Calling all sanctimonious and hypocritical bigots!

This email may have started the spurt of support for the ridiculously-worded e-petition in favour of grouse shooting. It was sent out, as you can see above, by a person whose anonymity I will preserve, at least for a while, as he or she (sounds like a bloke though doesn’t he or she?) has done…

Just for the record

Still no statement on Peak District National Park website on their raptor report Still no news from Natural England on the gull cull in Bowland which was notified as an SPA partly because of its…gulls! Still no news from the NT on its new tenants.  

Wild food (20) – Minke Whale by Ian Carter

I’ve had this argument a few times and I always seem to end up on the losing side. In starting to write this I have a sense, already, that I’m not going to influence many people. It’s such a contentious subject that the merits of logic and common sense seem not to apply in the…

Behind More Binoculars

Keith Betton and I were interviewed about our new book for a blog on the NHBS website. And there is a short review of the book by John Miles in BBC Wildlife magazine.