Hi Mark, I have just read your recent blog on the Peak District and the National Trust, and I am afraid it has made me cry. I think they are partly tears of sorrow and partly of hope against hope that what you write about could be true. I love the Peak District. It is…
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
Northants gleanings 2
It’s been good to visit some local sites over the last few days and check up on how spring is progressing. At the airfield on the Beds/Northants border it felt more like winter than spring. But I heard and saw my first UK Whitethroat of 2016 and there were two migrant Wheatears too, so it…
Birdtrack – still great
I haven’t mentioned Birdtrack for a while – but if you read these blogs carefully then you’ll realise that I am still using it religiously otherwise I’d never have the stats for my birding at my local patch so much to hand. I have downloaded the new, and greatly improved, iPhone Birdtrack app (it’s free)…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
Ralph writes: This is a draft of a cartoon I did for a FoE Brussels campaign on the importance of regulation – I thought readers of this blog might appreciate it.
Good news for wildlife – bad news for driven grouse shooting?
The news that the European Commission is starting infraction proceedings against the UK, presumably for lack of action in England, over upland management issues, revealed on Martin Harper’s blog today is very welcome. It’s very welcome because it shows that the EU is a force for environmental good (but we knew that anyway) – although…