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Something for the weekend Vice Chancellor? I’m quite sure that the Vice Chancellor of Cambridge University, Professor Sir Leszek Borysiewicz, will have been thinking about his boathouse conundrum.  Here are some contributions for his weekend cogitation. It’s not going to go away – you are stick with a contentious issue.  Sometimes it’s tempting to think…

When I am filling in a list of species seen at my local patch of Stanwick Lakes on the fairly wonderful Birdtrack something always trips me up, mentally speaking. I go through the list in systematic order ticking off the usual mute swan, greylag and Canada geese, followed by a bunch of ducks.  Then there…

I was recently sent this link by a friend of my daughter – it tells an inspiring story about a man who planted a forest. Have you planted your forest yet? Have you started? People quite often ask me whether I miss the RSPB and my usual answer is along the lines of : No….

This is the third blog on the subject of the Cambridge University Boat Club’s misguided plans to erect their new boathouse on a county wildlife site on the edge of Ely.   Today the Duke of Edinburgh visits Cambridge to be at the launch of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative.  Prince Philip was the Chancellor of…

I have come to the end of March and not seen or heard a single spring migrant.  Amazing. Did you notice that Oxford won the Boat Race – and I think I may have seen an otter holding on to the back of the Cambridge boat… The editor of the Independent, Chris Blackhurst, writes a…