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Looking forward to Saturday’s RSPB AGM
On Saturday it’s the RSPB AGM – have you booked your place online? This is always an interesting event, and usually a somewhat uplifting one, and it’ll be fascinating to hear the RSPB’s new position on gamebird shooting. At least, I assume it will be a new position after over a year of cogitation. The…
Sunday book review – A Bird A Day by Dominic Couzens
You can’t go wrong if you slap a gorgeous Audubon on the front of your book and this Arctic Tern is one of my favourites (see p77 Remarkable Birds, which also has an Audubon on its cover). It’s a good start and there are more Audubons sprinkled through the 368 pages of this attractive and…
Tim Melling – Pied Flycatcher
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Tim writes: Pied Flycatcher is quite a scarce bird in my local area so I was quite pleased to find one near Holmfirth. I mentioned it to a friend, who went to look and found three. As the weather was good I decided to go back and try for a photograph and this was my…
Saving Ecuador’s Choco Forest
This autumn appeal from World Land Trust is very special. And if you donate through Andy Langley’s justgiving page then your donation won’t just be doubled, it will be quadrupled in value. Thank you.