All posts tagged great chalfield

'Pan' what now? Yes, you probably missed it, but Tris and I are having a go at 'panrecording' - ie recording everything we find in our 'patches' (which

Almost two years ago I wrote a blog post about the 'Silent Summer' - the looming loss of bees and other insects from the British countryside. In

Living on the National Trust's Great Chalfield Estate gives me some interesting opportunities when it comes to looking for wildlife in the grassland/unimproved pasture/'wildlife-friendly' farmland habitats that

I have, my GP explained, not been getting out enough - by which she meant that a birder who never goes birding and who spends all the day

I've been a bit quiet of late (and a genuine thanks to Tris and to those who've noticed and phoned or emailed to check everything is okay). I've

Decisions affecting farming and wildlife seem to require scientific study first (except it would seem anything relating to badger culls, which are approved despite the scientific evidence)

The one with guests David 'The Urban Birder' Lindo and Ceri Levy the driving force behind the 'Ghosts of Gone Birds'. We talk about what mega-shorebird we'd each

I ran my moth-trap (for those who don't know, this is just an eggbox-filled tub with a MV lamp which attracts the moths overnight: I release them all

Okay, so I haven't chipped in with a decent bird post for a while now, and this - I'm afraid - isn't going to make up for that,