I quite like Country Life – I might take out a subscription. In this week’s magazine there is a quiz to see whether you are a real countryman (women need not apply). It is quite fun, and consists of 100 questions set by Simon Lester, who is apparently a naturalist and former gamekeeper (an…
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Tim Melling – Tibetan Fox
This beautifully ugly creature is also known as the Tibetan Sand Fox (Vulpes ferrilata). They live on the high Tibetan Plateau where they feed on Plateau Pikas, which are superabundant in the area. If you look just to the right of the fox you can see a Plateau Pika peeping out. I took this one…
An Unreliable History of Birdwatching (45) by Paul Thomas
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Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
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A commission I did for http://eeb.org/ for their campaigning at the EU level on plastic pollution
Sustainable dilemmas (5) – milk
Milk – there are lots of issues around milk and I’ll get to some of them in future blogs. Three days a week I pick up glass milk bottles outside the front door. I often stop and listen to bird song but sometimes I scurry back indoors to shut the door on the wind or…