Guest blog – OSME Summer Days by Richard Porter

Richard Porter worked for the RSPB for many years (1968-1999) and then for BirdLife International, particularly in the Middle East. He first went to Turkey in 1966, surveying wetlands, and that autumn (with others) counted the raptors migrating through the Bosphorus – the first comprehensive count of raptor migration at a site in the Old…

Bird Fair – the people

The Game Fair was cancelled because of rain and plagues of frogs etc but at the Bird Fair we sweltered in the sun – does that tell us anything about how the weather gods see us?  Probably not. I felt that there were noticeably fewer people than usual around on all three days but Tim…