Timing is everything – and so often a matter of luck! I had noticed that the 3000th post on this blog was coming up shortly but a quick, unplanned blog about Mountain Hares meant that when my third e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting went live a little while ago this announcement could occupy 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
Balmoral challenged over Mountain Hare cull
As a follow-up to last weekend’s story about Mountain Hare culls in the Cairngorms National Park (you may have read it here first) Rob Edwards writes in today’s Glasgow Herald of the role of the Queen’s highland estate. Mass culls of Mountain Hares have, it seems, been undertaken at Delnadamph – part of the Balmoral…
Sunday book review – The Most Perfect Thing by Tim Birkhead
In this book Tim Birkhead has unscrambled the complexities of the biology of eggs with writing as smooth and rounded as an eggshell. As I sit writing this review I am listening to a dawn chorus dominated by Blackbird song, and I am thinking of the female Blackbird who is sitting on a nest containing…
Guest blog – Two years on by Andrea Goddard
Andrea Goddard co-founded Let’s Get MAD for Wildlife in April 2014 and is a passionate wildlife enthusiast who has volunteered for the RSPB for five years in various capacities, but mainly at Tollie red kites. She is studying Environmental Science for a BSc (Hons) at Inverness University of the Highlands and Islands. 2nd Year Anniversary of…