Category: BLOGS by guest authors

Alister Clunas was born on Orkney. He gained a Masters degree in Resource Management from the University of Edinburgh.  His first conservation job was an Assistant Watcher on the Farne Island on £13 per week. Later he worked as a Ranger in East Lothian, a Property Manager in the Yorkshire Dales for the National Trust…

Norman McCanch was born in South Wales and trained as a taxidermist, then worked as a Lighthouse Keeper with Trinity House, before studying Graphics and Illustration in Kent. He subsequently worked in a boat yard, in the Agricultural supply industry, as a part-time gamekeeper and as warden of two different Bird Observatories. He worked on…

Marina Pacheco has always been keen on wildlife especially of an urban kind and graduated with a zoology degree in South Africa. She then spent four years on a squirrel introduction project in Lisbon’s first urban ecology park before relocating to London. Over the last twenty years she was the London Area Manager for BTCV, the…

The Zeiss Yorkshire Terriers are: Mark Pearson, Filey-birder, blogger, speaker, wildlife guide, musician and team captain.       Rich Baines, former Flamborough stalwart, ecologist with Wold Ecology, co-owner and leader of Yorkshire Coast Nature, North York Moors Turtle Dove project manager.     Darren Woodhead, incredible bird artist – need we say more?!  …