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February had an extra day this year, but even ignoring Saturday this February was a record for this blog with over 105,000 page views (107,799 including 29th) and close to 18,000 ‘users’ (17,834 including 29th). This is the first February to have exceeded 89,000 pageviews, let alone 99,000 pageviews of this blog. So I must…

You can imagine how I felt seeing this cover of Birdwatch magazine – it’s a Linnet, and one of those very ugly males at that. Time to turn the pages quickly. Luckily, there are more attractive images inside the magazine. For one thing, there is a spread of ‘local heroes’. Maggie Wilcox was the worthy…

I’ll be voting in this contest – any advice? Create your own user feedback survey I’ll probably vote next weekend.

These are worth a read; The Guardian: ‘My God it’s chaos’: LUSH’s founder on why he is so downcast (with a Hen Harrier mention). The Guardian: the end of farming? A good account of rewilding. New York Times: New Unexplained Cases (of coronavirus) found in Oregon and California. The Guardian: Fir’s fair: UK must embrace…

I feel privileged to have read this book a few days before it is released. You should read it too. I don’t normally do this, but here is the publisher’s account of the book; rather unusually it sums up the book accurately: This is the story of a family led to confront a crisis they…