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At the end of November I posted this about the WWT’s ‘refocus’ document. I’d read it several times and couldn’t really make much sense of it. It felt a little more like something one would find on a corporate website which was aiming not to tell you anything than the sharp new vision for a…

Two weeks today (or yesterday or the day before) you might be doing the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch. I will; probably listening to Desert Island Discs while I do. It’s a tradition now that attracts around half a million participants each year. You can read what I think of it in the next Birdwatch magazine…

Tim writes: I took this photograph in the Peak District’s Crowden Valley in mid-September when lots of birdwatchers were trying to see the Lammergeier.  But I was more amazed at the number of Ring Ouzels feasting on Rowan berries. The best count I heard of was 50 on 1 September but I visited frequently during…

I’ve been listening to the cricket commentary of the match between Sri Lanka and England over the last few days – it’s going very well for us. The commentators are all still based in the UK but they are doing their best, and doing pretty well, to bring the match to life for us all….