• On a High at Hope Farm: Results of the Winter Farmland Bird Count 2014/15
    On RSPB Hope Farm our monitoring work includes surveying both breeding birds during the summer and birds using the farm during the winter months too. The winter surveys are carried out monthly from December...
  • Season of mists...and wheat harvests.
    There are rather few unharvested wheat fields in my area now. Farmers have been working all hours to get the harvest in. Arable farmers spend the whole season wishing the weather were different! Earlier...
  • Reaping the harvest of the wind
    Coo, Michael McIntyre and I together in the last weekend’s Sunday Times magazine. Fame at last. Well, actually, I got some pithy quotes into an article about wind farms at sea - I'll probably have to...
  • Hope Farm harvest
    The harvest was completed at Hope Farm a week ago. It's a tricky business getting the timing right. We waited for a dry spell so that we could harvest dry grain and not have to spend money on drying it...
  • Campaign for the Farmed Environment
    The Campaign for the Farmed Environment had its first anniversary in November. The aim of the campaign is to promote voluntary management of farmland to 're-capture' set-aside benefits from a relatively...