Picnic with Henry at Grimwith Reservoir

I’m told that the picnic/stroll/chat about the lack of Hen Harriers in England this year – ‘a tiny handful’ (RSPB) – will be held at Grimwith Reservoir car park at midday on Saturday (this Saturday! Saturday 25 June). It will be nice to meet up with many friends and register our anger at the lack…

Results of that survey

Thank you to over 1500 people who responded to my recent readers’ survey. Here are the summary results. First a few words about how the data were collected.  People were asked to participate in four ways: through this blog, through my newsblast, through tweets on Twitter and through Facebook. In all those cases, anyone coming…

Birdtrack – my mistake

I made a mistake typing something into Birdtrack but this might be a prophecy – it is almost correct for England already…  

Slovakia

  I know more about Slovakia now, as we prepare this evening to play them at football, and on Thursday to vote whether to Remain in the EU with them, than I did when England and Wales were drawn in the same group as them and Russia in EURO2016. I know: I added White-backed Woodpecker…

Debbie Pain to become CEO of WLT

John Burton, the founder and long-time Chief Executive of the World Land Trust is stepping down and his successor will be Dr Deborah Pain who is currently the Conservation Director of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust.       I hope to persuade John to write a Guest Blog here. For more on Debbie see…