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Ahead of speaking at the Sussex Ornithological Society conference on Saturday I stayed in a B&B nearby on Friday night. It was quite a posh B&B , and very nice, but hard to find. Well, it wasn’t the B&B’s fault that it was hard to find, I think that was partly my fault and partly…

Just for fun I am making a note of which days I see Red Kites this year because I often write that I see Red Kites most days and I just wanted to check whether it is true (or whether I am fooling myself) and if so, how true. I’m not going out of my…

I enjoyed last week – here are some highlights: Monday – Ring-necked Parakeet in London – year tick Tuesday – woke in London at 0530 to the beautiful sound of a singing Blackbird Tuesday – planned the downfall of driven grouse shooting over lunch with friends (can’t fail!) Wednesday – windy, rainy, but went for…

    The North York Moors National Park has a blog – hooray!  It’s an official blog – hooray! Put ‘hen harrier’ into the search engine and you get the very honest return of… No – nothing to see here. Nada! Zilch! Bugger all! Please sign Gavin Gamble’s e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting and…