Dentdale is very pretty and Henry really wanted to go into the Sportsman’s Inn to have a chat about grouse shooting. I managed to distract him and we looked for Dippers on the beck outside instead. In Dent itself Henry asked me about the GWCT and their boss Teresa Dent. I told him that 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
The present was our future then
On the Sunday of our reunion of old Old Bristolians we visited the RSPB Ham Wall nature reserve and the Shapwick Heath NNR on the Somerset Levels. We had all been to this area before, 40 years before, looking and listening for Nightjars, Nightingales, Barn Owls and other species on summer evenings. This time we…
Good news and bad news
The good news is, I hope, that the irritating ‘Viagra in the US’ words at the top of this page should have gone. If you could see them before, can you see them now? The bad news is, although I can see all your comments, stretching back years, they don’t seem to be displaying at…
Henry is welcome?
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Swinton Park, down the road from yesterday’s Henry photo near the spot where Hen Harrier Bowland Betty was found dead, looks a swanky place. I wonder whether grouse is on the menu there? Would Henry be welcome? The Dorchester Grill does not serve grouse, they tell me. Not many replies, so far, from other restaurants…
New Defra ministers announced
Truss, Eustice and de Mauley are back. Rory Stewart is regarded as a bit of a waste in Defra by the Spectator! Labour is expected to keep the Defra shadow ministerial team intact.