It would be nice if Long-tailed Tits nested in the garden, but they probably won’t. But it would be really nice if they did. I’m trying not to get my hopes up. There has been a pair feeding on fat balls in the garden for quite a while now – always a pair, so I’m…
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
Guest blog – Curlew calls by Mary Colwell-Hector
Mary Colwell-Hector is an award winning radio, TV and internet producer winning 14 awards over the last 8 years, including a Sony Gold in 2009. She is also a radio presenter and feature writer for The Tablet. She has produced natural history series such as Saving Species and Natural Histories on Radio 4 and was…
Nature Club by E Truss (Senior Prefect) as imagined by Jonathan Wallace
St Margaret’s School (school motto Fides in mercato) Nature Club By E Truss (Senior Prefect) Gosh! Hello everyone! I’d just like to say how thrilled I am to have been put in charge of the school wildlife garden! It’s a great responsibility and I shall do my very best to…
What I’d like for my birthday please
On my birthday at the end of March I’ll be chasing birds in Israel which will be terribly hard work, I’m told. I’ll be the most useless member of the Birdwatch-Birdguides Roadrunners team whose fellow members are ace-birders David Callahan (henceforth known as Team Captain Callahan) and Mike Alibone. …
Guest blog – Ban toxic lead ammunition by Rob Sheldon
Rob Sheldon is a freelance conservationist. He has worked in nature conservation for almost 20 years, including 12 years with the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB). Since 2013, he has been the Chairman of the Ornithological Society of the Middle East, The Caucasus and Central Asia (OSME). Most recently he has worked…