If, like me, you’ve heard quite a lot about mindfulness but don’t really know what it is, and if, like me, you are interested in birds, then this might well be the book for you. I found it interesting and read it all the way through. This book is a bit like most management courses…
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Bird Fair books – review – Bird Photographer of the Year
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This review has no spoilers about the winners – you will first find out about them at the Bird Fair on Saturday at 4:15 in the Events Marquee with Chris Packham. I was one of the judges for this competition, despite knowing little about photography. Of course we made perfect, finely-honed decisions about the…
Sunday book review – The Hen Harrier (2nd edition) by the late Donald Watson
This is a classic book – and one which was given to me by a girlfriend as a Christmas present 40 years ago. It has been with me ever since and right now it sits within reach on the shelf above my desk. I was asked to write the Foreword for this book and was…
See you there on the Inglorious 12th
Donana fire
I spent c12 days in the Doñana area in late April/early May, with Ruth Miller, and we were researching a potential book – which we are now writing. And so it was even more interest and concern than usual that I have watched the news of the massive fire that has consumed large areas of…
Goodbye to Donana
And so we say farewell to Doñana after 12 days of research for a book. ‘We’? That’s me and Ruth Miller. The book? Watch this space but it may take a while!
Donana Bird Fair 2017
I was at the Donana Bird Fair two years ago and, rather by chance, I was back there on Sunday. This is Year 4 and the event is clearly developing. There is still sun and fun, and good birds to be seen on site (including that duck with a blue beak), but there are…
Caption competition
Amanda Anderson seen talking to the boys in blue at Edale Hen Harrier Day. A couple of Amanda’s most famous quotes; ‘If we let the hen harrier in, we will soon have nothing else.‘ ‘From the clip, it is very difficult to make out any detail at all, either of a person or a decoy….
Bird Fair
Tim Appleton, joint Bird Fair founder (with Martin Davies) pictured with placard-man Chris Packham on the Friday of this year’s Bird Fair. As the memories of Bird Fair 2016 begin to fade, and as we rush through the 358 days until we reassemble for the 29th annual British Birdwatching Fair, here are just a few…
The Bird Fair – some pictures with me in them
The world’s most-loved Hen Harrier gets all the glamour gigs but I enjoyed the Bird Fair too – I’ll give you some thoughts tomorrow. But here are some images with just a few words. I see that Simon Lester has his own version of the Q&A at the Bird Fair out on the GWCT website….