January: I saw a Great Grey Shrike locally (I’d forgotten until I looked back), Defra were hopeless (hardly news, I know), David Harsent won the TS Eliot prize for poetry for a book which included a poem about a killed Hen Harrier, a Scottish gamekeeper was jailed for killing raptors, SNH was put under pressure…
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
You are reading Birdwatch readers’ Blog of the Year
The readers and non-readers of Birdwatch magazine have voted this blog their Blog of the Year. What a lovely Christmas present! Later today, two summaries of the year through what was covered in this blog (Jan-Jun at 1230; Jul-Dec at 1800). You will have to rush down to your local newsagent, or await the arrival…
Wicken Fen harriers
I’ve just spent some of the evening at the NT’s Wicken Fen and seen some harriers coming in to roost – and a marvellous Barn Owl going out to feed too. Bearded Tits ‘ping!’-ed in the reeds and Starlings did a small amount of murmurating in the distance. We saw several Marsh Harriers and a…
It’s a big story
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A few weeks ago I sat under a dinosaur as two others walked past. The wonderful setting of the Natural History Museum was the scene for the recording of The Big Story which will be broadcast this evening at 8pm and again on Christmas morning at 6am. You can see in the image above that…
President Juniper
Tony Juniper is the new President of the Wildlife Trusts. Tony says ‘It is a huge honour and privilege to be declared as the new President of The Wildlife Trusts. This organisation is the very backbone of conservation in the UK and the work being undertaken right across the country, in the places where we…