32,000!

Wow! That surprised me.   Our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting, which will close at midnight on Thursday (so only three days left to get your friends to sign) raced past 32,000 signatures at 22:32  last night. And it was racing along. Makes me wonder whether 35,000 might be possible – probably not, I…

Running out of names

Thank you all for your support for the e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting! There have been c1000 signatures in the last 48 hours. Please keep tweeting on Twitter and sharing on Facebook. Just the rest of today, Tuesday, Wednesday and all of Thursday to go! Then we can all have a rest – for…

Looking forward to talking!

I have a few gigs on over the next couple of weeks; On Wednesday (20 Jan) I am talking to what will probably be mostly a bunch of undergraduates in Cambridge – the Cambridge Nature Society  – in the new David Attenborough Building, Room 1.25 A+B at 7pm (about life in general and driven grouse…

You Forgot the Birds

Do you remember You Forgot the Birds? I bet some of you do – they spent quite a lot of time, and I expect money too, attacking the RSPB for its … well, actually it was difficult to tell exactly what it was getting at. The YFTB campaign looked to many of us like an…

Oscar Dewhurst – Little Egret

Oscar writes: Early April last year saw me in Suffolk hoping to photograph Bitterns. Unfortunately I had no luck with them and they stayed very elusive for the duration of my stay. Luckily this Little Egret was a lot more cooperative, spending a lot of time feeding in the new green reeds in front of…