Standing up for Nature
This is an interesting read. I like learning things and I learned a lot here. There is quite a lot of chatter about de-extinction – the process of bringing extinct species back to life through some genetic wizardry. Think Jurassic Park with proper science! It sounds far-fetched, and it isn’t imminent, but this book tells…
or in this case my ear – first singing Chiffchaff this week I had a look at Stonehenge this week – it is very impressive – I wonder whether Henry might visit one day? #HaveYouSeenHenry? meat free week is going well I really enjoyed talking to the AGM of the…
On Friday I had a lovely evening speaking in Cambridgeshire, on Saturday I spoke at the excellent BAWC conference in Buxton, then yesterday it was Durham (where I heard a great talk from Geirge Monbiot) and tomorrow evening I’ll be in Devizes. I’m looking forward to speaking about Passenger Pigeons (though Hen Harriers are…
the abject ‘you forgot the…now what was it?‘ website seems to have folded up, in that it no longer has its plea for a 100 farmers to sign up to a letter slagging off the RSPB – all gone! all gone! talking of things that are forgotten…Keith Cowieson completely failed to answer the question about…
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?!…
I didn’t expect to get an email like this one – how wonderful! Dear Mark, First off I hope you don’t mind a stranger contacting you out of the blue. I’d like to tell you how much I enjoyed my now well-worn copy of A Message From Martha. It was not only an astonishingly well…
My last bird species of 2014 was a briefly glimpsed owl at Otmoor and I’m not sure which one it was. I can be sure that I didn’t end 2014 seeing my first ever Snowy Owl (a species high on my bucket-list of bird species) nor was it my first Little Owl of 2014 (yes,…
A Message from Martha has appeared in another couple of ‘book of the year’ lists this week. First Bel Mooney included A Message from Martha in her nature books of the year in the Daily Mail and then Barbara Kiser included it in her list of bird books in Nature.com. It’s always nice to see…
I know that quite a few people are hoping that they receive A Message from Martha as a Christmas present. Please don’t let them be disappointed… It was nice (for me anyway) to see that A Message from Martha was listed by Stephen Moss in the Guardian as one of the best examples of nature…
It was better than fair – it was good. I spoke to lots of nice people, and the very nicest ones bought copies of A Message from Martha too! That included the very nice Mike Dilger. He was speaking at Martin Mere before my talk on Saturday and you couldn’t ask for a better warm-up…