If you have a view on the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust’s plans for a new visitor centre at Spurn then you have the rest of the week to respond. I say ‘if’, but it is clear that many of you have – and on both sides of the argument. If you do have a view then…
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More driving and more thinking
I drove to North Wales on Wednesday and drove back on Thursday, and then I drove to Essex on Friday to talk to the Essex Birdwatching Society and then on to Hertfordshire on Friday night where on Saturday I was on an authors’ panel at a Badger Trust conference. So in four days I met…
Julie Williams to succeed Martin Warren
Martin Warren‘s successor as Chief Executive of Butterfly Conservation will be Julie Williams.
Planet Earth 2
There is just the one planet Earth – and it is a fantastically amazing place. I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else. Last night’s opening programme in the new Attenborough series was breathtaking in its beauty – ‘that’s where I live’ we all should have been shouting. ‘I love that place!’. ‘What can I do…
Oscar Dewhurst – Hoatzin
Oscar writes: Our last 2 days in Peru were spent at the Manu Learning Centre, run by the Crees foundation. Here we spent one afternoon at a small lake and swamp area, where we saw many birds, including these Hoatzins. They are an oddity in the bird world, eating leaves and young birds possessing a…