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Both Botham and the RSPB are wrong
Ian Botham talks rubbish a lot of the time, it seems to me (see here, here and here) and clearly I am not alone as Birdwatch readers voted in droves for YFTB, for whom Ian Botham has spoken in public, in last year’s ‘Guano awards’ (see here, and see here for this year’s contenders). One…
Tim Melling – Marsh Fritillary
Tim writes: This butterfly is declining right across its European range and Britain has not bucked the trend. This individual was photographed at Finglandrigg National Nature Reserve in North Cumbria. It typically occurs on marshy grassland where its foodplant Devil’s-bit Scabious occurs, but some colonies occur on chalk downland in the south. The plant…
An Unreliable History of Birdwatching (31) by Paul Thomas
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