Henry tells me that he enjoyed Chatsworth but decided to leg it because of the lack of ringtails. #HaveYouSeenHenry?
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
Last day to sign this e-petition
This is the last day that you can sign my e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting. It was launched on 28 May and ends today when the Westminster parliament is dissolved. In just 10 months it has helped change the whole tenor of the debate about the future of grouse shooting. No longer is driven…
Oscar Dewhurst – Blue-capped Tanager
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Oscar writes: In the cloud forest of Peru these Blue-capped Tanagers were ubiquitous and regularly passed through the scrub just outside my room at the research station I was staying at. One afternoon I just stood and waited and before long I had a group of these birds posing on gorgeous lichen-encrusted branches for me!…
Sunday book review – Nature in Towns and Cities by David Goode
I’ve had this book for quite some time, and I have kept picking it up and putting it down. For me, that is usually a sign that it hasn’t grabbed me but I’m wondering whether it is me, or the book, or both. In this case I think it is mostly me. I’m not that…
More things that caught my eye this week
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today is WWF’s Earth Hour this month’s Birdwatch is full of good things but the double page photo of a Great Spotted Woodpecker and a Little Owl squaring up to each other on a post is quite stunning. and that same Birdwatch has the wonderful Mark Cocker’s last column (although he will continue to write…