Tim writes: my sister moved to Snowdonia last year and invited me across to stay. I was surprised and delighted to find she had both Pied Flycatchers and Redstarts as garden birds. The Pied Flycatchers were particularly showy and there was lots of light too as the leaves had not yet opened to block the…
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
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
100,000!!
We did it – 100,000 of us (so far). Thank you! I hope someone has a screen grab I can add here later (above – although it went past in a blur and I’ve been sent several slightly photoshopped ones like the above – thank you) but now I’m off to get a train home…
Our St Crispins Day
It feels a bit like the eve of a mighty victory. At the battle of Agincourt, the English and Welsh plebeian archers (plebs – the common people, not a perjorative term) gave a metaphorical and actual two fingers to the toffs (a mildly derogatory term for the landed gentry but actually merely a term for…
What a glorious Inglorious 12th
We started the day in the 86,000s and we will end the day in the 96,000s or higher. Have you heard? There’s an e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting. Please sign it.