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The right Spot
I did almost the same thing two years ago – almost to the day. It was sunnier in 2012, though. I headed off to Achurch churchyard to look for Spotted Flycatchers. Isn’t it awful that I have to have a special trip to see them in my part of the world? Churchyards seem to be…
A peculiarly Scottish butterfly
The Chequered Skipper is perhaps the British butterfly with the least expected UK range. Given that this butterfly is found over much of Europe where would you expect its UK range to be centred? Just over the Channel in southeast England? Maybe the New Forest or Dorset heaths? Think again! The Chequered Skipper is found…
Make something happen
I’ve already supported this idea with just a few quid – it won’t take many more people to copy me to get this idea off the ground. See what you think of ‘Go Find It’ – sensory outdoor treasure hunt card game (of all things!) which is allegedly for children but I can imagine some…
Oh…and by the way…
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/65627 More on this later, and often, I guess.
Please support Roy
Roy Taylor is an ex-colleague of mine at the RSPB. He started working for the RSPB, on Song Thrushes, when I was Head of Research, so that must be around 20 years ago. I remember visiting Roy in his Sussex study area on a very hot day in summer where we ate ice-creams quite a…
Scapa flaw
This is a great letter from a former colleague of mine, Steve Sankey, to the SNP Scottish Minister for the Environment and Climate Change, Paul Wheelhouse. It’s about a change in policy by Orkney Islands Council on ballast water management. Yawn? How dull? Not at all – quite interesting because it is very important! Here’s…
The colour purple
The UKIP surge has coloured in most of rural England as purple on the political map. It isn’t easy to find out what UKIP thinks about the CAP, badger culls, marine protected areas, climate change, grouse-shooting, neonicotinoids or other environmental matters from their website. The environment will be just one area of doubt over what…
Guest Blog – How environmentally friendly is your cup of coffee? by Derek Thomas
Educated at Imperial College London, Derek Thomas (@Coffeewarblers ) spent his professional life as a mathematician, but has also had a lifelong interest and involvement in natural history. Now retired, he is fully occupied as a nature conservationist. He has served at a local and national level in many guises with a variety of organisations…
…a long time in politics
Although you may well know the results of the EU elections when you read this post, I am writing it before they are announced. I wonder what they will be? The council elections (there weren’t any where I live) show a surge of support for UKIP – which I find depressing. It looks as though…