Standing up for Nature
If you came to the Rainham Marshes Hen Harrier Day you will certainly remember the choral delight of Peregrina EnChantica. Well they are performing again two weeks today, on 20 January, but they’ve got some less musically skilled accompanists in the shapes of David Lindo, Charlie Moores and myself – at least the music…
I spent yesterday afternoon in a room with 13 others judging the Bird Photographer of the Year entries. Our wise decisions will be partly revealed at the end of this month and then fully revealed at the Bird Fair. I felt a bit of a fraud being on the panel as a ‘I don’t know…
This report is important and challenging to government. Brexit may mean Brexit but what does it mean for agriculture and environmental protection? Just as government did not have a plan for Brexit (somewhat understandable because government wasn’t in favour of it), Defra still does not have a plan for Brexit. The Secretary of State was…
The Hawk and Owl Trust is looking for a Crisis Management Strategist! The successful applicant will have a ball and chain which they can fit to the leg of the current Chair and a gag of an appropriate size. In between putting out fires that were started by the organisation’s Chair they will update their…
Did you go back to work yesterday? Or maybe today? One of the aspects of being self-employed is that there is less of a hard line between work and play and so I was working over some of the mid-winter break and did a little bit of ‘work’ on almost every day of the last…
I’m worried about this post-truth label. It seems to have gathered a lot of credence in a very short period and I don’t like the picture it paints. First though, as was pointed out to me, we haven’t exactly been living in a present-truth world for the last few decades, have we? Have we all…
Dr Martin Warren OBE! One brilliant entomologist? Our butterfly expert? Many congratulations to Martin! What a nice way to end 2016.
In December 1860, the fourth Baron Lilford found seven White-fronted Geese in his meadows at Aldwincle in the Nene Valley near his home of Lilford Hall. In his book, Notes on the Birds of Northamptonshire and Neighbourhood Vol 1 (1895), Lilford describes the species as visiting Northamptonshire occasionally ‘in small numbers, generally in the…
Please sign Chris Packham’s e-petition and sign up to the thunderclap to spread the word.