Category: General
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If it moves, ID it; and if it stays still, ID it too! #BioBlitz! Wisley and Ockham Commons @SurreyWT
457 Species and counting! I love Bioblitz! Not all of my time is spent out and about on Surrey’s rivers or wetlands searching for the illusive otter and water vole, or creeping along my beloved hedgerows for dormice, stoat or orange-spotted elm-lichen. So when the moment arrives when I can spend 24 hours in the…
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The Emperor’s Nightingale- a cautionary tale in a week when biodiversity offsetting hit the headlines.
The Nightingale by Hans Christian AndersenIllustrated by Edmund Dulac I’m reproducing this here as a cautionary tale in a week when biodiversity offsetting hit the headlines. We may think we can recreate new habitats from scratch in new locations, but we loose something in doing so, something that may not always be clear…
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Priorities
Apparently there is going to be a crises shortly about feeding our growing population. And yet we are wasting half of all the food we produce. Some man on a bicycle, who will die in a relatively short time and be forgotten entirely called some one a pleb. Prioritise
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Reflections on International Mountain Day: Choughs, Chamois, Kilimanjaro
Today is International Mountain Day http://www.un.org/en/events/mountainday/ We don’t have any mountains in Surrey. The highest point is Leith Hill near Dorking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leith_Hill at between 293-295m above sea level which is the second highest point in South East England after Walbury Hill http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walbury_Hill, East Berkshire at 297m asl. Gibbet Hill at Hindhead http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbet_Hill is the second highest point…
James T Jones 