State of Nature

I came across this report, pooled from 50 conservation organisations and fronted by David Attenborough, that gives an overview of nature in the UK today.

https://www.rspb.org.uk/globalasset...-of-nature/state-of-nature-uk-report-2016.pdf

I found the picture of losses and gains, and their causes, interesting, and it's very well presented and readable.

Thanks Kev! I will enjoy reading that next week when I am en vacances!! A conséquence and a most pleasant one, of fishing is that one sees nature when one otherwise might not! You are sat motionless in a remote location( well I am) and wildlife doesn't seem to see me! Yesterday a baby squirrel came within touching distance and picked up an errant kernel of corn and trotted off! I saw a buzzard close to as it alighted on a fence post ! I also saw a hobby chasing a swallow! The latter escaped!

Last Saturday I saw literally dozens of rabbits in an adjacent field and a buzzard made a grab at one but I lost sight of it in the grass! I also saw a stoat after a rabbit on the margin of the field where the grass had been cut!

I am sometimes asked what is the difference between a stoat and a weasel! One is weasely identified whereas the other is stoatally different!:wh

I'll get my coat!

Stoats don’t go pop.

s63 said:

Stoats don’t go pop.

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That's right. The make a stoatally different noise, so you can weasley tell them apart.

no mention of fish in the freshwater category though?

s63 said:

Stoats don’t go pop.

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Depends how hard you squeeze.

jasonbean1 said:

no mention of fish in the freshwater category though?

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That’s because the public don’t care about freshwater fish. The majority are dumbfounded to discover there are even fish in most bodies of water. I remember being told by a woman “there’s no fish in this river, your wasting your time.” A few minutes later she was helping take a photo of my PB Chub.