Bits and bits

Good luck to Jonny  Rankin and team in seeing as many species as possible today in Norfolk.  Looks like it will be a fine day and so my guess of 121 species looks on the low side.  I’ll give Jonny and team £1 for every species above 121 that they see –  the money goes…

In my backyard

Recently the Daily Telegraph reported on windfarm developments in the county where I live – Northamptonshire.  Apparently we are going to become the windfarm capital of the UK although the Telegraph only mentions 53 turbines and suggests the country (presumably England in this case) is considering applications for only 94 in total.  That doesn’t sound…

Poor things and real things

Did you watch Planet Earth Live on Sunday night?  I did and there were some enjoyable moments in it. It seemed to be all about going ‘Awww’ at cute little mammals that were having a tough time of making their way in the world – but enough of the presenters Richard Hammond and Julia Bradbury….

Wet Wales? I hope not

The Wales Coast Path opens officially today – 870 miles from Chester to Chepstow (and a very similar distance from Chepstow to Chester).  That’s quite a stretch isn’t it? And since you can walk Offa’s Dyke too, you could do a 1000+ mile walk around Wales if you really wanted – you could call it…

The same and different

A year ago, yesterday, I flew to the USA for a 6 week trip of a lifetime. Yesterday, I drove to Cambridge.   A year ago, yesterday, the sun shone. Yesterday it rained a  lot.   A year ago, yesterday, I saw lots of starlings in Washington DC. Yesterday a single starling flew across the…