RGS

I'm off to London on Friday, one of the places I'll hopefully be visiting is the RGS (Royal Geographical Society). I've been looking on their website and came across this:
http://www.rgs.org/WhatsOn/21cc.htm
it looks really, really interesting. For a long, long time now I have wanted to take part in one of these meetings basically so I can put my feelings across which I wouldn't normally do. So hopefully.....I'll be able to go. There are a lot of things going on in the world at the moment and I would just like to think maybe if I say something it would help.

Big Cat Live

If you missed Big Cat Live last night you can now watch it over the next 6 days on BBC iPlayer. I've just finished watching it on iPlayer and I admit I found it that moving I did actually have tears in my eyes. Africa is a place I have longed to go for most of my life, yet I have never managed to actually get there. A dream would be to get a degree at university and to go and live in Africa where I can have a job in the environment.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00dykqr

Radio 2 mention

Not long now until Autumnwatch, just one month, and I can't wait. It begins early November for a wonderful 2 weeks.

Autumnwatch was mentioned on Radio 2 a few weeks back and it sounds like it's going to be a good one. Radio 2 is a good radio station for both natural and Geographical documentaries, I listen to it an awful lot, mind you I don't like any other radio stations.

Have a look at the following link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/nature/uk/autumnwatch/

Hoppipolla

I found this great video on Youtube featuring one of my favourite songs; Hoppipolla by Sigur Ros.

The music to the video you may well know as the theme to Planet Earth.

To me the images and film on this video show how special this planet is for its Geography and wildlife. What do you think?

Hoppipolla is well suited to the Planet Earth theme and I can see exactly why it was picked. Each little bit of the music means something, well to me it does. The accented drum beats give the feeling of movement/migraton for example.

Old Moor RSPB reserve

I've only been back at school three days and I already have a lot of work, so yesterday the weather was great so I went to Old Moor RSPB reserve for the day to have a break from everything. I have recently been given a new camera as it was time to have an upgrade from my old one, so going to Old Moor gave me a chance to experiment with it. I'm glad I did take it - the light was fantastic and there was a lot to photograph.
Birds seen: Greenshank, Green Sandpiper, Golden Plover, Mute Swans, Gadwall, Little Egret, Canada Geese, Greylag Geese, Little Grebes, Great Crested Grebe, Mallards, Moorhen, Coots, Lapwings, Black Tailed Godwits, Ruff, Common Snipe, Kingfisher, Collared Doves, Woodpigeons, Magpie, Pied Wagtail, Wren, Blue Tits, Willow Tit, Chaffinch, Linnets and Tree Sparrows, .
Other wildlife seen: Common Darter, Common Blue Damselfly, Highland Cattle and Jacobs Sheep.

Canada Goose:

Mute Swan:

Green Sandpiper:

Greenshank:

Goldfinch:

Golden Plover:

Gadwall:

Pied Wagtail:

Common Darter:

Highland Cattle: