On Thursday last week, it now seems like a long time ago, I drove to the RSPB nature reserve at Geltsdale where one of only three English pairs of Hen Harriers is nesting this year.
My chat with Andrew Gilruth (GWCT) and Charlotte Smith (presenter), and presumably our waving of our hands at midges and drenching by rain, will be broadcast on Sunday 14 August.
We didn’t see a Hen Harrier but they look something very much like this:
Hope you got it in writing that you get approval over the final edited segment though otherwise… Well I’m not saying the BBC are completely in the pocket of the shooters, but a less than optimal job of editing the segment would not surprise me.
I shall look forward to that. Have you been on Countryfile previously? I have.
Must have missed that AH, but it is Countryfile and does anyone take it seriously these days?
Mark and kiltruth, should be entertaining or conversely lots of letters ….
Ever an agnostic …. here’s to some robust science for a change, not the usual spin.
You drove right passed my house and never called in?
john – did I?