Standing up for Nature
… you’ve got an 86% chance of liking A Message from Martha. That’s what the readers’ poll said, anyway. Of the 222 of you who read Fighting for Birds and rated it either ‘Excellent’ or ‘Good’ then 86% of you rated A Message from Martha as ‘Excellent’ or ‘Good’ too.
This is a lovely book. It has appeared in lots of lists of nature books of the year over the last few weeks as it was published in 2014, but I’ve only just been reading it over Christmas and the New Year and so, for me, it is a book of 2015. Day by day…
When respondents to my readers’ survey were asked which political parties they would like to see in coalition government there was a great outpouring of enthusiasm for the Green Party to be in the mix – more so than either of the two main parties: But if we break the answers down according to whether…
2012: 50,867 unique readers 2013: 71,658 unique readers 2014: 135,053 unique readers …and you are all very welcome.
My last bird species of 2014 was a briefly glimpsed owl at Otmoor and I’m not sure which one it was. I can be sure that I didn’t end 2014 seeing my first ever Snowy Owl (a species high on my bucket-list of bird species) nor was it my first Little Owl of 2014 (yes,…
Do you think that driven grouse shooting should be banned? Apparently, two-thirds of you do: If we break that down into those who would vote Labour in preference to Conservative then 87% are in favour of a ban of driven grouse shooting: And if we select those that would vote Conservative in preference to…
Here is a selection (every 10th comment, listed chronologically (earliest at top of list)) of the free-text comments in answer to ‘Your opportunity to give feedback of any kind on my blog or anything else you like’. Excellent, well informed. Always very interesting and refreshing to read what needs to be said unencumbered by…
Happy New Year! If you answered the questions in the readers’ survey then, ‘Thank you!’. There will be several blog posts over the next few days giving you what I think are some of the more interesting answers. There were two questions in the readers’ survey that gave respondents the choice between just two political…