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
You’ll have to be quite quick
Signed copies of the hardback of A Message from Martha are disappearing fast from my house as you snap them up at just £10 incl P&P. I ordered 50 copies last week and you have bought 38 of them (and I want to keep some to sell at talks etc) so there really aren’t many…
Likely lads
Rowan the Hen Harrier ‘was likely to have been shot’ – likely? That’s an odd phrase and it’s been bothering me (and others, I see). I tend to start from the supposition that all Hen Harriers are likely to be shot and have to keep telling myself that there are other perfectly natural causes of…
Two Christmas adverts #BusterTheBoxer
It’s only early November but hoh! hoh! hoh! it’s time for Christmas adverts. The first one (#BusterTheBoxer), from multi-million pound business John Lewis (@JohnLewisRetail, not the poor chap @JohnLewis) has upset some ‘real country people’ but is putting a smile on the faces of many more people across the country. Have you seen it? Deliberately…
A letter from America
Sometimes really nice things happen, and sometimes they happen at just the right time. Here is an email from America which I received yesterday morning, completely out of the blue: I greatly enjoyed reading A Message from Martha. Living on the beach in Florida, I saw swarms of birds wheel and swoop, and I thought…