I’ve seen no new garden bird species for the year, or for life, in December so far but I have deployed the niger seed – a favoured food of the Redpoll which would be a good addition to the list before dusk on 31 December. Niger seed is expensive! Come on Redpolls!
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Still a remarkably good Christmas present
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Gyrs – 150 of them
Regular readers of this blog may remember how amazed I was to learn that Gyr Falcons and perhaps hybrid falcons were being wild-hacked in Moray. Wild hacking involves releasing birds into the wild temporarily with the aim of toughening them up and recapturing them, in this case to export them to the Middle East. You…
Will this work? I have my doubts.
We have bought a Christmas tree in a pot – and the idea is that we use it this year, keep it alive and then use it again next year. Sounds good in theory but it depends on the ‘keeping it alive’ bit, doesn’t it? I’m hoping that at least I don’t kill it before…
RSPB press release – Hen Harrier found dead and two others missing
Hen harrier found dead while two others disappear in suspicious circumstances RSPB Scotland is appealing for information following the discovery of the body of a hen harrier found to have been shot and the sudden disappearances of two young satellite tagged hen harriers. A member of the public found the dead female bird on a…
Seven Worlds, One Planet (7)
Well that’s it – no continents left! We finished with Africa. Cheetahs, Elephants, White Rhinos and all that stuff. The Brown Hyaena was rather good. What will I and millions of others do for an hour next Sunday? But much more importantly what will we all do in our separate few minutes on Thursday? David…
Election watch (20) – Vote Labour for the Environment
If you want to support the environment with your vote then my ranking of the political parties is as follows: Labour (best by quite a long way: the greatest ambition coupled with the greatest detail) Greens and LibDems (good) Conservatives and Brexit Party (very poor; let’s ignore the Brexit Party but the Conservatives have said…
Election watch (19)
Here’s another of those quizzes that make you choose between the parties’ policies (without them being labelled by party) and then tells you what you are! Here is the link and here are my results; According to Vote for Policies I am a LibDem but I’ll be voting for the Labour candidate, Beth Miller, in…
Sunday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
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Tim Melling – Guillemot
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Tim writes: I love the challenge of photographing birds in flight and I spent most of my time at Bempton Cliffs pointing the camera at flying birds. The great thing about Bempton is that the cliffs are so high you can photograph birds from above, and isolate them from the background. Guillemot wings move so…