Category: General
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The Eagles are Coming! The Eagles are Coming!
A very dear friend of mine was recently bought a lesson at the Hawk Conservancy for her birthday. She is a big fan of birds of prey, especially the kestrel she sees on her daily walk with the dog, but i think the lesson transformed her. Into what remains to be seen! I could definitely…
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Where have all the Coot gone? Reflections on a WeBS core count at Burpham
In October I signed up to monitor Burpham Court Farm, Guildford, for the BTO Wetland Birds Survey (WeBS). This Sunday gone was my 3rd Core Count (the first Sunday in the month) and the first on my own. As a relative newcomer to wetland birds- I am mammal ecologist- I enlisted the support first of…
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Gatwick’s grasslands give up a gem: juvenile harvest mouse, 3g
Sunday At 05:00 this morning I headed out onto almost deserted roads, the cars outnumbered by planes overhead on their final approaches: as I cruised up the A3 to junction 10 I waved farewell to those heading north into Heathrow and instead turned east onto the M25 with those Gatwick-bound. Our destination was the same,…
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Buna Ziua! Update from Tranyslvania #2 @opwall
In Viscri at the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains, the sky is exploding. The sky was darkening as we sat in the cobblestone courtyard of No 22 eating our tasty lunch of chicken soup followed by apricot cake, surrounded by prowling cats, a scruffy black and white hound, and a coterie of chickens and turkeys.…
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Evidence of Otter recovery in South East boosted by @SurreyWT and @UniOfSurrey trap-camera pictures
A great moment this week when we discovered that one of our “OtterCams” had finally captured a picture of an otter on the Surrey side of the border with Hampshire. Whilst the otter recovery across the UK- a welcome antidote to the gloom presented by the recent State of Nature report- has seen all counties…
James T Jones 