Following upon his Sunday book review last week, in which he took Prof. Dave Goulson’s “Silent Earth; Averting the Insect Apocalypse” as his subject, Mark continues to be “bugged” this week with the disturbing ongoing declines in insect and other invertebrate populations.
It was approximately two months ago while out upon my morning walk that I casually looked over at the creek that ran under the second bridge I cross along my usual path and was struck at how the water seemed unnaturally still. Stopping and peering a bit farther over the bridge rail, I discovered the reason: some local beavers had constructed a dam across the flow just before it reached the bridge.
I haven’t yet seen a copy of the new U.S. edition of Tim Dee’s highly acclaimed Landfill; Notes on Gull Watching and Trash Picking in the Anthropocene here at The Biggest Week in American Birding, but I certainly hope someone will have thought to bring in a few copies so that those in attandance will […]