Thank you Oxford

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Photo: Hugh Jaeger

I enjoyed talking in Oxford last week –  a lovely, lively crowd of people.  And they said nice things about my talk on Twitter:

@Abigail Motley Impassioned talk @MarkAvery @morethanadodo on destructive upland grouse shooting:
@Jennifer Pitt7 ‏Many thanks to @MarkAvery for an inspiring talk last night at Oxford’s @morethanadodo on why we should #BanDrivenGrouseShooting #BanGS3
@HughJaeger PLAN YOUR WEEKEND Read @MarkAvery‘s blog. Sign his @Ban_DGS petition. Give someone his book!

 

And Oxford constituencies seem to have had a bit of a boost in the last 10 days or so, and slightly more so than Cambridge has.  Can you get a blue for petition-signing?

Cambridge 110, 123 signatures

Oxford West and Abingdon 78, 92 signatures

Oxford East 70, 86 signatures

 

Thank you to BBOWT for inviting me and to the Oxford Museum of Natural History (Swifts in a Tower) for holding the event. It was great to see some long-standing friends in the audience and also some new faces of young people near the start of their careers.

The Swifts were screaming as I left the venue.

That’s the last talk I’ll be giving for quite a few weeks – next stop the UK Game Fair (heavens!).  But I am available for talks on the subject of banning driven grouse shooting right up until 20 September when our e-petition to ban the dratted thing will close.

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By Einsamer Schütze (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
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3 Replies to “Thank you Oxford”

  1. We don’t do twitter Mark, but greatly enjoyed your talk. The CCTV in the foyer at the Natural History Museum showed the first hatched swiftlets on the Tuesday before your visit. The staff on reception were thrillled. We’ll keep the pressure up to get an Oxford constituency up to 100!
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  2. More for Mark’s info than a comment – I’ve just emailed (almost) everyone in my personal address book setting out the issues and asking them to sign – about 120 people, in batches to avoid spam filters. 5 new signatures reported back to me in 2 hours so far. Well worth the effort.

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