I’m grateful to what I imagine were lots of readers of this blog, as well as others, who signed the e-petition calling for the repeal of the Weeds Act 1959. Thank you. If you didn’t sign that one earlier then please have a look at it now even though it has passed the important 10,000…
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What do you think of birds of prey?
Amy is a third-year student at Nottingham Trent University, studying for her BSc Wildlife Conservation degree. She has created this questionnaire to determine public perceptions of birds of prey in Northern Ireland compared to England. The data received will be analysed and interpreted for my dissertation. All returned questionnaires will be completely anonymous, so please…
Extinction Rebellion
My experience of London is that the traffic is in a jam even when ER aren’t on the streets. But this Roller was stopped for a chat near Marsham St earlier today. And a nice T-shirt too.
More information please…
Do you remember campaigns about using seat belts, not drinking and driving, sticking to speed limits and how to cross the road safely? I do. Do you remember a media campaign telling us that new coins were arriving and that there would soon be 100 pennies to the pound rather than 240 of them (yes…
Tim Melling – White-chinned Petrel
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Tim writes: white-chinned Petrel (Procellaria aequinoctialis) is a large petrel with a wingspan on nearly 1.5m. Within the petrel family, only the two Giant Petrels are larger. I have always thought that it was inappropriately named as its white chin is such a trivial feature. Its plumage is the colour of dark chocolate apart from…
Struck down
Mark Avery is a man with a stinking cold – possibly terminal. Normal service will resume soon, probably tomorrow, because he is very brave
Tim Melling – Weddell Seal
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Tim writes: the Weddell Seal was named after a seal hunter called James Weddell (1787-1834), who also had the Weddell Sea named after him. These Seals have the distinction of occurring further south on the planet than any other mammal. That’s because they usually live on permanent ice that is attached to land, using holes…
RSPB on driven grouse shooting
There was an interesting bit on the Today programme yesterday (click here, between 0845 and 0850) when Beccy Speight of the RSPB talked about the State of Nature report (and see here). Beccy did well but then, rather out of the blue, she was asked about grouse shooting and the fact that some people, including…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
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To be fair…
Ryanair has a bit of an image problem even though its planes are packed! Just because portions of the population think that Ryanair would charge you for breathing if they could get away with it doesn’t mean that they don’t fly to places that people want to go (or just down the road from them…