The result of the by-election at Rochester and Strood will influence the way that next May’s general election plays out. How much momentum will UKIP have? The UKIP candidate, the sitting MP Mark Reckless, is unequivocably against the Lodge Hill development that will destroy a very important Nightingale population. Here is something from Reckless’s website….
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
Awful gov
Have you tried the www.gov.uk website? Isn’t it absolutely awful? Can you find anything? Can you find the things you used to be able to find? Where, for example, can you find a list of Defra ministers’ speeches? Do they not speak these days? I would have mixed feelings about that. This is what I…
Swallow that
On Saturday afternoon I watched a Cormorant with a fish off Dawlish Warren. The Cormorant had the fish in its beak and was trying to swallow it. It looked as though it had bitten off more than it could chew, or at least caught more than it could swallow. Have you ever done that? I’m…
Hope continues to rise
Every picture tells a story – and this one tells a big story. This graph shows the farmland bird index at the RSPB’s Hope Farm and in England as a whole. It shows a slow, steady decline in England altogether (blue line) but a massive overall rise (red line) at Hope Farm. Read more about…
Oscar Dewhurst – Red Deer stag roaring
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Oscar writes: This was taken before the sun came up in Richmond Park. I wanted to include both the stag and some females, and getting the male roaring was something I also wanted to show the story of this time of year for the deer. Nikon D800, Nikon 200-400mm f4 VR