No snakes again – where were the chaser, racer, pacer snakes? You can’t go far wrong in a jungle can you? Birds of Paradise? The far end of males being daft just because females demand it (see Remarkable Birds). Jaguars – the Snow Leopards of warm wet places? The Capybara got away just like Ed…
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Guest blog – Disturbing for Nature by Miles King
Miles King is Chief Executive of People Need Nature a new charity working to highlight the sensory, emotional and spiritual values of nature. He has worked in nature conservation for 30 years, leading the conservation work at Plantlife, The Grasslands Trust and Buglife. He has also worked for English Nature, Natural England and as a…
Website upgraded
A couple of people have mentioned that this site has been slow to load recently – and I have noticed it too (although my broadband has been a bit dodgy lately too). So I spent half a day yesterday sorting it out through doing some stuff myself, talking to the support team at GoDaddy and…
Sunday book review – A Sky Full of Birds by Matt Merritt
This is a book about bird gatherings from seabird colonies to winter roosts. Having spent a frustrating evening recently looking for a Pied Wagtail roost that wasn’t there I enjoyed hearing of Matt Merritt’s successes. A huge flock of birds is a sight to be seen – and sometimes a sound to be heard and…
Tim Melling – friendly Grey Whale
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Tim Melling: San Ignacio lagoon on the Pacific coast of Mexico’s Baja Peninsula is one of a small number of lagoons where Grey Whales go to mate and give birth. They feed in the Arctic during the summer months then make a huge migration thousands of miles to reach the breeding lagoons during winter. Baby…