Henry was on Salisbury Plain last week – without me! I missed him but it looks like he was having a good time risking life and limb on the firing ranges. Still, he’s used to dodging bullets. Henry and I are out and about today. Keep an eye open and you might see us. I…
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
Squirrels and martens
When I walk through St James’s Park, as I sometimes do, I am always (and it is always) struck by the number of people smiling at Grey Squirrels, photographing Grey Squirrels and feeding Grey Squirrels. These people, many of whom are ‘foreign’, from their accents at least, would be shocked to hear this lovely, friendly,…
Henry #HaveYouSeenHenry
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Henry with Michael Groves (volunteer for the owl & raptor nest box project on Salisbury Plain) and Nick Adams (Wiltshire Raptor Group). #HaveYouSeenHenry?
Not really a twitch
It wasn’t really a twitch because the birds weren’t that rare, the site was very close and I was going there anyway, but when I saw that there were a couple of Avocets at Stanwick Lakes yesterday afternoon then I got down there a bit quicker than I might otherwise have done. And there they…
Forest Holidays – in case you missed it
Do you remember the case of Fineshade Wood (see here, here and here for example)? Back on 17 March Rupert de Mauley was answering questions in the House of Lords on the subject. Note the fact that Forest Holidays ‘is unlikely to be able to progress a site if it does not have the full…