2000th blog here

This is the 2000th blog here. It’s been fun, and we’ve hardly got started yet! Here are a few personal highlights from the first 2000: First blog – nothing very special here, I admit. First Guest Blog – by Reservoir Cats’s Mr White – still makes me laugh I got a bear! – IM(H)O, one…

Planning for Hen Harrier Day 2015

Earlier this week, in a secret location (so secret I almost couldn’t find it) a group of people met to talk about Hen Harrier Day 2015. Much will be revealed at the Birders Against Wildlife Crime Conference in Buxton on the first day of spring (it’s full – no places left). BAWC will be organising…

I missed this one

In the February Birdwatch there was a very kind review of A Message from Martha by Rob Hume, a former colleague if mine in the RSPB whom I haven’t seen for many years. ‘His [that’s me] strength of feeling comes through on every page, but so does the strength of his arguments‘. No doubt, that’ll…

Inglorious

Inglorious: conflict in the uplands will be available for Hen Harrier Day (9 August), the Inglorious 12th and thereafter. Published by Bloomsbury in late July – but you can order it now on World Book Day.    

Coming soon – Behind the Binoculars

This is my next book, and we (it is a joint production with Keith Betton) have just gone through the proofs.  It should be out in early June despite the publisher’s website saying August! The book is a series of interviews with birders about how they got into birds, what birds mean to them, and…