Category: THOSE WE HAVE LOST

The June issue of the excellent British Wildlife magazine came through my letterbox today. If you subscribe too, you will find it contains a sad announcement that three weeks ago the editor of British Wildlife, Malcolm Tait, died suddenly.  All our thoughts should be with his wife Claire and their family and friends. I have…

There is what now seems a rather poignant review of Martin Garner’s Birding Frontiers Challenge Series: Winter in the February British Birds. Martin passed away, after a long illness, last week.  Here are some last thoughts from Martin. And a link to the Birding Frontiers website. The same BB has an obituary of Norman Moore…

We have this week, in just a couple of days, seen the passing of three impressive figures in UK nature conservation: Norman Moore, Michael Meacher and Mick Carroll. I knew all three of them a little and admired each of them a lot. It would probably be difficult to think of three more disparate figures,…

As I am currently near Chatsworth, I listened with interest to the news of the passing of the Dowager Duchess of Devonshire yesterday. Although I never met her, I did have a letter from her on my office wall for several years.  The RSPB had done a huge recruitment mailing, and my name was at…

I spent much of yesterday sitting at a computer and listening to the music of the late Pete Seeger on Spotify. As I travelled through the USA last summer I listened to his voice quite often and I found it inspiring. Many of us, of a certain age, will have heard songs such as Where…