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Three weeks today I’ll be in Israel for the first time in my life. I’m participating in the Birdwatch-Birdguides Roadrunners team in the Champions of the Flyway event. I’m curious to go to Israel for my first time as it’s definitely not the least controversial country in the world. I’ll write about the impression it…

Mark writes: I am unlikely ever to vote Conservative since I have got this far in life without feeling the urge, and I am very likely to vote for ‘Remain’ in the EU referendum in June. According to this analysis, the Conservative Party MPs are more or less equally split between Remain and Leave supporters…

I was lucky to have most of a day for mooching on Friday – and I was able to mooch in Perthshire and Angus. I first went to the Loch of the Lowes – a famous Osprey site but also an easy place to see Red Squirrels.  Just because it is easy to see them…

Last Sunday was a great day – how could it not be in scenery like this? And there was an adult White-tailed Eagle seen several times to add to the view (and a distant probable Golden Eagle too). As the eagle flew over these hills it scared Red Grouse into the air and they were…

Iolo Williams is a mate of mine but it was slightly unnerving to spend a night in the Grant Arms Hotel last week with his shiny face grinning at me through the dark all night long. Scary! Truly scary!