How many of you, I wonder, have visited the wildlife garden, nestled in the western corner of the grounds of the Natural History Museum? I must admit I hadn’t until last week, and was amazed at what I found. Created exactly twenty years ago as the Museum’s ‘first living exhibition’, it boasts a miniature chalk…
Category: Guest blog
Guest Blog – The Asia vulture crisis, an update by Chris Bowden of RSPB
Chris Bowden is RSPB’s Globally Threatened Species Officer, and Programme Manager of the consortium of ‘SAVE’ partners – Saving Asia’s Vultures from Extinction. Chris has worked for RSPB on various threatened species, (after his Woodlark and Nightjar research days on Thetford Forest), notably the Northern Bald Ibis based in Morocco (for which he still…
Guest Blog – Plenty more fish in the sea by Emma Garnett
Emma Garnett is an ecologist who is usually happiest when hiking through mountains. After graduating with a first in Natural Sciences at Cambridge in 2011, she spent two years studying in five different countries for a Masters in Applied Ecology. She has a keen interest in marine conservation and for her thesis spent four months…
Guest blog – Photographing Hen Harriers by Gordon Yates
Gordon Yates is a photographer who has been an RSPB member for 60 years and a ringer with BTO for 41 years. He is credited with discovering the population of Hen Harriers on Islay in the 1970s and by 1983 proved that there were up to 50 pairs breeding. (In 1989 Gordon ringed 86 pulli…
Guest Blog by Ed Hutchings, ex-shooter
Born in East Anglia, but raised in the Arabian Gulf, Ed Hutchings was always going to have two things – itchy feet and an inquisitive mind. After leaving university with a degree in hospitality, he embarked on a career as a sommelier for a decade, working at various Michelin-star restaurants; in the process winning the…