This weekend is the annual Big Garden Birdwatch. BGBW has become a national institution and I love it. I’ll be sitting down to stare out at my garden for an hour next Sunday. The feeders are filled already. Will the usual house sparrows, collared doves, blackbirds, robin and goldfinches flock to or shun my garden…
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NWCU secure for one more year
The Home Office will provide specific funding for the National Wildlife Crime Unit of £136,000 for 2013-14. This is good news. And some of the credit must go to all those who contacted their MPs on this issue. And some credit must go to those MPs who responded by signing EDM 603 and by raising…
EDM 603 taking off
This was a very good week for EDM 603 which calls upon the Home Office to find the funding to keep the National Wildlife Crime Unit going (in my opinion it actually needs an increase in funding!). 21 new MPs signed up to the EDM and it is difficult to imagine that that is not…
Cartoon and bits and pieces
Apologies for the non-appearance of yesterday’s blog – I wrote it and then pushed the wrong button (and then spent a lot of time driving on snowy roads). Is it snowy enough for you? Imagine its impact on wildlife. A week tomorrow it is Big Garden Birdwatch – time to get those bird feeders filled…
Rainham Marshes – Allsorts.
I had the chance to pop in to the RSPB nature reserve at Rainham Marshes on Friday – so I took it! Just off the M25 on the north bank of the Thames, a rural idyll this isn’t. And that’s part of the attraction. I made my way, by car, past Purfleet station where I…