It’s a while since I bought a Ladybird book – but I still have a lot of the original series dotted around the house. This book, published today, is one of the ‘Expert’ series and the three authors can rightly be classed as such (but even if they weren’t, this book has been peer-reviewed by…
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Tim Melling – Waxwings
Tim Melling writes: It does not seem to be well known but adult male (Bohemian) Waxwings can show red waxy tips on the tail, as well as the wing. Some have red feather shafts in the tail but only a very few have small waxy tips too. You can just see this feature on the…
Guest blog – Murder on the African Express by James Hogg
James (@JWTHogg) writes: I grew up on a farm on the edge of the North York Moors and have always been interested by nature and always wanted to be able to put a name to everything. Over the years this has grown to a love of birds and luckily circumstances have allowed me to travel…
A month for badgers
The Wildlife Trust/Simon King e-petition to stop the Badger cull rather than expand it into new areas has a month to run and is around 18,000 signatures away from the magic 100,000. Now, as we know, 100,000 signatures does not mean that government will do anything – but, as we also know, it does mean…
A tale of two tags
I’ve just given the GWCT some money as they have a crowdfunder running so that they can study Woodcock, and I like Woodcock. Earlier this week, I gave some money to Birders Against Wildlife Crime so that they can study birds of prey: I like birds of prey too. The two appeals would make an…