Given the dire (egregious, failing, risible, adrift) performance of the Defra Ministers who take our money to make the environment better it is to be hoped that they simply keep their heads down and fade away once the general election campaign starts in earnest. Though I fear that it’s just possible that Defra has one…
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Oscar Dewhurst – Bittern fishing
Oscar writes: The recent 4 or 5 days of cold weather in the UK saw me spend most of that time at my local nature reserve hoping to photograph Bitterns. Unfortunately I didn’t have much success, and one morning spent over 4 hours lying on the frozen ground hoping for this bird to come out…
RSPB, Countryside Alliance and the Charity Commission
You might have wondered what happened with the complaint about the RSPB from Sir Ian Botham and others to the Charity Commission. Or maybe you thought it was so daft that you weren’t wondering at all. Well, I was wondering why we hadn’t heard anything about it and now I know why. Although Beefy’s complaint…
Round up
A few things that caught my eye: next weekend is the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch gamekeepers all ask for gloves for Christmas statement from OUP on removing nature from their junior dictionary I had my first Reed Bunting of this winter in the garden this week a link to Miles King’s excellent blogs on Rampisham…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill