Tag: Conservation

  • Europe’s Field Boundaries: a collossal new work (REVISED)

    This post first appeared on Feb 16 with details of how to order the work from NHBS at £399. I was promptly contacted by Georg Muller the author to tell me that neither he nor his publisher had supplied NHBS and certainly not at this price. If you would like to purchase the book please contact…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • A Transylvanian Adventure: 3 weeks to go

    In exactly three weeks time I will have arrived in the Romanian province of Transylvania and will be getting to know the rest of the Operation Wallacea team with whom I’m to spend the next month-and-a-half. Its not a country I’ve visited before, or even know much about, except through Bram Stoker and Hammer Horror…

  • 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…