Starts: The RSPB has today issued an appeal for information following the disappearance of a satellite tagged golden eagle near Strathdon in Aberdeenshire. The young male eagle was fitted with a transmitter by a licensed raptor study group member, before it fledged from a nest in Deeside in the summer of 2016 (see image…
Year: 2017
Various
About this blog: innovation #1 – I’m pleased to say that this blog will be featuring some work from famous cartoonist Paul Thomas over the next few weeks to give it a wider airing. Paul is an author (see review of his book here), a witty presence on Twitter (@paulthomas992) and his work has appeared…
Dick Potts
I was saddened to hear yesterday that Dr GR (Dick) Potts had passed away earlier that morning, aged 78 years. Although it was a sunny day, the clouds rolled in on my mood and were only dispelled by a few phone calls with others who knew Dick, as we exchanged stories and remembrances of a…
Badgers and grouse shooting
Just for interest, here are the MPs who spoke in Monday’s badger debate, annotated with the number of their constituents who signed the anti-badger-cull petition and those who signed the ban-grouse shooting petition: Paul Flynn, Newport West 119 badgers, 113 grouse shooting Stephen Doughty, Cardiff South & Penarth 141 badgers, 185 grouse Richard Drax,…
Badger debate
I listened to all of Monday’s badger cull debate. It was a far better discussion than the previous one on badgers and infinitely better than the one on banning driven grouse shooting. Better though it was, it is interesting to see and listen to politicians debating science as those involved in the debate could not…