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I’m in Tier 2 – how about you? The small rural town where I live, Raunds, is actually, I’m told, named because it is close to the boundaries of Northants, Cambs and Beds. It was first recorded as Randan in an Anglo-Saxon chronicle in the late 900s AD. Randan is the plural of the Old…

THE UNDEAD (Siberia, 2020) Pete Howard has worked in Nature Conservation for the past 20 years, mainly in species monitoring and protection for the RSPB. He lives in north Cumbria, where he is regional Bird Recorder and Vice Chair of the Cumbria Bird Club. He is also an irredeemable butterfly fanatic. Pete is a published…

Dear Sir Thank you for your enquiry regarding potential gift orders this Christmas.  Your true love is certainly going to have a festive season to remember!  Here at the Unusual Christmas Gifts Company we like to believe that we live up to our name and we go to enormous lengths to source special and dramatic…

Friday found me watching a computer screen from 10:30am to 4:30pm to watch the Wild Justice challenge to the lawfulness of Natural Resources Wales’s general licences. In theory this was in court in Cardiff but I am not sure that anyone was in Cardiff. There were many attendees from ourselves (the Claimant), NRW (the Defendant)…

A lot more cases in wild birds – mostly Mute Swans; … and one more in poultry – a backyard flock; …and a case in the far north of Scotland, in fact in Orkney; So now, it seems to me, that the counties with positive records for wild birds (shaded pink) and the locations of…