Working for the RSPB can feel just like working for anyone else really. Phone calls, e-mails, paperwork - the usual office grind. There are good days and bad days. Today was shaping up to be in the latter category. However, where it does differ from other...

Over the last fortnight there have been a few warning signs. The odd short burst of that wonderful "liquid honey" song, a bird quickly calling as it disappeared off into the wide blue yonder, so it shouldn't have come as a surprise. But...

Despite being someone who's "done heaths" for almost my entire career in nature conservation, even I have to admit that the reserve doesn't look it's best at this time of year. The heather has turned into a shaggy brown carpet, there...

We managed to put another piece of the heathland jigsaw back together today. Ever since we started to restore the heath, one of the best bits about my job has been seeing how the heathland wildlife returned. Over the years, as areas of heath have matured...

It's been just over ten years since the RSPB bought what is now Farnham Heath. Ten years! Really? I've been privileged to work on this project from the beginning, and in that time I've seen the transformation of a commercial conifer plantation...