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The Times reports that RSPB has intervened to brief its BirdLife International partners in France and Spain to warn them of the unpopularity and indeed perhaps the folly of reintroducing Hen Harriers to southern England. The Times is reporting old news, the emails are over a year old and were obtained by the Countryside Alliance…

…reading and writing legal papers. But he’ll be blogging again later today.

Paul writes: This is a colourful night-time visitor to many gardens. The Brimstone (Opisthograptis luteolata) is smaller but a brighter yellow than its butterfly namesake. There are also a series of chestnut marks along the edge of its forewings, making it unmistakable. It’s a very common moth and can be seen throughout the UK in…

…lots of legal papers.

The subspecies of Yellow Wagtail that breeds in Britain is flavissima, which means very yellow, as opposed to the nominate Continental breeding subspecies flava, which just means yellow.  The two are pretty similar from the neck down but our British flavissima is also yellow on the throat, cheeks and eyebrow with a complementary green crown…