When I worked at the RSPB I got a media summary every day. I would look forward to Thursday as the Shooting Times would always deliver a few laughs. You could tell that when there wasn’t anything of great interest to write about in the shooting world they would fill their pages with lurid stories…
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Fair enough Minister
On Monday I did an interview for the BBC Farming Today programme, with the NFU’s Guy Smith. If you want to listen to that interview you can but you won’t learn anything new from it as the NFU is still in denial over the loss of farmland wildlife and the role that farming has played…
Pot pourri
It seems to have been raining for two weeks – please stop. I want to see some butterflies and more spring migrants. The summer of 1976 was a hot dry summer – and my gap year before university. When a Drought Minister was appointed the heavens opened and my first month at Cambridge seemed to…
St Mark’s Day – 25 April
I’m no saint but it is St Mark’s Day. Keep an eye open for St Mark’s Flies – with their black hairy bodies and dangling legs – not like me at all. Although before we mucked about with the calendar this would have been around 4 May rather than now – but with global warming…
Guest blog – It isn’t easy being a wildlife-friendly farmer by David Fursdon
David Fursdon is a farmer and landowner in Devon. He chairs the newly formed SW Rural and Farming Network and the established SW Chamber of Rural Enterprise. He is a Commissioner of both English Heritage and the Crown Estate and a former President of the CLA. Experiencing wildlife is one of the privileges of living…