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Alarm sounded for farmland birds Widespread farmland species including the skylark, grey partridge and bullfinch are continuing to decline… I think that DEFRA’s newly introduced Environmental Stewardship scheme could well settle down and produce results over the coming years – small changes in farmland habitat management can make a big difference (see Kemerton Conservation Trust).

I look forward to Fridays, when I actually get time to browse Flickr – so here’s some of my Flickr favourites… with apologies to Jo for the unintentional plagiarism (always Google before you go ahead with an idea!) How can you resist clicking on this one?! By adampsyche The most beautiful cat portrait I’ve seen [...]

We had the loveliest time on Sunday – it was a gloriously sunny day so we went wading in the River Otter, and saw lots of fab creatures =D We kicked up tiny little flatfish, eels and scary huge fish =) Also saw an elephant hawkmoth caterpillar, golden-ringed dragonflies and stunningly vivid, irridescent blue and [...]