Saturday 6

You do know what day it is don’t you? In my ‘political birder’ column in this month’s Birdwatch magazine I discuss whether nature conservationists should be causing a few more problems for the fieldsports community in response to the lack of hen harriers, buzzardgate and the call to put goosander and cormorant on the general…

Saturday 5

You do know what day it is, don’t you? What has been in the news recently? There was ‘Buzzardgate’ (see here, here, here and here for example) back in May, but if Fighting for Birds had been published by then you would have known that it was coming.  I wrote as follows on page 210:…

Saturday 4

  This photograph was taken in the Lake District, in Keswick actually, a few weeks ago.  Note the name of the shop. It has nothing to do with my book, Fighting for Birds, which you could buy now by clicking here. You do know what day it is, don’t you?  

Saturday 3

I have a column in Wild Travel magazine which is a new magazine about travel and wildlife.  The second issue is now out and my column takes a look at the wonders of animal migration. Wild Travel comes out six times a year and is now priced at £3.99.  I bought my copy in WHSmith….

Saturday 2

You do know what day it is don’t you? Yesterday, in rural Bedfordshire, I was passing a field of unharvested beans, where the beans looked brown and crispy.  I saw a raptor flying low over the crop and I wondered whether it might just be a marsh harrier so I pulled over and had a…