• A score for Scotland!
    Isle of Mull farmers Somerset and Carolyne Charrington have been crowned king and queen of UK wildlife friendly-farming in this year's RSPB Telegraph Nature of Farming Award . Stuart Housden, Director...
  • Cyprus - scores on the doors
    Back in June I blogged about the work RSPB Investigations undertook in Cyprus last year with the Sovereign Base Area (SBA) police. This involved installing covert cameras to catch bird trappers on the...
  • Game Fair bingo - Final score, Day 3
    Well it rained a bit and the crowds seemed thinner than the previous two days but the RSPB stand was very busy. And I recovered my blackberry too! Lots of people signed our bird of prey pledge - I...
  • Countdown - 2, ours?
    The UK Overseas Territories are a funny collection of places, mostly islands, which speak volumes about the UK's colonial past. We will go to war to protect their sovereignty but will we protect their...
  • Countdown - 1, guess what?
    The most common subject on this blog has been farming and the decline of farmland birds (and there are lots of extracts in the book of the blog ). Be in no doubt - many farmland birds have declined...