Some of my best friends over the years have been lawyers – although, come to think of it, not that many – but I have always had a mistrust of the role of the courts in conservation and environmental matters. But over the last few years, in a time when government has no intention of…
Year: 2017
Tim Melling – Yellowhammer
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The song of the Yellowhammer is supposed to sound like “a little bit of bread and no cheese”. It was Enid Blyton who popularised this rendition of the song in several of her books and poems (eg The Yellowhammer Bird in Enid Blyton’s Nature Lover’s Handbook 1944). This is another seriously depleted farmland bird that…
An Unreliable History of Birdwatching (7) – by Paul Thomas
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Saturday cartoon by Ralph Underhill
Three videos
It was just over a year ago that the video (above) was filmed of poletraps being set on a Yorkshire grouse moor. This evidence led to a man receiving a police caution for this offence. One wonders what would have happened if the case had proceeded to an English court. We might still be unaware…