Apparently, the first bird a woman sees on Valentine’s Day tells her the type of husband she will get. Magpies seem good news – good job they are commoner than ever! Birds of prey seem ones to look out for but maybe crows should be avoided. The first reference to St Valentine’s Day being…
Category: Uncategorized
Feedback
When I sent out my short recent ‘newsblast’ to over 1300 people one of them replied as follows: “No,don’t send me anymore of your crap.When you start considering all bird life instead of just raptors then by all means.I put a bird table up 30 yrs ago,had it full of garden birds untill (sic) the…
Miscellany
More birding bits and pieces: After my blog of last week I can now add peregrine to my M1 list (hunting over a field near Luton) and another ‘up-and-about-early’ red kite from the M1 somewhere in Hertfordshire (I think!). Birkbeck: I enjoyed giving a public lecture at Birkbeck on Friday evening – lots of good…
Ralph Underhill cartoon
Did you see the last Attenborough programme of the series on Africa? I missed it on Wednesday (being in an Edinburgh hotel which did not have BBC2 !!) so I’ll be watching Sunday’s repeat. Here are some links to the ivory trade: BBC (Gabon’s forest elephants), eleaid (Asian elephants), National Geographic, Bloodyivory, Centre…
All gummed up – chew on that IMO!
All those auks killed off the south coast of England over the last week or so have been killed by polyisobutene (or PIB) according to analyses done by scientists at the University of Plymouth and confirmed by the Environment Agency, says the RSPB. PIB is currently given one of the lowest hazard classifications under MARPOL…