I quite like Country Life – I might take out a subscription. In this week’s magazine there is a quiz to see whether you are a real countryman (women need not apply). It is quite fun, and consists of 100 questions set by Simon Lester, who is apparently a naturalist and former gamekeeper (an…
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Tim Melling – Tibetan Fox
This beautifully ugly creature is also known as the Tibetan Sand Fox (Vulpes ferrilata). They live on the high Tibetan Plateau where they feed on Plateau Pikas, which are superabundant in the area. If you look just to the right of the fox you can see a Plateau Pika peeping out. I took this one…
An Unreliable History of Birdwatching (45) by Paul Thomas
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Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
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A commission I did for http://eeb.org/ for their campaigning at the EU level on plastic pollution
Sustainable dilemmas (5) – milk
Milk – there are lots of issues around milk and I’ll get to some of them in future blogs. Three days a week I pick up glass milk bottles outside the front door. I often stop and listen to bird song but sometimes I scurry back indoors to shut the door on the wind or…
Ed Hutchings’s thunderclap goes out at noon
Add your support to Ed Hutchings’s thunderclap before it goes live at noon today. If you are connnected through social media (Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr) then by supporting this thunderclap you will send a message out at noon today to all your friends/followers and at the same time the same message goes out to their…
A week this evening
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I’m looking forward to giving this talk in Norfolk next week: Why should East Anglian Birders care about what happens on Grouse Moors? Great Witchingham (Lenwade) Village Hall, starts at 7.30 pm. Maybe I’ll see you there.
EDM 915
This is interesting. Early Day Motions are a bit like e-petitions for MPs! They have no necessary influence on anything and yet can raise the profile of an issue. And there is one entitled Action Plan for Hen Harriers which has the following text; ‘That this House welcomes the DEFRA plan for brood management trials…
The last Gillmor exhibition?
Robert Gillmor is launching his latest book at what he says will be his last major exhibition, at the Pinkfoot Gallery, Cley on 28 April (exhibition closes 11 May). Put those dates in your diary! Robert says ‘This will be the last exhibition of its kind I’ll ever do – I don’t have anything…
Saving another £6
The National Trust has increaased its subscription rates. I’m not regretting my move to National Trust for Scotland.