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Highly commended - Mammal Society’s photographer of the year: Play-fighting stoats by Joel Walley
(Source: Guardian)
Highly commended for the Mammal Societys photographer of the year: Weasel chasing sparrows by Harry Martin
(Source: Guardian)
Who’s taken/taking part in the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch?
I saw:
- 6 Long-tailed tits
- 2 Great tits
- 3 Blue tits
- 2 Robins
- 2 Dunnocks
- 2 Greenfinches
- 1 Chaffinch
- 1 Grey wagtail
- 4 Blackbirds (two of which had a fight)
- 1 Song thrush
- 1 Starling
- 2 Collared doves
- 4 Woodpigeons.
What did you spot?
Helping garden wildlife is fun - and it couldn’t be easier. Over the weekend of 26-27 January 2013, the RSPB would love you, your friends and family, to get involved in Big Garden Birdwatch - the world’s largest wildlife survey!
Just click here or on the image to visit the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch page for more information and to register.
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A rare bird is breeding on Ascension Island for the first time in almost two centuries after a programme to remove feral cats, the RSPB said. Ascension frigatebirds are nesting on the far east coast of the island at a site called South East Bay on the Letterbox peninsula.
Photograph: Derren Fox/RSPB
Nature’s big picture: Gannet’s wildflower ‘necklace’
Adolescent northern gannets have been photographed “flirting” with flowers at Bempton Cliffs in Yorkshire, the only mainland colony of the birds in England. The birds are at their busiest in the summer; breeding, nesting and rearing young. Gannets pair for life and the adult birds will return to their cliff homes year after year, decorating it with plants, flowers and nearby debris. Wildlife photographer Steve Race has observed young birds offering feathers and flowers to potential partners during courtship at the RSPB reserve. But he described capturing this scene of a young male presenting his beau with a necklace-like sprig of red campion as “surreal”. Reserve manager Ian Kendall said, “If the pair return next year and have a family, we’ll find out whether their adolescent romancing has paid off.”
‘Get involved in the UK’s largest garden wildlife survey and help us find out how wildlife is doing this summer. We’d like you to record the birds you see in one hour (on one day between 2-10 June), and let us know what other creatures visit your garden. You’ll be joining thousands of other people as you step up for nature, helping us build up a picture of how summer wildlife is faring.’ - RSPB
‘Tell us what slithers, tweets, forages and snuffles in your garden this summer.
Get involved in the UK’s largest garden wildlife survey and help us find out how wildlife is doing this summer. We’d like you to record the birds you see in one hour (on one day between 2-10 June), and let us know what other creatures visit your garden. You’ll be joining thousands of other people as you step up for nature, helping us build up a picture of how summer wildlife is faring.’
One swallow doesn’t make a summer - but how about a hundred? After the wettest April on record, does this photo of swallows lined up on power lines over RSPB Fairburn Ings nature reserve finally prove that summer is here?Picture: Paul Miguel/Rex Features
great white egret by black fox wildlife photography on Flickr.
I (Jade/FaunaFacts) will pay for the RSPB to plant 25 native saplings on one of their UK reserves if 500 people start washing their clothes at 30°C.
Do you accept the challenge (Click here)?
We’re working hard to stop bad things happening unnecessarily to beautiful places around the UK. We need a planning system that creates the right development, in the right place. Together we can secure a future for the nature we love.
