• Another successful year for the UK’s breeding Cranes
    New figures show Cranes continue to recover after going extinct in the UK 400 years ago. In today’s blog Andrew Stanbury, RSPB Conservation Scientist, takes us through their comeback and how conservation...
  • Happy snapping at the crack of dawn
    While everyone else is away at Cereals (my first year off for a while!) I’d like to take a sneaky moment to share some of my joys from last weekend’s bird surveying (and some doubts over next weekend...
  • The saga of the climate emails: time to crack on
    Climate and Energy Secretary Ed Miliband recently took aim at the climate sceptics aiming to discredit the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change. We couldn't agree with Mr Miliband's point more....
  • Meet the cranes
    Exciting times down on the Somerset Levels and Moors. After months of tender care our first batch of twenty one cranes are starting to take their first tentative steps into the wild. As you'll recall...
  • Crane-spotting
    Amanda Biggins, an Assistant Conservation Officer based in Aberdeen, describes monitoring the breeding success of Aberdeenshire’s newest arrival Crane-spotting Common cranes have been an annual...