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Brent geese at Ryde, October 2016
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Goose Island

10th November, 202010th November, 2020 Matthew Chatfield 0 Comments

Yesterday I was hurrying up Ryde Pier towards the ferry. My usual dash for the ticket office came to a

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Behold, the tree lobster. (Spoiler: not a lobster)

10th October, 201710th October, 2017 Matthew Chatfield 4 Comments australia, lord howe island, massive animals, rats, stick insect

We like to bring you the occasional large invertebrate on this blog. And even a huge vertebrate now and then. But here’s a big

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Malta – massacre on Migration. A message from Chris Packham

6th April, 20145th April, 2014 Matthew Chatfield 2 Comments

“For many years I have lobbied the UK’s bird charities to campaign to raise awareness about the slaughter of migrant

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Is Eresus the cutest spider on earth? Send me to find out.

23rd June, 201210th January, 2017 Matthew Chatfield 0 Comments buglife, eresus, invertebrates, spiders

The worlds’s cutest spider. It’s a hard-fought contest, with the jumping spiders invariably on the podium. But I’ve got a

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Should we pay £375,000 to poke buzzards out of their nests?

29th May, 201213th February, 2014 Matthew Chatfield 2 Comments buzzards, politics, raptors, rspb, shooting

Something’s gone badly wrong at the Greenest Government Ever. To say I’ve been profoundly disappointed at the environmental performance of the Coalition –

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Falmouth maerl – the canary in George Osborne’s coal mine

4th February, 2012 Matthew Chatfield 2 Comments politics

Maerl. What’s that then? Chances are, you don’t know what maerl is, or why anyone else might care. Unless you

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Isle of Wight Protected species 

Beewolf buzzing Ryde once more

15th July, 2009 Matthew Chatfield 5 Comments bee wolf, bees, wasps

In 2007 The Ranger wrote about his local colony of Philanthus triangulum, the European beewolf. Sadly, in 2008 the fearsome

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Bluebells on the beach

29th April, 2009 Matthew Chatfield 0 Comments

Bluebells eh? They’re everywhere at this time of year… but even so it was a surprise for The Ranger when

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Buglife case heard, but not decided

6th December, 2008 Matthew Chatfield 0 Comments insects, invertebrates, planning

The invertebrate charity Buglife is moving to new offices in Peterborough, whilst in the midst of a legal tussle that

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Aren’t all orchids protected?

9th May, 20087th July, 2020 Matthew Chatfield 4 Comments

Round about now kettle-cases start popping up on the Isle of Wight. That’s the local name for early-purple orchids, which,

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