Who was instrumental in determining the wording of the press release which described Rowan, the Hen Harrier, as ‘likely to have been shot’ when, it appears, that all involved knew that it had been shot? For new readers see Raptor Persecution UK blogs here and here, and my blogs here and here. Was it: someone…
Year: 2017
Travelling
I was in Dublin at the weekend and because I had the time, I travelled there by train and ferry. Instead of driving to Luton or Stansted and flying to Dublin and getting a lift or taxi to the conference venue I was dropped off in Northampton, took a train from Northampton to Milton…
Who are the Likely Lads?
Raptor Persecution UK lift the lid on a can of worms in two blogs today (here and here). It’s all about the puzzling tale of Rowan who was ‘likely to have been shot’ (see RPUK blog of 7 November, and my own of 11 November) – and now we know, as if we didn’t before…
Have you just been paid?
Several people have said to me that a crowdfunder right after Christmas is swimming against the tide, but the BAWC raptor-tagging fundraiser has already passed its first target of £10,000 in about a week. Wow! People have been really generous. Click here if you suddenly find you have some money in your bank account and…
Bird flu update
There has been another outbreak of bird flu in another turkey farm in Lincolnshire and another in another Pheasant farm in Lancashire. We are told that bird flu is widespread in wild birds across the country and yet the cases affecting farms are well and truly clumped around commercial farms in two discrete but well-separated…