It’s December tomorrow so you should be posting your Christmas cards soon. About a dozen people have ordered sets of these cards so far and have told me that they will send them to Defra, Natural England, the NFU and David Cameron as a protest against the badger cull. If you’d like to purchase a…
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What was that list?
I posted this list of birds yesterday and asked you what you thought it signified. Mute Swan Greylag Goose Canada Goose Wigeon Teal Mallard Tufted Duck Pheasant Cormorant Grey Heron Great Crested Grebe Little Grebe Buzzard Kestrel Coot Oystercatcher Lapwing Black-headed Gull Common Gull Herring Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Stock dove Woodpigeon Collared Dove Green…
What is this list?
Just for fun. Here is a list of birds that I have seen – where and how? Answer 1800 tomorrow. Mute Swan Greylag Goose Canada Goose Wigeon Teal Mallard Tufted Duck Pheasant Cormorant Grey Heron Great Crested Grebe Little Grebe Buzzard Kestrel Coot Oystercatcher Lapwing Black-headed Gull Common Gull Herring Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull Stock…
Not such a bad idea…
50 years
I spend a lot of my time these days trying to persuade those who love nature to become more politically active. I’m often told that all politicians are the same: they are not. They never were, and they never will be. …
Adverts
Have a look at these two advertisements – they are very different in what they say about nature. Toys ‘R’ Us advertisment. Chipotle advert. Which did you like best? You may have noticed that adverts have appeared in the right hand sidebar of this webpage. I’ve not been terribly keen on the idea of having…
Bird Atlas – Conservation successes, writ large
If you want an example of landscape-scale nature conservation then look at the maps for Red Kite – or in many cases, just look out of the window and see a Red Kite! From the first breeding Atlas to this one the Red Kite has ceased to be a solely Welsh bird in Britain and…
Fighting for Birds – French review
Review from Ornithos, the magazine of the French Birdlife partner (soon to be known as ‘donnant une maison a la nature‘ – peut-etre? ‘Vivant, concret, souvent instructif et parfois captivant‘. 21 5-star reviews on Amazon – still makes a great Christmas present for the committed birdwatcher, nature conservationist or environmentalist. Buy here. All comments on…
Have you seen a Cuckoo lately?
The BTO Cuckoo-tracking project is just fascinating. ‘Our’ cuckoos are now in central Africa. Have you heard the one about the Scot, the Welshman and the Englishman? Chance is a Scot, a Scottish cuckoo tagged at Loch Katrine. He is in Nigeria at the moment and he followed a very similar route through Europe on…
RBBP – a treat
The report of the Rare Breeding Birds Panel is a treat, a delight, a pleasure. That’s partly because the Panel does a very good job in compiling the records and writing them up, and partly because British Birds does a good job in publishing them but largely because birds are brilliant! In each of these…