Standing up for Nature
There is a new category in the Bird Photographer of the Year Awards this year – and you get to choose the winner. 30 excellent photographs that didn’t make the shortlist can be viewed here and the one with the most ‘likes’ by 21 March will win £250 and will be published in the book…
The Solway Firth is the only area of Scotland with Natterjack Toads and one of the area’s important sites is the Mersehead RSPB nature reserve where storms damaged the dunes where the toads hibernate in 2013. New shallow ponds were created across the site for the toads to breed in. In spring 2014 there were…
Yesterday was a largely sunny day in east Northants. I met a friend for lunch and made several phone calls on my way home – usually from highpoints in the countryside with expansive views. Everywhere one looked there were pairs of displaying Buzzards. The most I saw at once was 13 birds in the air…
Can you name the current Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs? Let’s have a recap: Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood) October 2013 – September 2015 Kerry McCarthy (Bristol East) September 2015 – June 2016 Rachael Maskell (York Inner) June 2016 – February 2017 and now… Sue Hayman (Workington) from February…
Last summer I was an old green person on a panel of young green people at the WOMAD festival. I was supposed to be mentoring the smiling young man called Josh pictured above but he didn’t need much mentoring. Josh had come to WOMAD from an Action for Conservation Summer Camp and if…
Thank you to all of the readers of this blog who supported the crowdfunder for habitat management to support Duke of Burgundy butterflies. They did it! In fact the target of £6000 was smashed with £9,763 raised. Thank you to Steve Bamford for his Guest Blog. And thank you to all who have supported the…
On the day when the Scottish Government’s review of regulation of gamebird hunting across Europe is published (I will blog about this tomorrow – I’ll read it between rugby matches today) it is worth noting that Chris Packham’s e-petition asking for a moratorium on shooting of seriously declining wader species has passed the signature total…
Isn’t Suffolk lovely? I spoke at The Cut in Suffolk on Tuesday evening to the Waveney Bird Club and anyone else who wanted to come along. As is often the case with my talks, there was one shooting enthusiast looking, I have to say, a bit sour and taking notes as I spoke. I wonder…
Wow! Though this looks wetter really! And this looks drier!