Conservation

Typically my blog posts record what I have seen on my day nature trips, supplemented with some information on the species seen, and the...

Conservation, auto-rewilding and development Walthamstow Wetlands consists of a group of reservoirs in Walthamstow/South Tottenham, owned...

It was very windy today at Cuckmere Haven. I had planned to go to Pagham Harbour but the train track to Chichester was blocked all...

I visit RSPB Pagham Harbour very frequently. My "patch" I see as being the Sussex harbours, estuaries and rivers; viz. - Chichester...

I am a member of the Gay Birders Club; a great way of communicating about birding with British and international LGBT birders. This day...

I travelled to RSPB Rainham Marshes by train on Saturday 21.11.21, from Brighton to Purfleet; (for full details of how to get to RSPB...

On Tuesday 22nd September I visited Tring National History Museum, after reading The Feather Thief by Kirk Wallace Johnson On a cool...

I experienced a high sense of well-being on Wednesday when I spent the day bumblebee surveying (and doing a little bit of bird watching);...

The primary purpose of this visit to Dungeness was bumblebee surveying, aa part of my role as a volunteer with the Bumblebee Conservation...

This post, like most of my other bird posts, includes photographs of most of the species I saw on my visit, but the text concentrates on...

On Wednesday 12.05.21 I returned to the Manhood Peninsula and visited the RSPB Pagham Harbour Nature Reserves' neighbouring reserve, RSPB...

This was the first time I had visited RSPB Pagham Pagham Harbour Local Nature Reserve, West Sussex - The RSPB for about 15 years, partly...

On Friday evening (30/05/21) I received a message that a Hoopoe had been seen in a sheep field off Bazehill Road, in Rottingdean. I know...

As I now feel confident about using public transport again, I decided on Monday to visit the Arundel Wetland Centre (Wildfowl and Wetland...

On Thursday 01.04.21 I made my first visit - a brief afternoon trip to Shoreham Beach, Widewater Lagoon and the Adur Estuary to the...

This the record of a circular walk; and an exploration of the importance of attending to local nature to well-being and conversation. All...

Whilst this post was written on 29/01/21, I will add photos of Rocky when I see him/her susequently. "Theodore Roszak identified loss of...

I live not in myself, but I become Portion of that around me; and to me, High mountains are a feeling, but the hum Of human cities...

Spiritual activism has been much discussed of late in theories of social action on climate change and biodiversity loss. Ana Louise...

If we are to tackle the climate and biodiversity crises, it seems clear that governments and citizens need to take action to reduce...