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Tim Melling’s photographs and text on Green Woodpeckers on Saturday were well-timed for me because on my recent visits to Stanwick Lakes, my local patch, I’ve recorded Green Woodpeckers on each recent visit even though I’ve not seen a single one. They are very shouty at this time of year. And I’ve heard some from…

Brexit. Remember Brexit? The UK left the EU at the end of January this year (boo!) but we are in a transition period until the end of 2020 – that’s less than four months away. The time has passed for extending the transition period, it ends on the last day of December. By that time…

Rare birds raise chicks in Suffolk for first time in over 300 years The spoonbill nesting site was remodelled to protect Havergate Island from flooding, also helping to alleviate flooding near homes and businesses further along the estuary. The RSPB encouraged the birds to nest by experimenting with a range of conservation techniques including using…

I like giving talks and have given a lot of them over the last few years. But with COVID-19, the opportunities have disappeared. In some ways, this is a bit of a relief as, a bit like air travel, travelling to remote village halls in the dark on rainy days in November may sound ultra-glamorous,…

There seems to have been something of a flood of very good books for me to review here recently, and here’s another one (and there are some more in the pipeline). Laurence Rose’s book is a thoughtful and well-informed look at nature conservation in the UK and every few pages I was thinking ‘That’s a…