I’m rubbish at nests and eggs. I have little experience in finding them and am usually pretty clueless at identifying them when I do stumble across them. This, then, is a book for me. The book is a handy size to take into the field. Each of 146 British breeding species gets its own account…
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What did politicians offer?
I have a column in the current British Wildlife magazine about the relevance of the EU elections on 22 May, the Scottish independence vote in September and the next UK general election (just over a year away) to our wildlife. In it I also set out 20 policies that might get my vote in the…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
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It’s a throw-away society – but we only have one planet on which to live.
Green Party MEPs on Malta Massacre
In contrast to the mess that is UKIP, the Green Party seems to be fully engaged with doing their best to highlight and sort out the massacre of spring migrants on Malta. The UK has two Green Party MEPs; Keith Taylor MEP (Southeast England) and Jean Lambert MEP (London). Both feature the Malta Migrant Massacre…
UKIP muddle
Many readers of this blog have contacted their MEPs about the Malta Massacre. Thank you all! I will keep coming back to this subject over the next three weeks leading up to the EU elections (and quite probably, beyond). Roger Helmer is one of ‘my’ MEPs in the East Midlands, and I’ve been sent…
Otmoor looking and sounding good!
I visited the RSPB nature reserve at Otmoor yesterday. It was great! As we parked, we could hear lots of Whitethroats singing, some of them performing song flights over the car park, and Cuckoos singing in the distance too. This was a promising start and the promise was kept. We were hardly out of earshot…
So, that was April.
I always think that I like May more than I like April – but I have liked this April a lot! I can’t wait until the next one. For a birdwatcher April is a month of arrivals (though, at the same time, there are departures too). I have a few mental ‘targets’ (not quite the…
A Swift blog
It’s the last day of April and I haven’t seen a Swift yet. So I am sitting in the garden looking at the sky. I’ll tell you tomorrow whether it worked or not.
Letter to my MP, Andy Sawford
Dear Andy I’m a bit late with this letter but I’d like to thank you for the way you have dealt with previous ones. In the run up to the EU elections on 22 May I’m sure we are all thinking about the UK’s place in Europe. You have probably noticed the coverage of…
Nightingales
I’m lucky – although, actually, luck didn’t have that much to do with it; I live in the countryside. This means that I can drive for 20 minutes, as I did on Saturday evening, and stand in an ancient woodland at dusk and listen to Nightingales singing. I do this every year – and it…