Who you are, or at least, who you say you are.

The Readers’ Poll was filled in by just over 400 of you – thank you. You seem to be like me: 82% living in England, 75% male, middle-aged, Guardian reading, wildlife-magazine reading, potential Labour voting, RSPB members.  Well – there’s a surprise! This blog now gets c8000 unique visitors each month.  I would guess, and…

Your comments

Your comments on this blog are great!  I can never be quite sure which blogs will stimulate most comment although, by now, I have a fairly good idea – but I am sometimes surprised by you. There are quite a few people who regularly comment here who give this blog part of its character.  Here…

In a days – I mean a daze.

Sunday’s was the 600th Standing up for Nature blog since I started writing them 571 days ago. The day passed almost without me noticing the landmark. In those 571 days this blog has grown from an audience of zero to well over 7000 unique visitors a month according to the statistics provided by Google analytics….

Week 1

Tuesday’s blog was the most-read ever on this site – which surprised me a bit – but if you missed it, here it is. Wednesday’s blog was the fifth most-read ever – but if you missed it, here it is. Thursday was a very enjoyable day in Cambridge. I have only seen red kites on…

A year in blogs

Here is my review of the year in blogs – the first four of which were written whilst I was still working at the RSPB and the last eight whilst ‘just me’. January Our forests- the small sell-off and big lease-off. One of the dangers of writing a daily blog is that you might shoot…

This blog…

…will aim to cover a variety of subjects as time goes on – including peat, marine protected areas, raptor persecution, habitat recreation, politics, government agencies, valuing nature, forestry …will treat sensitively any information sent to it …would benefit from some decent photographs – does anyone have any suggestions? …will occasionally have guest blogs from invited…