Glen Tanar – Henry is impressed

Glen Tanar – great place. And a man cycles past without giving Henry a second glance. I don’t think there have been any Hen Harriers at Glen Tanar for a while but when I visited in 2011, I was impressed by what was happening there. I talked to Colin McLean who was then the estate…

Thirteen years old

I wrote a Guest Blog for my young friend Findlay Wilde – have a look at it. This is me at the age of thirteen holding a trophy that I and a companion had won in the Under -14 (but Over-12) age category in a schools competition run by WWT at Slimbridge. I was handed…

M&S

Dear Marc Bolland Just a recap really in case you are thinking of selling red grouse meat in your shops this year. Some things that have happened since your excellent decision not to see red grouse meat in your shops last year: I started shopping at M&S again governments, including the EU (and including the…

Henry goes to Dinnet – were you driving past?

We’d just been to Balmoral (oops! – haven’t told you about that one yet) and this place seemed to ring a bell or two so we stopped to have a look and a photo. I’ve noticed, because it’s me taking the photos, that there is a difference between how men and women react as they…

Win a signed copy of Behind the Binoculars

Soon you will be able to buy a new book of mine which I’ve put together with my friend Keith Betton and will be published by Pelagic (who also published Fighting for Birds). It’s called Behind the Binoculars and it’s a series of interviews with birders about how they first got into birds, what birds…