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…
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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)…
Things that caught my eye
Just a few things that caught my eye beaver chips for beavers and for Christmas badger e-petition seems a bit stuck around 65,000 signatures hardback copies of A Message from Martha – all gone! online auction for elephants by World Land Trust more young people (apparently that is 16-34 – so not very young!) are…
‘Defending our way of life’
In this month’s copy of The Field there is a page about the role of the the GWCT’s science in defending ‘our way of life’ which is surely a misprint for ‘our hobby of death’. The article is written by the GWCT’s chair, the tadpole conserver himself, Mr Ian Coghill, and it is basically an…
More dull techy stuff
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I think that the changes to this website – many of which will have passed many of you by (I know) – have generally been successful. The site is (according to data) loading a lot quicker (please tell me if you have problems). The collateral damage that seemed to accompany that was that some links…
BPOTY competition
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The Bird Photographer of The Year competition always provides a feast of superb images. If you would like to enter an image then you have until midnight on Wednesday to do so – here are the details (and there are many categories). This Little Ringed Plover (by Marc Albiac) won the Cameron Belspolka Trust category…
Strictly will be a desert without Ed Balls…
… so bring on the plague of locusts! Aren’t locusts amazing? Did you see them last night on Planet Earth 2? How amazing?!! But we did do for the Rocky Mountain Locust without even trying – see A Message from Martha p202-03. And the scorpion-eating bat from the Negev? And the shoulder-barging giraffe? And the…