This year I am keeping a list of birds seen in or from my garden. Here is the list for the year so far with the four extra species seen in April added to the bottom of the list. Robin House Sparrow Jackdaw Blackbird Woodpigeon Starling Black-headed Gull Great Tit Red Kite Carrion Crow Chaffinch…
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Magpies and the RSPB
There is a lot made of the fact that the RSPB carries out lethal control of Carrion Crows, formerly under the revoked General Licence GL04, on a very small proportion of RSPB nature reserves (15 out of 218). Because this is a highly emotive issue the RSPB is attacked by those who wish the RSPB…
BASC can’t believe that the ‘C’ stands for conservation either
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RSPB bird song heading up the charts
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RSPB press release: NATURE FOR #1 Pure birdsong soars into UK charts Let Nature Sing from The RSPB enters the midweek chart at number 11 Buy/ stream now here Music history looks set to be made this week as the first ever release of pure birdsong soars into the UK charts. Let Nature Sing by…
Guest blog – Ramridge Raiders part 1 by Paul Sterry and Rob Read
Paul Sterry. Rob Read. Authors and photographers, Paul and Rob spearhead the international competition Bird Photographer of the Year (BPOTY) whose lead judge is Chris Packham. Spring in Ramridge Copse. Photo: Rob Read. Rob lives in the quaintly-named Hampshire village of Ragged Appleshaw and one of his local patches is nearby Ramridge Copse, an extensive…
Admirer of Chris Packham donates auction lot to benefit Wild Justice
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Garden delight
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I know it’s a terrible photograph (you’ll get some more excellent ones tomorrow morning) but I’m quite proud of it since it was taken on my phone and if you look very hard you can see… … the tiny single orange egg of an Orange Tip butterfly on the Garlic Mustard or Jack-by-the-Hedge in the…
NE plans for licensing of bird-killing represent massive change of emphasis.
Where is NE heading with the licensing of bird-killing under General Licences? It’s difficult to tell, and we’ll have to see. However, the claim that it will all be business as usual already looks unlikely to be true. Charlotte Smith: will it be harder to get a licence? Marian Spain, Natural England: it shouldn’t be…
Paul Leyland – Common Mourning Bee
Paul writes: I found this bee on 18 April among the gravestones at my local church in Hunmanby, which seemed quite appropriate. The Mourning Bee (Melecta albifrons) is a solitary bee and a cleptoparasite of one of our most popular bees, the Hairy-footed Flower Bee (Anthophora plumipes). The female makes a hole in the sealed…
What Wild Justice says about the General Licence issue
The Natural England decision to revoke the long-standing General Licences came out of the blue for Chris Packham, Ruth Tingay and me (the three co-directors of the not for profit company, Wild Justice) as it did for everyone else. We had no warning of what they were going to announce beforehand (which I think was…