Have you ever had a colleague at work who promises everything but consistently delivers work which is of poor quality and usually arrives late too? They’re the worst aren’t they? They may be well-meaning, they may be the life and soul of the party and great fun socially but they are a total waste of…
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Bird/poultry flu update
A few more swans – Mute Swans. I wonder why there aren’t new cases of flu in poultry farms?
Bird Fair – another update
I thought I knew a bit about the Bird Fair but it’s interesting to find out new things. And there seems to be a quite a lot to find out about the Bird Fair too – from what people say. There is a wikipedia page about the Bird Fair – I don’t think I’d seen…
I’m always moved…
I’m always moved by these words on the back of my Labour Party membership card – a new one arrived the other day. The bit, highlighted in red above; by the strength of our common endeavour we achieve more than we achieve alone …moves me (even if, at the worst of times, it isn’t always…
Thank you!
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Thank you to the regular reader and occasional commenter on this blog who sent me a nice card and a cheque for £25. He, for it was a he, said he’d won this on the Premium Bonds and would like to give it to me to split between Wild Justice and the World Land Trust,…
Guest blog – Boris and the Badgers by Dominic Dyer
Dominic Dyer is Policy Advisor for the Born Free Foundation, author of Badgered to Death ‘The People and Politics of the Badger Cull’ and was CEO of the Badger Trust from 2013 to 2020. Twitter: domdyer70 Boris, the badgers and the politics of culling Sir David King undermines the Randomised Badger Culling Trial Over the…
RSPB press release – Art of Saving Species exhibition
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Springwatch’s Gillian Burke has guest-curated a collection of pieces for the Art of Saving Species exhibition which launches online today. There are few people who would claim Monday mornings are their favourite time of the week but with little to look forward to on weekends the gloomy winter dark mornings are even harder to bear….
Sunday book review – A Curious Boy by Richard Fortey
I’m not very familiar with Richard Fortey, not having read any of his previous books nor, as best as I can recall, seen him on TV. So I came to read his book of memoirs uncluttered by preconceptions. This book is about Fortey’s childhood through to young adulthood and about the role of natural history…
Tim Melling – Great White Egret
Tim writes: the 8th October started well for me as almost unbelievably this was the second species of bird I saw thiat morning after Moorhen. Numbers three and four were Little Egret and Jack Snipe. The Great White Egret flew into the Canal Scrape at Spurn at 7:10 that morning. When I started birdwatching Great…
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
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