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This was a clumsily worded post. But I’ll leave it here because I think one has to live with one’s mistakes not hide them.  If you have thoughts on which male celebrity speakers could make way for female celebrities in the main events, and if you’d like to suggest who those female celebrities might be,…

The Bird Fair is great; it’s always great, and it was great over the last three days too. But great doesn’t mean perfect. And great doesn’t mean invulnerable. I think, but I might well be wrong, that the Bird Fair was a little quieter this year than last year, and it was a little quieter…

I missed seeing Sir John Lister-Kaye at the Bird Fair but I’m told he gave an excellent talk about raptor persecution.  He’s a good speaker, I know, and I’m sure his talk will have motivated many of his audience on this important subject. I’m told, by upwards of a dozen people (so I’m pretty sure…

I spent some, by no means all, of my time at the Bird Fair getting signatures, on bits of paper, to ask the Icelandic Prime Minister to bring an end to whaling in her country.  I’m amazed by the total: we got… 1,320 signatures. Thank you to all who signed (and see some more acknowledgements…

Over a thousand good things about the Bird Fair: This petition, on bits of paper, at the Bird Fair over the three days, raised over 1,000 signatures asking the Prime Minister of Iceland to put an end to whaling in her country. Dear Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Prime Minister of Iceland Each year the British Birdwatching Fair…