Standing up for Nature
This blog always ends the year, in November and December, with two rather slower months. They are often two of the least busy months of the year in terms of numbers of page views of the blog, comments and readers. November having 30 days is one factor and then there is relatively little news over…
Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas! from the pen of Stephen Moss. Partridges in pear trees, Colly Birds, large flocks of Turtle Doves and swans and geese – but where do all the other species come from? Stephen Moss uses his wit and wisdom to retrofit a bunch of birds to the Christmas carol and does…
I think that Evan Davies is a brilliant presenter of PM and I was pleased to hear him trying to get a word in edgeways with Chris Packham yesterday. Now I assume that Chris was speaking from his home in the New Forest and Evan Davies was in some radio studio far away and so…
The DEFRA consultation over the general licences closes on Thursday at the interesting time of 23:45. It appears to be a serious consultation about the way forward and it asks for evidence to back up your views. If you are thinking of responding online then you will need to allow at least half an hour…
Not exactly an honest description of the choice facing the voters of Corby, is it? I’ll be voting for the Labour candidate, Beth Miller, whose existence the Conservative candidate seems to fail to acknowledge… One factor is that of the three candidates standing in Corby (there is a LibDem too, Chris Stanbra) then two of…
Subject: BTO: Updated guidance on the release of non-native species – Important: please read Dear In recent years the Government has been reviewing legislation around non-native species with the aim of limiting their impact on native wildlife. Under the Wildlife & Countryside Act (1981), it is illegal to release any plant or animal into the…
November has been a bit of a dank month and most of my birdwatching was done in the first half of it. I added one species to the 2019 garden list which was also a new species, ever, for the garden. The species in question was a fly-over but its wingbar and inane twittering called…
For the penultimate programme (or, more appropriately, ‘program’ (although not necessarily)) we were in North America. I like North America. The fireflies were stars, but the Prairie Dogs (which I think were filmed in the Badlands NP but I might be wrong) were CLRs (see here and here for more on CLRs). Roadrunners are amazing….
My name is Kevin Cumming, I work for the Langholm Initiative charity, based in the town of Langholm in Dumfries and Galloway. I hold a BA (hons) in Business Administration and an MSc in Conservation and Management of Protected Areas. Currently I manage the LI’s Wild Eskdale project which aims to promote eco-tourism in the…
Tim writes: this is a recently-fledged Bald Eagle. In fact, it is so recently-fledged that it still has the thread-like plumes still attached to the end of its flight feathers. These usually fall off after the first couple of flights. The background is the temperate rainforest of western Canada with clinging clouds. I much prefer…