I’m very grateful to all the Guest Bloggers who have graced these pages in 2014. I am always open to the idea of publishing Guest Blogs so please do get in touch if you think you have something interesting to share here. This is a list of all the Guest Blogs (I think, except the…
Category: BLOGS by guest authors
Guest Blog – Think before you drink (coffee) by Emma Websdale
Emma Websdale is a Conservation Biologist and Writer. Working as the Communications Support Officer for The Wildlife Trusts, she is particularly motivated in engaging younger audiences, helping them make sure that nature doesn’t drop off their agenda. After spending the day of 9 December stewarding people to march and rally for…
Guest Blog – A is for acorn, or analogue? by Laurence Rose
Laurence Rose has worked for the RSPB for over 30 years. He also edits the website NATURAL LIGHT that explores the links between nature and the arts. A is for acorn, B is for buttercup. No, make that analogue and broadband C was for catkin, but now is for creep; D was for dandelion, but…
Guest Blog – Of nests and nets by Dave Leech (BTO)
Dr Dave Leech is a Senior Research Ecologist at BTO, where I oversee the Nest Record Scheme (NRS) and the two standardised ringing projects, the Constant Effort Site (CES) scheme and the Retrapping Adults for Survival (RAS) scheme. My job involves developing survey methodology, analysing data and communicating the results to volunteers and the general…
Guest Blog – Wishing you a Harry Christmas by Findlay Wilde
By the time you read this there will probably be just over a month left until Christmas. That’s not long. And it might not be long until Hen Harriers are extinct in England. So if you are thinking about Christmas shopping, you might think about one of these special Hen Harrier Christmas cards. Now you…
Guest Blog – Tactics of the raptor haters by Peter Cosgrove
Peter Cosgrove carried out the first national pearl mussel survey and wrote about pearl mussels as a Guest Blog here in October 2012. I have been watching the raptor haters’ tactics since Hen Harrier Day and I think they might have secret list of 10 do’s and 10 don’ts,…
Guest blog by Robert Adams – Petition to oppose the planned expansion of Sandy Beaches Caravan Site
Folks who love Spurn – we are asking for your help. The Spurn peninsula is about to be cut across with caravans almost from the sea to the River Humber shore line. Local people, the Spurn Bird Observatory and many of our visitors are deeply concerned. We ask you to help us by taking action….
Guest Blog – Monitoring by Prof Tim Birkhead FRS
I am a professor of Zoology at the University of Sheffield and a life-longer birder. I study reproduction – mainly infidelity in birds – and have kept a study of guillemots on Skomer Island going since the 1970s. I’m passionate about research and teaching undergraduates; I also enjoy communicating science to the public and have…
Guest Blog – There is nothing Green about these Country ‘Sports’ by Caroline Allen of the Green Party
Caroline Allen is a practising vet and the Green Party Spokesperson on Animals as well as Co-Chair of London Green Party. Caroline has worked on many animal-protection issues, most recently campaigning against the badger cull, expansion of factory farming and the overuse of antibiotics in animal farming. Shooting birds such as grouse and pheasants is…
Guest blog – Crunch time for Britain’s bees by Joan Walley MP
As MPs return to parliament from party conference season, leading MP Joan Walley, says the Government’s plans for bees ‘fail to offer’ the solution bees need. The decline in bee and other pollinators’ populations is a very real threat not just to the pollinators themselves but also to the world…