This post is about damaging tracks, past and present, on protected moorland. I’d like to take you back in time on Walshaw Moor. This photograph was posted on this blog in Wuthering Moors 39, 13 September 2013. I pointed out that this place was marked on the OS map as a stream but now (in…
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
Paul Leyland – Black-veined White
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Paul writes: The Black-veined White (Aporia crataegi) is a large striking-looking butterfly which used to occur in England but became extinct here around 1925. It was generally a fairly localised species mainly in southern England but occurred as far north as Yorkshire. It is still uncertain why it became extinct because its main foodplants, Hawthorn…
Save the dates – 15-17 November, N3N
The 10th anniversary New Networks for Nature conference is this week, starting on Thursday evening and ending Saturday afternoon. I’ll be there on the Friday and I am particularly looking forward to the chat between Caroline Lucas and Barbara Young. Click here for more details – please note, ticket sales close at 9am on Wednesday…
Remember (2)
It seems appropriate today to mention this review of a book about Second World War British prisoners of war. Birds in a Cage by Derek Niemann was reviewed here on 14 November 2012. An extract: Birds in a Cage is the story of four British prisoners of war, Second Lieutenant Peter Conder, Second Lieutenant John…
Remember
The children at this local school are young enough to be my grandchildren. My two grandfathers were either down a Welsh coalmine or looking after horses on the Front in the First World War. I don’t remember my grandfathers because they both died when I was very young but their wives were important characters in…
Not a review
This book was conceived on this blog when Paul Thomas approached me with the idea of producing regular cartoons. I was glad to give him the opportunity to publish his work here and to promote his artwork. And now he has produced a book of cartoons – some of which will be familiar to you…
Tim Melling – Common Sandpiper
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Tim writes: The “kitty-needie, kitty-needie” song of Common Sandpiper is a familiar summer sound on northern rivers and reservoirs. Most breeding waders are resident in Britain, with their numbers bolstered by a winter influx from the north and east. But Common Sandpiper is a summer visitor that migrates to sub-Saharan Africa for the winter. It…
Peak leaf-peeping time
I popped in to London a few days ago. Well, if you can call a journey which involved four trains and two tubes ‘popping in’ then I popped in. And two of the trains were cancelled and the other two were late so it was quite a slow ‘pop’. The 07:38 from Wellingborough was cancelled…
by Mr Carbo
Inspired by the Revive launch on Tuesday evening.
The banned Iceland Christmas video
Great publicity for Iceland stores, and odd that this could not be broadcast…