Standing up for Nature
DEFRA’s latest upate on bird/poultry flu in wild birds shows they didn’t read Tim Melling’s excellent article on what we call Knot. Despite all this bird flu swilling around there haven’t been new outbreaks in poultry farms for quite a while – good!
At 95,000+ pageviews, January 2021` was 17% busier than the previous January and the second busiest (just failing to be first) for the 10 Januaries this blog has existed. Just a reminder, when we get to April this blog is going to disappear, at least for months, quite possibly for ever. But I am getting…
I am a great fan of the Bird Fair – but will we ever see it again? The last face-to-face, binocular-to-binocular, pint-to-pint Bird Fair was in 2019 and it would be a brave organiser who would risk calling the world to Rutland Water in August 2021 what with Covid and all. But if you can…
This post is about the announcement, long-awaited announcement, overdue announcement, that DEFRA made on Friday about burning on blanket bogs. I’ll tell you what I think in the hope that it influences what you think. I’ve read the announcement, and thought about it, and that probably helps. 1. The announcement is good news The announcement…
A fairly average BGBW with 29 individual birds of 13 species; Starling (6), House Sparrow (7), Chaffinch (2), Dunnock (1), Goldfinch (3), Collared Dove (1), Robin (1), Blackbird (2), Blue Tit (2), Coal; Tit (1), Woodpigeon (1), Reed Bunting (1) and Jackdaw (1). Our regular Blackcap(s) wasn’t seen yesterday and didn’t turn up today despite…