According to the Daily Express the Turtle Dove is making a massive comeback and you only really need to look out of the window, right now, to see one, or two, or probably a few. Happy Christmas Daily Express picture editor! Coo!
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I’ll be tracking this case
I’m grateful to the PDNP for coming back to me, a member of the public, very quickly with information on the retrospective invalid planning application for the track pictured above and written about back in May. This is now an enforcement matter and therefore not in the public domain, but I’ll be checking regularly to…
On the right track?
It’s good to hear that various statutory agencies are jumping around and paying attention following the publication of some photos here on Wednesday of the condition of a public right of way and a designated site. Well done Bob Berzins for highlighting this issue and bringing it to the attention of those who ought to…
Working hard over the Christmas break
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I’ll be working hard over the Christmas break – well, I’ll be luxuriating in looking at some of the best bird photographs ever! I’m the least knowledgeable judge on the panel of the Bird Photographer of the Year 2017 competition. Having peeked at some of the entries it’s going to be great fun and very…
Defra is for…?
Defra is responsible for our wildlife but if you try to get some information from the Defra media team about wildlife it certainly looks as though the subject has dropped off the agenda. Wildlife is the last mentioned in a section on water, environment and wildlife and doesn’t get a mention in the following…
Peak bogs
Bob Berzins posted this earlier today as part of a comment on Ian Parsons’s blog about disturbance yesterday; ‘Last Saturday found me on a remote moor in the north east peak. The only other person around was a gamekeeper, with gun in his ATV. He had been putting down medicated grit. When I was a…
Fare well planet Earth
Planet Earth 2 ended last night with a programme on urban wildlife – it was brilliant, as we have come to expect. Leopards catching pigs in the city at night – wow! Pigeons getting eaten by Catfish and Peregrines – wow! And it allowed some messages about how our species lives with other species on…
A troubling subject
The 1970s were when I turned from a child into a man, passing through an all-boys grammar school and then on to university and earning a living. From what we know now, this was a dangerous period with sexually predatory men in politics, entertainment, sport and the Catholic church but this all passed me by…
Help protect nature and the EU nature laws
European Commissioners, including our new bloke (Sir Julian King), meet tomorrow to decide whether to maintain the laws that have done so much to protect nature across the European union. Help to give him a nudge in the right direction before he goes off to represent the UK’s views. Many thanks to Friends of…
Planet Earth 2 again
Next week is the last episode of Planet Earth 2 and I guess it will be about oceans – if so, then it is certain to be brilliant. And last night’s ‘grasslands’ was a very strong programme too. I’ve always wanted to see Saiga antelope and that desire (which I guess will never be realised)…