Books of the year?

These are the 20 books that I have reviewed on this blog in the last 12 months. They will all be the perfect present for someone this Christmas – it’s just a case of matching the book to the person. The publication of The Atlas and Birds and People were both ‘events’ as well as…

Naff new name – great new(-ish) magazine

I’ve been told to expect good things from the first issue of Nature’s Home – the new name for the RSPB magazine. Mine arrived yesterday and I’ve enjoyed reading quite a lot of it already – more than I have for quite a few issues of the magazine. I don’t like the name Nature’s Home,…

Guest Blog – Action wins! by Jonny Rankin

Based in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, I have a number of interests but I am always content to be out birding, which is usually every day walking my dog Fender.  I do a lot of birding in Suffolk Breck but of course go further afield too. Knowledge speaks, wisdom listens, but in the end, it’s…

Pot pourri

It seems to have been raining  for two weeks – please stop.  I want to see some butterflies and more spring migrants. The summer of 1976 was a hot dry summer – and my gap year before university.  When a Drought Minister was appointed the heavens opened and my first month at Cambridge seemed to…