Standing up for Nature
This evening there will be an attempt to broadcast the song of a nightingale, live, from Norfolk at 1015 tonight. This is part of a campaign to persuade the BBC to make live Nightingale song a part of every spring.
On the Sunday of our reunion of old Old Bristolians we visited the RSPB Ham Wall nature reserve and the Shapwick Heath NNR on the Somerset Levels. We had all been to this area before, 40 years before, looking and listening for Nightjars, Nightingales, Barn Owls and other species on summer evenings. This time we…
The good news is, I hope, that the irritating ‘Viagra in the US’ words at the top of this page should have gone. If you could see them before, can you see them now? The bad news is, although I can see all your comments, stretching back years, they don’t seem to be displaying at…
Truss, Eustice and de Mauley are back. Rory Stewart is regarded as a bit of a waste in Defra by the Spectator! Labour is expected to keep the Defra shadow ministerial team intact.
Robin Page’s outburst against – well, against so many things – has been derided in the Guardian ahead of Saturday’s Tooth and Claw debate in Norwich. The most telling quote is: When asked by the Guardian why he had not cited any science to back up his assertion that raptors were suppressing native birds,…