It’s been a slightly odd day. I woke very early (even for me) and so had a little snooze mid-morning, listened to the Budget on the radio and then went for a walk at Stanwick Lakes. As I walked around in the afternoon sunshine I was thinking that, in some ways, I was quite impressed…
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Good cause
BirdLife International has a number of fundraising ‘asks’ on the Just Giving site. All are worth supporting. There are several teams who are fundraising by competing in the Champions of the Flyway bird race at the Eilat Birds Festival in Israel. This raises the inevitable question of ‘why fly to Israel to raise money…
Bits and pieces
How wolves change rivers – a four minute video (although that is the wrong Badger species!). Vote here for the project you would like to see get £25,000 – I voted for the World Land Trust project on leopards but it wasn’t an easy decision. I keep forgetting to tell you that the sale…
They can’t be that far away…
Sand Martins – I can feel them in the air. Any day now… I’m ready for them. And they’ll be followed by Swallows and Willow Warblers, Blackcaps and Sedge Warblers, and Yellow Wagtails and Common Terns. Then Cuckoos, a whole bunch of warblers and House Martins. Swifts. Bring it on. An English spring. I’m ready…
Just a dead Greenfinch
Found in the garden. It’s just a dead Greenfinch – but then again I haven’t seen many dead Greenfinches in my life. In fact, you don’t see that many dead birds do you? Certainly not considering how many live birds there are – and they all die sometime. I suppose it’s the same with people….
Saint Patrick
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! Saint Patrick has some dodgy environmental credentials although his walking stick grew into a living ash tree and he used the shamrock to illustrate the Holy Trinity. But driving the snakes from Ireland – what was that all about? Could he please come back and rid Britain of Muntjac Deer, Canada…
Oscar Dewhurst – Bittern
Mark writes: a great image of a Bittern at Minsmere – they will be booming there today, no doubt. Oscar has sent me the details (camera, lens etc) for his images but at the moment I can’t read them – rather oddly. When we accomplish this piece of communication then I’ll add them. I haven’t…
Sunday Book Review – The Twitch by Kevin Parr
This is one of two books I bought in Oxford the week before last. The first was in the shop window and caught my eye so I went inside and then this cover and title caught my eye so I bought it too. Both purchases were testaments to the power of advertising – or communication. …
The week in birding by Jonnie Fisk
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Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill