In Chapter 15 of Fighting for Birds I ponder the future of the RSPB and that leads me on to wonder whether it is time to change the name of the organisation. The RSPB is searching for a Fundraising and Communications Director, a new post combining two existing roles, and whoever is successful in that…
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Saturday 7
I’ll tell you what day it is. On this day, 98 years ago, at 1pm local time, 6pm (I think) UK time, there was a dull thud in Cincinnati. The last passenger pigeon in the world, called Martha by her keepers in Cincinnati Zoo, had died and fallen off her perch. It was the end…
Saturday 6
You do know what day it is don’t you? In my ‘political birder’ column in this month’s Birdwatch magazine I discuss whether nature conservationists should be causing a few more problems for the fieldsports community in response to the lack of hen harriers, buzzardgate and the call to put goosander and cormorant on the general…
Saturday 5
You do know what day it is, don’t you? What has been in the news recently? There was ‘Buzzardgate’ (see here, here, here and here for example) back in May, but if Fighting for Birds had been published by then you would have known that it was coming. I wrote as follows on page 210:…
Saturday 4
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This photograph was taken in the Lake District, in Keswick actually, a few weeks ago. Note the name of the shop. It has nothing to do with my book, Fighting for Birds, which you could buy now by clicking here. You do know what day it is, don’t you?
Saturday 3
I have a column in Wild Travel magazine which is a new magazine about travel and wildlife. The second issue is now out and my column takes a look at the wonders of animal migration. Wild Travel comes out six times a year and is now priced at £3.99. I bought my copy in WHSmith….
Saturday 2
You do know what day it is don’t you? Yesterday, in rural Bedfordshire, I was passing a field of unharvested beans, where the beans looked brown and crispy. I saw a raptor flying low over the crop and I wondered whether it might just be a marsh harrier so I pulled over and had a…
Saturday 1
It is widely expected that there will be a government reshuffle on Monday. It may take a while for the full details and impacts on junior Ministers to be revealed. Let us hope that this road sign which I saw in London last week is not a sign for the Parliamentary Under-Secretary at Defra.
Holiday journey – can you work it out?
From the end of July to the middle of August I was travelling. You might say holidaying (but some of it might be tax-deductable). Can you work out where I went from the clues below? Funnily enough I went to lots of nature reserves and a few historic monuments. It’s just for fun – maybe…
Give oceans real protection – everyone gains
More than two thirds of the Earth’s surface is ocean and yet we give it barely a thought, at least according to a recent poll by KnowSeas which shows that only a third of UK citizens are worried by ocean health whereas around 60% of Portuguese and Spaniards have the oceans on their minds. Might…