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Striking gold
Guest blogger Conor Mark Jameson finds something unexpected outside his window… I’m glad that others can vouch for what follows, otherwise I wouldn’t expect you to believe it. I’d even have doubts...
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Bringing up baby
Guest blogger Conor Mark Jameson answers the cheerrp of nature… If you find a fledgling bird, you should leave it alone. That’s probably the most important thing to remember from what I’m about to...
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Bringing up baby – part 2
After yesterday’s cliffhanger, Conor Mark Jameson takes up the tale of Cheerrps… My foundling sparrow looks surprisingly under-developed, semi-naked, perhaps a week old and only half way to fledging,...
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The happy denouement
Conor Mark Jameson completes the Cheerps blog trilogy. First thing in the morning I confronted the task of working out how to get Cheerps back in his rightful place. I got the ladder out and climbed up...
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Finding birds in weird weather
As the British summer continues (more rain forecast this week…) guest blogger Marianne Taylor writes on birding whatever the weather. Are you a fair-weather birder? It’s OK, you can own up, you’re...
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Silent Spring Revisited
I had the rare honour of being invited to give a talk about my first book, Silent Spring Revisited, at the Buxton Literature Festival. I have several talks lined up, but this was the first I’ve done....
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A Turkey is not just for Christmas
Artist and author, Celia Lewis shares her experience of hatching and keeping Turkeys. I’m lucky enough to own a small incubator. It’s the most fascinating piece of equipment that does the work of...
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Kenyan delights
Happy New Year! To launch us in to 2013, we have a post from Steve Spawls on some of the amazing wildlife you can see in Kenya. Once in a while my wife lets me off the leash to go and look for snakes,...
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The big Bloomsbury bird race
Marianne Taylor shares the drama of the bird race… First light on a January morning, hot tea and bacon sandwiches in Nigel’s conservatory. There is a cheery babble of conversation around me but I’m not...
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Osprey returns to snow and fog
Tim Mackrill, author of The Rutland Water Ospreys has some news… Picture the scene. It’s early March on a West African beach and 03(97) – Rutland’s most successful breeding Osprey – is tucking into a...
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Phantom
Conor Mark Jameson describes his meeting with the elusive Goshawk… Berlin. Late February. As chill, and still and drab as all the Cold War, spy thriller clichés. I am here with ‘Altenkamp!’. That’s how...
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Rachel Carson Day
Conor Mark Jameson writes … f The RSPB holds its annual weekend for members at York University each spring during half-term. The students are away and the wildfowl own the campus. Members (and staff...
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Photographing Fungi
Freelance wildlife and natural history photographer Adrian Davies, author of Digital Plant Photography reminisces on the fungi of 2012! Of all botanical subjects, fungi are probably the most...
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An American Goshawk in Scotland
Conor Jameson has a mystery to share… It has some of the hallmarks of a Conan Doyle murder mystery, complete with period costume, a shooting, a body, a fairytale Victorian Highland setting, suspects,...
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Addicted to Puffins
Photographer Mark Sissons shares his passion for Puffins. They are often called the clown prince of the cliff tops and with good reason given their comical appearance, but for many nature photographers...
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Dining at the Vulture Restaurant
Author Tim Harris gets a rare opportunity to watch critically endangered vultures dine… It’s 5:30 in the morning and I’m sitting in a covered trench in pitch darkness. Beside me, my friend Neil...
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1963 – 2013: birding at Southill Park revisited
Conor Jameson’s British Birds feature provides food for thought on the changing status of species at Southill Park over the past 60 years. While doing some research for my book Silent Spring Revisited,...
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A place for the misfit
Conor Jameson marks the death of The Goshawk author T.H White. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the death of author T. H. White, probably best remembered by bird enthusiasts for his mini epic...
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Wildflower wonders
Author and photographer, Bob Gibbons suggests this is the perfect time for a trip to The Mani Peninsula to see amazing displays of wild flowers. The Mani peninsula in spring – stunning display of...
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Puffins pummelled by winter storms
Euan Dunn, RSPB’s Principal Marine Advisor and author of the new RSPB Spotlight: Puffins, looks at the effect of winter storms on Puffins. Copyright Mark Sissons We have heard a great deal, and rightly...
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