• Kent heaths
    2009 was a spectacular year for heath fritillary butterflies. I mentioned it here in my blog at the time. But going back to the RSPB Reserves Review of 2010 there is a more detailed article about how...
  • Hope for Heath
    On Saturday, walking with the family between the two stages at the Cambridge Folk Festival, I stopped to have a chat with two colleagues at the RSPB stand. we have a presence at many festivals these days...
  • 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...
  • Countdown - 7, peat
    In maybe 10 years time, the use of peat in gardens should become as frowned upon as blowing cigarette smoke into the faces of children. It will become mainstream that the use of the precious natural resources...