I find myself checking the origin of pats of butter in places where I stop (see here). At Wicken Fen on Sunday, as well as brilliant views of Hen Harriers I had a passable scone. I have to say it was not the very best scone I’ve had at a National Trust property but it…
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Fan mail 2
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A follow up to yesterday’s correspondence… Mark, thanks for replying although you didn’t offer an explanation as to why you would want corvids protecting just as we enter nesting season. I live near *********************, I farm and have a building business. [and then it gets more reasonable and interesting] So I replied… Thank you for…
Fan mail
Received by email: Mark, you really seem to have no idea of the destruction caused by corvids in particular the magpies during the nesting season! Either that or there is some other agenda namely headline grabbing to keep you and packham in the public eye so they contribute to book sales etc. As for the…
How we are described
I was very glad to see that my friend, and co-founder of Wild Justice, Ruth Tingay, got the Daily Mail to change their words and apologise for describing her as an anti-hunt extremist. I’ve known Ruth for years, and have spent what sometimes seem like years in a car with her, and I don’t recall…
Talking
Over the last couple of weeks or so I’ve given four talks; to biology sixth formers at a local school, to an RSPB members’ group in Hertfordshire, to a rewilding group in Bristol and to university students in Northampton. All have been fun to do and all have been different. I say that they all…
Garden birds
I keep glancing out of the window at the birds in the garden – many of them are on bird feeders and fat balls. There is often a good selection of Goldfinches, House Sparrows, Great and Blue Tits, Robins, Blackbirds and more. One of the ‘more’ at the moment is an occasionally-seen male Blackcap. ‘Pretty…
ASDA doesn’t compromise
If you see a farmer in tears then it will either be tears of laughter over Theresa Villiers’s speech at the Oxford Farming Conference or perhaps they are upset, for farmers do get upset by this type of thing, over ASDA’s advert for vegetarian food. This is a strange advert because the message is not…
Suffolk
This week I spent some time at the World Land Trust HQ in Halesworth. I’ve been a Council member of WLT, and for the last couple of years a Trustee (the two roles are different) and now I find myself Chair of Trustees. This is almost akin to being a grown-up, which is a bit…
Remembrance of Christmas past and looking to a new Labour future
My Mum is in her nineties – she’s the same age as David Attenborough and the Queen. At this time of year she always recounts to me and her grandchildren a story from her childhood in the 1930s in South Wales when carol singers came round to her house. On opening the door these were…
I’m #8
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This is quite fun – lots of great people ahead of me in this list and also lots of great people below me – so I’m not sure one’s ranking means very much at all. It’s based on Twitter and all life may be on Twitter but Twitter is not all life. However, if you…