I heard the phrase used on the radio (it must have been Radio 4) a while ago; ‘Jeremy Corbyn is a goal hanger’. It took me right back to my youth, and teenage games of football played in farmers’ fields where the goalposts were piles of jumpers, the boundaries of the playing surface were as…
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Bowland Gull cull 13 – NE promises a response
In response to my recent questions about the Bowland gull cull of 2017 I have now received this:
Sunday is International Bog Day #bogday
This short charming video by Andrew Clark (see here and here) is to mark International Bog Day on Sunday.
Bird Fair 2018 – 4 weeks today
Bird Fair – you either love it or hate it – I love it (though it mildly irritates me too). But it starts 4 weeks today. It’s a pity that Michael Gove can’t attend – but I do know that the invitation was made months ago. An opportunity missed, by him, perhaps. I’d still…
Press release from Suffolk Wildlife Trust (and Plantlife)
Critically endangered fen orchid flowers for first time in 40 years Beautiful fenland species returns from localised extinction following pioneering work by Plantlife and Suffolk Wildlife Trust The critically endangered fen orchid has flowered for the first time in Suffolk since 1975. The return of the rare orchid, which was locally extinct and whose location cannot…