Three images today – 2 eeek!

Anybody claim to own this tattoo? There are many people called Mark Avery in the world – there is this photographer, and this photographer – both of whom seem very talented to me. And there is this musician who was a guitarist in a punk band. There is this Mark S. Avery who is big…

Biodiversity Challenge 3 – the future

If you look at the composition of the group of six organisations (Butterfly Conservation, Friends of the Earth, Plantlife, RSPB,  the Wildlife Trusts and WWF-UK) who published Biodiversity Challenge 20 years ago there are some interesting (I think) reflections for the future. How likely is it that these six organisations would work together on such…

Summoned by gulls

Gulls used to be quite dull and quite simple. When I grew up, there were basically a couple of black-backs, Herring, Common and Black-headed (and Kittiwake on distant coasts and Little Gull if you were very lucky).  All of these gulls  were pretty common so there wasn’t much to be gained by being a gull-expert…