Standing up for Nature
Last week I completed my second visit to my second BBS square. It was a pretty standard, slightly quiet visit. But one can only record the birds in front of you and I think I did that pretty diligently. I’ve been surveying this square in east Northants since 2012 and it was surveyed by somebody…
Today Henry Morris and some friends are going to start running through the grouse moors of the north of England to highlight the plight of Hen Harriers. Henry will be wearing a satellite tag and you can follow his progress as he runs through the hills – follow the run here in real time. Support…
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I carried out the ‘late’ visit to one of my two Breeding Bird Survey squares earlier this week – on a rather misty Monday morning. But it’s a good job I did because the next morning it was tipping down with rain and the next two mornings I was either heading to London (for a…
As part of a project to discover what might be driving the decline in UK Cuckoo numbers, the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) has fitted four of these iconic birds with satellite tags. These tags will enable BTO researchers to follow the Cuckoos as they make their way to the Congo rainforest, where they winter,…
Over 100 local events have been organised by local Swiftconservation groups around the UK and in Eire in an attempt to raise the profile of this fast declining bird.To see a map showing where the events are and to read full details of each one, go to the Action for Swifts blog: https://actionforswifts.blogspot.com/p/2019-swift-awareness-week.html Nick Brown, SAW2019 Coordinator and the organiser of the Derbyshire Swift Conservation Project, said: “The very…
Next week I’m going to have to do my two ‘late’ BBS visits before the end of June. The combination of poor weather and rushing around has pushed them off the agenda but time is running out. I’m also going to have to finish the data entry for the English farmland bird surveys I carried…
Dewilding Basingstoke One thing leads to another. This all harks back to the saga of Basingstoke’s beleaguered Common Toads, a story that not only continues but also evolves. So as summer approaches, and all those young toadlets leave their breeding ponds, perhaps an alternative title for this blog might be ‘Toad Rage – metamorphosis’. To…
Conservationists concerned about late swift return This spring, nesting swifts here are arriving later than usual Swift experts have produced new advice for ecologists working on new housing developments to provide homes for these birds Let the RSPB know where you see swifts nesting or flying at rooftop level in the RSPB Swift Survey Celebrate…
Wild justice, the not for profit company established by myself, Chris Packham CBE and Dr Ruth Tingay, has launched a new legal challenge to Natural England. Wild Justice, took a successful legal challenge against the general licences GL04, GL05 and GL06 which resulted in Natural England revoking those licences at very short notice, which caused…