I’ve been out of the UK for weeks – so I had to get special dispensation from my BTO regional organiser to do my second BBS visits in early July instead of by the end of June. I visited what I think of as my ‘second’ square first: partly because it is an easier walk,…
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A walk in the park…save the date 22 September
The People’s Walk for Wildlife – convened by Chris Packham – 22 September 2018
Raven update
I was very pleased to see that the crowdfunder to support the judicial review of SNH’s daft licensing of a Raven cull ‘to see what happens’ was fully supported. That is good news. And if you haven’t signed this petition yet then please sign it now. Meanwhile, reports suggest that some similar nonsense is going…
National Trust press release – High Brown Fritillaries
Conservationists delight as endangered butterfly makes early appearance The UK’s most endangered butterfly is making a bumper early appearance at a remote British habitat – confounding recent grim figures about its population. The High Brown Fritillary has been recorded as being ‘out’ slightly earlier than usual and early counts reveal excellent numbers of butterflies present,…
Guy Shorrock – Eleonora’s Falcon
Eleonora’s falcon and a lady ahead of her time In the last couple of years I have been working for the RSPB on Cyprus during the autumn to help the authorities deal with the large scale of trapping of migrant birds on one of the British military bases. Encouragingly the annual monitoring report produced…