Tim writes: Sabine’s Gulls are quite a difficult gull to see. They breed in the high arctic but migrate south after breeding to spend the winter at sea off the continental shelves in the southern hemisphere. In the Atlantic they mainly winter off southern Africa and South America. They are only occasionally seen from land,…
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New Year Honours
Prof Sir Dieter Helm – former Chair of Natural Capital Committee. Author of two books highly rated by this blog; Net Zero (published 2020) and Green and Prosperous Land (published 2019). Joan Edwards OBE – for services to Marine Conservation Dr Alistair Burn MBE – for voluntary services to conservation in Cambridgeshire Raymond Marsh MBE…
Happy New Year!
I hope you weren’t partying and snogging everyone in sight to celebrate the New Year last night. Somehow I don’t picture the readership of this blog as having many superspreaders in it but, you never know. I had an early night! I’m looking forward to many things this year and now we are well past…
Thoughts on 2020 (7th and last) – was it a good year for you?
I think we’re all supposed to say that it has been an awful year – and it has had its moments – but actually, I’ve had a lot of fun. The bad things have been mostly to do with not seeing friends and family enough. Our two offspring have had big events in their lives…
Thoughts on 2020 (6) – this blog
2020 was a record year for readership (pageviews) on this blog. Here are the previous five years (1 Jan – 31 Dec) and this year: 2020, 1,331k pageviews (with a few hours still to go) 2019, 1,139k pageviews. 2018, 898k pageviews 2017, 876k pageviews 2016, 1,254k pageviews 2015, 808k pageviews But what of the content?…