Standing up for Nature
This blog is going to have a break to get some work done to it. At the moment it does not look how it should look, it has lost some of the functionality it should have and it lacks an accessible privacy policy. For all those reasons, and because this is an opportunity to get…
Sorry, there is no blog here this morning. My connection to the blog server didn’t work throughout most of yesterday and then I was out in the evening and out of the house fairly early this morning. Normal service will resume as soon as possible. Apologies to anyone else who couldn’t read this blog yesterday…
I couldn’t let the moment pass without marking the fact that this is this blog’s 6000th post. And, with all respect to Paul Leyland and the marvellous image with interesting words coming up here at 6pm, I did want a landmark post to be written by me. From the very first blog post, which rather…
In 2018 there have been about 1000 posts on this blog. Some are photographs, some cartoons, some Guest Blogs and a whole lot of content is penned by me. Here is a very short collection of blogs, one a month, from 2018 that illustrate they types of posts you will find here in the coming…
You need to get your entry in to the Terra Incognita Wildlife Blogger competition by the end of the month – click here.
This blog’s 2018 writing competition is to make the case that any particular month of the year is either the best or the worst month for enjoying nature in the UK. How you treat that subject is up to you. There will be a prize, a signed copy of my book Remarkable Birds, for what…
July is the dullest month for birding – it’s a well-known fact! That’s why birders get interested in dragonflies! Or is it the dullest month? Maybe it’s the best? It may be the best if you are keen on dragonflies. This blog’s 2018 writing competition is to make the case that any particular month of…
There’s a little box next to this blog which allows you to enter your email address and you will be sent an email each time a blog is posted here. Except, several of you have now told me that it isn’t working very well. And now you’ve pointed it out, I’ve noticed it isn’t working…
Tomorrow is this blog’s seventh birthday (no presents please). Over 4.8m recorded page views (and there have been a couple of significant periods when Google Analytics was not working on this site so it is probably close to 5m really), over 5,160 blog posts and over 53,400 comments. But, remember, this blog is having a…
Since I started this blog in April 2011, 5002 posts have appeared here, attracting over 53,000 comments. That’s quite a lot. Thanks very much to all readers, commenters, photographers, artists and cartoonists. Later this year there will be a two-month break as I will be coming and going over that period, but I’ll let you…