Standing up for Nature
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…
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…
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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…
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…
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…
If you are reading this blog on your phone, then you may not have any problems, I don’t on my phone. And maybe all looks good to you on your PC or tablet – but it doesn’t on mine! The ‘theme’ (the blog template) I’ve always used here with the nice blue colour has just…
Sorry, there is no blog here this morning. My connection to the blog server didn’t work throughout most of yesterday and then I was out in the evening and out of the house fairly early this morning. Normal service will resume as soon as possible. Apologies to anyone else who couldn’t read this blog yesterday…
Tim writes: this Wilson’s Petrel has rather spoilt its perfect reflection by dipping its feet into the water, but you can see the diagnostic yellow webs between its toes which identifies it from all other storm petrels. It is thought that they attract prey by dipping their yellow webs in the water. They feed on…