This blog has reviewed 25 books this year (and many thanks to Ian Carter for his reviews). My selection of the ‘top 5’ books of the year is as follows; Number 5 A beautifully produced book about beautiful habitats which are so much rarer now than in the past. See my review here. Number 4…
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Tim Melling – Dipper
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Tim writes: iiving in the Pennines I see lots of Dippers. But they seem to prefer shady, wooded rivers to ones on the open hillside. So I was really pleased to stumble across a pair that were nesting behind a small waterfall in full sunshine out on the open moorland. I sat quietly and the…
Guest blogs
You could write one! I’m very grateful to all those who have ever written guest blogs here – they add variety (of style and subject) and take the pressure off me to find some words almost every day. I’d value some more guest blogs. Here is the very simple guidance on how to submit one…
Election watch (14) – A Labour plan for nature
At last! A serious and detailed plan for nature from a political party; 46 pages on how government can, and a Labour government would, save nature. Here are some quotes, rather a lot of quotes, from the document followed by my analysis of whether it is any good or not. I am pretty sure that…
Last chance to vote (until the general election anyway)
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Voting for the Birdwatch magazine’s Birders’ Choice awards closes tomorrow – the end of November. I’ve written about soe of my choices: Guano Award Conservation Hero Book of the Year, News of the Year, Site of the Year Campaign of the Year But there are other categories and of course you don’t have to take…
Election watch (13)
I answered every question on this site about my beliefs and found that I was: 88% in agreement with the Greens 86% in agreement with the LibDems 83% in agreement with Labour 35% in agreement with Conservatives 29% in agreement with Brexit No surprises there then. But a bit of a relief! I thought it…
Friday evening
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I can’t make this one so if you go, please tell me what happened. Venue details – click here.
No change at DEFRA
It could almost be the dead hand of Therese Coffey living on… It is, of course, wonderful that Rebecca Pow is the Species Champion for the Snipe (because of the Somerset Levels population in her constituency) but she is also a block on progress on raptor persecution and is the Minister in charge of Badger…
Election watch (12) – an important, albeit dull, sentence
The Labour manifesto contains this sentence, We will maintain and continuously improve the existing EU standards of environmental regulation. A Green Industrial Revolution. Environment. This promise does not appear to be hedged around (although hedges are of course good things). So I am taking this to mean that, if elected, a Labour government would seek…
NEWS: Another Hen Harrier ‘disappears, this one is called Ada – from the RSPB
The RSPB say: Today, Northumbria Police and the RSPB have issued an appeal for information following the sudden disappearance of yet another satellite tagged hen harrier, a female bird known as Ada. Ada hatched on a nest on the Scottish borders this summer (2019). She was fitted with a lightweight satellite tag as part of the…