Oscar writes; most of my Easter holiday was spent revising for exams, although I did manage to get out to Suffolk for a week to do some photography. While sitting in one of the hides on Minsmere’s scrape two Oystercatchers started wheeling round in front of the hide. I had to contort myself into various…
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
Sunday book review – Nightingales in November by Mike Dilger
This book has a clever title and a lovely cover by Darren Woodhead. Its author is also a lovely guy: a good broadcaster, great conversationalist and a real laugh. However, despite all that, I’m not won over by the book. It is also based on a clever idea – take a dozen birds and write…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
We need to think about Giles
Giles Bradshaw has commented on this blog over 600 times and many of those comments have been on the subject of the Hunting Act – a subject on which I don’t recall ever writing a blog (although you can find a comment on it in Inglorious pp106-07). A long time ago, I did publish a…
Splat!
A long time ago, the RSPB tried to persuade car drivers, lorry drivers etc to put a square patch of plastic on the front of their cars and send it in to us to assess the number of splatted insects on it. The ‘splatometer’ was a one-summer wonder but sometimes I wish we had persevered…