An amazing total in just 24 days. Thank you to everyone who took part.
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Guy Shorrock – Musk Ox
A seemingly peaceful scene of musk ox in the mountains of Dovre National Park, Norway, though an animal that commands respect and a safe distance. They were introduced from Greenland to Norway within the last 100 years and I’ve seen these huge shaggy beasts on several occasion. However, this is not about musk ox, but…
12 hours of e-action remain
I’m guessing that either you have already signed the joint Wild Justice, Hen Harrier Action, RSPB e-action or you don’t want to. But just in case you are in the ‘I must get round to doing that soon’ category then you have until midnight tonight to take action. It’s very simple, you click on this…
Guest blog: A stranger’s Short Diary on encountering the grouse and pheasant shooting industry for the first time
The first year visiting village X, February 2018 I can only see a few feet ahead of me. A Swaledale trots up, but huffily bleats her complaint when she realises I’m not the farmer. A Red Grouse whirrs “go back, go back” and drops like an arrow at the end of its trajectory and is…
Tim Melling – Spotted Flycatcher
Tim writes: have you ever thought what a daft name Spotted Flycatcher is? Even its scientific name Muscicapa striata means striped flycatcher. Well at least this one lives up to its name and has a few pale spots at the back of its head, which they don’t have for long. This is a recently fledged…
Sunday book review – Orchard by Benedict Macdonald and Nicholas Gates
This book is about an orchard and its wildlife. Month by month the two authors describe aspects of the orchard’s year. It sounds a nice place with its ancient trees and rich wildlife. As you travel through the pages then you may well wish you were there – I did. I enjoyed hearing about the…
Tim Melling – Lammergeier
Tim writes: some years ago I served on the British Ornithologists’ Union Records Committee (BOURC) which assesses and maintains the official list of British birds. Category A of the British List is for any truly wild bird that arrived in Britain naturally. An immature Lammergeier ranged widely in Devon during May 2016 but this has…
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Jane V. Adams – The Scabby Plant
Jane is a naturalist, photographer and nature writer living in Dorset. Her work has appeared in books, anthologies and blogs for charities such as The Wildlife Trusts and the International Bee Research Association. When she’s not exploring Dorset’s lanes and countryside she can be found lying on her stomach watching insects in her garden. Jane’s…
French get sniffy about glue
Ah, the EU – remember the EU? All EU member states are breaking EU laws on some environmental issue. But there is vastly more coherence to pretty good standards within the disparate countries from Finland to Portugal and from Ireland to Romania than in the absence of the EU. Just watch what happens in the…