I went to London on Thursday and came back on Friday. Here are a few rambling thoughts and recollections… … standing on the platform at Wellingborough station I had a phone call briefing me about an item that was going to come up on the agenda of the World Land Trust meeting that I was…
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I’ll be at…
…the first London Wildlife Festival tomorrow. I’m speaking about Hen Harriers at 17:45 in The Den.
A day’s birding in Norfolk
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A high tide on the Norfolk coast was the excuse for spending Saturday at Titchwell – but who really needs an excuse to be on the east coast in August (even early August)? For normal people, early August is summer – near the beginning of the school holidays and a break from work. For birders…
Mimicry in biscuits
I like a digestive biscuit. When we were up in Scotland in June I was sent off to an unfamiliar supermarket with a list. I struggled to find everything on the list and was delighted to stumble across a familiar pile of distinctively wrapped biscuits after minutes of looking in many wrong places for them….
Another BBS visit
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Last week I completed my second visit to my second BBS square. It was a pretty standard, slightly quiet visit. But one can only record the birds in front of you and I think I did that pretty diligently. I’ve been surveying this square in east Northants since 2012 and it was surveyed by somebody…
Flows (1)
Thirty-three years ago, at this time, I was walking around the Flow Country in the north of Scotland in my first few months working for the RSPB. Last year, at this time, I was in the northwest of the USA. What links those two times is the trees I was looking at. In both cases…
BBS
Next week I’m going to have to do my two ‘late’ BBS visits before the end of June. The combination of poor weather and rushing around has pushed them off the agenda but time is running out. I’m also going to have to finish the data entry for the English farmland bird surveys I carried…
Travelling thoughts
A couple of weeks ago I was srolling around Berlin on a sunny day, looking at the sights. Last week I spent a similar amount of time walking through similar parts of central London on another sunny day. In Berlin I strolled through parks and squares near museums and churches and in London I walked…
Bialowieza Forest
My recent visit to Poland was largely a family holiday, with family reasons for being in Poland, but that doesn’t mean that all birdwatching was out of the question. In fact I spent some time in the totally wonderful Bialowieza Forest. There is plenty of forest in the area but the strict reserve is only…
Man with stick and figleaf
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I met this man in the Wilanow Palace Park in Warsaw a few days ago. I think he is Hercules but he reminded me that Michael Gove is supposed to be coming up with a licensing system for lethal control of corvids (and doesn’t seem to be making much progress). I have no personal knowledge…