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I'm the RSPB's Conservation Director. My aim with this blog will be to comment on matters of conservation importance and give you a few insights into the RSPB's conservation work - there's plenty to write about!  More...
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  • The darkling thrush - Thomas Hardy

    I love this poem. I suppose the beauty of the song thrush's song in a gloomy landscape epitomises for me the joy that wildlife, unbidden, brings to us. And the song thrush is one of our most accomplished songsters. The thrush is an aged thrush! Most...
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  • The eagle - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

    I remember being on The Oa on Islay with a group of colleagues and we saw a golden eagle, first perched on a sea cliff and then stooping down below us against the sea. Tennyson could have been standing next to us at that moment. The Eagle He clasps the...

  • Adlestrop - Edward Thomas

    Adlestrop Yes, I remember Adlestrop -- The name, because one afternoon Of heat the express-train drew up there Unwontedly. It was late June. The steam hissed. Someone cleared his throat. No one left and no one came On the bare platform. What I saw Was...
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  • Skylark - Percy Bysshe Shelley

    Mark Avery won't be blogging for a few days but has left you some of his favourite poems, with a bird theme, while he is away. To a Sky-Lark Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert— That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart...

  • Focus on birds of prey - 3. kestrel

    The kestrel differs from the buzzard and red kite in two important respects. It is declining in numbers rather than increasing and the reasons for its problems are not much to do with illegal persecution. A kestrel hovering above some grassland, looking...
    Published 06-16-2009 7:00 PM by mark avery
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