• 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...
  • Countdown - 20, the cormorant
    Where do you go for your information? If you put 'cormorants the facts' into a well-known search engine you will probably find your way to this useful document on the Salmon and Trout Association website...
  • Something to do in the countdown to Christmas
    December is here! The first door on the advent calendar has been opened. And so here are our Steps for December, modelled by our regional volunteer team, Annie, Zahra and Jane. Please see below...
  • Countdown - 4, hen harriers
    They are just one species of bird, and their numbers in the UK have increased a bit over the last couple of decades, but still the hen harrier's plight is resonant of a distant age when nature was persecuted...