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The growth of the readership of this blog
2012: 50,867 unique readers 2013: 71,658 unique readers 2014: 135,053 unique readers …and you are all very welcome.
Last and first
My last bird species of 2014 was a briefly glimpsed owl at Otmoor and I’m not sure which one it was. I can be sure that I didn’t end 2014 seeing my first ever Snowy Owl (a species high on my bucket-list of bird species) nor was it my first Little Owl of 2014 (yes,…
So you think that nature conservation isn’t a political subject (2)
Do you think that driven grouse shooting should be banned? Apparently, two-thirds of you do: If we break that down into those who would vote Labour in preference to Conservative then 87% are in favour of a ban of driven grouse shooting: And if we select those that would vote Conservative in preference to…
Your feedback on this blog
Here is a selection (every 10th comment, listed chronologically (earliest at top of list)) of the free-text comments in answer to ‘Your opportunity to give feedback of any kind on my blog or anything else you like’. Excellent, well informed. Always very interesting and refreshing to read what needs to be said unencumbered by…