a small world isn’t it? Remember the last…
Working hard over the Christmas break
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I’ll be working hard over the Christmas break – well, I’ll be luxuriating in looking at some of the best bird photographs ever! I’m the least knowledgeable judge on the panel of the Bird Photographer of the Year 2017 competition. Having peeked at some of the entries it’s going to be great fun and very…