I’m sorry I missed the launch of the State of Nature report by a large group of NGOs as I think it would have been a very enjoyable event. A bit like a gathering of old friends at the deathbed of UK wildlife – determined to have a good time, mention what a great person…
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Sunday Book Review – A World in One Cubic Foot: Portraits of Biodiversity by David Liittschwager
This book is quite different and very interesting. It was put together by recording, in six different habitats, for a 24-hour period in each, the species that passed through a metal frame of 1-foot dimension. Then Liittschwager photographed a whole range of species that had occurred within that metal frame in that time-frame. It’s a…
Ralph Underhill cartoon – Sacred?
You do have to wonder where on Earth, or even in the EU, the CAP gets a good press. Here is a round-up of UK views: IEEP – Environment undermined in CAP deal CAPreform.eu – a damp squib for CAP reform which does nothing to shift towards ‘public money for public goods’ The Wildlife…
well done rspb
the rspb has a new logo – have you noticed it on the rspb website? it’s been long-heralded and it has finally arrived and it’s…well it’s…almost exactly the same as the old one. the main change is that the letters, r, s, p and b, are now in lower case. that’s very trendy. i like…
It made me smile anyway…
I don’t know much about art but I know what I like – and I like giant hen harriers crushing rangerovers. Did you see this – it happened over a month ago while I was in upper New York state. Well, it made me smile anyway. Other coverage: more Guardian, BBC, dazeddigital, London Evening Standard….
BBS
I got up early on Sunday morning in order to do the last visits to my two BBS squares. The Rolling Stones had kept me up the night before which was a bit mean of them – at their age they should know better. It’s a whitethroat year for sure – there weren’t many warblers…
Interesting move
Shooting organisations are clearly rattled by the campaign that has been building to remove lead from the environment (a subject oft-mentioned in this blog see here, here, here, here, here for example and the subject of a Guest Blog by the BASC Comms Director, Christopher Graffius). Complying with the law as it stands is going…
Happy Birthday BTO
Apparently the BTO is 80 today – Happy Birthday! Personally I wouldn’t have said that Andy Clements was a day over 65 but you never can tell can you? There’s quite a lot of interesting stuff about the BTO’s past on their website – click here. However, unlike for most people in their 80s, it…
Thank yous
Flight Centre at Cambridge for sorting out my flights and car hire and especially Samantha for moving quickly just before I left to correct the mistake of my car hire being booked at a different airport from the one where I arrived and left! I was lucky, in the Wayne National Forest to meet several…
David, Gladys and other companions
I wasn’t on my own as I travelled across the USA. David came with me the whole way and Gladys was there almost throughout. The Sibley ‘Guide to birds‘ was in the passenger seat of my Hyundai Sonata right the way across the USA. Border Patrol officers glanced at it and were reassured that I…