Standing up for Nature
Do you remember being offered the chance to guess the total that we would reach by midnight on the 31 July – that’s Sunday? Here are the guesses (closest gets a signed copy of the new paperback edition of Inglorious): 51495 Robert Kingsbury-Barker 51798 Roger Little 53471 Sue 54356 Peter Swallow 54731 notso 55333 Steven…
If you are of any age and submit a 400-1200 word article in one of the four categories below (and in addition, if you are under 18 years of age and submit an article on any aspect of wildlife) then you may win a signed copy of my latest book Remarkable Birds – out in…
The paperback edition of Inglorious has an extra chapter which covers events in 2015 and the very early parts of 2016. It will be in shops very soon – official publication date is a week away but somehow they seem to slip out earlier. Who gets a mention in the new chapter? Hawk and Owl…
If you would like to win a signed copy of my new book, Remarkable Birds, then write 400-1200 words on one of the four subjects below and maybe you will. We, myself and two other judges, will be looking for good writing about nature and its place in our lives. In any of these categories…
My next book – available at The Bird Fair and afterwards in all good bookshops in UK (eg Foyles, Waterstones, WHSmith) from 1 September and USA from 13 September. Published by Thames and Hudson. Five signed copies available to be won – see later today for details of a writing competition.
You are an optimistic bunch – really you are! Here are the guesses as to how many signatures we will have gained by my bedtime on 31 July: 51495 Robert Kingsbury-Barker 51798 Roger Little 53471 Sue 54356 Peter Swallow 54731 notso 55333 Steven Savage 56000 Emma Thompson 57356 Graham Sorrie 58713 Kate Cartmell Done 61645…
It’s not a big prize, but it’s better than nothing! Let’s see whether you can predict the number of signatures on our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting at my bedtime on 31 July. That will be after 10pm but might well be before midnight – although if timing is critical, because it might be…
Available from 28 July – or probably earlier! This is the paperback edition of Inglorious and it contains an extra chapter to bring things up to date.
If you all turn to p273 of your copies of Inglorious then you will find an exhortation from me to use social media in our campaign to ban driven grouse shooting. Written in January 2015 it lists the Twitter followers of the following organisations and individuals. Here are what they were then and what they…
I’m looking forward to talking in the Oxford Festival of Nature next week. I’ll be talking about…guess what?…why we should ban driven grouse shooting and why the residents of Oxford should do some catching up (per capita) with the residents of Cambridge in signing our e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting. Cambridge 110 signatures…