Dear Rules Restaurant I wrote to you, as a customer, a while ago asking about the provenance of your game meat and what you think about the lead levels in it. Rather surprisingly you referred me to the GWCT for answers. I have contacted them and, perhaps not surprisingly, they say that they do not…
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Coiled spring
Bank Holiday Monday proved to be a taster of spring – it feels as though spring is coiled and waiting to be released. I started with a walk at the local former airdrome on the Northants/Beds border. Eight of the nine wind turbines were spinning round even though there was little wind at ground level….
Henry dodging bullets?
Henry was on Salisbury Plain last week – without me! I missed him but it looks like he was having a good time risking life and limb on the firing ranges. Still, he’s used to dodging bullets. Henry and I are out and about today. Keep an eye open and you might see us. I…
Squirrels and martens
When I walk through St James’s Park, as I sometimes do, I am always (and it is always) struck by the number of people smiling at Grey Squirrels, photographing Grey Squirrels and feeding Grey Squirrels. These people, many of whom are ‘foreign’, from their accents at least, would be shocked to hear this lovely, friendly,…
Henry #HaveYouSeenHenry
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Henry with Michael Groves (volunteer for the owl & raptor nest box project on Salisbury Plain) and Nick Adams (Wiltshire Raptor Group). #HaveYouSeenHenry?
Not really a twitch
It wasn’t really a twitch because the birds weren’t that rare, the site was very close and I was going there anyway, but when I saw that there were a couple of Avocets at Stanwick Lakes yesterday afternoon then I got down there a bit quicker than I might otherwise have done. And there they…
Forest Holidays – in case you missed it
Do you remember the case of Fineshade Wood (see here, here and here for example)? Back on 17 March Rupert de Mauley was answering questions in the House of Lords on the subject. Note the fact that Forest Holidays ‘is unlikely to be able to progress a site if it does not have the full…
Oscar Dewhurst – Red-capped Cardinal
Oscar writes: One of the commoner birds around the oxbow lakes in Peru was the Red-capped Cardinal. They would perch in the vegetation on the lake margins allowing for a fairly close approach in the boat. If I got too close the group would all take off and noisily fly across the lake. Nikon D300s,…
A few points to points-to-points
I went to the Woodland Pytchley point-to-point yesterday. I used to go to points-to-points regularly but this is the first I’ve attended for well over a decade. Points-to-points are rather low key, low quality steeplechases organised by local hunts. All the horses and jockeys have to have ‘gone’ fox-hunting to be qualified – but…
Sunday book review – Honourable Friends by Caroline Lucas
I was given this book as a birthday present and I’ve read it all now. Caroline Lucas is a very admirable politician. I’m sure she has lots of faults, we all do, but if only we had a few more politicians like her then environmental matters would get a much fairer hearing in the Westminster…