I’m accused of various things, mostly by people who don’t know me, but a really good thing about writing a blog and writing articles, and writing books, is that my words are there, out in the open for anyone to read. So you can make your own minds up. About 100,000 of those words, on…
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
Thank you Greens!
The Green Party of England and Wales is the only UK political party, as far as I am aware, which supports a ban of driven grouse shooting. And this has not just been through passive support, the current party leader, Natalie Bennett, amongst others, has spoken out in social media on this subject (also see…
Peak Hen Harrier Day 2016 is in Edale
The Peak District Hen Harrier Day event on 7 August will be in beautiful Edale. Natalie Bennett, the leader of the Green Party, Henry the Hen Harrier and I will be there – and no doubt a whole host of others too. Watch this space – and also this space on the Birders Against…
Labour voters and Jeremy Corbyn – this is about fairness
Our e-petition calling for an end to driven grouse shooting is whizzing along – but it is gaining least support in urban Labour constituencies (which is ironic since we used to be told that these are the only people who would support it!). If you live in Birmingham, Coventry, Oldham, Manchester, Bradford, Leeds or Leicester,…
Oscar Dewhurst – Little Egret
Oscar writes: I was in Suffolk hoping to photograph Bitterns, but unfortunately had no luck whatsoever, and only saw two in the week, both at a distance of about 200m! Luckily there were plenty of other things to photograph, like this Little Egret. It is in fact the same individual I photographed from the same…