Sunday book review – A Curious Boy by Richard Fortey

I’m not very familiar with Richard Fortey, not having read any of his previous books nor, as best as I can recall, seen him on TV. So I came to read his book of memoirs uncluttered by preconceptions. This book is about Fortey’s childhood through to young adulthood and about the role of natural history…

Tim Melling – Great White Egret

Tim writes: the 8th October started well for me as almost unbelievably this was the second species of bird I saw thiat morning after Moorhen.  Numbers three and four were Little Egret and Jack Snipe.  The Great White Egret flew into the Canal Scrape at Spurn at 7:10 that morning.  When I started birdwatching Great…

GWCT seriously strapped for cash – they say

In their recent evasive blog the GWCT say that I once wrote that I ‘was hoping the GWCT might soon be going bust‘. Wrong again, I didn’t write any such thing (have a look) indeed my blog started with the words ‘Wouldn’t it be terrible if the GWCT went bust?’ which has the opposite meaning,…

No Peregrines taken for ‘falconry’ this year – NE say

Last year you may remember that there was a furore over Natural England issuing licences for falconers to take a small number of Wild Peregrine chicks into captivity for captive breeding; See: 16 April: Natural England issues licences to take Peregrines from the wild where this blog broke the news that Natural England had issued…