

Britain’s Mammals By Dominic Couzens, Andy Swash, Robert Still and Jon Dunn
Wild Guide series published by Princeton, Flexibound, Pages 330, price £17.95 This series grows and grows and desperately wanted was this...


Red Kites drawn to the guns.
The RSPB have issued a history of persecution of Red Kites in Yorkshire - https://www.rspb.org.uk/community/ourwork/b/investigations/arch...


Would you take Scottish Golden Eagles?
Today has been a mile stone for the South of Scotland Golden Eagle Project with the news that £1.3 million will be spent on bringing the...


Walking in Norfolk by Laurence Mitchell 2017
Published by Cicerone Paperback, 208 pages Price £12.95 This is a handy little book to have with you while birding Norfolk. There are 40...


Raptors of Mexico and Central America by William S Clark & N John Schmitt
Published by Princeton Hard back 304 pages Price £32.95 This covers an area in America which seems to have an increase in species using...


Cropping and harriers
We are fortunate to have 2 reserves around the Solway where cropping is used to feed winter finches and buntings. Cropping is often used...


Bumblebees RSPB spotlight Series by Richard Comont
Published by Bloomsbury softback 128 pages price £9.99 This book is just so full of facts regarding bumblebees. There are historical...


Rat Poison again!
Bempton Cliffs RSPB visitor centre is an internationally important nature reserve in East Yorkshire has reopened after a £1.3m upgrade...


Birds of Venezula by David Ascanio, Gustavo Rodriguez and Robin Restall
Published by Bloomsbury Christopher Helm Soft back 592 pages Price £40.00 This mammoth book covers a country based at 6th in the avifauna...


‘Alder than the rest!’
I was reading a blog about Alder when it came to me that I had not expanded my work on our local Alder up the Gelt valley where I had...