A few things that have caught my eye:
![Jerzy Strzelecki [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons](https://markavery.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Macroglossum_stellatarum01js.jpg)
- remember microbeads? – Defra minister says UK supports a ban
- another dead Red Kite found dead in Yorkshire near Blubberhouses – this one was shot
- Craig Bennett, FoE, on why Brexiteers don’t want to talk about the environment
- please sign this e-petition to call on Norway not to allow hunting of blackbirds and song thrushes
- My MP visits Fineshade Wood and strongly opposes Forest Holidays/FC mooted development
- And NE say Fineshade Wood is ‘a wonderful place for wildlife‘ – so get on and notify it as an SSSI please!
- what are SNH up to? Read this shocking blog by Raptor Persecution UK
- Australian rodent on Great Barrier Reef island first mammal extinction due to climate change?
- Scotland’s greenhouse gas emissions cut ahead of target – maybe luck but a good thing anyway.
- Spoonie eggs in Gloucestershire! Well done WWT and partners!
- our e-petition is on 42,673 signatures
- George Monbiot asks on Twitter whether it isn’t time for NT to ban grouse shooting on all its land
- Butterfly Conservation predicts colonisation of southern UK by Hummingbird Hawkmoth
- Buglife objects to NHM habitat destruction plan
- my friends in Team4Nature have set up another thunderclap which has already attained a social reach of over 2.5m – #justiceforannie (see here for last year’s similar project)
![By Gin tonic (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons](https://markavery.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/800px-ヘラシギ.jpg)
What a truly stunning bird. Isn’t nature wonderful?
Yes nature is wonderful in its variety, but it’s not a real hummingbird Terry. It’s actually a moth.
😉
The Spoonbilled Hawkmoth managed to produce some young in Gloucestershire this year – for the first time in 4.5 billion years. It must be true because I heard it on the wireless
Meanwhile, gamekeepers have been issued with tiny sticks for clubbing hummingbird hawks.
A wading moth 8)