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  • Originally posted on Dom Greves Digital / Blog: A former boating lake beside the A3 dual-carriageway in Surrey around rush-hour is not the first place you’d go looking for hobbies in the UK. But a pair of these young raptors fledged in the area this summer on land managed by the Surrey Wildlife Trust. I’ve had good…

  • Owen Paterson’s appointment kills Governments “green credentials”

    With the appointment of new Environment Minister the RT Hon Owen Patterson MP it seems the Government has laid its cards firmly on the table. Simply put, the priority is to reverse the economic crises the country is in, with all other concerns subsidiary. Paterson has just launched a new rural contract (http://www.defra.gov.uk/news/2012/09/12/rural-growth/ which emphasises the…

  • Sorrow and delight in the same breath: a quantum conundrum as a noctule #bat comes my way

    Ranger Gemma bought me a present this morning and since its very nearly my birthday I got excited. Then she produced a small plastic bag and out of it pulled this Noctule bat who had caught her last insect on the wing. Gemma had found her at  at Wisley Common and by the look of the…

  • Raptor Rage- the usual suspects complain and the promise of #PES

    Does anyone else feel a bit DIRTY about feeling GRAFTEFUL over DEFRA’s U-turn on spending tax payer’s money on research into raptor control ostensibly to protect a NON NATIVE INTRODUCED GAME SPECIES (pheasants) from being blown to oblivion for a marginal economic benefit to preserve a “Countryside Way of Life” that is in general ecologically…

  • Evolution at Easter: science or spiritual?

    Just contemplating Easter and all that new life stuff and finding peace and existential satisfaction from the ecological and evolutionary processes inherent in the new anemones, bluebells and sorrel peeping through in the woods, the newts and frogspawn in Nower Woods ponds and the Red Kite in Pirbright village. But is that satisfaction scientific and…