I’ve been away for a few days and I’d love you to guess where I’ve been. A mini-round-up: worrying signs on the West Pennine Moors that development is planned (more on this later) a month ago, and 7000 signatures ago, I posted this and tomorrow morning the RSPB will reply here M&S are not responding…
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Where was I?
I’ve been abroad in Europe for the last few days. Where do you think I was? I saw my first ever singing Barred Warbler (having seen lots skulking in bushes on the east coast of England over the years), my first ever White-backed Woodpecker and quite a few Ferruginous Ducks. Where would you go to…
Tick! Tock! National Trust
I am sure, absolutely sure, completely and utterly sure, that the NT has not been sitting on its hands for nearly a month since the ‘man taking his model Hen Harrier for a walk’ incident. However, we have heard nothing publicly from them about their ‘investigation’ of the matter which clearly followed a police investigation…
Oscar Dewhurst – Oystercatcher
Oscar writes; most of my Easter holiday was spent revising for exams, although I did manage to get out to Suffolk for a week to do some photography. While sitting in one of the hides on Minsmere’s scrape two Oystercatchers started wheeling round in front of the hide. I had to contort myself into various…
Sunday book review – Nightingales in November by Mike Dilger
This book has a clever title and a lovely cover by Darren Woodhead. Its author is also a lovely guy: a good broadcaster, great conversationalist and a real laugh. However, despite all that, I’m not won over by the book. It is also based on a clever idea – take a dozen birds and write…