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This follows yesterday’s update. Louise writes: At the end of a tough twelve hours of lock-down bird race, I thought I’d give a summary. At least 30 people participated (the data entry is online, so I dont know all the answers yet) across Cambridgeshire.  The top count for 11 hours of home-based birding and an…

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Across the world, people are experiencing a shared concern for themselves and their loved ones and many are enduring a period of social distancing and being cut off from wildlife. But, also, many are discovering nature around them in ways that are giving them delight and solace. Humankind has never had this experience before. There…

Sedge Warbler and Reed Warbler are a little bit like Blackcap and Garden Warbler – not that they look like those species, or sound like those species, but that they are similar to each other in song and one (in this case the Sedge Warbler) usually gets back to the UK a good week or…

Last week: This week: It’s still an utterly beautiful yet terrifying curve. In a week it has increased from 48,000 cases to 84,000 cases. The first case in the UK was in early February, about nine weeks ago. Exactly the same data on a log scale, a week ago: And on a log scale, now:…