How about the bird above? It’s a fairly common species, although I see it less often than I used to do. Yesterday’s two teasers: This bird is a washed-out Robin photographed in a Devon garden recently. It may be leucistic but after reading this interesting paper I am not so sure. But it is a…
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Mystery birds (1)
This robin-like bird was recently filmed in a Devon garden – it looks not only robin-like but Robin-like to me. I think it is a Robin. But it’s very washed out. It’s obviously not a Redbreast nor a typical juvenile recently out of the nest. It’s very pale but it is not albino. How do…
Henry is tired but triumphant
Here is Henry Morris, with a very painful Achilles tendon, leading the pack of runners up the finish after 200km of running across the grouse moor killing fields of the north of England at 2pm today. Henry covered all the 200km and was accompanied by a range of friends, family and supporters for parts of…
Henry – keep on running!
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Henry Morris and friends are doing an amazing run across the grouse moors of the north of England to highlight the plight of Hen Harriers. In the last two days, Henry, accompanied by a relay of friends, has run 82 miles. He’s half way through but today is the most difficult of the four days…
Run, Henry, run!
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This was Bowland Knotts yesterday evening – it was a lovely clear evening. It’s a pretty deserted place on the road across the moors from Slaidburn to Clapham in Bowland – a few Curlew and lots of Meadow Pipits – but there was a relatively big crowd there at 8am this morning as the Marathon…
Very odd
How odd https://mrkortingscode.nl/toplists/top-20-natures-blog-2019/
Yesterday
Yesterday I drove up to Wheldrake Ings to have a chat with the Countryfile crew (above, Charlotte Smith on right) about Wild Justice. I was listening to The Jam’s ‘News of the World’ just before I stopped at the Ferrybridge Services and saw this news of a Hen Harrier that died with its leg in…
Readers’ summer survey
I do this now and again, and this survey of your views is based on a previous one which I published in 2016 so it will be interesting to see how your views on Brexit, rewilding, climate change, grouse shooting, badger culls and more have changed. The survey also asks you for your gender and…
British Wildlife – June issue
The June issue of British Wildlife contains the usual mixture of news, comment, research and analysis. As always it’s a fascinating mixture. I turned to Derek Gow’s and Peter Cooper’s article on Wildcats in England first – fascinating stuff. British Wildlife now has a group of regular columnists and here are some quotes from their…
And then there were two…
So, the Conservative Party membership (which is slightly higher than I thought at 160,000 – it must be all those Brexit/UKIP infiltrators) has the choice of Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt. Crikey! It comes to something when the man who seemed to want to wreck the NHS is seen as the safe pair of hands…