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This Spring is different from last in so many ways. Every Spring is different, but each has Hope written through it. It’s a time when things get better – the days get longer, they get warmer, and the natural world springs into a greater abundance of sound and colours each day. As far as Nature…

The Ramsay family in Perthshire already have Beavers – I’ve seen the dams even though I didn’t see the Beavers when I visited in March 2019. they are taking the plunge and ‘doing a Knepp’ and are looking for £24,000 through crowdfunding to get this going. Well, it’s already going! They’ve raised a quarter of…

The British subspecies of the Swallowtail is pretty much restricted to the Norfolk Broads and is a species whose numbers have increased in recent years although its distribution may have contracted. It’s a species of conservation concern and is the subject of conservation measures and studies. Kevin Radley and Hannah Breach are carrying out an…

Another week, and another 6-7000 signatures – solid but not enough, in my view. Weekends are always slow, and this week has seen a three-day weekend, and the sun shone for some of it too – always bad for petitions. The future 1 April 2030 newspaper was a good attention raiser – every Westminster MP…

Tim writes: so how does Spotted Redshank (Tringa erythropus) differ from Common Redshank (T. totanus)?  Spotted Redshank is slightly bigger and more elegant with longer legs and a longer, thinner bill that has a tiny downward kink at the tip.  Spotted Redshank also has a more well-marked face pattern with an obvious eyestripe and pale…