The Hairy Shieldbug (Dolycoris baccarum) is a large and distinctive bug, 10-12mm overall. It can be seen as a adult in any month but in winter is a dull brown. This is a bright summer specimen which I found in my wildlife patch a couple of days ago [Mark writes; plus a delay of a…
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Why I wrote The Blue Hare – by Hugh Webster
After his site was hit with technical problems on the same day my book was reviewed there, Mark kindly offered me the option to post a guest blog on how I came to write the book. The idea to write The Blue Hare came to me in October 2016 while I was working at a…
Tim Melling – Cobb’s Wren
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Tim writes: Cobb’s Wren (Troglodytes cobbi) is endemic to the Falkland Islands, which means it occurs nowhere else on the planet. And even within the Falkland Islands it only occurs on smaller offshore islands where rats have not been introduced. On the larger islands introduced rats have driven them to extinction. I photographed this…
Berlin
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I was in Berlin on Wednesday, and took a 4-hour+ walking tour of the city with Insider Walking Tours. We ended our walk at the Brandenburg Gate. I’d recommend the tour highly – a mixture of WW2, Cold War and earlier history with quite a few laughs thrown in. As a birder, it is almost…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
National Trust press release
Common crane successfully breeds at Wicken Fen for the first time in at least 120 years A rare common crane chick has hatched at the National Trust’s Wicken Fen nature reserve in Cambridgeshire for the first time since the conservation charity acquired the nature reserve in 1899 and started species records. The Trust suspects that…
Interesting question
I’ll be interested in this answer too.
Guest blog – Caddisflies and Molinia by Paul Sterry
Paul Sterry has an academic background in freshwater biology and is a passionate conservationist. He has been writing about natural history and photographing wildlife for the last 40 years, with an emphasis on the British scene. The Case for Caddisflies and much-maligned Molinia. Over the past few years I have developed an interest in caddisflies…
Standing up for Nature blog returns tomorrow
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After the equivalent of a thorough service, an MoT and a partial respray this blog returns tomorrow and will have picked up full speed by next week. Thank you for all the messages saying you were missing it. And no, the website hadn’t been hacked, shot at or had dead crows stuffed inside it. Fingers…
Gap in service
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This blog is going to have a break to get some work done to it. At the moment it does not look how it should look, it has lost some of the functionality it should have and it lacks an accessible privacy policy. For all those reasons, and because this is an opportunity to get…