It was great to see lots of people of similar views coming to Westminster to be inspired by some speeches and then to lobby their MPs on behalf of wildlife. There were two ‘sittings’, morning and afternoon and short speeches from RSPB, Wildlife Trust and LACS staff. I spoke on wildlife crime in the morning…
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More a bit of a wild life than wildlife
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This guy was sitting on the cold pavement outside a London station the other day playing Christmas carols and tunes on this traffic cone! He was very good! And as people came out of the station they looked around for the source of the music, which sounded as if it was coming from a horn…
Guest Blog – A is for acorn, or analogue? by Laurence Rose
Laurence Rose has worked for the RSPB for over 30 years. He also edits the website NATURAL LIGHT that explores the links between nature and the arts. A is for acorn, B is for buttercup. No, make that analogue and broadband C was for catkin, but now is for creep; D was for dandelion, but…
End wildlife crime – a messsage to all MPs
Tomorrow is the Rally for Nature organised by the RSPB, Wildlife Trusts and the League Against Cruel Sports working together – for the first time ever? The rally is also supported by Butterfly Conservation, the Mammal Society and The Ramblers. If you have not yet done so, please contact your MP through this handy webpage…
My northernmost parakeet
It was a cold Saturday morning and there weren’t many other people setting off from my street at 0650. Heading up the M1 I noticed that the trees, leafless, were pin sharp against the lightening blue sky. They looked as if they were drawn with a very fine pen. It’s difficult to get all dreamy…
A Message from Martha is Sunday Express bird book of 2014
I’m very happy to share the Sunday Express Bird Book of the year with Martin Garner’s Challenge Series Autumn. Martin is a great birder who is helping other birders by sharing his knowledge. But following a mention in yesterday’s Guardian of A Message from Martha in the category of best nature literature of 2014 it…
My books aren’t just for Christmas
I know that quite a few people are hoping that they receive A Message from Martha as a Christmas present. Please don’t let them be disappointed… It was nice (for me anyway) to see that A Message from Martha was listed by Stephen Moss in the Guardian as one of the best examples of nature…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
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Just someone’s anecdote
You remember that the NFU President was quoted by Farmers Weekly as saying that there are ‘10 times more ground-nesting birds in the Gloucestershire area since the cull started‘? Well, I ‘phoned up the NFU Press Office and what sounded like a nice young man told me that this was based on anecdotal evidence. No,…
Quiz results
I set you a quiz and none of you won! But thank you for playing – I hope it was a bit of fun. These were your commonest (very sensible) but incorrect selections, with some comments from me: Coal Tit – I had to check that I hadn’t missed it off by accident! But no…