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February may be the cruellest month but February 2019 was a kind to this blog – the highest number of pageviews this blog has had in a February ever – even including leap years! At 88,778 pageviews, this 28-day month would have been the third highest scoring month of 2018, only being beaten by the…

Paul writes: This was my favourite hoverfly sighting of last year, it was a first for me, it’s also one of the charismatic species that you hope to see in the right location. Eriozona syrphoides is a wonderfully furry bumblebee mimic with a black and white body and a yellow face. It is quite a…

This week’s quote is from Zac Goldsmith (born 1975). Photo: Chris McAndrew [CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)] Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environmental campaigner more or less since I left school in the early ’90s, I have always been involved in lobbying, campaigning and pushing for changes. https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2012/04/mp-interview-zac-goldsmith…

Tim writes: This attractive bird lives in forests in the Himalayas and Southern China.  It was once a common cagebird and I saw my first ever one in Britain several decades ago, when it went by the name of Pekin Robin.  But it isn’t related to Robins.  It is in the Laughingthrush family, but it…