Standing up for Nature
Last weekend I did the second visit to one of my BBS squares. It was later in the allowable time than usual because everything has been later than usual for a while in my life. I wasn’t very optimistic about seeing lots of birds but the aim of the BBS is to record the birds…
Please consider donating to the John Burton Memorial Fund – set up to support causes about which John was particuarly keen in his last years.
Today (28 June) sees the final release of hand-raised black-tailed godwits as part of an emergency intervention which has thrown the critically endangered wetland bird a lifeline and helped increase its chances of survival. Data collected by a five year partnership between the RSPB and the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) called Project Godwit, shows the…
I asked what you thought of the new RSPB logo and this is how you responded: Those figures ought to please the RSPB – a majority of people are positive and very few hate it. And let’s be clear, everyone will get used to it. This poll wasn’t a carefully selected representative sample of the…
The first Fin Whales (two of them) to be landed in Iceland since 2018 were brought ashore yesterday morning. The total quota is 193 whales – 161 for this year plus some extra as there were no whales killed last year. See article here with quite a lot of pictures.