This – click here – is an interesting chat with Prof Paul Racey who was my PhD supervisor many years ago. He’s a great guy, was a very good mentor to me and has done an awful lot for bat conservation and bat science over the years. Amongst some reminiscences (which I’m afraid include my…
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Twelfth Night wildlife round up
Opinions differ as to how and when one ‘should’ take down Christmas decorations, just as they do about how and when one should take down Venezuelan presidents. But on the former I stick to the Twelfth Night rule which gives me an opportunity to have a look at all the Christmas cards that have arrived….
Growth
This is an image of Raunds; the rural town where I have lived for half my life. In passing, you can see Stanwick Lakes, my local birdwatching patch, to the west of the A45, at the left hand side of the image. And the B663 is the road by which I left home to head…
A tale of (one, two, three, four) fleabanes
I blame Trevor Dines (click here) for the fact that I glanced at a plant in the car park of the Helston Premier Inn last week and wanted to know what it was. With my (lack of) botanical knowledge it was a toss-up between realising it was a plant I’ve seen thousands of time before…
Our solar panels
We had these seven solar panels installed in early July on the part of our roof that is south-facing. The panels and their battery are working well and we spend quite a lot of time looking at an app that tells us how much solar electricity we are generating and the state of play of…
Something nice in the attic
My home is not just a study area for a year-long bioblitz and the site of numerous repairs and improvements to the outside of the house it also houses an ongoing decluttering project. We have the clutter collected over a combined nearly 14 decades of life; books, music cassettes, videos, trinkets, things to hang on…
My new solar panels
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These are three solar panels I had installed maybe as long as 20 years ago. We were early adopters of green technology and these were panels that heated your water – thus saving on gas bills. They were a bad buy – they were pretty expensive, we were sold more than we needed and they…
Cornwall
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Last week I headed to Cornwall. Cornwall is a long way away. It’s a long way away from everywhere (except west Devon) and even those in Cornwall think that west Cornwall is far from east Cornwall. I gave a talk to the the Cornwall Bird Watching and Preservation Society – click here – and I…
What do you give the man who has everything?
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Carl Jones – saver of species
Carl Jones has a Kodiak Bear in his living room along with a couple of Giant Tortoises and many other animals, paintings and books. Outside there is a pair of Andean Condors and some feisty Striated Caracaras. If you heard Carl on Desert Island Discs recently – click here – then this won’t surprise you…