If you have enjoyed reading this blog - and I do hope that you have - then you may be interested in buying the book of the blog!
Blogging for Nature is not available through any good bookshops - the only way to purchase it is through a website which you can find by clicking here.
A snip at £9.92 (+P&P) this book contains 143 of 700+ blogs which have appeared here over the last couple of years.
The book also contains hints and thoughts on how to blog and comments on the blog from a number of regular commenters here (eg Stackyard Green, nightjar, redkite and Sooty).
Blogging for Nature has a very kind Foreword written by the former Secretary of State for Defra the Rt Hon Hilary Benn MP.
And, if you buy the book you will discover Sooty's real name.
277 pages which cover; the change to a coalition government, the recent breeding of red-backed shrikes and little bitterns, hen harrier persecution, thoughts from the Bird Fair, Game Fair and political Party Conferences, news from Hope Farm, the forestry debate, eagle owls, our Bird of Prey Pledge, Letter to the Future, the odd mention of Rushden and Diamonds FC, RSPB nature reserves, predator control, farming and farmland birds and so much more.
Thank you to the RSPB for agreeing to me publishing this book.
A love of the natural world demonstrates that a person is a cultured inhabitant of planet Earth.
I have very much enjoyed reading your blog and just wish I had found it earlier. I do think that you are wrong in giving up your post, after all 25 years of experience takes a lot of replacing. I may just buy the book as long as there are not too many references to bovine TB and badgers within. I also am interested in how you cope with the crackpot element of comments to your blog. I hope that you continue in some way to serve the cause of nature conservation in this country. I would like a final blog to include your personal thoughts on what you feel you have achieved over the past few years and even where you have faiiled, also what you have enjoyed doing and what you have hated.