Standing up for Nature
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…
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 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…
Day 2 – this looks like another excellent day. My plan: 1000-1045 Mark Carwardine EVENTS MARQUEE Was it really the last chance to see? 1100-1145 Chris Packham plus EVENTS MARQUEE Tales from the frontline of conservation 1500-1545 Stephen Moss chair EVENTS MARQUEE Bird Brain of Britain – as a previous winner (!) I…