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November 2015 was a good month for this blog with the fourth-highest number of page views (82882) and the sixth-highest number of unique users (18600). Compared with last November page views were 7.5% higher and unique users were 21% up.

  I visited Spurn Point on Monday.  The wind was from the south-east, it was the end of October and I was on the east coast.  It could only mean one thing – it was a bit nippy! No, no, the only thing it could mean was that there was a chance of rare birds,…

I spent a few minutes yesterday responding to the BBC consultation over their charter renewal – this is a good place to do that. I like and admire the BBC though it has irritated me a bit over how it has treated the Jeremy Corbyn election and the decline of its serious coverage of environment…

September was a record month for this blog (despite being of 30 days). It was the second month in a row to exceed 100,000 page views  – 102,129 – just slightly lower than August 2015’s total. But in terms of unique users, the 23,311 surpasses all previous totals (previous highest June 2014 22,238). In September…

Then go out and see some birds!  And while you’re at it – buy the October issue of Birdwatch. This month there is a fascinating article about Scillonian pelagics (where I saw my first and only (so far) Wilson’s Petrels) and an interesting review of eastern rarities and when and where they occur these days….

I was lucky enough to attend some of a celebration of the first 50 years of the University of Kent at the weekend. The Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology held a conference on the future of conservation in Kent. There were some very interesting talks and I’ll just touch on a couple of them….