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Looking back at 2019 – Jan – March

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I was out on 1 January last year doing a winter farmland bird survey where I was rewarded by first hearing and then seeing a Wood Lark in east Northants. That was a good way to start the year. A post on 2 January predicted that it was going to be a bad year for…

Tim Melling – Black-browed Albatross

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Tim writes: the parent Black-browed Albatrosses build a huge egg cup-shaped nest out of mud so they usually only nest next to streams where they have a ready supply of mud within beak’s reach, but they will repair and re-use the nest in subsequent years.  On the Falklands where I photographed these, Black-browed Albatrosses lay…

Steve Backshall MBE

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Congratulations to Steve Backshall for his MBE in the New Year Honours for services to charity and wldlife conservation. I know that he has done a great job as a supporter, and since 2016 a patron, of the World Land Trust. If the Honours system has any value, and I am not really convinced, then…

Guest poem by Mark Stewart

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Mark is a short story writer focusing on nature, conservation, history and speculative fiction. His poem was partly inspired by the wonderful work Greta Thunberg has done to help raise awareness of climate change issues. The Berg Undone by the sun By warmth I should never know My very essence leaking away Like mist before…

There’s money in Jay feathers

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Smart bird! Quite a looker. Those blue feathers are very attractive aren’t they? And you can buy Jay feathers – not from a Jay of course but from various sources on the internet. Some of these vendors make great play of the fact that the feathers are ‘ethically sourced’ from licensed gamekeepers ‘in accordance with…

Press release – Together Against Sizewell C (TASC)

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TOGETHER AGAINST SIZEWELL C (TASC) COMMITTEE MEMBER SEEKS A JUDICIAL REVIEW OF EAST SUFFOLK COUNCIL’S PLANNING APPROVAL FOR EDF TO FELL CORONATION WOOD FOR SIZEWELL C PURPOSES On 23rd December TASC member Joan Girling issued proceedings against East Suffolk Council’s decision granting planning permission to EDF for the development of a nuclear power site in…