I’ve only skimmed through the current issue of Birdwatch so far but if we ever had a rainy day then I’d settle down to read it. There’s an interesting article on why Mya-Rose Craig was chosen to be the youngest person ever to receive an honorary doctorate in the UK and another on garden rarities…
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Is it wild hacking time in Scotland – an SNH response
SNH are pretty helpful when it comes to answering questions of a media variety. Yesterday I asked them whether they had issued any licences for wild hacking in Scotland this year which they could have answered with a ‘yes’ or a ‘no’. I also said that I’d be interested in where they were with any…
Guest blog – Wild Ken Hill by Dominic Buscall
I am drawn to difficult problems. I spent the first five years of my career helping companies solve their most complex business problems with L.E.K. Consulting, and in the last few years I have become particularly interested in the UK’s land use conundrum. What do we want from our land, and how do we get…
A trivial matter
When you have a blog and website, and I guess it might depend on whether your site is seen to be ‘successful’ or not, you get a lot of unsolicited emails about advertising and completely irrelevant guest posts. I reply to most of these with a polite ‘no thanks’, but I do reply. I had…
Lockdown and Birdtrack again
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The Birdtrack reporting rate graphs for Britain and Ireland for two species show a pretty convincing impact of lockdown on avian reporting rates – as suggested in an earlier blog post here. Here is the graph for House Sparrow for this year and the historical data: So this shows that for the early part of…