Monthly Archives: February 2021

On Foot in the African Bush: adventures of safari guides, Jeff Williams It’s not often that I get a book that I would love to read all in one go, but this is certainly such a book.  To guide tourists … Continue reading →

I get prompts for my blogs from various articles or discussions. This prompt came from a reply from Raptor Persecution UK to a reader’s query about their blog on the discovery of a stash of illegal pesticide on Leadhills Estate … Continue reading →

I was pleasantly surprised to be contacted by Kirsten Knight, the marketing and publicity assistant at Exisle Publishing, asking if I would like a review copy of this interesting book. I accepted the kind invitation and my review follows. Although … Continue reading →

A chapter from my book Walking with Wildlife which covers a year spent walking over the lovely Dupplin Estate near Perth and writing of the great variety of habitat and wildlife. CHAPTER 27 Monday 18 March 2019. Calm. Cloud but … Continue reading →

I was interested in the most recent post on Raptor Persecution UK which centred around an article by the Southern Uplands Moorland Group (SUMG) and the finding of a dead barn owl. It seems that the bird probably died of … Continue reading →

My previous blog was about a large-scale destruction of house martin nests. This story is about equally large-scale destruction of nests, this time those of sand martins. It is told in my first book, Wildlife Detective:- Over the years I … Continue reading →