Photographs of Puffins taken around the UK by members of the public (the Puffarazzi) are helping uncover the reasons for this bird’s decline says the RSPB. The RSPB analysed over 1400 images taken at Puffin colonies and early results suggest that the diet of Puffins varies significantly around the UK – in the northern isles…
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Save the date – 11 and 12 August 2018
Blue Planet 2 – programme 5
The most recent ‘Green Seas’ programme was good. You can’t go wrong with magnificent feeding Humpback Whales, cute Sea Otters, clever Octopuses, intriguing sea pens, gangs of moulting crabs and the weirdest and cutest of Weedy Seadragons. What did you think?
Saturday cartoon by Ralph Undrhill
This cartoon has been used at around the time of Black Friday before – we approve of recycling.
Congratulations to the winners
RSPB press release The winners of the sixth annual Nature of Scotland Awards, organised by RSPB, have been announced, in a celebration of the passionate and dedicated people fighting to save the country’s wildlife. Mike Dilger, ecologist and natural history presenter, hosted the event last night (Thursday 23 November) at the Sheraton Grand Hotel…
My article on UKHillWalking.com
Here’s an article by me on the UKHillWalking website – seems to be going down well. Have a look at the comments too – some interesting ones there. GWCT is bleating that they want a say – but they haven’t left a comment on the article so far. It would be good to…
This is just weird!
How peculiar can you get?
Blue Planet 2 – programme 4
I thought this episode – about the open ocean – was the best so far. Great footage of boiling seas, sleeping Sperm Whales and a whole lot more. And for once, the message of environmental degradation was very adroitly put over – I thought. The scene was set about the immensity of the…
Everyone’s talking about wildlife crime except Defra
This is the sixth Defra response to an e-petition attempting to press them into action on wildlife crime and unsustainable upland management associated with grouse shooting. And this is the sixth response in Defra which has failed to admit the scale of the problem of wildlife crime and failed to bring forward any sensible response….
An evening in Ipswich
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On Wednesday I had the privilege of giving the first Derek Moore Memorial Lecture to a crowd of c130 people in Ipswich. Derek was a mate of mine and a character, and achiever, in the nature conservation world. We miss him, and in particular the Bird Fair is a diminished place each year without catching …