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Tim writes: I came across a Nightjar, hiding in plain sight on a tree stump, and what an amazing camouflage he has.  First of all his body is wedge-shaped with a dead flat back, but also his belly is flush to the ground, looking for all the world like a chunk of wood.  He had…

Jason Endfield has done a great job in unearthing more information about Natural England issuing licences for bird killing – this time the culling of Starlings – see here. People are up in arms on social media about why Natural England has continued to issue licences to a farmer when the conditions of the original…

Regular readers with good memories will remember the Midhope Track. This is what it looks like at the moment (above). The logs from the image below have been added to the plastic track but they are now sinking into the bog. Bob Berzins wrote about this track back in January 2019 and February 2017 (click…

Farmed to hell? I spend a lot of my time in the farmed environment.  I live surrounded by arable, and have to pass through it to get anywhere.  At work recently (I work in the Polar Data Centre at British Antarctic Survey) we had a midsummer solstice challenge for running/walking, simply personal achievement, nothing else….. …