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This nest box, just outside our conservatory, had Blue Tits nesting in it in 2016, and Tree Bumblebees in 2017, and nothing in 2018 and 2019, but Blue Tits are back this year. They’ve been carrying huge beakfuls of moss and a few feathers into the nestbox for days. I guess the female has just…

Chris Packham announces appeal of HS2 decision            Environmental campaigner Chris Packham CBE has announced that he is seeking permission to appeal the decision by the High Court to dismiss his judicial review of the government’s go-ahead on HS2. The High Court decided on Friday 3 April 2020 that it would not grant permission for a…

Tim writes: most people will be familiar with Golden Pheasant as an aviary bird, or perhaps even as a naturalised escapee in Britain.  But this is a wild, wary male in its natural habitat at Tangjiahe in China.  This one had been caught out in the open and was dashing for the cover of a…

Starlings are wonderful birds – take a look at one and they just look superb. But they sing too, often while waving their wings in a motion similar to a butterfly-stroke swimmer. Can you sing and wave your arms about? Maybe, now try it perched on a telephone wire! It’s a strange song, in some…