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I am grateful to my MP, Andy Sawford, for writing to Defra on my behalf to ask them about the continuing declines in farmland birds.  And I am grateful to Lord de Mauley (or Rupert) the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Natural Environment and Science at Defra for his reply. Rupert mentions that this…

I saw my first Chiffchaff of the year at Stanwick Lakes this morning. And a nice sunny morning it was too.  I was walking along a path before the sun had actually risen above the horizon. The Chiffchaff turned up a little later on my walk, in a wet area which seemed to have a…

It’s frustrating being a member of the Labour Party.  I share Labour’s values but they just don’t seem to be applied to rural issues, and, as you have probably noticed, I live in a rural area and care about the countryside and its wildlife. Labour is, for my liking, far too dominated by urban intellectuals …

Oscar writes: In my local park last Autumn there were large numbers of Jays caching food.  I wanted to photograph one with Autumn colours, so put some acorns down on the yellow leaves and lay down to wait. Before long I had 3 species of corvid in front of me: Magpies, Crows and this lovely…

Have you seen any birds yet in 2014? Of course you have! That’s one of the best things about birds – they are everywhere and with us all the time. According to the excellent Birdtrack I have seen 62 species so far this year but the true total is somewhere in the low 70s as…