What a great Bird Fair! But it always is. I really enjoyed Day 3 and I went to four really good talks. The first was by Claire Thompson in the Authors’ Forum and was about mindful birdwatching. This was an interesting talk and given very well. I’m really glad that I went to it…
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Bird Fair Day 3
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Day 3. My plan is: 0930-1000 AUTHORS’ FORUM Claire Thompson, The Art of Mindful Birdwatching (see review here). 1000-1020 LECTURE MARQUEE 1 John Fitzpatrick of Cornell Lab for Ornithology How birds really can save the world. 1215-1300 AUTHORS’ FORUM Hugh Warwick Linescapes – remapping and reconnecting Britain’s fragmented wildlife. 1315-1400 AUTHORS’ FORUM Helen…
Bird Fair Day 2 – in the bag
I had more beer, more conversations with nice people and went to some great talks – not all the talks I had planned to attend but a good proportion of them. I missed Mark Carwardine’s talk but got to the joint effort by Chris Packham, Ruth Peacey, Ruth Tingay (of Raptor Persecution Scotland), BirdLife Malta’s…
Tim Melling – Scotch Argus
Tim writes: I visited Smardale Gill in Cumbria in late July and managed to find several Scotch Argus (Erebia aethiops) butterflies just emerging. This male is absolutely pristine with not a scratch nor scale out of place. It still has that iridescent bloom that freshly emerged butterflies show, but which disappears after a few…
An Unreliable History of Birdwatching (21) – by Paul Thomas
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