#BOU2026 MJE 1/6 I am addressing the conflict theme – shooting and conservation. Observing recent habitat deterioration and population declines in the Peak District, I ask the following question: “Can the common interests of conservation and shooting be harnessed for mutual benefits?”

Last night was one of those rare occasions when the TV licence fee seemed worth paying. England U21s beating Germany in the Euro finals, followed by Neil Young at Glastonbury. Old man look at my life, I'm a lot like you were. He was great.

#BOU2025 MJE 1/6 Pushing back the frontiers of knowledge in #ornithology requires field data. Technological advances can provide new sorts of data and more efficient data gathering in general. We should constantly be on the lookout for such opportunities.

Time to write to my local (Labour) MP on behalf of the bats & newts & the rest of the ecosystem. Growth at all costs is not an option! Rachel Reeves, like Liz Truss, is a scary career politician with a PPE degree from Oxford and evidently no appreciation of the wider picture. She has to be stopped!