Beccy Speight, RSPB Chief Executive, said: This Treasury-commissioned review is an incredibly important moment that should trigger a sea-change in attitude towards the positive role nature plays underpinning our prosperity. The review demonstrates how our economies, livelihoods and well-being fundamentally depend on protecting and enhancing nature. But right now, we aren’t protecting our precious natural…
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Press release – RSPB/Crane Working Group
UK crane population hits record high The latest common crane survey reveals a record-breaking 64 pairs of cranes in 2020, bringing the total population to over 200 birds. Cranes became extinct in the UK around four hundred years ago but following the natural recolonisation of a few birds and extensive conservation work, including a reintroduction…
January a busy month
At 95,000+ pageviews, January 2021` was 17% busier than the previous January and the second busiest (just failing to be first) for the 10 Januaries this blog has existed. Just a reminder, when we get to April this blog is going to disappear, at least for months, quite possibly for ever. But I am getting…
Bird Fair donation from 2019, and what of the future?
I am a great fan of the Bird Fair – but will we ever see it again? The last face-to-face, binocular-to-binocular, pint-to-pint Bird Fair was in 2019 and it would be a brave organiser who would risk calling the world to Rutland Water in August 2021 what with Covid and all. But if you can…
BGBW 2021 – how was it for you?
A fairly average BGBW with 29 individual birds of 13 species; Starling (6), House Sparrow (7), Chaffinch (2), Dunnock (1), Goldfinch (3), Collared Dove (1), Robin (1), Blackbird (2), Blue Tit (2), Coal; Tit (1), Woodpigeon (1), Reed Bunting (1) and Jackdaw (1). Our regular Blackcap(s) wasn’t seen yesterday and didn’t turn up today despite…