At the Bird Fair this weekend there will be a petition, on bits of paper for a change, asking the Icelandic Prime Minister, very politely, to do her best to end commercial whaling by her country. This is the wording of the petition: Dear Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Prime Minister of Iceland Each year the British Birdwatching…
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Bird Fair food
You could write a book about Bird Fair food… …but let’s not! The Bird Fair food zone is by Cook Street and the Bird Fair website tells you something about the food that is on offer. But you have to look at the Bird Fair programme (p34) to find this interesting Cook Street promise… That’s…
Meet the authors at the Bird Fair
The Authors’ Forum is a relatively new idea at the Bird Fair but it has certainly caught on. It allows authors to talk about their latest books and the audience to question them – or just have a look at the face, listen to the voice and explore the thoughts of the person whose name…
Please sign this petition at the Bird Fair
At the Bird Fair this weekend there will be a petition, on bits of paper for a change, asking the Icelandic Prime Minister, very politely, to do her best to end commercial whaling by her country. This is the wording of the petition: Dear Katrín Jakobsdóttir, Prime Minister of Iceland Each year the British Birdwatching…
Bird Fair 2018 – 4 weeks today
Bird Fair – you either love it or hate it – I love it (though it mildly irritates me too). But it starts 4 weeks today. It’s a pity that Michael Gove can’t attend – but I do know that the invitation was made months ago. An opportunity missed, by him, perhaps. I’d still…
Tales from the Bird Fair (5)
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Michael Gove’s ears should have been burning last weekend. It’s not that everyone at the Bird Fair was talking about him, but some were. And it’s not that everyone believes that he is going to do good things but some do, and most of the rest will wait and see. His name came up in…
Tales from the Bird Fair (4)
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A now-regular attendee at the Bird Fair from the USA is John Riutta, The Well-read Naturalist, @WRNBookReview. John has agreed to be a judge (with Ian Carter and myself) of this blog’s writing competition – writing a review of George Monbiot’s Feral. And I know that John, who works with Celestron, had some interesting discussions…
Tales from the Bird Fair (3) and a reminder
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Two unanswered questions in the Bird Brain of Britain quiz (winner, David Lindo) at the Bird Fair on Saturday had their answers in my book Remarkable Birds – see page 174 for the name of the female Chatham Island Black Robin from which all the population is derived and page 127 for more information on…
Reflections on the 2017 Bird Fair (3)
Here are some suggestions for how the Bird Fair could help nature conservation even more than it does at the moment. Some are my ideas and others are good ideas from other people. They come in two lists – the less contentious list and the more contentious list and, I’ll keep stressing this, they are…
Reflections on the 2017 Bird Fair (2)
I’ll come back to using the Bird Fair for political leverage this evening – this blog is a mixture of thoughts about how it could be a little bit better for attendees. These thoughts have been derived from in-depth surveys of people in my car heading to or from the Bird Fair and a few…