A read on the Wilde side

  Here’s a really good blog by young Findlay Wilde.   My version of the same events will be posted tomorrow at 0600.   The chocolate cake was very good.

OK, Hawk and Owl Trust – where are you?

A recap: the Hawk and Owl Trust has, unbeknownst to most of its members, become very keen on Hen Harrier ‘brood management’ (known to many as brood meddling). This move has positioned the H&OT very strangely in one of the most contentious debates in UK conservation.  Rare Bird Alert held an online poll which showed…

Oscar Dewhurst – Puffin

Oscar writes: A couple of summers ago I was on holiday in Scotland, and managed to get to the Isle of May, an island which harbours a large seabird colony, for a couple of days. You only get a few hours on the island, so after I’d spent some time photographing the Arctic Terns, which I’d…

Smart thinking?

A sharp-eyed reader of this blog, bravely venturing ‘up north’, noticed A Message from Martha in Harrogate’s Waterstones and wondered whether it was in the right section – what do you think?         And our North America correspondent send this image of a second hand copy of A Message from Martha  on…

And that quiz?

This list of birds was from…? It’s a slightly odd list – comprising winter and summer visitors, but not many of either. Waxwing, Fieldfare and Redwing, and Swallow, Blackcap and Whitethroat,  but not much else. That’s a bit odd. Mostly big birds that are easy to see, too. I told you these came from multiple…