Many congratulatons to Gavin Gamble, whatever happens in the next eight days; your e-petition has topped 40,000 signatures, and passed 41,000, and that makes it a highly-supported, highly-popular and highly-successful one. Well done! Gavin’s e-petition added 3,000 signatures in the last week. In contrast, the Jane Griggs ‘support’ grouse shooting e-petition has almost ground to…
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Paul Leyland – Dark-edged Bee Fly
Paul writes: This is an early spring fly, which I’m hoping to see in the next week or so, however the recent cold weather may put things back a week or more. This one I found last year, on 30 March, at Burton Riggs Nature Reserve, near Scarborough. The Dark-edged Bee-fly (Bombylius major) occurs throughout…
Keith, Steven, Colin and Mike – phone some friends!
When readers guessed at how many signatures Gavin Gamble’s e-petition would get, the carefully crafted estimates were as follows: Well, with eight and a half days to go, Louise, Nick and Philip have already lost out and Simon would need a massive slowdown to stand any chance! And that might happen as we are heading…
Sunday book review – Chasing the Ghost by Peter Marren
I’m no botanist (have I said that before recently? – yes) but this book, had it existed decades ago, might well have won me over. Peter Marren writes with such knowledge and affection for plants, and in such a modest and winning manner that few could help wanting to be a plant spotter in this…
Tim Melling – Siberian Meadow Bunting
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Tim writes: Well I normally like to isolate my photographic subjects but this perch wasn’t quite what I had in mind for my first Siberian Meadow Bunting (Emberiza cioides), which is usually now known simply as Meadow Bunting. I have long been fascinated by this species which was illustrated in Thorburn’s Birds as it…