I give quite a few talks during the course of a year. I think I’ve given about 25 in the last year – so that’s about one a fortnight. I like talking to people for a variety of reasons: I like people, I get a kick out of talking to more-or-less like-minded people, I like…
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Henry the Hen Harrier at the gates of Sandringham
Phew!! It’s a relief to see you back again. You were just fooling around eh? I see you are a royalist, Henry. Good for you! Looking for anyone in particular? No, I haven’t see anyone called Harry either. #HaveYouSeenHenry? Remember to vote for the Hen Harrier in the national bird vote. Just before I…
It costs you nothing
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Using GiveAsYouLive as you go about your normal business can raise money for your favourite charity. I’ve raised £50 so far – for Butterfly Conservation – and all I do is book train tickets and hotels online (which I have to do anyway) and make a few (very few) extra clicks to make sure that…
Oh no! One of our harriers is down!
Henry! I did tell you to be careful! Will Henry be back tomorrow? #WillYouSeeHenryAgain? I suspect Henry may be back tomorrow and he was just larking around – he’s such a wag isn’t he? Where might he turn up next? #HaveYouSeenHenry?
High Peak – a marginal which should have Hen Harriers
High Peak is a marginal which has been the seat of Conservative Andrew Bingham (see here for some information about his voting record) since he won it from Labour in 2010. Mr Bingham asked a question about the publication of the Hen Harrier non-joint non-plan back in November 2014: To ask the Secretary of State…
Home thoughts from Mark Avery abroad
HOME THOUGHTS FROM ABROAD Oh, to be in England Now that April ‘s there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England—now! Robert Browning, of course. …
Henry visits Dersingham Bog NNR
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Dersingham Bog eh? You be careful! Have you read Fighting for Birds pp196-202? #HaveYouSeenHenry?
Green Party manifesto – the call for a peaceful revolution
I guess we’d expect the Greens to know something about green issues so it is reassuring that they do. After the Conservatives treated the countryside as the place that their mates own where they go to kill things at the weekend, and Labour treated it as the place which the Tories own where there are…
Blackbirds
Do you remember this ivy in my garden? I never did get around to cutting any of it. Now it has a pair of Blackbirds nesting in it. That’s nice! And there is a pair of Blue Tits taking moss and feathers into the RSPB nestbox which is a new feature of the garden too…
Conservative manifesto – they forgot the countryside too
I’m really rather surprised. Five years ago the Conservative manifesto was streets ahead of the others in its treatment of rural, wildlife and some environmental issues. That doesn’t mean I agreed with it, but one could see that someone, somewhere, had given it some thought. I was expecting the same this time around, and I…