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

Captions?

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  Michael Gove: the Hen Harrier badge? Someone called Amanda gave it to me.  She said they keep falling out of the sky outside her kitchen window. Seemed a bit crazy to me.   Michael: will you stop going on about Hen Harriers? Michael: I never mentioned them actually.    

Holding a new book

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My copy of Behind More Binoculars arrived in the post recently. Aren’t books lovely?  And a book with a jacket illustration by Robert Gillmor is especially lovely.     Pre-publication offer – Save 30% on Behind More Binoculars (and anything else ordered at the same time), from www.pelagicpublishing.com using offer code BMB30.    

A fun evening in Chesterfield

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Yesterday evening I headed off to Chesterfield to talk to a local group of the Derbyshire Wildlife Trust. It was a fun evening and it’s good to talk in or near upland areas where the issues are local ones.  There was a good turn out of people and I was speaking in a church hall…