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Things that caught my eye: a Chiffchaff caught my eye at Stanwick Lakes this morning. It also caught my ear – but with a call not a song (despite everything else being in song) so I am putting it down as a late winter visitor rather than an early spring arrival – though, who knows?!…

It’s World Sleep Day. Swifts sleep on the wing, half their brain at a time, it is thought. I’m going to dream of doing that… Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Tuesday provided my first Brimstones of the year but was otherwise the opposite of profitable. Wednesday was a day of a singing Blackcap, a Raven and a decent profit. On the way to the races the conversation turned somewhat surreal. ‘If you could befriend a bird which would then help you through life, which would you…

At yesterday evening’s Environmental Question Time, as well as Kate Parminter, William Cash and Rupert de Mauley, there was also Barry Gardiner, Eilidh Whiteford and Natalie Bennett. Natalie Bennett, performed well: supports a nature and Well-being Bill would reform the CAP would repeal bad bits of NPPF is against fracking realises we need to tackle…

At yesterday evening’s Environmental Question time, the unelected Etonian, Rupert de Mauley was smooth, very smooth. Quite how he emerged relatively unscathed on this government’s dreadful environmental record is hard to figure.  It was a mixture of partial admission of failure, partial avoidance of the question, partially making the most of a few potential successes…