Bird flu update

In the last four weeks there has only been one identified case of bird flu in wild birds in the UK and that was a Mute Swan in Somerset towards the beginning of that 4-week period.  DEFRA state that earlier in the year there were as many as 55 dead birds per week being submitted…

Spring unwinding at Stanwick Lakes

I know I won’t get any sympathy for this, but I feel I am missing out on the true spring experience this year.  I’ve just spent two weeks in Spain and got back to the UK on Tuesday evening. Before I left I had seen or heard Chiffchaff, Blackcap, Willow Warbler and Sand Martin at…

I like these daffodils

I was driving through the Picos de Europa on Monday morning, as one does, and there were loads of wild daffodils (I assume!) in the woods and fields. Lovely. So different from those feral things that litter our roadsides in too many places.      

Guest blog by Scotland: the Big Picture

The Red Squirrel: A Future in the Forest SCOTLAND: The Big Picture is a team of media professionals – photographers, filmmakers, writers and designers – fusing ecological science with visual storytelling to amplify the case for a wilder Scotland. Though undoubtedly spectacular, Scotland is an ecological shadow of its former self. Its turbulent past has…

Tilting at windmills

Two images of distant windfarms taken in Spain last week (both rather poor images I’m afraid – partly the heat haze but largely the photographer). These would keep Don Quixote busy for quite a while – both included more than a hundred individual turbines. Now I know nothing about the environmental impact assessments that may…