I didn’t notice any names closely associated with nature in the New Year’s Honours list – did you? Although the idea of ‘honours’ is ridiculous I am always pleased when some of the good guys get a gong. I really couldn’t see any this time around – did I miss them? Would you nominate anyone?
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What will 2014 bring for you?
HAPPY NEW YEAR! It’s fun to have some idea of what you plan to do in the year ahead. Here are some of my ideas. They’ll change through the year, no doubt, as they did last year. January – encourage as many people as possible to invite their MP to their houses to do the…
Old squaw in east Northants
It’s not every day that you see a globally threatened bird species in Northants. And it’s not every day that you see a sea-duck in Northants. So you can appreciate that it isn’t even every other day that you see both rolled into one – a Long-tailed Duck in east Northants. However, there have been…
The King George – not just a warm-up for Cheltenham
The King George VI chase is racing’s Boxing Day highlight. Second only to the Cheltenham Gold Cup in steeplechasing’s league table of prestige, this is usually a mid-winter battle between the best chasers of Britain, Ireland and sometimes of France too. The King George is often won by the same horses in successive years. The…
A Happy Christmas to all my readers
Happy Christmas! This blog will return on Boxing Day morning with a preview of the King George (that’s a horse race) at Kempton. Please sign this epetition.
Three images today – 3 Shooting with a camera
Sent in by ‘a reader’ – discuss.
Three images today – 2 eeek!
Anybody claim to own this tattoo? There are many people called Mark Avery in the world – there is this photographer, and this photographer – both of whom seem very talented to me. And there is this musician who was a guitarist in a punk band. There is this Mark S. Avery who is big…
Three images today – 1 Greenpeace video
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Summoned by gulls
Gulls used to be quite dull and quite simple. When I grew up, there were basically a couple of black-backs, Herring, Common and Black-headed (and Kittiwake on distant coasts and Little Gull if you were very lucky). All of these gulls were pretty common so there wasn’t much to be gained by being a gull-expert…
How intriguing
A man by the name of Avery (what an excellent name that is) got in touch with me recently because a copy of Fighting for Birds had arrived unexpectedly through the post. If there is someone buying and sending out copies of Fighting for Birds to everyone called Avery this Christmas then that seems like…