Blogs

Back in July, we set sail from the port of Coquimbo in Chile with the challenge of studying mitigation measure design and the associated reduction of seabird bycatch. Historically, bycatch has been particularly high on the vessel that I have now joined...

Back on 28 September I promised that you would be amongst the first to know the outcome of our negotiations aimed at getting agreement on how the Highways Agency will safeguard stone curlews as part of their proposal to dual the A11. Here's a link...

I’ve just returned from sea, it was a hard trip, but with a lot of positive energy and interesting results! We are currently working on a mitigation experiment that makes every trip a huge challenge. Each time we meet the challenge we are filled...

Charlie Brooks (we've crossed swords with him before - see blogs of 17 and 24 July) wrote a wickedly wrong-thinking article in the Daily Telegraph at the weekend suggesting that the Campaign for the Farmed Environment was doomed to failure unless...

Our male white-tailed eagle chick from Mull this year, Oran, has made a dramatic flight south. He had seemed settled and has spent the last few weeks just across the water from here on Loch Sunart; then he came home for a while but has now headed down...

The weather currently being so mild, there’s been lots of interest on the forums of late about what insects are on still the wing. While in a local garden at the weekend, I was intrigued to see anything from a dozen or so flies running around one...

I spent Monday evening with a group of c25 local farmers. It was fun. I can't remember turning down an invitation to talk to a group of farmers (unless I am already engaged in some way) as I always find these meetings good-humoured and stimulating...

BARN OWL ON THE LAWN, NOT IN THE DARK! What’s afoot in the Park after dusk has fallen, you’ve drawn the curtains and are curled up on the sofa watching Corrie? As much life and death drama as your fave soap! As daylight fades, hundreds of...

Courtship is undoubtedly a tricky business for all parties involved. A punch to the arm might have said 'I like you' when you were ten, but when you cross the threshold into adulthood, this kind of action is rarely viewed warmly. Similarly, if...

Like the rest of the country we are currently riding out the storms here on Ramsey. We have had over 2 inches of rain in two days and the ground is saturated. With more rain forecast for this week we could see some flooding of the fields. Winds have been...