Remember to do your Big Garden BirdWatch today if you didn’t do it yesterday. I hope to do mine this morning although rain is forecast so it may be postponed until the afternoon. I’ll keep you posted.
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
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
Lead Week, 21 #Pbweekmia
This is Lead Week on this blog. It’s pretty awful that Defra has not come to any decision on lead ammunition which is a source of poison in our foods and our environment, but it is scandalous that it has not made the report of the Lead Ammunition Group public after receiving it almost eight…
Lead Week, 20 #Pbweekmia
This is Lead Week on this blog. Three quarters of the grouse meat samples from Iceland Foods which I had tested would have been illegal if they had been found in other meat (though they were legal in game meat). A third of the samples had ten times the levels that would be legal in…
Lead Week, 19 #Pbweekmia
This is Lead Week on this blog. By one of those interesting and unexpected coincidences, yesterday the Food Standards Agency had a live board meeting on the internet. They invited questions via social media and email. I wasn’t able to listen in to their board meeting but I did send them this series of…