Green Party MEPs on Malta Massacre

In contrast to the mess that is UKIP, the Green Party seems to be fully engaged with doing their best to highlight and sort out the massacre of spring migrants on Malta. The UK has two Green Party MEPs; Keith Taylor MEP (Southeast England) and Jean Lambert MEP (London). Both feature the Malta Migrant Massacre…

UKIP muddle

Many readers of this blog have contacted their MEPs about the Malta Massacre.  Thank you all!  I will keep coming back to this subject over the next three weeks leading up to the EU elections (and quite probably, beyond).   Roger Helmer is one of ‘my’ MEPs in the East Midlands, and I’ve been sent…

Otmoor looking and sounding good!

I visited the RSPB nature reserve at Otmoor yesterday.  It was great! As we parked, we could hear lots of Whitethroats singing, some of them performing song flights over the car park, and Cuckoos singing in the distance too.  This was a promising start and the promise was kept. We were hardly out of earshot…

So, that was April.

I always think that I like May more than I like April – but I have liked this April a lot! I can’t wait until the next one. For a birdwatcher April is a month of arrivals (though, at the same time, there are departures too).  I have a few mental ‘targets’ (not quite the…

A Swift blog

It’s the last day of April and I haven’t seen a Swift yet. So I am sitting in the garden looking at the sky.  I’ll tell you tomorrow whether it worked or not.