Standing up for Nature
Here is a link to a very nice review of my book Blogging for Nature. The review was written by fellow blogger-birder Alan Tilmouth. And here is where you can buy a copy yourself – and thank you to the many of you who have already.
I was out into Yellowstone NP by 630am and had seen Black Bear, lots of Bison (and baby Bison), Elk (Red Deer to you and me) and some good birds (Hooded Merganser, Cinnamon Teal, Osprey) before breakfast. The bird list has passed 200 species – which is certainly not spectacular and illustrates the amount of…
Yesterday morning I was up early and doing my first Breeding Bird Survey visit of the year. I started at 6am and it was all a bit dull weather-wise, but by 730am the sun was out although the easterly wind was quite strong. I’ve written before about how this volunteer/NGO/government agency/government partnership is a good…
Mike McCarthy, the Environment Editor of the Independent newspaper, rarely slips up, but today he gives a ridiculous amount of space to writing about me in his Nature Notes column. He’s very kind; and I see he is off for the next few weeks to write a book . If Mike’s next book is…
Shooting Times was held up and then weakened a long way out in yesterday’s 3:20 at Perth – of course it’s a horse, what did you think? Oh you were thinking about the magazine, were you? Well, maybe, if you were then you’ll be amused that Western Bound won that race easily. I’ll be off…