I am considering two guest blogs at the moment – both happen to be about fox hunting but similar issues arise as those described below about other wildlife crimes (such as against birds of prey). When people write about illegal fox hunting they tend to want to give examples where ‘huntspeople’ have been convicted of…
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My garden birds – January 2019
Last year I recorded which days I saw Red Kites, this year I am keeping a list of birds seen in or from my garden. Well, I’m on a respectable but not very impressive 24 species so far: Robin House Sparrow Jackdaw Blackbird Woodpigeon Starling Black-headed Gull Great Tit Red Kite Carrion Crow Chaffinch Goldfinch…
Today – a good day
Today has been a good day. First, I got quite a lot done early on in the day – this is always important to me. What is early on? Before 7am. Second, I saw Les Wallace’s epetition pass 6000 signatures before I left for Wellingborough station where the sun was shining. Usually, when it is…
Winter farmland bird survey
I have two BBS squares which I survey in the spring, and so I am doing two lots of English Winter Bird Survey. The images above and below give you some idea of how unexciting the farmland is in this particular square. The birds were a little bit dull too – not many species and…
A nice way to start the year
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This was nice – even though I’m not entirely sure what it means! I’m listed as #8 in the Colour of Money, Triodos Bank, Sustainable 100 for the first week of 2019. It’s a measure of Twitter influence using the kred index. This is not something to be that bothered about really, but the 7…
At last!
Hooray! I’ve finally caught up with my local male Hen Harrier at Stanwick Lakes. Not even a tiny step for mankind, one giant leap for one bloke. Such a lot of fuss over a bird will seem pretty odd to many normal people, but perhaps less odd to many regular readers of this blog. Why…
I was robbed!
There has been a male Hen Harrier seen regularly at my local patch of Stanwick Lakes since well before Christmas. Quite a lot of people have seen it, quite a lot of us have not, and I’d really like to see it. I’d like to see it because it is always good to see a…
This blog resolves…
to stand up for nature not to be gratuitously nasty not to be afraid of upsetting people to write with clarity and some style to reduce the number of typos and spelling mistakes to give others a voice to offer practical advice for its readers to help nature sometimes to be first with the news,…
A Blackbird cries
I always feel guilty when it happens and relieved when it doesn’t. To fetch firewood from the shed I need take only a few paces out of the back door. As I pass through an ivy-covered stone arch, leaves brush my head and sometimes I hear the sound of scrabbling feet and wings and the…
Happy Solstice!
The shortest day of the year (more or less) – so what could be better than seeing lots of Hen Harriers? Well, ‘lots’ might be difficult, given where I live, but actually, at my local patch of Stanwick Lakes. There has been an adult (probably 2nd winter) male Hen Harrier seen off and on for…