Cow Parsely is one of the plants that Plantlife says we can pick! It’s in the Plantlife Pickable 12. There is lots of Cow Parsley in flower by the roadsides at the moment – our motor fumes fertilise the verges and Cow Parsley is a species that laps that up! As a hopeless botanist –…
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Paul Leyland – two hoverflies
Paul writes: I had a quick check through my insect records and found I have seen over 20 different hoverfly species feeding on Dandelions. Here are two beauties I have seen recently. Unfortunately neither have English names but I think they both deserve to be better recognised. The yellow and black one is Chrysotoxum arcuatum,…
Wake up Lib Dems!!
Here are two maps. The first looks like the fairly familiar map of signatures for banning driven grouse shooting although to make it a bit more comparable with the second map it is the slightly different ‘% of constituents signing for a ban of driven grouse shooting’. And the second is the LibDem share of…
Moorland balance indeed?
Cartoon by Ralph Underhill
Bank Holiday Monday Book review – 52 European wildlife weekends by James Lowen
This is a simple idea – where would it be good to be in Europe watching wildlife on each weekend of the year? It’s a good idea. This weekend we should be in Matera, southern Italy with Europe’s largest Lesser Kestrel colony and in next year’s European City of Culture. We got here…
Tim Melling – Goshawk
Tim writes: Goshawks are quite a difficult bird to see and photograph in Britain. The closely related Sparrowhawk also provides an identification pitfall but this is the genuine article. Curiously I have never heard of anyone mistaking a Goshawk for a Sparrowhawk, only the other way round. It is one of those birds that…
Grouse shooting demonstrates lack of public support
The e-petition in support of grouse shooting has now closed – but it actually fizzled our ages ago. It scrabbled together 15 thousand signatures and had the richer parts of London as its most enthusiastic areas of support. We can regard it as having been supported by a network of land agents and their masters…
Guest blog – Evidence, Experts and Effectiveness in Conservation by Claire Wordley
Claire Wordley works on the Conservation Evidence project, with an emphasis on getting people to use the available science in conservation – and to test their own conservation interventions. Say hi at @ConservEvidence Evidence, Experts and Effectiveness in Conservation. Evidence in conservation covers a multitude of possibilities. A beautifully produced map showing species…
Under the Oak in May by Karla Kane
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A new video of a new song by Karla Kane of the Corner Laughers.