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Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
Videoconferencing
I spent a large chunk of Wednesday in two meetings held by videoconferencing. I’ve done a bit of this before but this is the first time I have had to chair such a meeting with around a dozen people present – it’s quite hard work. But, we’ll all have to get used to it and…
Moorland Association fails to publicise fully the cessation of moorland burning plea
Apparently stopping torching the uplands is not the Moorland Association’s idea of latest news….
Bird song (12) – Great Tits (5)
In 1984, from pretty close to this time of year, and for a two-week period, I helped a fellow post-doc at the Zoology Department in Oxford carry out a field experiment in the University Parks on song recognition in Great Tits. We studied 13 male Great Tits holding territories for at least the second year…