Urban Daffodils brightening the day in Oundle We are in Daffodil season again – getting towards the end of it in these parts. And, for me (I’ve written about this before), there are good Daffodils and bad Daffodils. Good Daffodils are either wild Daffodils, and there aren’t any of those around here, or urban/garden Daffodils….
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
Tim Melling – Red Panda
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Tim writes: I have posted photos of Red Pandas before but this was an unusually confiding wild individual that I thought it was worth sharing. They spend most of the year hidden in bamboo thickets, venturing into the trees in autumn in search of berries and rosehips. This one was down a bank so I…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
Environmental glories?
Shooting Times – the gift that keeps on giving…
It’s almost as though Shooting Times has been set up to provide weekly evidence to support Wild Justice’s legal challenge of the General Licences… There appears to have been no attempt to use non-lethal means before popping away at this bird, and it is just a little unclear as to what issue listed in the…
Birds on stamps
The Royal Mail is issuing a set of stamps of birds of prey. Ten species are featured – all four falcons that nest in the UK, both the accipiters that nest in the UK, both the eagles that nest in the UK and the Buzzard and the Red Kite (which both nest in the UK)….
Let Nature Sing – the new campaign from RSPB
Over the next two years the RSPB hopes that its Let Nature Sing campaign will bring the music of the wild back into our lives, to remind people of the sounds we love from nature and how we would miss them if they were gone. I’m already missing them quite a lot. RSPB has joined…
BGBW results – RSPB press release
Song Thrush. Photo: Chris Gomersall/RSPB images RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch results show mixed picture for UK’s garden birds House sparrow remains at the top of the Big Garden Birdwatch rankings with almost 1.2 million sightings throughout the weekend but for many species fewer birds were recorded than in 2018. Almost half a million people across…
Wind turbines – what do you think?
I do notice them, but they have become familiar now, whereas ten years ago they seemed strange and new. I can see this bunch from my house, although it requires a bit of neck-stretching and straining to do so. This morning they were whizzing round in the wind (apart from one of them – there’s…
Wild Justice meets top cops
Yesterday, the Wild Justice directors (Ruth Tingay, Chris Packham (‘fresh’ back from Baja California) and I) met Chief Inspector Louise Hubble and Deputy Chief Constable Craig Naylor for a chat about wildlife crime. We covered a wide range of topics which included hare coursing, raptor persecution, poaching and how the law operates. Very useful for…
Thinking of subscribing…
The current Shooting Times magazine is so full of interesting and puzzling articles I am seriously considering taking out a subscription. And it’s nearly time for the next weekly offering. Lindsay Waddell, retired gamekeeper from the Raby estate, writes about the new rules governing heather without actually telling us what they are. I assume he…