To: Owen Paterson, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
To persuade the Government to rethink the idea that building housing estates on farmland is a good idea. With an increasing population surely it would be best to put our efforts into providing an efficient food supply.... Would it not also be better therefore to help our farmers to create this 'efficient' food supply and to also help wildlife, to assist with our own health and well being?
Building housing estates could have a detrimental effect on our wildlife. With the removal of hedgerows within farmlands, pesticide use and intensification which have already had a big effect, building more houses would just make this 10x worse.
If you feel as strongly about this as I do, please sign the petition: Petition
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
Monday, 25 March 2013
Back to some level or normality.
As I've mentioned the dissertation is finished, although I have other assignments to do, the dissertation was the 'biggy' and having that completed is a big relief.
I've been to my local bird club the last few days to have a break and to enjoy the wildlife around me, and here are a selection of my photographs:
I've been to my local bird club the last few days to have a break and to enjoy the wildlife around me, and here are a selection of my photographs:
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| Water Rail |
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| Long Tailed Tit |
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| Chaffinch |
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| Cormorants |
It's been a long time
It has definitely been a long time since I updated my blog. To be honest I've not had much time to do any photography because I've been so busy with University. I've therefore not updated my blog as much as I didn't want to burden you all with unnecessary stuff because I'd rather focus the blog on my journey in the natural world.
University is going well though on the other hand. I am a bit stressed right now but it is my final year so it's bound to be, just got my dissertation handed in so that is a might relief. The dissertation was thoroughly enjoyable and it has definitely given me an insight into the career I would like to go into.
The results showed that there was more diversity in the barn owl's pellets in a 1km radius when most of the agricultural land was under 'plus' stewardship (i.e. higher level, higher level + Entry level etc) which was expected. Although in a 2km radius of the pellets location more diversity occurred in 'total' stewardship (i.e. the total amount of stewardship that weren't plus).
Barn owls also tended to consume bigger prey stewardship in land under less stewardship.
Since my dissertation was handed in I've been out and about enjoying the snow and taking photographs of the natural world around me, and I'll sort this photos out in due course and will get them posted on here today (hopefully!).
Thank you all!
P.s. A positive bit of news: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21329015
University is going well though on the other hand. I am a bit stressed right now but it is my final year so it's bound to be, just got my dissertation handed in so that is a might relief. The dissertation was thoroughly enjoyable and it has definitely given me an insight into the career I would like to go into.
The results showed that there was more diversity in the barn owl's pellets in a 1km radius when most of the agricultural land was under 'plus' stewardship (i.e. higher level, higher level + Entry level etc) which was expected. Although in a 2km radius of the pellets location more diversity occurred in 'total' stewardship (i.e. the total amount of stewardship that weren't plus).
Barn owls also tended to consume bigger prey stewardship in land under less stewardship.
Since my dissertation was handed in I've been out and about enjoying the snow and taking photographs of the natural world around me, and I'll sort this photos out in due course and will get them posted on here today (hopefully!).
Thank you all!
P.s. A positive bit of news: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21329015
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