I don’t know much about art but I know what I like – and I like giant hen harriers crushing rangerovers. Did you see this – it happened over a month ago while I was in upper New York state. Well, it made me smile anyway. Other coverage: more Guardian, BBC, dazeddigital, London Evening Standard….
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
BBS
I got up early on Sunday morning in order to do the last visits to my two BBS squares. The Rolling Stones had kept me up the night before which was a bit mean of them – at their age they should know better. It’s a whitethroat year for sure – there weren’t many warblers…
Interesting move
Shooting organisations are clearly rattled by the campaign that has been building to remove lead from the environment (a subject oft-mentioned in this blog see here, here, here, here, here for example and the subject of a Guest Blog by the BASC Comms Director, Christopher Graffius). Complying with the law as it stands is going…
Happy Birthday BTO
Apparently the BTO is 80 today – Happy Birthday! Personally I wouldn’t have said that Andy Clements was a day over 65 but you never can tell can you? There’s quite a lot of interesting stuff about the BTO’s past on their website – click here. However, unlike for most people in their 80s, it…
Thank yous
Flight Centre at Cambridge for sorting out my flights and car hire and especially Samantha for moving quickly just before I left to correct the mistake of my car hire being booked at a different airport from the one where I arrived and left! I was lucky, in the Wayne National Forest to meet several…