You might remember a few blogs about the proposal to build an intensive broiler unit locally to me (Local issue – further comments, 1 December 2017; Local issue – seems I was right (2), 2 November 2017; Local issue – seems I was right (1), 1 November 2017; Local – bird records, 26 October 2017;…
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My local patch
I haven’t written much about my local patch of Stanwick Lakes for a quite a while. You might think I’ve stopped going out birdwatching but, to the extent that anything does, my regular walks around my regular patch are some of the things that keep me sane and reasonably relaxed. I was up at 5am…
Sustainable dilemmas (6) – more milk
My milk comes from a milkman (or milkperson) and arrives on my doorstep. But it comes from cows before then. Which cows? When my house was built in 1899 I imagine there were milk deliveries (were there?) but of a very different nature. I imagine that the distance between my house and the cow that…
Sustainable dilemmas (5) – milk
Milk – there are lots of issues around milk and I’ll get to some of them in future blogs. Three days a week I pick up glass milk bottles outside the front door. I often stop and listen to bird song but sometimes I scurry back indoors to shut the door on the wind or…
Out birding
I’ve just come back from a day in Norfolk – that’s why this post is a little after 1800. I like birdwatching! I went birdwatching yesterday, I went birdwatching today, and I expect I will do some birdwatching tomorrow. Most of my birding today was at the RSPB nature reserve at Titchwell – I like…
Last week
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I enjoyed last week – here are some highlights: Monday – Ring-necked Parakeet in London – year tick Tuesday – woke in London at 0530 to the beautiful sound of a singing Blackbird Tuesday – planned the downfall of driven grouse shooting over lunch with friends (can’t fail!) Wednesday – windy, rainy, but went for…
My library – Library Minus?
This blog isn’t about the natural world but it is about the political one in which the natural world sits. As an author I’m quite keen on people reading books – indeed last year I got the huge sum of £77 as my share of the Public Lending Right pot. But the local library is…
This blog heading in to 2018
Happy New Year! This blog had a quieter year in 2017 compared with 2016 – 880k pageviews compared with 1.2m pageviews – but that was to be expected. It does represent over 2000 pageviews/day every day of the year and I know that the readership includes politicians, journalists, conservation professionals and some normal people too….
Local issue – further comments
It’s becoming quite a battle to find one’s way onto the East Northants Council’s planning part of their website, and an increasing struggle to navigate through the comments to find what one might be looking for. But these are my latest comments on the planning proposal to build a large set of broiler houses 7…
Sustainable dilemmas (4) – offsetting
I was part of a brief discussion the other day about lifetime offsetting. The idea of offsetting is probably familiar to you: we all do things that cause the emission of greenhouse gases (travelling is a prime example). Jumping on a plane increases GHG emissions and that increases the impacts of climate change. But heating…