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Oscar writes: Early April last year saw me in Suffolk hoping to photograph Bitterns. Unfortunately I had no luck with them and they stayed very elusive for the duration of my stay. Luckily this Little Egret was a lot more cooperative, spending a lot of time feeding in the new green reeds in front of…

Oscar writes: As we approached the end of our time in America, one animal I hadn’t managed to get any photos of was the Pronghorn. The second fastest land animal on the planet, it can run up to 54 miles per hour and despite closely resembling antelopes, isn’t actually in their family. On one of…

Mark writes: relevant to New Year resolutions #1 and #9   Don’t forget that #10 was to sign the e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting.        

isn’t Bruce Springsteen fantastic?! Maybe not relevant to most topics on this blog but I have spent a large part of the day with The Boss on in the background on Spotify.  I even joined in sometimes. yesterday Barry Gardiner MP (Lab Brent North) called for a parliamentary debate on whether to ban driven grouse…

I’ve always counted Twelfth Night as the 6 January but it might really be the 5th. But we should all be taking our Christmas decorations down now, and getting that tree out in the back garden to drop its needles there for a while as we wonder what to do with it (thank heaven for…