Sunday book review – A Bird A Day by Dominic Couzens

You can’t go wrong if you slap a gorgeous Audubon on the front of your book and this Arctic Tern is one of my favourites (see p77 Remarkable Birds, which also has an Audubon on its cover). It’s a good start and there are more Audubons sprinkled through the 368 pages of this attractive and…

Tim Melling – Pied Flycatcher

Tim writes: Pied Flycatcher is quite a scarce bird in my local area so I was quite pleased to find one near Holmfirth.  I mentioned it to a friend, who went to look and found three.  As the weather was good I decided to go back and try for a photograph and this was my…

Saving Ecuador’s Choco Forest

This autumn appeal from World Land Trust is very special. And if you donate through Andy Langley’s justgiving page then your donation won’t just be doubled, it will be quadrupled in value. Thank you.

Teetering on the brink of 50,000 signatures

The Wild Justice e-petition against the Badger cull is within 100 signatures of that 50,000 threshold which represents the half way point to a Westminster Hall debate. The petition closes on 24 March 2021 – today is Day 9. I feel we are like3ly to getto 100,000 signatures eventually. I can tell you now, I’d…

A record September on this blog

September’s 137,000+ page views of this blog was the second highest monthly score ever (only surpassed by August 2016 at 177,000) and the 37,980 unique users was also the second highest ever just a smidgeon under April 2016’s 38128. That makes seven months out of nine with over 100,000 pageviews this year, and six months…