Do you find that you get asked to sign lots of e-petitions? And do you bother? Well, here are a few rules to help you on your way. Don’t sign an e-petition unless you’ve read it Don’t sign an e-petition unless you agree with it Don’t sign more than two e-petitions a day Don’t sign…
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
Protect our protected areas
My local patch of Stanwick Lakes is actually a small part of an EU SPA – a Special Protection Area for Birds, notified under the EU Birds Directive. But to me, it’s simply my local patch where I go for a walk to see birds, ignore plants, and to think about the world. It is…
Car crash on the radio
Natalie Bennett’s loss of thought in an interview today is what has happened to most of us who have been frequent public speakers. Such excruciating moments tend more often to win friends than to drive them away. In an age when people don’t want slick (I’ve always thought that Malcolm Rifkind was rather slick) then…
A laughing matter
Birdwatching is such a laugh. Standing for 4-5 hours in the rain (which occasionally turned to sleet just to show how cold it was) and a biting wind is our idea of fun. I blame that Findlay Wilde for having a birthday and luring us all there with the promise (richly fulfilled) of cake. But…
A read on the Wilde side
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Here’s a really good blog by young Findlay Wilde. My version of the same events will be posted tomorrow at 0600. The chocolate cake was very good.