BBC Balloon Release Complaint
0000-0001-5882-6823Here’s a complaint I lodged with the BBC, on Saturday, 30 January 2010, with added links and image: Prof. Jim Al-Khalili, on the BBC’s ‘Chemistry: A Volatile History’, (ep. 2)...
View ArticlePlease Help Me to Compile a List of UK Police Forces’ Wildlife Crime Pages
0000-0001-5882-6823As a birder and general nature lover, wildlife crime concerns me. Whether it’s the poaching and smuggling of ivory and tiger parts, the disturbance of nesting birds, or badger...
View ArticleMore police forces should publish web pages about wildlife crime officers
0000-0001-5882-6823I maintain the West Midland Bird Club website. The club serves the four English counties of Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire and the Metropolitan West Midlands, and so I...
View ArticleUnusual behaviour of Blue Tit at nest site
0000-0001-5882-6823During a walk in Sutton Park, Birmingham, this morning, organised by the RSPB Walsall Local Group (of which I am a committee member, webmaster and speakers’ secretary — I multitask!)...
View ArticleHow can I automate repetitive find’n’replace operations?
0000-0001-5882-6823I’m the webmaster (and a trustee) of the West Midland Bird Club, a registered charity. Every month, I get sent a series of text files, with lists of bird sightings at each of our...
View ArticleA few quick thoughts on arrival in Washington DC
0000-0001-5882-6823I’m making my first visit to Washington DC, and to the United States of America. It’s 10.15pm here as I start writing; 3.15am back home. I’ve been up for 22 hours. America is big. We...
View ArticleMy second day in Washington DC
0000-0001-5882-6823Following on from yesterdays post, in which I forgot to mention that I saw a clear though distant view of New York from the aeroplane on the way in… Yesterday morning, I had a bit of...
View ArticleDay 3 and 4 in Washington DC
0000-0001-5882-6823Continuing notes on my US visit… Friday. I’m enjoying walking in DC, apart from the heat. The grid system has North-South roads lettered ascendingly, moving away from the river, and...
View ArticleDay 5 (Sunday) in Washington DC
0000-0001-5882-6823More from Saturday Yesterday evening, a few folk from the hostel where I’m staying were going on a bar crawl around the Dupont Circle area, and invited me to join them. On entering...
View ArticleDay 6 (Monday) in Washington DC
0000-0001-5882-6823Sunday continued Yesterday evening, I followed the instructions, sorry, advice of fellow Pink Floyd fan Andy Neale, and ate a burger at a branch of Five Guys. Wow. Forget McD*n*lds,...
View ArticleCharles N. Mavroyeni’s Hoopoe
0000-0001-5882-6823This curious plate, depicting a Eurasian Hoopoe (Upupa epops), appeared in several early 20th century books. It’s by a photographer from Athens, Charles N. Mavroyeni, and is...
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