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?!…
Category: Old news round ups
Roundup
Just a few things: did you see this? It could only happen in Essex? Turtle Dove update Swansea tidal power – did you read about it here first? This is why you need bloggers – but… …if this ever happens to me I suggest you look for shotgun pellets. Be careful what you comment on…
A round up
Some things that caught my eye this week: £1000 reward for information on injured Buzzard in Yorkshire science and technology committee thinks that EU rules on GM crops are holding us back planet earth is a sick patient says future king Sweden’s racist bird names – do we have any of our own? Or any…
Round up
A few things: pole traps were banned over a century ago but…click here feeling wild? I’ll give you the result of this little (just for fun) quiz, tomorrow at 12:05 have been going through the copy-edits of Behind the Binoculars this week – despite what it says on the publisher’s website, it should be out…
Round up
Some stuff that caught my eye: e-petition to ban driven grouse shooting stands at 20,752 signatures. Thank you everyone. By the way, this is more than 10,000 more than GWCT, BASC etc could scrape together for their e-petition which tells you quite a lot. The Lodge Hill proposal has been ‘called in’ Countryside Alliance Chair…
Round up
These are just things that caught my eye: there has been at least one Blackcap in the garden for the last eight days. First it was a male, then a male and a female, then just the female, and yesterday one of each again. I haven’t seen two of the same sex at the same…
Updates
A few things: MCZ consultation open – disappointingly small number of sites on offer Blue Whale to take central place at NHM No fracking underneath National Parks but grouse shooting within them? BGBW looks like it was a record turn out – of people There has been a male Blackcap in my garden Wednesday, Thursday…
Round up
A few things that caught my eye: next weekend is the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch gamekeepers all ask for gloves for Christmas statement from OUP on removing nature from their junior dictionary I had my first Reed Bunting of this winter in the garden this week a link to Miles King’s excellent blogs on Rampisham…
More update
Every time I do an ‘update’ blog, as soon as it is posted, I remember all the other things that I meant to put in it, so here are a few more: 2014 was the warmest year on Earth ‘ever’ there will be a referendum in Malta on spring hunting – this spring. this was…
Round up
Yesterday I was doing my tax return – no large numbers were involved. I had set aside two days to get it done so I felt pleased with my progress – but it meant that I didn’t think about blogging subjects very much. A few things that have caught my eye recently: a Scottish landowner…