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 – Coot walking on water

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Tim writes:  I took this photograph at Bretton Lakes in West Yorkshire in late January.  It was a warm, muggy, winter’s day, but the previous few days had been really cold and the lakes had frozen over.  But the warmer weather had melted much of the ice and a layer of melt water lay on…

RSPB calls on NE to act (Bowland Gull Cull 1)

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RSPB press release: The RSPB has learned that large numbers of protected birds are being killed on a grouse moor in Lancashire. A RSPB staff member working in the Bowland area discovered two estate workers shooting nesting lesser black-backed gulls – on a grouse moor managed by the Abbeystead Estate – leaving their chicks to be…